General

• March 12, 2006avsp, General

  Do trips ever end quietly…

  Well, we volunteered to be bumped on our return flight, so that we flew through DC to get back to Pittsburgh to drive down to WV.  On my return I […]

• March 9, 2006General, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Signs of Water on Saturn Moon Enceladus!

  Nasa is reporting this after that their Cassini probe has discovered what appears to be liquid water errupting “Old Faithful” style from the surface of Enceladus.  As everyone is probably […]

• March 9, 2006Gadgets, General, Hardware

  The Proper Way To Play Video Games… and View Data, I guess…

  Here’s a cool toy: a twenty four (that’s right.. I said 24) screen display of people playing Quake 3 on 12 Linux machines running (I just have to say it […]

• March 9, 2006General, WebMapping

  New Version of MapGuide Open Source

  Autodesk has announced a new version of what used to be Mapserver Enterprise – which was just Mapserver but then combined with Autodesk to be split into Mapserver and Mapserver […]

• March 9, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  Arc Explorer Demo Video

  James over at Spatialy Adjusted pointed out that ESRI have published a demo movie of Arc Explorer in action. The file is in Windows Media Format and runs at ever […]

• March 9, 2006Data, General

  Calls for Free Spatial Data in the UK

  The Gaurdian has started a campaign to get the UK to publically release spatial data collected with taxpayer money. For those of you unaware, in the UK you pay for […]

• March 9, 2006General, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography

  Trying to Stop Extinction Before It Happens

  The BBC has an interesting article about a group trying to pinpoint speicies that might soon be candidates for extinction. The idea is that if you can identify a speicies […]

• March 8, 2006General

  For Our Younger Listeners….. and Frank….

  There’s a pretty fancy kids geography newsletter that comes out four times a year.  It has all sorts of neat things to teach kids about geography and geographic concepts.  So […]

• March 8, 2006General, Remote Sensing

  Biggest Image on the Web

  IIPImage has what is touted to be the largest image ever posted on the web. The image is a 86400 x 43200 pixel, RGB, 10.7GB uncompressed TIFF, of….. you guessed […]

• March 8, 2006Data, General, Human Geography

  National Agricultural Statistics Service Updates Site, Includes Mapping

  The National Agricultural Statistics Service updated their site to include a whole host of new ways to get their data, including a fancy new mapping service. The latest data I […]