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• February 22, 2006General

  Podcasting in the Peruvian highlands

  BBCNews reported recently that podcasting is now being used to distribute important agricultural information to Peruvian farmers. The sponsors of the project, a UK charity called Practical Action, have found […]

• February 21, 2006General, Navigation

  GPS and Driving Doesn’t Mix

  From Engadget. Apparently if you’re in your car and you’re interested in safety, ’tis better to go old school paper maps than these newfangled GPS units! What happens when we […]

• February 20, 2006General

  Microsoft awards academic grants for Virtual Earth research projects

  On Feb 16th, Microsoft announced the winners of its Trustworthy Computing and Virtual Earth academic grants competition. 23 grants were awarded, totaling $1 million. The maximum amount for each grant […]

• February 19, 2006General

  Geography professor elected speaker of Palestinian parliament

  Abdel Aziz Duaik, a geography professor from the West Bank, was elected speaker of the new Palestinian parliament yesterday. Duaik earned his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and is […]

• February 16, 2006General

  [Off topic] good blues from a good man

  As you may have noted from the podcast music, I am determined to support my musician friends…this time I bring you the wonderful SlimFatz.  As with most of my music […]

• February 16, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments

  Google Earth Changing the Way Scientists Collaborate

  A pretty interesting article in Nature.com talks about how free tools like Google Earth are changing the way scientists collaborate on projects. The best quote comes from Michael Goodchild when […]

• February 16, 2006General, WebMapping

  Real Time Mapping with Google maps

  This is one of the cooler uses of Google Maps. The DARTmaps Project shows the real time movement of trains on train tracks in Dublin. While you can watch the […]

• February 13, 2006General

  Federal Enterprise Architecture Geospatial Profile

  On January 26th, the Federal Chief Information Officers Council (CIO) in conjunction with the Federal Geographic Data Committee released for public review the FEA Geospatial Profile, a 158 page report […]

• February 12, 2006General

  New tomb discovered in Egypt

  I’m sure many of you have already seen this news in the major media outlets, but it really is an exciting event. For the first time since Howard Carter’s discovery […]

• February 9, 2006General

  2007 US Geospatial Budget (landsat 8)

  Adena, over at AllPointsBlog, has posted a couple of links over the last two days.  The first points out that there is now a line item in the budget for […]