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• January 26, 2006General

  West Virginia fully adopts Dance Dance Revolution fitness program – Engadget

  This is a little too close to ‘home’ to not mention.  I think the new slogan for WV should be “Dance Dance Revolution in every classroom and a lottery ticket […]

• January 25, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments

  Eyebeam R&D’s OpenGLExtractor

  Want to add your favorite 3D game character to GoogleEarth? Eyebeam R&D’s OpenGLExtractor allows you to capture and re-use 3D geometry data in other 3D graphics applications, basically a “screen […]

• January 24, 2006General

  Adobe Acrobat 3D

  For all you CAD users out there, Yahoo!News reported on Monday that Adobe is releasing Adobe Acrobat 3D, which will allow 3D files from major CAD applications to be saved […]

• January 23, 2006General, GIS_Software

  China to Spend Millions to Survey the Great Wall

  An article in Friday’s online edition of The Epoch Times reports that China will spend 200 million yuan (approximagely $25 million US) to survey the Great Wall using modern remote […]

• January 23, 2006General

  AllPointsBlog gets Dugg

  For those of you familiar with the social bookmarking site Digg.com, search Digg for “geospatial” (or just click the link) and you will see that someone dugg Adena over at […]

• January 21, 2006General

  Assessing the cultural value of farmland and open space

  Art Rex, a geographer at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, is conducting research on using GIS as a tool in developing qualitative assessments of the value of farmland and […]

• January 20, 2006General

  Mapping Video Games

  I personally find virtual worlds mapping an interesting niche in the mapping world.  Most world builders have no real training in any sort of geographic principles, so I find it […]

• January 20, 2006General

  Mappy – Road Guide

  Mappy is a European page that has quite a few interesting features that aren’t really available in its ‘states-side’ counterparts.  It does offer up the expected high-res imagery for a […]

• January 19, 2006General

  Wow….now you, too, can feel like Godzilla!

  Check out this entry from the RFID in Japan blog. They have created an exhibition with a giant aerial photo of the city on the floor, with over 7000 RFID […]

• January 19, 2006General

  NASA’s New Horizons probe blasts off for Pluto

  After scrubbing the first 2 launch times, the New Horizons probe finally lifted off just under an hour ago. It will take it 10 years to reach Pluto, but it […]