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• January 19, 2006General

  Why you should clearly mark your geocache!

  This story on CNN demostrates why you need to clearly mark a geocache as such. From the article, “In June, a bomb squad in De Pere, Wisconsin, used a robot-mounted […]

• January 18, 2006General

  GeoEye now world’s largest commercial satellite imagery company

  Orbimage, Inc. recently finalized its acquisition of Denver-based Space Imaging, Inc., and the two companies will now combine to do business as GeoEye. In early 2007, the company is still […]

• January 17, 2006General

  IP Address to Location

  The Link has been corrected now!  Sorry for any confusion.  While there are a few tools out there to do this sort of thing, I thought this one was a […]

• January 17, 2006General

  Peter Morville on “Spatiosemantic”

  Peter Morville, our guest on this week’s episode, maintains his own blog, Findability.org, where he discusses the ideas behind the technologies that are making findability an increasingly important part of […]

• January 16, 2006General

  Updated links – did I miss your blog?

  I have spent the evening re-merging the links page and blogs&podcast page into links which will keep me a little less confused and make it more likely for me to […]

• January 15, 2006General

  HopStop.com

  HopStop.com is a city transit guide site that features maps and directions from place to place using public transit, or a combination of public transit and walking. In addition, the […]

• January 15, 2006General

  Stardust capsule lands safely

  Early this morning, NASA’s Stardust capsule containing samples of comet dust successfully landed in the Utah desert. There are links and information on all the major media outlets, but it […]

• January 13, 2006General

  Did the Chinese discover America?

  The BBCNews website posted an article today about a Chinese map that, if authentic, may suggest that Chinese mariners visited and mapped the coasts of America before Columbus. Chinese characters […]

• January 13, 2006General

  NSG Statement of Strategic Intent Available

  The NGA issued a press release today announcing the availability of the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) Statement of Strategic Intent, a document that gives a vision for the future […]

• January 13, 2006General, Hardware

  Tiny tiny GPS receiver

  It is small… it is small… oh and it is a GPS receiver.  Ubiquitous computing requires truly portable electronics…I think this might help keep your device slim. New Zealand’s Rakon […]