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• January 6, 2006General

  OGC requesting public comment on geospatial Web Processing Service specification

  The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting public comment on a candidate specification for a geospatial Web Processing Service. This specification was developed to provide a standardized interface for accessing […]

• January 5, 2006General, Navigation

  New Gadgets from CES day 1

  It is that CES time of year again, time for lots of new toys. Most of the one that I have found are GPS related, perhaps because I am only […]

• January 5, 2006General

  National Geographic Award in Mapping

  Undergraduates and Master’s degree students are eligible to apply for the National Geographic Award in Mapping, which consists of a prize of $1200 and National Geographic map products for the […]

• January 5, 2006Events, General

  More on avsp contest 2 & 3 – updated

  There is only one day left to enter our next contests and we only have a few entries for each contest so far. The first place prize for contest 2 […]

• January 4, 2006General, Remote Sensing

  Landsat 5 update

  According to the USGS’s Landsat Program website, testing of Landsat 5’s solar array began on January 3rd and will continue until January 5th. Information related to the testing will be […]

• January 4, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments

  Update on VirtuSphere

  A while back I posted an entry about the VirtuSphere, an immersive virtual reality environment that has been getting a lot of attention. An article posted on the University of […]

• January 3, 2006General

  A Visit to the Ordnance Survey

  Susan Spano chronicles her visit to the UK’s Ordnance Survey facilities in this nice article from the LA Times online.

• January 2, 2006General

  soundTransit

  soundTransit is an online collaborative project that collects sound recordings from different places around the world. Users are then able to “book” audio trips to various destinations and pick itineraries […]

• January 2, 2006General

  Podcast feed issue fixed

  I am not sure anyone even noticed, but after I upgraded to WordPress2.0 last night the podcast feed was fine until it decided the cached copy had been around too […]

• January 1, 2006General

  xearth for Windows

  xearth for Windows is an interesting little desktop replacement. It doesn’t appear to have been updated in a couple of years, but it is still worth a gander. Via Download […]