GeographyAwareness

• 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 7, 2006Groups, WebMapping

  VerySpatial Frappr Community nearing 100!

  I was just checking on our Frappr community page, and we are up to 94 members. I just wanted to give a shout out to everyone who’s joined, and invite […]

• March 6, 2006GeographyAwareness

  A quick interview with the Chair of the AAG Grad Student Affinity Group

  I took a moment to sit down with myself to talk about the Graduate Student Affinity Group (GSAG) of the AAG. Q: What is the GSAG… A: The GSAG is […]

• March 2, 2006GeographyAwareness

  Hilarious

  OK, so I watch Everwood, but it is on hold while The WB shows this season’s Beauty and the Geek.  I am too lazy to delete the recording event on […]

• February 26, 2006GeographyAwareness

  More NPR on Geospatial

  Import Cartography points out an interesting spot on NPR’s Weekend Edition (Feb 25) that discusses the use of the National Grid for emergency response and general use. NPR – New […]

• February 15, 2006GeographyAwareness

  ESRI interviewed for FlashForward (podcast)

  Adena over at AllPointsBlog points to an interview with ESRI staff members for the FlashForward Conference podcast.  As you might have guessed, the topic is Flash and related internet technologies, […]

• February 5, 2006Events, GIS_Software, Groups

  Open Source Geospatial Foundation begins…

  Schuyler Erle over at MappingHacks.com has a round-up of Saturday’s activities in Chicago. The upshot is that we now have the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, OSGeo (eventually to be at […]

• January 3, 2006GeographyAwareness

  Audio from the mainstream

  Two new mainstream media audio programs leaped onto the scene today. OnPoint, an NPR program, hosted a program titled The Geospatial Web that covered the ubiquitousness of geospatial technologies, much […]

• December 20, 2005GIS_Software, Groups, Remote Sensing

  States wary of Google’s Bird’s Eye View

  Although this has been blogged in one form or the other several times over the last few months, I think it’s an increasingly pressing issue. States are having real problems […]

• December 19, 2005Education, GIS_Software, Groups

  UCGIS Draft Body of Knowledge

  The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science has made a draft of its GI S&T Body of Knowledge (that’s Geographic Information Science and Technology, BTW) available for comment. This document […]