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• April 29, 2015GIS_Software, Navigation, WebMapping

  GIS and Today’s Technology: A Beneficial Duo

  Note: This is the last post by our Spring intern Aleigha. A big thanks to Aleigha and good luck after graduation. The significance of location services, prominence of maps, and […]

• November 19, 2014Cartography, Education, ESRIUC, general, GeographyAwareness, Navigation, Remote Sensing, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  GIS DAY 15th Anniversary: Take the way back machine

  Take the way back machine to the first GIS Day in Spring of 1999. ESRI ARC News Online announced GIS Day 1999 Slated for November!  According to the press release, ESRI […]

• November 1, 2013Human Geography, Navigation, Physical Geography

  Geocaching goes mainstream

  In the world of advertising and marketing, it is fairly easy to guess that if something starts to show up on deal sites and clearance sections that it has either […]

• July 30, 2013AVSRT, ESRIUC, Navigation, Travel

  A Review of Apps and Maps

  We downloaded several apps for our Very Spatial Road Trip that were recommended by friends, online reviews, and VerySpatial podcasts. Since she was acting as navigator, Barbara insisted on stopping […]

• July 23, 2013Gadgets, Navigation

  Location Shoes

• July 19, 2012GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Navigation

  We Give Directions Differently Depending on Where We Live

  Europeans and Americans just give directions differently. Who knew? Researchers conducted an experiment to see if people gave directions differently if they thought the person was driving verses looking at […]

• July 5, 2012Navigation

  TomTom throws open doors to MapShare updates

  I know I am about a week behind on this, but I am still pretty excited about TomTom’s ever growing utilization of its MapShare database. With the release of regular, […]

• March 14, 2012LBS, Navigation

  The Lightsquared Saga Continues

  Lightsquared is not prepared to go gently into the night.  They have hired Theodore Olson (among others) to help argue their case.  Olson is most famous for having successfully argued for Bush […]

• February 15, 2012LBS, Navigation

  Lightsquared Pretty Much Out Of The Fight

  Lightsquared, who last month received a conditional waiver from the FCC on its products, looks like it might be in trouble as the FCC has withdrawn that waiver.  Obviously the […]

• December 23, 2011Navigation

  GPS – For All The Points

  We don’t feature Real Life Comics that often, but it’s a funny comic and worth a read… especially today 🙂 Plus, I’ve met Greg Dean (the artist) at a con […]