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November 17, 2010GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing and Freshwater

This post was written as a guest post for the MyWonderfulWorld blog for Geography Awareness Week. Be sure to head over and check out more of the MWW blog-a-thon for […]
October 22, 2010VirtualEnvironments

3D cities

This week’s podcast (episode 274) looked at the 2D/3D question, but as we tend to do, we talked a good bit more about 3D than 2D. We each, of course, […]
September 28, 2010Remote Sensing

More on Earth Observation

This week’s main topic on the podcast focused on the role of Remote Sensing and Earth Observation. It seems to have been an unintentionally timely topic as the International Astronautical […]
September 16, 2010AugmentedReality, general, GeographyAwareness, WebMapping

If Google Maps Were Real

Mashable (perhaps one of the cooler sites I visit each day) has a nifty story about an artist who drew Google Maps icons as if they existed in the real […]
September 7, 2010general, WebMapping

The State of Mapping APIs.

Adam DuVander over at O’Reilly has written a decent summation article on the current state of mapping apis in the world. It’s a short read and highlights some issues, but I think […]
September 3, 2010general, GeographyAwareness, Remote Sensing, Video, WebMapping

Great video introduction to the National Map

One of the fun things I get to do in prepping for my classes is getting to look at all the amazing video resources out on the interwebs for Geography […]
August 25, 2010Environmental, general, GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

NASA Earth Science Hurricane Katrina retrospective

To mark the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in the Gulf Coast, NASA Earth Science has released this short video retrospective of some of the imagery and analyses […]
August 23, 2010general, General, Navigation

Just Give Me the Address…

I know, another xkcd comic, but I just couldn’t resist:
August 17, 2010Navigation

Webscape on geocaching

The BBC’s Webscape video show recently took a look at Geocaching.com, sadly the video isn’t embeddable, so you will have to head over to their sight to take a look.
August 16, 2010WebMapping

Viewing your Facebook friends on Bing Maps

Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla talks about some of Bing Maps‘ map apps.