GIS_Software

September 17, 2009Events, general, Programming/Dev, WebMapping

UK GIS developers – Only 1 more day to enter the ESRI-Bing Maps Mashup Challenge!

That right – if you’re in the UK and you’re a GIS developer utilizing ESRI products, ESRI UK is sponsoring the http://www.esriuk.com/micro_sites/mashup_challenge/. All you have to do is build a […]
September 3, 2009general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

California Fires from Space

In case you haven’t seen this around, BoingBoing.net has a nice link round up for NASA’s photos of the current California fires as seen from space. The smoke cloud is […]
August 28, 2009general, VirtualEnvironments

Virtualization Gate – Full-bodied Immersive Virtual Environment

As many of you know, we have been involved in research related to geovisualization, 3D immersive virtual environments, and 3D virtual worlds for quite a while, and we’ve talked about […]
July 31, 2009general, Human Geography, Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing Used to Discover Ancient Roman Site

Really, what CAN’T geospatial do? Researchers out of University of Padua in Italy took aerial photos of an area just north of Venice and discovered what used to be Altinum, […]
July 9, 2009general, VirtualWorlds, WebMapping

Google Earth Enterprise 3.2 Released

The crew over on the Google Earth Enterprise have a new version to announce – 3.2. The fellows over at Google have had a pretty busy week, what with the big […]
July 7, 2009general, LostInTheVirtualFog, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

Lost in the Virtual Fog – A Question of Scale

I have been remiss in not doing any diary entries for awhile, but I have been feverishly working trying to get my demo XNA application ready for the ESRI UC […]
July 1, 2009general, GIS_Software

EMAGIN – the British Horse Society’s GIS

As a former horse owner, exercise rider, and all-around horsey person, I think the British Horse Society’s EMAGIN – Equine Mapping and Geographic Information Network – is a really cool […]
June 25, 2009general, Human Geography, WebMapping

Google City Tours

Google labs has launched a neat new feature called City Tours. The idea is similar to other sites (like Microsoft’s BING!) in that you can enter in a destination and […]
June 24, 2009general, VirtualEnvironments

Interactive vs flythrough visualizations

Over the years we have seen many geovisualization technologies emerge, each with their own ups and downs (pun, sadly, intended). All of the approaches, however, can be broken down to […]
June 19, 2009general, Human Geography, Political Geography, WebMapping

Broadband Penetration by Country

As many long-time listeners will know, I exceptionally intersted in broadband adoption world-wide. The US has long been behind the ball on broadband adoption and this latest report does nothing […]