GIS_Software

June 13, 2009Gadgets, general, Navigation

Major Nav companies coming to the iPhone

There has been tons of coverage of TomTom and Intermap’s foray into iPhonedom over the last week but I wanted to link to the videos highlighting the new tools. One […]
June 8, 2009general, Navigation

Glympse: Attack of Cousin It’s family

Glympse is the next location sharing app to come to the surface. Though only available for Android at this time it looks like an interesting app…especially for the timer functionality. […]
May 27, 2009general, LostInTheVirtualFog, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

Lost in the Virtual Fog – making the interactive connection, part 1

My dissertation proposal defense is finally over and, since I passed, it’s time to get back to work and really get the functionality on the Spatial Experience Engine ramped up. […]
May 15, 2009general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

Pixel City – Procedurally-generated nighttime cityscape

This cool video shows how programmer Shamus Young created a procedurally-generated 3D nighttime cityscape. The program generates everything every time it runs, and doesn’t use any pre-stored textures or art […]
May 13, 2009general, LostInTheVirtualFog, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

Lost in the Virtual Fog – Seeing Really is Believing

So, this past week has been a flurry for me, as I’ve had to schedule and then reschedule my PhD dissertation proposal defense. But, finally it seems that we are […]
May 8, 2009general, Navigation

Turn-by-turn on your (i)Phone

Electronista posted suggesting that TomTom might be hiring an iPhone dev to create a turn-by-turn app for the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS/firmware/whatever. While I am pretty sure that if TomTom […]
May 5, 2009general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

Lost in the Virtual Fog – visit from the ghost of grad students past

This week’s entry is a little late, as I am burning the midnight oil trying to populate my virtual town with at least basic models so I can see what […]
April 30, 2009general, WebMapping

NPR shows us where our electric power comes from

I saw this cool interactive flash map from NPR yesterday, and it brought back memories of the time our lab spent working on the mapping portion of planning for one […]
April 28, 2009Environmental, general, WebMapping

ToxicRisk – mapping Toxic Release Inventory data

Mike from MapCruzin sent us this comment based on our December 2007 post on the MapEcos project, in order to let us know about a project he’s working on called […]
April 27, 2009general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

Lost in the Virtual Fog – A diary of my triumphs and travails

I’m sure many of you out there have noticed that I haven’t been blogging as much since the first of the year. I know, I know, no excuses, I should […]