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September 21, 2008general, GIS_Software, Podcast, Show Notes

A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 166

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 166 September 21, 2008 Main Topic: Interview with TeleAtlas Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
September 15, 2008general, WebMapping

How walkable is your neighborhood?

Our reader Ed always sends me links to cool sites, and walkscore is no exception. It’s a Google Maps mashup site that calculates the walkability (using a 0-100 scoring system) […]
September 6, 2008general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

Watch the GeoEye Launch today

GeoEye is going to stream the launch of their GeoEye-1 satellite Saturday afternoon (today) at noon PDT on their website. Always fun to watch a launch and probably interesting for […]
September 2, 2008general, WebMapping

Behind the Scenes look at Google Map Maker

Google has posted a nice 3-minute video giving you an inside look at Google Map Maker, the company’s new tool that allows users to contribute and edit map data for […]
August 26, 2008general, WebMapping

London’s Met Police Crime Mapping site now live in beta

Based on Google Maps, the Metropolitan Police’s new Crime Mapping Test Site is now up and running in beta and, while the functionality is just pretty basic display of crime […]
August 15, 2008general, WebMapping

RoofRay – Find out your roof’s solar energy potential

I haven’t blogged about a mashup in awhile, but I was catching up on some news and saw a link to RoofRay, a Google Maps app that calculates the solar […]
July 30, 2008avsp, general, GIS_Software, Poll

New Poll, Old Poll

We have a great new poll question suggested by Nadir from the Boston area. The question is Of the 5 elements of GIS (People, Data, Hardware, Software, and Processes) which […]
July 28, 2008general, GIS_Software, VirtualEnvironments

Digital Cities Interview

We spoke to Doug Eberhard of Autodesk on episode 158 this week about the Digital Cities Initiative. While we had a few minutes to speak with Doug, Matt over at […]
July 21, 2008Gadgets, general, Hardware, Navigation, space (not spatial)

A New GPS System…. On the Moon?

Engadget is reporting an interesting new system that’s being created. Researchers over at Ohio State University (a hop, skip, and 4 hour drive from here) are attempting to make a […]
July 18, 2008general, Hardware, LBS, Navigation

More location iStuff

So Sue has the iPhone 3G and I was FINALLY able to upgrade the iPod Touch to the 2.0 firmware. I am quite happy with the number of times that […]