GIS_Software

November 15, 2007general, LBS, Navigation, VirtualEnvironments

Nokia To Expand Pedestrian Maps

Nokia is taking an interesting twist with their acquisition of Navteq – they want to focus on pedestrians. At a time when people are working hand over fist to get […]
November 15, 2007general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

Pictures of Earth from Rosetta

The European Space Agency’s comet satellite completed it’s second swing around Earth on the 13th of this month. The swing is necessary to gain speed for it’s deep space mission. […]
November 14, 2007Events, general, GIS_Software

Happy GIS Day 2007!

We’re halfway through Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day 2007 is almost over. We hope you enjoy our annual Special Episode with Rick Lawson of ESRI, and that many of […]
November 13, 2007general, GeographyAwareness, VirtualEnvironments

Google Earth and GAW

Over on the Google Earth educators site there is a GE tour of Asia in honor of the 2007 Geography Awareness Week topic. If you get a few minutes free […]
November 9, 2007general, WebMapping

Google Maps at the Gas Pump

Here’s a perfect idea that should have happened long ago. Google is rolling out an interactive application for gas pumps to allow travelers to search maps and print them out […]
October 30, 2007general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

Arctic Sea Ice Loss 1979-2007

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a video today showing visually the ice loss in the Arctic Sea from 1979-2007. The video is pretty impressive showing the degree of […]
October 30, 2007general, GeographyAwareness, GIS_Software

Book – “Geospatial Analysis”

I am not sure how I missed something like this, but Drs de Smith, Goodchild, and Longley, released a book entitled Geospatial Analysis – a comprehensive guide. Now in its […]
October 28, 2007general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

Nice write-up On Landsat Data Continuity Mission

On Thursday, NASA posted a nice short article on their Landsat mission website summarizing the planning for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. The planned launch is July 2011, and Ball […]
October 26, 2007general, GeographyAwareness, Navigation

The National Map Corps

This one definitely gets filed under the “I did not know that” category (a fairly substantial category as you might imagine). Apparently for a few years now the USGS has […]
October 25, 2007general, GeographyBlogs, Navigation

Groundspeak Forums – talking geocaching

In my recent stumbles around the web I came across an extensive set of forums on geocaching over at the Groundspeak Forums. On the site (which is related to geocaching.com) […]