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October 7, 2005General, WebMapping

Online navigating changing our lives

Wired has an interesting article/commentary about how online maps are changing the way we interface our entire lives. I think the next to the last sentance sums up the concerns […]
October 6, 2005WebMapping

Google Maps out of Beta; Now Google Local

Google announced today that Google Maps is no longer in beta and has been merged with Google’s local search technology. It is now known as Google Local and is now […]
October 6, 2005WebMapping

Panoramio -Photos linked to Google Maps locations

Using Panoramio, you can browse photos from different places in the world or add your own. They don’t have a lot of photos yet, but a cool site. Check out […]
October 6, 2005WebMapping

Earth Contest – Google Earth game

This free game uses Google Earth to play a kind of geocaching, where you launch the game from within Google Earth and follow the clues to various location checkpoints. If […]
October 5, 2005VirtualEnvironments

VirtuSphere – Immersive Virtual Reality environment

One avenue of research in geospatial technologies and geovisualization is immersive Virtual Reality. One of the biggest issues is how to simulate moving through a real landscape. The VirtuSphere rotates […]
October 5, 2005Remote Sensing

Glowing oceans… and not from radioactive waste!

Satellite images show glowing sea. It’s always interesting when science can help confirm ghost tales. The real question is this… is it really bacteria or the ghosts of souls lost […]
October 4, 2005Remote Sensing

DigitalGlobe announces plans for 2 new imaging satellites

DigitalGlobe just announced their plans to launch 2 new imaging satellites, WorldView I and WorldView II, with WorldView I scheduled to launch no later than 2006 and WorldView II no […]
October 4, 2005Cartography, GIS_Software

David Rumsey on the Future of Mapping – via ITConversations

While we were at the Podcasting Symposium last week, we heard a presentation from the guy from ITConversations, which is an online catalog for audio presentations. They mainly cover IT […]
October 4, 2005Remote Sensing

PixelSense 742

We here at VerySpatial have received our first honest to goodness press release! What is more, its for an actually useful product. Pixel742 generates distributable GeoTIFFs from Landsat bands 7, […]
October 3, 2005General, Navigation

ViewRanger : 3D landscapes on your mobile phone

Once again, something cool for people in the UK. ViewRanger 1.0 is a mapping application for mobile phones that gives you a 3D landscape display as an interface for accessing […]