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• February 11, 2006avsp

  Coming of the sponsor

  Before our first sponsorship kicks in tomorrow I just wanted to say a few things. The first is that I hope you all understand why we have decided to go […]

• February 10, 2006Human Geography

  Comparing ancient landscapes and communities

  A recent article on the National Geographic News page discusses the research done by Robert Drennon and Christian Peterson from the University of Pittsburgh comparing 3 ancient chiefdoms in a […]

• February 10, 2006avsp, GeographyBlogs

  A VerySpatial Podcast gets a nod

  David Noble, host of the Education Podcast Reflections podcast gave a quick review of AVSP in his most recent episode (#4). We were mentioned at the 7 minute and 56 […]

• February 9, 2006Gadgets

  Don’t have a LAN handy – Turn yourself into a Human Area Network

  That’s right – According to a March 2005 article from IndiaTimes, the Japanese company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone has developed technology that utilizes the human body itself as a high […]

• February 9, 2006General

  2007 US Geospatial Budget (landsat 8)

  Adena, over at AllPointsBlog, has posted a couple of links over the last two days.  The first points out that there is now a line item in the budget for […]

• February 8, 2006General, GeographyBlogs

  TERRA – a Video Podcast

  This video podcast is just amazing. The content is varied and easily rivals established documentary series. As far as I can tell from my quick glance after watching the episode […]

• February 8, 2006Events, General

  Intergraph 2006 – International Users Conference

  This year Intergraph has decided to roll its user conferences together under one name and time.  Intergraph 2006 will be taking place in Orlando, June 12-15.  My question here is […]

• February 8, 2006GIS_Software, Human Geography

  “Million Dollar Blocks” mapping project

  The Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University has been working with the Justice Mapping Center to map the phenomenon of “million dollar blocks” in US cities. These are US […]

• February 7, 2006General

  Opening up Ordnance Survey Research

  Ed Parsons of The Ordnance Survey, shared a link to some interesting information today.  The Ordnance Survey Research and Innovation made available research papers from 2003 to 2005 on various […]

• February 6, 2006VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  eDuShi

  eDuShi is a 3D mapping site for the city of Shanghai, with a cool Sim City kind of look instead of using satellite imagery, and has a navigation interface simliar […]