Recent Posts

• January 30, 2006GIS_Software, LBS

  Mumbai, India deploys GIS and GPS for police operations

  There are many examples of how quickly geospatial technologies are being adopted around the world, especially in the rapidly-growing countries of Asia. This article from The Times of India discusses […]

• January 30, 2006Education, WebMapping

  Step-By-StepTutorial: Open Source Web GIS

  mapz posted a link to an article titled “Web GIS in practice IV: publishing your health maps and connecting to remote WMS sources using the Open Source UMN MapServer and […]

• January 29, 2006Podcast

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 28

  Main topic: Community GIS. News: Landsat 5 returns, Japanese RS Satellite, Great Wall mapping

• January 29, 2006Show Notes

  Show notes for AVSP Episode 28

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 28 January 29, 2006 Main Topic: Community GIS Click to directly download Episode 28 Click for the detailed shownotes

• January 29, 2006GIS_Software

  Open Access to State-collected Geodata

  I was pointed by Tim, one of our listeners, to a manifesto for open data access in the UK.  If any of you work in the UK regularly or have […]

• January 28, 2006Physical Geography

  BBC NEWS | Sea level rise ‘is accelerating’

  It has been a while since the BBC gave us something bloggable. This gem is definitely worth blogging and chuckling about. Sea level is rising…OK. The last 50 years moving […]

• January 27, 2006GIS_Software, WebMapping

  Carbon Project Becomes ESRI Business Partner

  The Carbon Project, which focuses on development of Open-Geospatial .NET applications, announced it has become a member of the ESRI Business Partner Program, and will develop interoperability extensions for ArcGIS. […]

• January 26, 2006Remote Sensing

  Landsat 5 has resumed operations

  Tim Warner here at WVU just forwarded us the good news that Landsat 5 has resumed acquisition operations for the continental US and international data acquisition will be coming back […]

• January 26, 2006Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Japan Launches Mapping Satellite

  The Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite (nicknamed “Daichi’) was launched on January 24th, after two delays for technical problems. According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), The satellite will […]

• January 26, 2006General, Physical Geography

  Pleistocene Park

  A project is underway in Russia to return a portion of Siberia to the landscape and ecosystem that existed 10,000 years ago during the late Pleistocene. The initiative is led […]