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• January 26, 2006General

  West Virginia fully adopts Dance Dance Revolution fitness program – Engadget

  This is a little too close to ‘home’ to not mention.  I think the new slogan for WV should be “Dance Dance Revolution in every classroom and a lottery ticket […]

• January 25, 2006space (not spatial)

  Most Earth-like Planet Detected

  Continuing last week’s podcast “space theme”, CNN has this story about astronomers using new techniques to discover the most Earth-like planet found yet. From the story, “an international team has […]

• January 25, 2006GeographyBlogs, WebMapping

  Platial

  Adena over at AllPoints Blog posted an entry on Platial, an online friend site which uses Google Maps and tagging to add information about place to a spatial location on […]

• January 25, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments

  Eyebeam R&D’s OpenGLExtractor

  Want to add your favorite 3D game character to GoogleEarth? Eyebeam R&D’s OpenGLExtractor allows you to capture and re-use 3D geometry data in other 3D graphics applications, basically a “screen […]

• January 25, 2006Cartography, Human Geography

  Maps for illegal immigration

  A Mexican government funded commission is moving to distribute 70,000 maps to aid people trying to cross into the US. They will feature water cache locations, show transportation routes, and […]

• January 24, 2006GIS_Software, Human Geography

  More on soundscapes – The Silence of the Lands project

  The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center for Lifelong Learning & Design is working on a cool project called Silence of the Lands. Participants use handheld devices to record and […]

• January 24, 2006Gadgets, Navigation

  Asus MyPal A636 GPS-equipped PDA reviewed – Engadget

  Engadget has a link to a review of a new GPS PDA. These devices are to support those of us who have Trimble GeoXT envy, and a budget…well kind of. […]

• January 24, 2006General

  Adobe Acrobat 3D

  For all you CAD users out there, Yahoo!News reported on Monday that Adobe is releasing Adobe Acrobat 3D, which will allow 3D files from major CAD applications to be saved […]

• January 23, 2006General, GIS_Software

  China to Spend Millions to Survey the Great Wall

  An article in Friday’s online edition of The Epoch Times reports that China will spend 200 million yuan (approximagely $25 million US) to survey the Great Wall using modern remote […]

• January 23, 2006WebMapping

  Want to Know the Highest Point in Your State?

  Over at Geology.com, they’ve got a neat Google Maps mashup that shows the highest point in each of the 50 states. West Virginia’s is Spruce Knob – 4,863 feet. Alaska […]