Recent Posts

• December 24, 2005General

  Happy Holidays!

  ‘Tis the season to be jolly! We here at VerySpatial would like to wish you all a bunch of fun and some time off! (apologies to those of you stuck […]

• December 24, 2005General

  NORAD to track Santa for 50th year

  This is great for all of you who celebrate Christmas and have kids! I even remember watching the news breaks on Christmas Eve as NORAD tracked the sleigh across Europe […]

• December 23, 2005General

  Directions Magazine Top 10 of 2005

  Adena Schutzberg over at Directions Magazine/AllPointsBlog has posted her top 10 for the geospatial industry. The obvious ones are in there (Google, MapServer Foundation, USGS) along with a few that […]

• December 23, 2005General

  Welcome to the GEODE Initiative!

  The GEODE (Geographic Data in Education) Initiative “is dedicated to the improvement of Earth and environmental science education through the use of data visualization and analysis tools to support inquiry-based […]

• December 22, 2005General

  MapMemo: Contextualize your files

  MapMemo is a neat little desktop program that let’s you drag and drop any file on a map to create a location-based pointer to the original file. The problems with […]

• December 21, 2005Education, Events, GIS_Software

  GLIS Annual GIS competition for high schools

  The Geographic and Land Information Society has announced their Annual GIS Competion for high schools, sponsored by ESRI. Basically, high schools submit projects to the competition by the deadline of […]

• December 21, 2005General

  VerySpatial Contest #3 – Name the VerySpatial Bear!

  That’s right! Our sooo cute new mascot needs a name! Just send us an email with your suggestion for what to name our bear, and Jesse, Frank, and I will […]

• December 20, 2005GIS_Software, Groups, Remote Sensing

  States wary of Google’s Bird’s Eye View

  Although this has been blogged in one form or the other several times over the last few months, I think it’s an increasingly pressing issue. States are having real problems […]

• December 20, 2005General

  Web Mapping hits the Big Time!

  Check out this hilarious video from Saturday Night Live (SNL), where Yahoo Maps, Mapquest, and Google Maps get a nod. The site’s been getting hit pretty heavily, so it might […]

• December 20, 2005General, GeographyBlogs

  Planet Geospatial Widget

  As you know, I am all about the widgets. The newest widget on my desktop is the Planet Geospatial RSS widget which pulls from…you guessed…Planet Geospatial. James Fee was nice […]