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• December 11, 2005Physical Geography, Podcast

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 21

  Main Topic: Physical Geography and our changing earth. News: Contest 2, Windows Live Local, OGC WMS ISO, AAA Travel Challenge

• December 11, 2005Remote Sensing

  BBC NEWS | Europe’s pollution hotspots shown

  An interesting article from the BBC. While we spoke to Dr Warner primarily about sensors that record reflectance values of the surface of the earth, there are several sensors in […]

• December 11, 2005General

  AVSP Contest #2

  As we announced in Episode 21, avsp Contest #2 is now underway. What you have to do is send the answers to the three questions below to contest@veryspatial.com by January […]

• December 10, 2005Education, GeographyAwareness

  Geography Departments Worldwide

  This site offers a searchable list of over 1000 Geography departments from around the world. WVU is on it, is your school (or alma mater)? Geography Departments Worldwide: Homepage

• December 9, 2005WebMapping

  Unopened Letters — Hobu, Inc.

  Howard Butler has provided his thoughts on the whirlwind that has been the MapServer Foundation to date. Give it a read at Unopened Letters — Hobu, Inc.

• December 9, 2005GIS_Software, WebMapping

  OGC WMS ISO

  The alphabet soup in the title is a boon for the open standards movement. The OpenGeospatial Consortium (OGC) announced yesterday that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has accepted the […]

• December 9, 2005General

  New Journal : Religion and Society…

  I have to give a little shout out here to the person sitting at the desk across from me. Dr. Briane Turley has been involved, with others, in the creation […]

• December 8, 2005WebMapping

  Windows Live Local beta

  So, I guess the other web mapping news would be the release of Windows Live Local in beta, which incorporates Virtual Earth. I played around with it a little in […]

• December 8, 2005WebMapping

  Google Transit beta

  Here’s is the latest beta in Google’s stable of mapping apps: Google Transit. It’s the same interface as Google Local, except it plots your trip directions using public transportation, and […]

• December 8, 2005Groups

  Associations/Groups – American Geographical Society

  The American Geographical Society is the oldest professional Geography society in the US. The AGS distributes two publications, the Geographical Review and Focus on Geography as well as providing lectures […]