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• 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 […]

• December 7, 2005WebMapping

  A9.com – mapping at ground level

  Although a lot of the attention has been focused on Google Maps, MSN Virtual Earth, and Google Earth, Amazon’s A9.com subsidiary is continuing to map US cities in a different […]

• December 7, 2005General

  ‘Podcast’ is Word of the Year

  That’s right! ‘Podcast’ has been declared the Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary and will be included in next year’s update to the dictionary. It’s really […]

• December 7, 2005Human Geography, Physical Geography

  BBC NEWS | Drought may have shaped history

  this story offers up some information on a drought in Africa 70k years ago found through soil cores. The story also offers up an interpretation that is related to our […]

• December 6, 2005Navigation

  GPS & cellphone for dogs

  Head over to engadget to see how your canine friend can have better gadgets than you! PetCell GPS tracker phone for dogs – Engadget – www.engadget.com

• December 6, 2005Events

  ESRI User Conference Abstract Submission Deadline Extended

  The deadline for abstract submission for the 2006 ESRI International User Conference has been extended to January 6, 2006. For more information, see the conference webpage.

• December 6, 2005General

  GISuser.com – MapServer Foundation

  Glenn Latham has offered up a good write up of the intent of the MapServer Foundation that is a good perspective of the initial direction of the foundation at GISuser.com […]