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• November 16, 2005Events, GeographyAwareness

  From all of us to all you, have a VerySpatial GIS Day

  We have reached the mid point of Geography Awareness Week, GIS Day. We would like to thank Rick Lawson, the WV ESRI rep, for kicking it with us on the […]

• November 16, 2005GeographyAwareness, GIS_Software, Podcast

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 03

  GIS Day Podcast including guests Rick Lawson and Frank

• November 15, 2005Education, Events, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography

  GAW Day 2: Human Geography

  Although definitions vary, most agree that human geography focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment, and the spatial relationships that define and are defined by those interactions. Human […]

• November 15, 2005GeographyBlogs

  Geocaching podcasts

  Geocaching is, of course, the activity where you go out and find caches based on a lat/long and a few hints (apparently there are now audio hint caches, as well). […]

• November 15, 2005General, WebMapping

  programmableweb

  programmableweb is a pretty good website all about Web 2.0 and mashups, which of course are a big part of the success of the web mapping phenomenon of Google Maps, […]

• November 15, 2005Events

  Geography Awareness Week at the National Air and Space Museum

  If you’re going to be in the Washington, DC area this week, the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian is celebrating Geography Awareness Week with a number of […]

• November 14, 2005Columns

  Magic in the Muggle World: The Marauder’s Map

  By: Jesse, November 14, 2005 With only a few days left before the release of the 4th movie in the Harry Potter series, The Goblet of Fire, I thought it […]

• November 14, 2005Physical Geography

  BBC NEWS | Deforestation slowing, UN says

  This article from BBC News follows on today’s GAW topic Physical Geography. Just a month ago we referenced an article stating that we were losing portions of the rainforests at […]

• November 14, 2005Events, GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography

  GAW Day 1: Physical Geography

  As I have mentioned before, I see Geography as a series of relationships and as we look back through the history of Geography we see three main areas that we […]

• November 14, 2005Events, GeographyAwareness

  Welcome to Geography Awareness Week at VerySpatial

  This week we will be taking a look at five broad areas within Geography, beginning today with Physical Geography with the rest of the week as: Tuesday – Human Geography […]