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• October 21, 2005General

  Space Elevator Games

  This weekend, NASA is offering its first Centennial Challenge, with $100,000 up for grabs. Ten teams will compete at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California in events related to space […]

• October 20, 2005Physical Geography

  BBC NEWS | Amazon damage ‘worse than feared’

  The BBC news reports on a study conducted in the Brazilian Amazon by Brazilian and US researchers. While it is limited in details. the article discusses the use of different […]

• October 20, 2005WebMapping

  A Journey to a Thousand Maps – NY Times article on Google Maps mash-ups

  The NY Times online posted a new article on Google Maps mash-ups. For those of you still not really sure about what the Google Maps phenomenon is all about, it’s […]

• October 20, 2005Events

  What are you doing for Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day 2005?

  It’s less than a month until Geography Awareness Week (November 13-19) and GIS Day (November 16). Already, ESRI announced last week that all 6 New England states and New York […]

• October 20, 2005General

  Latest on the Internet control dispute

  A resolution has been introduced in the US Senate to back the Bush administration’s efforts to stop the UN from taking some of the control of the Internet away from […]

• October 20, 2005General, Remote Sensing

  Mapping the Universe

  If you think it’s ambitious to map the entire earth, check out the Sloan Digital Sky Survey According to their website: “the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the most ambitious […]

• October 19, 2005WebMapping

  Want to Know Where in the World Your Spam is Coming from?

  A website called Postini has maps that show the sources for spam, virus, and directory harvest attack activity (based on originating IP) for the past 24 hours. So, if you […]

• October 19, 2005General

  A Shameless Plug for our interview in Directions magazine

  That’s right. Adena Schutzberg interviewed Jesse and me for this week’s issue of Directions Magazine. You can find Adena’s article on “Geospatial and the New Media”, as well as our […]

• October 19, 2005Education, General, GIS_Software

  GITA on workforce readiness grant

  Glenn over at GISUser spoke with Bob Samborski, Executive President of GITA, on the DOL funding workforce readiness. Mr Samborski outlined 5 key steps for conducting this study. “1. Getting […]

• October 18, 2005Cartography, General

  Green Map System

  According to their website, ” The Green Map System (GMS) is a locally adaptable, globally shared framework for environmental mapmaking.” Basically, it’s a collaborative worldwide project that is collecting Green […]