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• October 12, 2005Cartography, General

  Missouri congressmen call for investigation of USGS mapping consolidation

  The decision to close the USGS mapping center in Rolla, Missouri as part of its consolidation in Denver has prompted several Missouri Congressmen to request an investigation into the decision. […]

• October 11, 2005General

  China’s Second Manned Space Launch

  China plans to launch 2 astronauts into orbit tomorrow in its second manned space launch. Here is more from CNN.com

• October 11, 2005WebMapping

  So THAT’S how they did it……..

  I was checking out the MapPoint magazine website this morning, and I came across this video from back in August. It the “real” story behind the making of Virtual Earth. […]

• October 10, 2005Cartography, General, Physical Geography

  Mapping Storm Surge from Katrina

  An effort is underway to map flood levels from Katrina from Florida to Louisiana to generate an atlas of the storm surge. Check out the article at Wired.com

• October 10, 2005General, Physical Geography

  ScienCentral: Earthquake Forecasts

  An article over at ScienCentral discusses the use of simulations to determine the probability of earthquakes along the California coast. More of a Geology topic, but interesting non-the-less. ScienCentral: Earthquake […]

• October 10, 2005GIS_Software

  GIS Long Tail

  James over at Spatially Adjusted comments on an article by Dave Bouwman that discusses the differences in the user bases between the traditional GIS software and the new web map […]

• October 10, 2005General

  Yahoo! Podcasts

  Yahoo! has joined the podcast search community with there new Yahoo! Podcasts Beta. This works fairly well and looks like it is trying to be the Technorati for podcasts. Yahoo! […]

• October 9, 2005Show Notes

  Show notes for AVSP Episode 12

  VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 12 October 09, 2005 Main Topic: Geographic education in mid career and interdisciplinary shift in Geography Click for the detailed shownotes

• October 9, 2005Podcast

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 12

  Main topic: Geographic education ramblings. News: Census outsourcing, Digital Globe satellites, Google Local, Shapefiles in VE

• October 9, 2005General

  Census Bureau awards $500 million contract

  The US Census Bureau has award a 6-year contract worth more than $500 million to Lockheed Martin for the 2010 Census Decennial Response Integration System (DRIS). They will also be […]