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• 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 […]

• October 8, 2005Groups

  Associations/Groups – The Canadian Association Of Geographers

  The Canadian Association of Geographers is the main professional organization for Geographers from the public and private sectors in Canada. They are active in disseminating geographic research and promoting geographic […]

• October 7, 2005Show Notes

  Show notes for AVSP Episode 11

  VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 11 October 02, 2005 Main Topic: Global warming Click for the detailed shownotes

• October 7, 2005WebMapping

  Putting Shapefiles into Virtual Earth

  We received an email from a Redmond employee who created a Virtual Earth shapefile loader. This has been pointed to by several sites including James at Spatially Adjusted. If I […]

• October 7, 2005WebMapping

  OpenStreetMap – open source web mapping project

  This is an ongoing open source project based in the UK that I read about on Mappinghacks.com, whose main goal is to provide free geographic data to anyone. openstreetmap was […]

• October 7, 2005General, WebMapping

  Online navigating changing our lives

  Wired has an interesting article/commentary about how online maps are changing the way we interface our entire lives. I think the next to the last sentance sums up the concerns […]

• October 6, 2005WebMapping

  Google Maps out of Beta; Now Google Local

  Google announced today that Google Maps is no longer in beta and has been merged with Google’s local search technology. It is now known as Google Local and is now […]