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• October 6, 2005WebMapping

  Panoramio -Photos linked to Google Maps locations

  Using Panoramio, you can browse photos from different places in the world or add your own. They don’t have a lot of photos yet, but a cool site. Check out […]

• October 6, 2005WebMapping

  Earth Contest – Google Earth game

  This free game uses Google Earth to play a kind of geocaching, where you launch the game from within Google Earth and follow the clues to various location checkpoints. If […]

• October 5, 2005VirtualEnvironments

  VirtuSphere – Immersive Virtual Reality environment

  One avenue of research in geospatial technologies and geovisualization is immersive Virtual Reality. One of the biggest issues is how to simulate moving through a real landscape. The VirtuSphere rotates […]

• October 5, 2005Remote Sensing

  Glowing oceans… and not from radioactive waste!

  Satellite images show glowing sea. It’s always interesting when science can help confirm ghost tales. The real question is this… is it really bacteria or the ghosts of souls lost […]

• October 4, 2005General

  RSS Aggregator vs visiting site

  I have gone back and forth between using an aggregator (currently SharpReader) and just going to the web sites of my various sites. The great thing about an aggregator is […]

• October 4, 2005General

  GPS: The Movie

  On the lighter side today, there is finally vindication for anyone jealous over physical geography getting all the good movie plots (The Day After Tomorrow anyone?)… It’s GPS! The Movie!. […]

• October 4, 2005Remote Sensing

  DigitalGlobe announces plans for 2 new imaging satellites

  DigitalGlobe just announced their plans to launch 2 new imaging satellites, WorldView I and WorldView II, with WorldView I scheduled to launch no later than 2006 and WorldView II no […]

• October 4, 2005Cartography, GIS_Software

  David Rumsey on the Future of Mapping – via ITConversations

  While we were at the Podcasting Symposium last week, we heard a presentation from the guy from ITConversations, which is an online catalog for audio presentations. They mainly cover IT […]

• October 4, 2005Remote Sensing

  PixelSense 742

  We here at VerySpatial have received our first honest to goodness press release! What is more, its for an actually useful product. Pixel742 generates distributable GeoTIFFs from Landsat bands 7, […]

• October 3, 2005General, Navigation

  ViewRanger : 3D landscapes on your mobile phone

  Once again, something cool for people in the UK. ViewRanger 1.0 is a mapping application for mobile phones that gives you a 3D landscape display as an interface for accessing […]