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• August 11, 2005general, WebMapping

  2006 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

  For those of you interested in the cutting-edge tech-side of GIS and other geospatial technologies, the Call for Participation has gone out for the 2006 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. According […]

• August 11, 2005general, WebMapping

  Google Maps Transparencies

  Picked this link up from Digg.com. Another nifty Google Maps interface. Google Maps Transparencies

• August 10, 2005general, WebMapping

  Bell Canada launches Seek & Find

  If you thought your parents had uncanny ways of knowing what you were up to, check out how parents in Canada can now monitor their kids’ locations in near real-time […]

• August 10, 2005general, Physical Geography

  World land use top environmental issue (Jul 21, 2005)

  In the July issue of Science magazine, a group of leading scientists, including geographers, argue that global land use is now a top environmental issue. Here is the link to […]

• August 10, 2005general, General, Remote Sensing, WebMapping

  Clouds on Google Maps

  OK, it is late I probably shouldn’t blog just before sleep, but I figured I would forget this link in the morning. The Digg submission linked below is a person […]

• August 9, 2005general, General

  Discovery lands safely

  It was great to see the shuttle land safely. I have always been a fan of the space shuttle program, ever since I did a class project on the first […]

• August 9, 2005general, General, Remote Sensing

  HiRise high-resolution camera set to depart for Mars

  Continuing my obsession is an article regarding NASA’s new instrument for capturing the martian surface. Please not that they talk about the number of pixels the instrument will collect at […]

• August 8, 2005general, General, WebMapping

  Google Maps in Journalism

  An interesting perspective on how a Google Maps news link might appear. Poynter Online – E-Media Tidbits

• August 8, 2005general, General

  Welcome to a new contributor

  Frank will be joining us to offer a column on the state of web mapping and any other matters he thinks are relevant to the topic of Geography and geospatial […]

• August 8, 2005general, WebMapping

  Follow-up: Google Earth ‘no security threat’

  Here is a follow-up on the Australian security issue…now it isn’t as significant apparently. The Daily Telegraph | Google Earth ‘no security threat’