A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 241
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 241
February 28, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation about time and remote sensing
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Music
News
- New head of NGA
- Hacking GPS
- NASA’s 1st official iPhone game
- Software
- –Google Earth on Android 2.1
- Tox Town
- This week we feature our conversation on the importance of time in remote sensing data collection and analysis
- GreenMap iPhone App
- GIS/SIG Annual Spatial/Digital Mapping Conference: 13 April, Pittsford, NY
- AAG Annual Meeting : 14-18 April, Washington, DC
- ESRI UK annual conference: 10-11 May, London
- Com.Geo: 21-23 June, Washington, DC
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- This week’s podsafe music: “Fantasy World” by Christopher Joel
- Dutch, Dubai, and Chinese map companies form Global Digital Mapping Alliance
- ESRI FedUC Roundup – ArcGIS 10, AGX web, Amazon and the Cloud
- Mobile World Congress Roundup – Windows Phone 7, Symbian^3, Hardware, apps
- Software
- –MapMart ArcMap Toolbar
- –Bentley’s 3D City GIS products
- US County Health Rankings
- This week we feature Part 2 of our conversation with Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno of MIT, Diana Sinton of the University of Redlands, and Eric Wittner and Matt Artz of ESRI about the 2010 GeoDesign Summit
- Tableau Public data visualization tools
- CARIS 2010: 22-25 March, Miami, FL
- GeoTec Event : 13-15 April, Toronto, CA
- ASPRS Annual Conference : 26-30 April, San Diego, CA /li>
- The Prairie Summit 2010: 1-5 June, Regina, Sasketchewan, Canada
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- This week’s podsafe music: “Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown” by George Winston
- Google Maps labs and Microsoft Explore
- Solar flares may cause trouble for GPS
- Jack Dangermond Talks About GeoDesign at TED 2010
- Software
- –Avenza Releases Geographic Imager 3.0 for Adobe Photoshop
- –Garmin/ASUS A50 and M10
- –Trimble Introduces Indoor Mobile Mapping Solution for Capturing Interior Spaces in 2D and 3D Visualization Models
- –ArcPad reaches 10 years and releases 8.0 Service Pack 3 for download
- Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design
- This week we feature Part 1 of our conversation with Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno of MIT, Diana Sinton of the University of Redlands, and Eric Wittner and Matt Artz of ESRI about the 2010 GeoDesign Summit
- Scribble Maps
- WhereCamp EU: 12-13 March, London, UK
- MapWindow User & Developer Conference: 31 March-2 April, Orlando, FL
- Google I/O 2010: 19-20 May, San Francisco, CA
- The Computational Social Science Society – CSSS: 5-6 Nov, Phoenix, AZ – New org, first conference, more to come
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- This week’s podsafe music: “Quicksand” by Anthony Rankin
- ESA student competition
- EEA wants your help in keeping an eye on the Earth
- Infoterra launches Skapes – 3D City Mapping Service
- Software
- –OS OpenSpace Web Map Builder
- –PostGIS 1.5.0
- –Accela 7.0
- National Geographic’s Enduring Voices Project
- This week we feature our conversation with OpenGeo’s Chris Holmes and Paul Ramsey, including a discussion of OpenGeo Suite 1.0
- Amazon Kindle and eReaders for on-the-go reading
- Game Developers Conference: 9-13 March, San Francisco, CA
- California Geographical Society Annual Conference : 30 April – 2 May, Fullerton, CA
- FOSS4G 2010: 6-9 Sept, Barcelona, Spain – Abstracts due April 1
- Applied Geography Conference : 21-23 October, Forth Worth, TX
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- This week’s podsafe music: “My Escape ” by BrokenRail
- Italy’s education system to lose Geography?
- Future city competition winners – North Carolina, South Carolina
- NASS releases 2009 US Agricultural Land Cover dataset
- Software
- –GeoREST 1.0
- –the iPad…of course
- –Nokia’s Ovi Maps for smartphones to be free
- National Historical GIS
- This week we feature our conversation discussing what the Census means for Geography and geospatial technologies .
- Garmin Voice Studio
- Washington GIS Conference: 19-21 April, Tacoma, Washington
- International Commercial Remote Sensing Symposium: 3-5 March, Washington, DC
- GIS-Pro 2010 (URISA): 28 Sept – 1 Oct, Orlando – Abstracts by Feb 23
- International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM) 2010: Haiti and Beyond: 1-3 October, Boston
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- This week’s podsafe music: “The Well-Traveled Gentleman” by The Blind Eyes
- LORAN being decommisioned
- ESRI’s 2010 Mashup Challenge – Map Your App
- Obama Administration releases data sets as part of Open Government Initiative
- Software
- –ERDAS Titan 2010 released
- –Microsoft Bing now out of beta
- Where’s George
- This week we feature our conversation giving a brief overview of temporal GIS, including how time is conceptualized, temporal data, and visualizing temporal data.
- Autodesk Labs’ Project Butterfly
- Indiana GIS Conference: 23-24 February, Bloomington, IN
- Society for Conservation GIS: 8-11 July, Monterrey, CA
- Global Change and the World’s Mountains: 26-30 Sept, Perth, Scotland
- 5th 3D GeoInfo Workshop: 3-4 November, Berlin Germany
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- This week’s podsafe music: “Oh Well 2.0″ by ArmsUp
- Rare Map of the World
- Next ArcGIS release to be 10 instead of 9.4
- MapAction head to Haiti to help quake relief efforts
- Software
- –Safe Software’s FME 2010
- –Gameloft’s H.A.W.X for iPhone
- –Announcing the release of QGIS 1.4.0 ‘Enceladus’
- Location Meme
- This week we feature our conversation about some of the issues related to the growing movement toward citizens as sensors and its impact on geospatial technologies
- Google Earth KML Embedded Viewer gadget
- TUgis 2010: 24-25 May, Towson, MD
- New Zealand Geographical Society Biennial Conference 2010 with IAG: 5-8 July, Christchurch, New Zealand
- 2010 URISA/NENA Addressing Conference: 16-18 August, Charlotte – Abstracts Feb 18
- VSMM 2010 The 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia: 20-23 October, Seoul, Korea – Call for Papers now open
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- This week’s podsafe music: “An Ordinary Guy” by Matthew Ebel
- Xenogeography to come – 5 new planets
- US Census 2010 gears up
- EU to hand out Galileo contracts
- Software
- –New Google Mobile Home Page Features Local Points of Interest
- –ERDAS Extends CAD & GIS Support with IMAGINE Feature Interoperability
- –OGC seeks input on next version of CityGML
- –Magellan Pro renamed Ashtech
- HASTAC – Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory
- This week we feature our conversation about the challenges and opportunities in starting an academic GIS program
- Check out the news and announcements from CES 2010
- – TomTom promises lifetime (free) map and traffic updates for select 2010 PNDs
- – TomTom Ease splashing down later this year with low pricing
- NAVTEQ Announcements
- — NAVTEQ Reveals Data On ‘The State Of Navigation’
- — NAVTEQ Launches Advanced Mapping Collection Technology
- — Suck It, Street View, Navteq Maps the World in 3D… With Lasers
- –NAVTEQ Enhanced 3D City Models
- Delorme’s Earthmate PN-60w gets Spot compatibility, stay connected via satellite
- CityCamp – Gov 2.0 Goes Local : 23-24 January, Chicago, IL
- COM.Geo – 1st International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application: 8-11June, Washington, DC
- 2010 Digital Earth Summit: 12-14 June, Nessebar, Bulgaria
- IADIS International Conference-Web Virtual Reality and Three-Dimensional Worlds 2010 : 27-29 July, Freiburg, Germany
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Registration is now open for the 2010 ESRI International User Conference, which will take place July 12-16 in San Diego, California. Connect with ESRI staff and the global ESRI user community to gain tips, tricks, and tools to launch, update, or enhance your GIS projects. Register to attend at www.esri.com/uc.
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 240
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 240
February 21, 2010
Main Topic: Part 2 of our conversation with the organizers of the 2010 GeoDesign Summit
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Don’t forget to submit your entry to the ESRI 2010 Mashup Challenge by March 5, 2010 for the chance to win cash prizes totaling $20,000. For more information, visit www.esri.com/mashupcontest.
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 239
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 239
February 14, 2010
Main Topic: Part 1 of our conversation with the organizers of the 2010 GeoDesign Summit
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ArcLogistics is a complete fleet management solution for creating optimized routes and solving scheduling problems. With ArcLogistics, you can reduce your organization’s carbon footprint, cut fuel costs, and lower emissions. To learn more, visit www.esri.com/arclogistics.
Great Backyard Bird Count
It’s that time of year again. If you are in North America are you ready to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count February 12 – 15th? Each year “citizen scientists” helps researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology,the National Audubon Society , and Bird Studies Canada learn more about bird population and migration creating the largest map of bird populations ever recorded. You only have to observe for 15 minutes and the GBBC site provides downloadable tally sheets of birds in your region. This year after reading a great article in the New York Times on landfills and bird diversity, I am participating in it along with several recycling centers and landfills in our state. I was inspired by the landfill bird blog hosted by a Wildlife Control Biologist on a landfill in Kentucky. His pictures are stunning. Other “citizen scientist” bird counts include the UK Big Garden Birdwatch (January 30 -31), Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count (December 14 – January 5) which is the largest and oldest at 110 years old, and Cornell’s eBird which is a year round on-line bird count from citizen scientists around the world.
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 238
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 238
February 7, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation with Chris Holmes and Paul Ramsey of OpenGeo
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GIS Data ReViewer is an ArcGIS Desktop extension that provides a set of tools to streamline spatial data quality control processes and workflows. With GIS Data ReViewer, you can implement a consistent data review process, minimize production resources, and increase confidence in your data to help you make reliable business decisions. Visit www.esri.com/datareviewer to request a free 60-day trial.
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 237
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 237
January 31, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation on the Census and Geography
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Mapping Forestry, a new book by ESRI Press, looks at the ways GIS technology is being used to support better forestry and land management decisions. The book provides firsthand reports from forestry professionals on their use of GIS to manage commercial operations and promote sustainable stewardship. For more information, visit www.esri.com/esripress.
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 236
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 236
January 24, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation on temporal GIS
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ESRI Business Analyst Online helps businesses find profitable new markets by delivering market potential reports and maps of customers’ spending and retail activities. Industry-specific reports, including electronic, financial, restaurant, and retail, are available for all ZIP Codes in the United States. To learn more about Business Analyst Online, visit www.esri.com/bao.
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 235
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 235
January 17, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation on citizens as sensors
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 234
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 234
January 10, 2010
Main Topic: How would you start an academic GIS program?
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UNIX taking the lead (part 1)
There are times when I hear someone say something that should have been obvious, but it just makes me pause (more dumbfounded than usual) due to the the way it shifts my thinking about a significant portion of my universe. The statement in question was made by Andy Ihnatko on a recent MacBreak Weekly (Epi173) where he off handedly said that he thought the biggest thing over the last decade (at least technology wise) was the dominance of UNIX and UNIX-like OSes (Linux, BSD, etc).
What? Well…umm…that can’t…but…if you look at it like…huh. He’s right.
He was talking primarily about consumer devices. Since it was MacBreak Weekly it is easy to start with the fact that MacOS X is basically UNIX under the hood with much of Darwin coming from FreeBSD, meaning that every Mac product sold over the last decade from desktop to laptop to iPhone and iPod Touch which has a version of Mac OS X installed has UNIX under the hood. Add to that the OS running the iPod and just about every other mp3 player out there has dreamy, linuxy center and we are already talking millions of products over the last decade.
But what about today’s announcement of the Google Nexus One…Android is a linux-based OS, so we add more products from the last couple of years from the G1 to the Droid that add to the numbers. Many of Nokia’s phones as well as other major phone manufacturers who are using a Linux variant to power their devices. Netbooks started out with Linux OSes to keep the prices down and even some of the tablets that are being announced this week at CES are boasting Linux. Ooo…tablets! E-readers are as far as I can tell are all Linux-based. So in 10 years we went from scoffing at the dead or dying Linux desktop solutions to not being able to remember what size socks we wear without a UNIX-like OS device in our pocket.
On the back-end (aka server-side) UNIX dominated 10 years ago and Linux dominates today so it has remained fairly stable, but what about the sheer ‘vastness’ of that dominance. The internet has grown and Linux with it. Heavy hitters like Google and Amazon run their and everyone else’s services on Linux variant OSes. Others like major ISPs (including ours), universities, heck even Microsoft themselves were caught running UNIX on some of their servers. Most folks have a NAS or direct connect storage array in their network config and while we are connecting to them with Windows boxes, the brains of these devices are…yep…you get the idea. But all of this raises the question for the next post of ‘how has the geospatial industry almost completely left behind support for UNIX-like OSes’…which I will talk about in part 2 next week.
