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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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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- This week’s podsafe music: “Midnight” by Adrina Thorpe
- The Air Force Wants You to Stop Blaming GPS Satellites When You Get Lost
- Mapping Gravity
- National Geographic on hard drive…all of them
- Software
- –New and improved Google City Tours
- –Geospatial holograms
- –ArcSquirrel
- Cartography 2.0
- This week we jump on the decade in review bandwagon and give our top geography and geospatial technology events and innovations of the past ten years, and some of our disappointments, too.
- Mission Explore
- 44th Annual Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference: 22-26 February, Anchorage, Alaska
- Where 2.0: 30 March-1 April, San Jose – early registration by Feb 9
- AAG Annual Meeting: 14-18 April, Washington, DC
- PB Insights 2010: 12-14 May, Miami – Early registration by 12/31
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- This week’s podsafe music: “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” by Chances End and “Feliz Navidad” and “Linus and Lucy” by J.E.L.L.i
- MapQuest rolls out 360 view in really slow game of catchup with Google Maps
- ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 1 Released
- 10th Anniversary of launch of NASA’s Terra satellite
- Santa Trackers – NORAD, Google Earth, etc.
- This week we offer you a little humor with some of our outtakes and bloopers from this year. Have a great holiday season!
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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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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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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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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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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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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 233
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 233
January 4, 2010
Main Topic: Our highs and lows of the past decade
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 231
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 231
December 20, 2009
Main Topic: Our Annual Outtakes Episode
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