Like4Trees and A VerySpatial Evening
With only a week to go, I wanted to remind everyone that we are in the last week of our Like4Trees campaign. We will donate $1 per person who has liked the VerySpatial Facebook page by July 25th to the...
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ESRI 2012 UC Livecast!
Esriuc 2012 First, no geobloggers tables so typing here is going to be a major, major pain. So please excuse the brevity, typos and other errors. Second, the wifi is as wonkey as you’d expect when...
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A VerySpatial Evening – a prelude
Last night we had a few folks over to the VerySpatial (rental) condo for a get together. Frank and Barb did most of the cooking (BBQ Chicken, brats, burgers, veggies, corn, deviled eggs, etc…) with Sue...
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The top 10 fictional organizations that need to use ArcGIS online
After the ESRI User’s Conference Plenary, I began to think about the many fictional organizations that would benefit from using ArcGIS online and other GIS technologies. So I began compiling a top 10...
View ArticleA VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 63
Wendy Nelson of URISA talks about this year’s GIS Pro conference in Portland, September 30 through October 4. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
View Article2013 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest – registration open until May submission...
The 2013 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest scientific challenge has been held annually since 2006. The Data Fusion Contest is organized by the Data Fusion Technical Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and...
View ArticleESRI and National Day of Civic Hacking
I must issue a mea culpa because when I first looked at the sponsors and participants in the National Day of Civic Hacking June 1 – 2, 2013 I saw no mention of GIS, geographers, or geospatial...
View ArticleA VerySpatial Evening 2013 – Details
As promised we have narrowed down the details for this year’s meetup in San Diego and we are (hopefully) making it easier for folks to let us know they are planning to attend. First, the details:...
View ArticleDance Your GIS
Frank very jokingly sent me an io9 article on Science’s 2013 “Dance Your Ph.D.” Contest in which Ph.D’s, past or present, can win $500 for conveying their Ph.D concept through interpretive dance. The...
View ArticleThe Driving Dutchman
According to a discussion in my LinkdIn ESRI Network, The Driving Dutchman of Cyclomedia is on the last leg of his roadtrip across America to the San Diego ESRI UC. Their mission statement has a cool...
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A VerySpatial Road Trip: Missouri Botanical Garden
Day 2 we hit some fantastic spots around St. Louis. Hit the link below to find out more! I’ve been wanting to visit the Missouri Botanical Gardens since the 2008 ESRI UC Keynote. Even though we got...
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ESRI User’s Conference Plenary: Live Blog!
We’re about to start the 2013 Live Blog for this year’s ESRI User’s Conference. Keep posted as I’ll make updates as long as the WiFi stays clean This year I’m trying something new. I’m up in the...
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A Review of Apps and Maps
We downloaded several apps for our Very Spatial Road Trip that were recommended by friends, online reviews, and VerySpatial podcasts. Since she was acting as navigator, Barbara insisted on stopping at...
View ArticleGIS and Fine Art
My day was made brighter this morning by a Paris Metro Project by Hwan Lee, which is an Art Takes Paris project that details all 261 metro stations in Paris and the path of Hwan’s walking history. I...
View ArticleGIS Day in the News
Updated: Today is GIS Day and it is making headlines in major newspapers around the globe. While some mainstream media sources are celebrating GIS Day by name, others are participating in spirit by...
View Article3D printing and GIS
It is difficult to remember that last year the 3D printing industry hadn’t inundated the public consciousness because 3D printing and 3D visualizations were still an innovative, but not yet wide-spread...
View ArticleUnited Nation’s International Migrants Day and GIS
December 18th is the United Nation’s International Migrants Day to recognize the efforts, contributions, and rights of migrants worldwide. Migrant workers and migration has had a natural fit with...
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Spatial Easter Egg Hunts
Location-based technologies are helping Easter Egg hunts go high-tech with the assistance of geospatial professionals taking their love of spatial technologies into their communities. The funniest...
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Take a #GlobalSelfie with NASA on Earth Day
Celebrate Earth Day! by taking a #GlobalSelfie. It’s remote sensing, it’s geospatial, it’s VerySpatial, it’s fun! From the NASA website on EARTH RIGHT NOW. NASA invites you — and everyone else on...
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Geographic Education Town Hall
Geospatial Niagara will be hosting a Geographic Education Town Hall next week to highlight the St John’s Declaration. The declaration is intended to advance geographic education for Canadians and is a...
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