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Geography 2.0: Virtual Globes

Synchronizing GPS and photographs

Posted: August 3rd, 2006, 8:32pm CEST by Alan Glennon

Sony announced a GPS gadget that triggers from your camera's hot shoe. The device records location and time, to be later synchronized with your photograph. Here's a link to a story at Digital Photography Review. The device will go on sale next month for about $150.00. Of course, if you have a logging GPS, you can do this already by synchronizing the timestamps on your photos with the time/
Globes conference summary and announcement

Posted: August 3rd, 2006, 10:15am CEST by Alan Glennon

A few weeks ago, Matt Nolan hosted a Virtual Globes Conference in Boulder, Colorado. Here is the link to Matt's summary, as well as a synopsis from participant Ron Schott. Matt Nolan also sent me an email regarding several sessions on virtual globes at the December 11-15, 2006, American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco: The Use of Internet-Based Virtual Globes in the Earth Sciences (
Vanished?

Posted: August 3rd, 2006, 9:40am CEST by Alan Glennon

Okay, we haven't completely vanished. The three of us graduate students have been busy studying, reading, and writing. Karl is writing a manifesto on Digital Earth; Josh has been working on a paper related to infrastructure for virtual globes spatial analysis; and, I've been reading about mirror worlds, pondering nested coordinate systems, and making pushpins drive the streets of Santa Barbara

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