A VerySpatial Podcast | Discussions on Geography and Geospatial Technologies

With the release of MapPublisher 8.1 just around the corner it seems timely to bring you my quick interview with Ted from Avenza Systems recorded at the AAG.

Main topic: Jason Otero of ESRI on geospatial careers. News: Intermap, Latitude and Cartographica.

Main Topic: Interview with Andy Hudson-Smith and Andrew Crooks. News: MS Vine, FB Open Stream API, and software.

Main Topic: Jeff Holden on Whrrl. News: Broadband, Galileo, and ASPRS.

Main topic: EarthDay 09. News: Contests, Nokia, and Live Labs.

Jesse spoke with John from Earthmine about their recent hardware announcement, partner programs, and their beta APIs.

Main Topic: Jean Parcher of the USGS. News: Google, Buzz and WV.

Main topic: Bruce Molina on Glaciology and Climate Change. News: NSF, ENVI, and ERDAS.

We spoke with Mladen Stojic of ERDAS about recent software announcements, the upcoming 9.3.2 release, and thoughts on some of the directions the geospatial industry is moving in.

Main topic: AAG Wrap-up. News: DevSummit, OSM, and Intermap

Main topic: Indy Hurt at the AAG. News: Whrrl, ArcPad 8 and Indiana Map.

Main topic: Digital cities for small cities. News: CAP Grants, GeoServer, and iSynth.

Main topic: Evangelizing geospatial. News: California, MTSU, and Rumsey.

Main topic: Keith Masback of USGIF. News: OCO, TomTom, and INSPIRE.

We sat down to talk about the hot topic on the tech blogs this week, human computer interfaces and user interfaces.

Main topic: Jason Beverage of Pelican Mapping. News: Soil maps, Census, and conferences.

Main topic: Richard Zambuni of Bentley Systems. News: BEAM3D, Google, LHC, and Nuvifone.

Main topic: Interview with Timothy Hales. News: Google, Virtual Earth, and NASA.

Main Topic: GeoProfiling. News: NSDI 2, Flood Mapping, and ethics.

Main topic: Jim Quanci on the Autodesk Developer Network. News: IDRISI, concepts, and NASA.

Main topic: Changing role of GIS in government. News: Software releases, Economic impacts, and Yahoo CEO.

Main Topic: Doug Eberhard of Autodesk. News: Technology, Virtual Worlds and awards.

Main topic: Sergio Rey of Arizona State University. News: Spirit, Magellan, and GLONASS.

Main topic: Lookback at 2008 and talking about 2009.

Main Topic: Outtakes 2008.

Main topic: AU08 Interviews. News: Data and software news

Main topic: Created Place. News: MapServer, Mars, and Urban Mapping.

Main topic: SEDAAG08 interviews. News: Metaverse, CaGIO, and ArcGIS.

Main topic: Professional development. News: SketchUp, My MapQuest, and NatGeo Games.

Sue and Jesse spoke with Matt Koeppe, GIScience Program Director of the Association of American Geographers about Geography and GIScience careers and the AAG's careers site.

We spoke with Jessica Touchard of GeoSearch, Inc. about their role as a geospatial recruiting firm and Geography and geospatial careers.

Jesse, Sue and Frank talk about some of the things that might help you finding that great career in the geospatial industry.

Jesse spoke with Hilary Perkins at the recent URISA conference about their efforts in creating and running the new GIS Leadership Academy.

We spoke with Anne Pollard Haywood on the role of the My Wonderful World campaign in educating children, and parents, about Geography and our world.

Main topic: Matt Rosenberg of Geography at About.com. News: Windows GeoLocation, Mars Lander, and Fed CTO

Post election coverage of the online election maps.

Main topic: John Tolva of IBM and Scott Branting of CAMEL. News: Travel ad, Indiana, and Obama.

Main topic: Neogeography. News: Google, Lunar XPrize, and Windows.

I spoke with Peter Van Demark of Caliper Corporation at the recent URISA conference about their Maptitude and TransCAD products.

Main topic: Interview with Paul Maillhot of Autodesk. News: Google, India, and Symbian.

Main topic: Interview with Patric Nordstrom about Locago. News: TerraGo, Crime Maps, and uDig.

Main topic: URISA Annual Conference Interviews. News: Geode, Surface, and NAO.

Main Topic: Data dissemination. News: SpaceWalk, GeoCommons, and AeroGrid.

Main Topic: Geography in the News. News: WWW Foundation, TerraGo, and Mobile.

Jesse spoke with Mark Cygan about this years inaugural ESRI Remote Sensing Summit, the keynotes, panels, and ideas for next year.

Main Topic: TeleAtlas. News: Google, GISCI, and Navteq.

Main Topic: JL and Dylan of Google on spatial data partnership. News: ASPRS Foundation, Mio, and deCarta

We recently spoke with Bob Brey about Autodesk’s contribution of CS Map to the open source community.

Main Topic: Richard Cooke of ITT-VIS. News: Google, Yandex, and software releases.

Oce tells about their printing products and their commitment to sustainability