%HTMLlat1; ]> http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi Dr Mike J Smith: applied research and teaching in GIS en () Copyright {{{items}}} http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/logo.gif http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/viva.html After a brief chat this week with a student about an upcoming viva I thought I would list some of the useful pieces of advice from my own viva (thanks to Ian Evans for a pleasant experience... /teaching 2008-09-051230 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/sony_underground.html These images did the rounds a few weeks back, but I really like them... /fun 2008-09-051007 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/mapsthatmatter.html Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins had a really good PPT running in the foyer of the RGS-IBG last week (related to the "Maps as Method" session) called "Maps that Matter... /GIS 2008-09-031103 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/chrome.html If you've been living on another planet for the last 24 hours then you might just have missed Google's typically understated announcement that they are releasing a new web browser called Chrome, designed to meet the deficiences in Firefox, IE and Opera... /computing 2008-09-022105 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/academic_mashups.html During the "Maps as Method" sessions at the RGS-IBG last week, there were a surprising number of people talking about using Google Maps and Google Earth in mashups... /GIS 2008-09-021507 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/meetings/OSM_map.html Just returned from a pleasant day at the RGS-IBG annual conference... /meetings 2008-08-291729 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/c5aviator.html I have a habit of destroying watches and, over the years, have always ended up coming back to my old trusty Casio Flight Planner... /fun 2008-08-281027 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/ninerpad.html I've been an advocate of the Getting Things Done (GTD) for a number of years now... /computing 2008-08-252235 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/publications/publishing.html As Editor of the Journal of Maps, I've recently been chatting to the British Geological Survey about the potential for publishing some maps... /publications 2008-08-222225 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/tagcrowd.html Came acrossTagCrowd today which is an interesting service that analyses a piece of text and provides a visual cue as to the types of words and their frequency... /computing 2008-08-072229 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/NGA%20_coast.html I came across the NGA Prototype Global Shoreline Data, otherwise known as NGA PGS, after a link from the EVS Islands Project... /GIS 2008-08-012205 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/OSMM_history.html I have been involved in a project looking at detecting urban change from radar imagery and, specifically, the building and demolition of buildings... /GIS 2008-07-292019 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/av3.html GIS Lounge have a nice article entitled Why ArcView 3... /GIS 2008-07-231346 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/terrains.html ESRI have been busy bees in the 3D geospatial world and one of the "new" features in ArcGIS 9... /GIS 2008-07-222248 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/softGIS.html OK, its actually SoftGrid and ArcGIS... /GIS 2008-07-180943 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/mobile_broadband.html For those that have taken advantage of the tumbling subscription rates for mobile broadband through the likes of 3, T-Mobile etc (as cheap as £5 per month), the different data rates might prove a little confusing... /computing 2008-07-172333 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/FF3.html I've finally taken the plunge and upgraded to Firefox 3, although through the portableapps... /computing 2008-07-150953 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/engage.html OK, so there are potentially cognitive thresholds which inhibit the progression of (willing... /teaching 2008-07-101052 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/better_way.html The Free Our Data Campaign report on the Show Us a Better Way "competition" from the e Power of Information Taskforce... /GIS 2008-07-082028 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/fsf.html I spent a day this week at the NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility receiving some training in the use of a GER1500 that is being used to study loess profiles... /remote_sensing 2008-07-061222 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/glaciology/geomorph_def.html I came across a recent USGS publication today, Annotated Definitions of Selected Geomorphic Terms and Related Terms of Hydrology, Sedimentology, Soil Science and Ecology... /glaciology 2008-07-031132 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/cognitivethresholds.html I was at the Middlesex University Teaching and Learning Conference today where one of the keynote presentations was given by Sandy Gilkes from the University of Nottingham... /teaching 2008-07-011617 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/publications/untitled.html I'm just completing a moderately busy spring season at the Journal of Maps which has left me feeling a little battle worn... /publications 2008-06-170938 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/algorithms.html I was completing a project this week that used, in-part, a tensioned spline to interpolate across an area with no data points... /GIS 2008-06-142024 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/IR_pen.html After my last post on using the Wiimote as part of an interactive whiteboard, and the follow-up on building an IR pen, I have now found that it is not quite so easy to get ahold of as I thought... /teaching 2008-06-110935 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/jabref.html Referencing is a bit of a black art in universities and something we try to drum in from the first year... /computing 2008-06-082150 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/msoffice_images.html For quite a while image handling in MS Office has bugged me... /computing 2008-06-021333 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/wingrass.html It's had a quiet announcement (over a month ago actually) but WinGRASS is finally here... /GIS 2008-05-302109 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/foxit23.html A new version of Foxit PDF Reader has been released and whilst on the face of it it only appears to be an incremental update, the big news is that it now offers full audio/video support for PDFs... /computing 2008-05-161030 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/led_pen.html As a follow up to the recent blog on the Wiimote interactive whiteboard, you will need an IR LED pen for the Wiimote to track... /teaching 2008-05-140906 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/wiimote.html I came across Johnny Chung Lee's Wii remote projects this week... /teaching 2008-05-130959 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/worst_presentations.html I thought lecturers in HE had some pretty funny teaching moments (I remember one lecturer writing on an overhead projector and then stopping, going white... /teaching 2008-05-081306 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/publications/proceedings/2008_DMT2.html Smith, M... /publications/proceedings 2008-04-161507 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/publications/proceedings/2008_DMT1.html Smith, M... /publications/proceedings 2008-04-161505 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/publications/journals/2008_ESPL.html Smith, M... /publications/journals 2008-04-161504 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/planb.html I came across Donald Clark's Plan B blog blog recently and have been both impressed, and quite amused by mahy of his musings... /fun 2008-04-161427 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/geotat.html Following on from the last blog on the Geo8 trade show and, in particular, following on from the last AGI Tat Awards, I would like to announce the formal re-inauguration of the official, unofficial, Geo8 Tat Awards, or simply GeoTat (for those American readers the title might be lost on you... /GIS 2008-04-111417 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/geo8.html Since the demise of the AGI Trade Show in 2006, I've felt that there has been somewhat of a void in the GIS industry... /GIS 2008-04-102254 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/meetings/swansea_08.html I've just got back from our first year geography field trip to the Gower Peninsula... /meetings 2008-04-051504 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/oval_buffer.html One of my MSc students was recently completing a piece of coursework that required finding a solution to a spatial task, part of which involved the creation of buffers... /GIS 2008-04-020720