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Slashdot highlights an LA Times front page story about professors dumping traditional text in favor of open source and non-free online texts.
We are doing that at Penn State Online Masters in GIS. So far, two texts are open source: Open Web Mapping (updated URL per course author comment below) and The Nature of Geographic Information. I’m working to open source my course (Comparative GIS) for Winter quarter.
No word yet on which of Garmin’s devices (the nuvifone?) might support the platform and its apps (GasBuddy, Yelp, etc.)
- C|net
The company plans to employ up to 250 people over the next few years, mostly in engineering and satellite manufacturing work.
For now there are four in a small Douglas County office. As it does in the UK, the company plans to build communications and observation satellites for commercial and government customers. Airbus-maker European Aeronautic Defence & Space recently formalized plans to acquire Surrey.
We had the folks behind Virtual Alabama at our Rocket City Geospatial event last year. The app was impressive as was the path to creating it. The big issue for me was “great, let’s repeat this!” I’ve not heard of any states following suit, but awards are nice.
- WAAYTV
