Hold on tight!! Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, and Schlitterbahn Waterparks & Resorts, today released a video for the highly-anticipated opening of Verrückt, the tallest water slide in the world. Schlitterbahn has completed construction and testing of Verrückt and the ride will open to […]
Google Enterprise Rolls Out Google Apps for Business Dogs!
So awesome from Google… something for our furry friends!
Nokia is 3D Printing Chocolate… #NOM
Now here’s something clever and yummy from Nokia… this Spring Nokia took to cool 3D printing technology to print up some tasty chocolate treats. Very cool indeed… I can just imaging them also printing up a chocolate Lumia smartphone or even better, imagine printing a 3D chocolate map… how cool would that be?
Some holiday Cheer and All I Want For Christmas
A little holiday cheer and some lighthearted fun in this fun rendition of the popular “All I want for Christmas”… enjoy and have a happy holidays and very Merry Christmas to everyone from Glenn and the GISuser gang…
NCAA Division I Football Map of The 58 highest drawing teams
A fun map for us football fans as this NCAA season winds down and we ramp up for another BCS and Bowl season (and as usual I’m hoping for anyone but the Buckeyes to win the BCS!).
Watch GISDay Activities on the BlueRaster Instagram Map
GISDay is here once again and for a little GISDay fun the cool team at BlueRaster has mashed up a very cool map that shares all the photos on Instagram tagged with the #GISDay hashtag. Have a look around the world to see some of the activities and map fun taking place on Nov 20, […]
Are You Ready and Waiting for the new iPhone?
Loads of hype and fluff floating around the Interweb regarding this week’s planned event from Apple… many are pretty sure it will go something like the following… enjoy!
The Geography and History of the Canada US Border explained
Ever wondered about that “imaginary” fence that exists for about 5000 KM separating Canada and the USA? Well, perhaps this new video will help explain things a little better… enjoy (Source of inspiration) The video makes light of the border, however, there’s some really interesting quirks that you may have wondered about… for myself, I’ve […]
National Geographic Invites You to Play Plan it Green
Here’s a cool, eco-friendly online learning experience from National Geographic, GE and a few friends – Plan it Green. This interactive, eco friendly, online game is designed to introduce kids (and grown up kids) to city planning solutions that are greener and energy efficient… think a green version of SIM City in some ways. According […]
2 Million Hidden Geocaches and counting…
How cool is it to see that the sport of Geocaching is now boasting almost 2 million hidden geocaches… wow! The crew at Geocaching.com has a real time (almost) count tracking the number of registered geocaches and it’s rapidly approaching 2 million. Most of us Geogeeks have at least tried to geocache and uncovered one […]