This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken January 29, 2012 from 10:18:13 to 10:31:28 GMT, on a pass from the North Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,000 miles west of California, to western Quebec. This video begins as the space station is passing over the dark waters of the North Pacific Ocean northeast towards Vancouver Island. The Aurora Borealis can be seen far north, where both the under side and top of the aurora are visible. The pass continues over Canada until the sun begins to come up in the east while over Quebec.

How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.

There's artistry to creating the world, according to Rob Simmon, art director of NASA Earth Observatory. NASA's collection of Earth-from-space imagery dates back to the Apollo 8 mission, when astronauts snapped a picture of Earth rising over the moon. Simmon and NASA scientist Gene Feldman explain how the modern "Blue Marble" images are made and how they relate to scientific study of the Earth.

An introduction to what The Open Geospatial Consorium (OGC) is and what it is trying to do through its consensus standards development process. (There are no big words, nor diagrams.)

Carsten Ronsdorf from Ordnance Survey presents "CityGML and Linked Data: Technologies for GeoDesign" at the 2011 GeoDesign Summit.

Lauren Rosenshein and Lauren Scott present an analytical workflow and teach in detail how spatial pattern analysis and regression tools can be used and applied to your work. They talk about the art and science of finding a proper scale of analysis and introduce tools that will help you accomplish this.

Empower citizens and service agents with a modern citizen service center to field and manage requests and to help you enhance efficiency, performance, and accountability.

-10 million world wide -25 million road reports -Drove 1 billion miles -Saved 4 million hours commuting time -Saved 6 million gallons of gas

This video shows all edits made to the OpenStreetMap project in 2011. OpenStreetMap is a free geographic database that anyone can edit; it's like the wikipedia of mapping data. This animation shows all additions and modifications of nodes (white flashes) and cumulative edits (purple) in 2011. It gives a good overview of the effort that 1000s of contributors put in to make OpenStreetMap the best source of mapping data. This animation has been made by Derick Rethans entirely out of free and open source software. The added data is parsed and rendered by PHP and its extension, and the mapping and animation itself with POV-Ray. It's licensed under a Creative Commons license.

“Grid is an Augmented Reality environment which provides a spatial configuration for real-time gaming at an architectural scale."