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Posted: August 29th, 2008, 12:37am CEST
We’ve just rolled out the latest update to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (GNOCDC) Repopulation Google Maps application. Thanks to Matt Priour figuring out how to add the Street View imagery to our New Orleans Repopulation Map, you can now not only see where people are coming back to The Crescent City, but the rebuilding efforts from the street level. Repopulation Indicators for New Orleans The map is powerful because you can look at the address counts by block between June 20
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 10:49pm CEST
Heise online berichtet über eine frei erhältliche Point of Interest (POI) Datenbank der Firma Poicon.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 9:41pm CEST
::: via ::: WikiLoc is a free site which lets you upload and share GPS tracks. As mentioned last February, they have particularly good Google Maps and Google Earth support. Well, today, Google has announced that WikiLoc has its own layer under the Google Earth Gallery layer folder! Once you turn it on, you’ll have to zoom in to locations to see if WikiLoc placemark icons appear for user data uploaded for that area. I’m glad to see Google adding another GPS layer with broader user-generated da
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 9:29pm CEST
Stevenage, Herts. 28 August, 2008. – Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer Cadcorp has announced that it h More...
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 9:29pm CEST
HERNDON, Va.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—August 28, 2008— .bwlistitemmarginbottom {margin-bottom: 10.0px} .bwtextaligncenter {text-align: More...
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 9:15pm CEST
::: via ::: Every now and then, we mention that you can do a search in Google Maps or Google Earth using latitude and longitude coordinates. But sometimes the coordinates are just what you’re looking for, so here’s a quick tip on how to find them. In Google Earth, browse over to the location for which you’d like to find the coordinates, then click on the “Add Placemark” button in the toolbar. This will automatically put a placemark in the center of the screen and open a dialogue box that shows
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 8:52pm CEST
Frederick MD, 28 August 2008 -- Fugro EarthData’s Texas Benthic Mapping Project won top honors in the annual Geospatial Products and Services Ex More...
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 8:18pm CEST
BELVIDERE, Ill. & ATLANTA—(BUSINESS WIRE)—August 28, 2008— .bwtextaligncenter {text-align: center} Rockford Map Publishe More...
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 7:50pm CEST
::: via ::: This week, we’ve added another layer to the Gallery in Google Earth. Spain-based Wikiloc aggregates thousands of GPS tracks for various outdoor activities provided by its growing user community. The layer not only lets you display the GPS tracks in Google Earth, but gives you additional information like the distance covered, the elevation maxima, a personal description of the trip as well as pictures taken by the user. This can be interesting to explore, and very helpful for illust
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 7:10pm CEST
Photo by Barbara Scott, Scott Summers, GIS Coordinator for the City of Brentwood. By MELISSA WEBB Correspondent courtesy of Brentwood Life (www.brentwoodlife.net) About two years ago, the City of Brentwood embarked on a huge project through its technology department to create a GIS - Geographic Information System - for the entire city. The ultimate purpose of the mapping system is to improve the city’s ability to make practical, informed decisions.“The GIS takes institutional memory and put
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:57pm CEST
::: via ::: mapz: a gis librarian has updated his script for exporting ArcMap layers to a standalone Google Map page; in addition to points and lines, it now includes support for choropleth polygon layers: Runs on ArcGIS 9.1 and 9.2, not yet tested on 9.3. a Export ArcMap Layers To A Google Map Page
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:06pm CEST
Adobe Flex e aplicações GIS. “With Adobe Flex 2 we achieved, in a couple of days development, tasks that would have taken months with other tools.” Olá pessoal, mais uma vez estou aqui para divulgar recursos tecnológicos muito bons da Adobe, já faz um tempinho que trabalho com tecnologia GIS de Sensoriamento Remoto, desenvo aplicações em .Net para isso, mas a muito tempo eu procurava um jeito de trabalhar com Flex e a tecnologia GIS, e a Adobe escutou as minhas presses e se aliou a ESRI,
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 5:00pm CEST
NASA and the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Alexandria, Va., announced Thursday a cooperative Space Act Agreement.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 5:00pm CEST
Following last summer’s record minimum ice cover in the Arctic, current observations from ESA’s Envisat satellite suggest that the extent of polar sea-ice may again shrink to a level very close to that of last year.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 5:00pm CEST
Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth?s atmosphere and into space. Now, ESA?s formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape. It turns out that the Earth?s own magnetic field is accelerating the oxygen away.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 4:31pm CEST
いろいろと問題のあるiPhoneですが、いまのところ音楽再生機械iPodとしては大いに気に入っています。朝のバスではキリンジを聴き、帰りのバスではQueenのベスト盤を聴き、いまはシノーポリが指揮す...
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 3:55pm CEST
::: via ::: Panoramio Contest Winners - Winners of the June Panoramio Photo Contest are announced. Just upload photos to Panoramio to be entered to the monthly contest. Winners get ATP PhotoFinder prizes. Lunar Challenges - The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge has a KML file showing information on the teams and the location of the contest. via Space Prizes blog. Fire Detection - Someone called ‘CRPSM’ put together a KML file which dynamically shows current fires (or suspected fi
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 2:45pm CEST
::: via ::: Sprint’s OHMTM WiMAX mobile broadband is poised to launch in Baltimore in September year. It’s high speed wireless, basically, but, it “will be largely location-centric,” explained Rick Robinson, vice president of XOHM Services. “We’re creating a new dimension to online presence, making points of interest near your current location easy to identify and access. This ‘geobrowsing’ effect provides location context and will give XOHM members a richer personal broadband experience when
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 2:36pm CEST
::: via ::: Tinsley Viaduct is a two-tier road bridge in Sheffield, England; the first of its kind in the UK. It carries the M1 motorway over a 1033 metre section of the Don Valley, and is one of Sheffield’s most prominent landmarks. Sadly there’s not much to see from our viewpoint. Fortunately for us however, the Tinsley Viaduct runs right past the Tinsley Towers, a fantastic pair of defunct cooling towers. Due to their extremely close proximity to the viaduct, they were left standing whe
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 1:22pm CEST
I came across this excellent short talk by Clay Shirky author of “Here comes everybody“, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo (22-25 April 2008) about what he terms ‘the cognitive surplus’ that television (in his opinion mostly sit-coms) has been masking for the past 60 years. “I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin. The transforma
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 11:04am CEST
Putting the new SINGER interface through its paces, I find that it can do something interesting that GRIN cannot. Or at least I can’t see a way of doing it, let me know if you can. Below is a screenshot from SINGER showing a Google Map of the distribution of all wild Arachis accessions that the database knows about which have geographic coordinates. Very useful, I think. GRIN does map localities, but I could not manage to get it to do so for multiple species like this.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 9:30am CEST
::: via ::: BBC Extreme Weather (in Windsor) 232 degrees in Windsor’s was a slight error on the BBC Weather Map this morning… Blame the Gremlins Screenshot and new source:
[news.bbc.co.uk] (non-UK users may not be able to see the video) Mapperz News Blog
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 8:43am CEST
::: via ::: New Orleans Repopulation Map This map from the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center shows residential addresses actively receiving mail by census block in New Orleans. The mailing list data represents the number of residential addresses per block where the mailman knows someone picks up the mail. The U.S. Census Bureau’s methods for estimating population can’t keep up with the extraordinary situation post-Katrina so looking at residential addresses actively receiving mail is
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 8:19am CEST
::: via ::: Winner, winner, chicken dinner…. Dear Virtual Earth Customer, As has been communicated periodically over the last several months, we’d like to provide you another friendly reminder and an update regarding the planned deprecation schedule for older versions of Virtual Earth. Specifically, we’d like to remind you that we will be permanently retiring Virtual Earth version 3 and version 4, and will be automatically upgrading version 5 on September inner22nd, 2008. Also, we’d like
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:59am CEST
new Friendfeed badge doesn’t seem to go smaller than 150px wide - so doesn’t fit in my sidebar - will go with chiclet, but still FAIL # big fan of FF extensions so going to check out Ubiquity now # ugh, have one of those pre-cold/flu headaches - hope it doesn’t turn into that right before Labor Day weekend - ugh. # another reason why Pandora is important - my 7 week old daughter listens to classical music over Pandora.com # please vote for our SXSW online real estate panel “The Real Estate Cris
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 2:40am CEST
XATA today announced it will add improved digital mapping software to its XATANET on-demand fleet operations software. The upgraded mapping software will provide XATANET end-users with more high-quality data, including larger and more dynamic maps, to help better track exact vehicle location and improve route details. Available in November 2008, the enhanced mapping capability is part of the XATANET 4.3 release. XATA will deliver these improved capabilities by leveraging Microsoft(R) Virtual
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 2:39am CEST
Orbit Geospatial Technologies presents Orbit GIS 4.3 for Windows on 32bit and 64bit machines. The Orbit GIS Desktop solution now comes with full OGC WMS support, raster processing tools and over 85 new and improved functionalities. Download you copy now from www.orbitgis.com. Orbit GIS 4.3 offers improvements on many issues, ranging from full OGC-WMS support, dramatically improved raster data management, improved graphics and symbols tools to a wide range of usability improvements with foc
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 12:48am CEST
::: via ::: Looks like it’s time to replace that rickety compass with a few hundred of your favorite cattle. Ok, not that you would - but according to a team of German zoologists and the research they did using Google Earth, apparently you could. Using Google Earth’s satellite imagery, these zoologists observed the grazing tendencies of thousands of cattle from hundreds of different herds around the world and concluded that the vast majority of these animals position themselves according to ou
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 10:26pm CEST
. MapProxy es un servicio en línea de los creadores del soft Wordlkit, el cual te permite obtener una imagen satelital del área de una localidad o coordenadas que vos definas. Aparte debes ingresar la extensión y tamaño de la imagen. El soft es útil a la hora de definir mapas base para utilziar con el visualizador flash Worldkit Fernando Bordignon (@) 2006
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 7:50pm CEST
Gothenburg, Sweden, Aug 27 2008. Idevio announcing today that the local search engine Zvents is released on Locago for users all over the world.Zven More...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 7:50pm CEST
August 27, 2008 -- 1Spatial is delighted to announce that PSMA Australia have purchased their Radius Studio product to provide data quality conformanc More...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 7:12pm CEST
MARKHAM, ONTARIO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Aug 27, 2008 -- DMTI Spatial (DMTI), a leading provider of enterprise location intelligence solutions, has joi More...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 7:12pm CEST
DENVER—(BUSINESS WIRE)—August 27, 2008— Intermap Technologies™ today announced they have expanded their relationshi More...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 6:11pm CEST
::: via ::: In this interview, we we speak to Dan Wardman, Vice President for Information Management Software and Frank Butt, Manager, DB2 for z/OS Query Runtime, tech search and spatial support for IBM. Our topic is “The storage and management of spatial data on an IBM System z Mainframe”. Spatial support is an important feature available for DB2 9 for z/OS as it provides the capability to store and retrieve spatial data from any application via standard SQL. We also discuss applications as
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 5:41pm CEST
::: via ::: So somebody wrote a press release yesterday about Google Earth Magnetic Cows, but it sounded so silly that I decided to go for celebratory end-of-panorama-trip cocktails instead of dirtying my blog with it. Imagine my surprise to see it hit the interwebs with a vengeance today, but the greatest surprise of all was that only one blog so far, The Earth is Square, has reported this “news” skeptically. [I just noticed Google Earth Blog is also skeptical:-)] The bottom line: It’s enti
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 5:32pm CEST
August 26, 2008 – ORBIT Geospatial Technologies announces the release of Orbit GIS 4.3 for WindowsOrbit Geospatial Technologies presents Orbit G More...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 5:32pm CEST
Beta Version of ArcGIS API for Flex Gives Developers Direct Access to ArcGIS Server More...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 5:32pm CEST
Government Contract Will Make GIS Services Available to the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and DTRA Redlands, California More...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 5:05pm CEST
::: via ::: For the past couple of days I’ve been seeing the reports of a scientific study about cows conducted using Google Earth. The results from this study sound like a hoax. German scientists studied hundreds of herds from around the Earth found in Google Earth, they say that cows seem to align themselves with the magnetic north when lying or grazing. See Los Angeles Times story. This study was actually published in the proceedings for the National Academy of Science. It’s been a scienti
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 4:33pm CEST
Lack of GIS Hinders African Progress Published by Roger Hart under GIS G IS could play an important role in improving agriculture and boosting food security in Africa. However, the lack of basic geographical data means that only a few African countries are currently capable of developing such systems. That was one conclusion from the Map Africa conference, which concluded yesterday in Cape Town. More from Inter Press Service : Continue Reading » Tags: Africa, Map Africa Conference
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:52pm CEST
::: via ::: Orange Unlit Tour Over the last two years Unlit has toured the USA and the UK. The tour consists of free gigs which are open to anyone and take place in volunteer’s homes. The support acts on the tour are bands and acts who have become involved via MySpace. Central to the tour is a Google Map mash-up which serves as a tour hub for singer-songwriter Jont and his sidekick film-maker Dave. The map uses the flash version of the API and pulls together videos from YouTube, photos from
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:50pm CEST
::: via ::: MONU - a magazine on urbanism - is a unique bi-annual international forum for artists, writers and designers that are working on topics of urban culture, development and politics. Each issue collects essays, projects and photographs from contributors from all over the world to a given topic. In the latest issue In this issue the nice people behind Monu have taken the deliberate risk of making ourselves look ridiculous by focusing its theme on “the exotic”, which is often seen as s
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:35pm CEST
::: via ::: The ad is aimed at showing off the power of the iPhone: “The ad showed the internet navigation prowess of the iPhone, with images zooming in on a weather forecast for Cape Town and a map of how to get to Heathrow airport.” The complaints, two complaints, questioned the voice over: “”You never know which part of the internet you’ll need … which is why all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone.” They claimed without Java and Flash support, this is not true. Apple responded say
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:21pm CEST
Orange Unlit Tour Map A Live Music Map Mashup. “Unlit is a mixture of a gig and party, free and open to anyone, which takes place in people?s houses around the world.” Very ‘Flashy’ Orange Unlit… Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:21pm CEST
The Future of Paper Maps? Here Now? The video shows different content (layers/scale) of the map when the angle of paper map is adjusted. Will 21st technology save the decline in paper maps? [A… Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:21pm CEST
Transport for London - Cycle Maps - New! Transport for London first by using Google Maps for showing Cycle Parking and best routes. Routes preferences: Cycling on quieter roadsCycling near to busy… Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:20pm CEST
Free Maps for Education (in PDF format) Maps International have release free maps in A3 paper size (297mm×420mm or 11.7”×16.5”) Politically coloured Europe map for Free This World Map is… Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:20pm CEST
UK Tidal, Wave, Wind Maps See the power visually with these colourful maps. “A project commissioned by BERR in 2007 has taken the existing UK Marine Renewable Energy Resources Atlas forward. This… Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 1:37pm CEST
::: via ::: “Only 45 percent of street addresses and the continent’s populated areas are mapped. This presents a problem when it comes to developing GIS.” Derek Clarke, chief director of the surveying and mapping unit at South Africa’s ministry of land affairs, quoted in an article in IPS News reviewing the challenges for GIS in Africa after this week’s Map Africa meeting in that country. Perhaps there’ll more discussion of the matter at the FOSS4G and GISSA events are held together, in Cape
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 12:52pm CEST
Gis Magazine is a magazine about Geo-ICT and public space. They wrote about Tiny Accidents. Read it here.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 12:41pm CEST
GISpro là một hội thảo về GIS mang tầm cỡ quốc tế, do Việt Nam làm chủ nhà. GISpro năm nay bao gồm 2 nội dung chính: hội thảo khoa học và triển lãm. Điểm khác biệt của GISpro so với các hội thảo quốc tế khác là đối tượng phục vụ không chỉ là người biết sử dụng tiếng Anh mà bao gồm cả những người Việt Nam, nói tiếng Việt. Đây cũng chính là điểm quan tâm lớn của ban tổ chức hội thảo để cân bằng
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 10:56am CEST
/India PRwire/ - EKA Designs (P) Limited has launched Field Ready GPS Camera in India. After successful sales in US, Europe and Far East, EKA Designs has launched the Field Ready GPS Camera in the Indian Market. The Field Ready GPS Camera is used in different environments to tag the locational coordinates onto the picture along with altitude and date/time. EKA Designs has built the GPS receiver SE-1 around the RICOH 500 SE Digital Camera, which is a field ready, 8 MP, wireless and bluetooth ena
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 10:25am CEST
Since our last update How many spacecraft can you fit in a Dnepr? regarding the 5 RapidEye fit-check in Baikonur, an MDA / SSTL launch team set to work in July preparing the small satellite constellation for launch. All five RapidEye satellites have now been been integrated with the Dnepr launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and are ready for launch at 0715 UTC (0815 BST, 0915 CEST) this Friday (29th August). SSTL designed, built he spacecraft bus and performed the asse
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 9:28am CEST
::: via ::: Orange Unlit Tour Map A Live Music Map Mashup. “Unlit is a mixture of a gig and party, free and open to anyone, which takes place in people’s houses around the world.” Very ‘Flashy’ Orange Unlit Map - Tour. Using flash and Google Maps to animate the tour so far, includes links to photos, videos, blog and twitter feeds. “This summer, thanks to the support from Orange, we’re able to take the whole thing to a new level. From mid-August to mid-September we’re going on the road
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 9:27am CEST
DIVA-GIS is a free computer program for mapping and for analyzing spatial data. It is particularly useful for analyzing the distribution of organisms to elucidate geographic and ecological patterns. It is aimed at persons who cannot afford generic commercial geographic information system (GIS) software, or do not have the time to learn how to use [...]
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 8:03am CEST
::: via ::: Celebrity Owned Bars and Restaurants Everybody knows that the best chefs are actors and musicians. Now if you are in New York and you fancy an overpriced burger you can quickly find a restaurant with Cityfile.com’s Celebrity Bars and Restaurants map. The restaurants are tagged on the map with photographs of the celebrities and I’m sure the restaurants themselves are liberally splattered with images of their owners. Not that I’m suggesting that Justin Timberlake doesn’t cook the b
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 6:59am CEST
following up on the fun and success of the Beijing Olympics Friendfeed room, I’m happy to announce
[friendfeed.com] # @chrissaad did I read that right? you’re actually PAYING for a place to live in California? # @missrogue was just there a few days ago on the drive from SF to SB! yes, Gonzales is interesting - population of what? 4000? # @sofia agreed. bad idea to screw with the enormous Mad Men fan base on Twitter. I guess the Greeks will go after my @socrates account no
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 6:45am CEST
Die schwache US-Wirtschaft und die toten GIs im Irak werden den Stimmenanteil der Republikaner bei der US-Wahl drücken, behauptet der Gesellschaftsforscher Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr. Seinem ökonomischen Modell zufolge liegen Obamas Siegchancen bei drei zu eins – und die Amerikaner wollen seit 1945 nur zwei Dinge: Brot und Frieden. Quelle: AOL - Wirtschaft
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 3:04am CEST
RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems, internationally renowned manufacturer of laser scanners for terrestrial, airborne, mobile and industrial applications, launches its innovative new V-line of Laser Scanners with significantly improved performance data: * Highest ranging accuracy and reliability based upon echo digitization and – for the first time worldwide – online full-waveform analysis * Excellent multiple target capability – unlimited number of targets * Latest state-of-the-art laser
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:13am CEST
7 Ways GPS Can Save You Time, Money, Your Mind, and Even Your Life August 26th, 2008 Here are 7 ways to save with GPS: 1. Have a personal trainer at a fraction of the cost! Devices such as the Garmin Forerunner GPS provides a way to keep track of the time, speed, distance, and pace information for athletic activities. It also provides a way to measure the amount of calories burned based on a variety of customizable personal options and factors. 2. Save on Gas, brake wear, etc on
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 2:00am CEST
id:yellow_73:20080822#p1 の若干続き気味。スターありがとうございます。 半径Aの球面上の2点P1(λ1,φ1)からP2(λ2,φ2) (λnは経度, φnは緯度) の最短の長さを求めたいとします。 P1とP2と中心とを通る円を作ることができ、この円の半径はAです。この円上でのP1とP2のなす角をρとすると、弧(P1,P2)は Aρ となります。 で、ρが分からん…。 と思って調べていたら結構あったり。 たとえば
[www.toyama-cmt.ac.jp] ...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 1:56am CEST
August 26, 2008 -- Intelligent Addressing (IA) is taking a leading role as Britain’s sole representative in the EURADIN (EURopean ADdresses INfr More...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 1:56am CEST
A leader of GIS services and products to preserve 80 years of historical documents using industry standard GIS technology August 26, 2008 -- Sma More...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 1:56am CEST
August 26, 2008 -- Remote sensing and aerial survey specialist Bluesky has been awarded a project by the UK Government's Natural Environment Research More...
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 1:26am CEST
::: via ::: A Sony ad campaign for its Walkman digital audio players shows subway network maps made from black Sony earphones. (Because they can’t be white earphones, silly.) In addition to the New York subway map poster making the rounds, there are also map posters for the London Underground (surprise, surprise) and the Sydney Metro. Via Gizmodo.
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Posted: August 27th, 2008, 12:55am CEST
::: via ::: Sorry folks, no post today. However, many of you may be unaware that we operate a “backchannel” of sorts over at Twitter, where as well as a feed of all the posts from the main site, we also post some interesting stuff that doesn’t make it on here. So for the many people that don’t read our Twitter page, here the best links that you missed! There’s a large police turnout in Providence, RI. Apparently, this Australian Graffiti artiste reckons that “TRENT IS BENT“. I wonder what T
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 11:44pm CEST
Upgraded XATANET software helps fleet operators increase vehicle visibility. MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XATA Corporation (NAS More...
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 11:04pm CEST
Spatial Tools: Water = Economic Development The New Zealand Herald reports on a study into that country’s water supply (Gold rush for dwindling stocks of water looms, Aig 27, 2008). All of the catchments will be allocated within 4 years. But, it also indicates said, “The report highlights an inefficient system of allocating water rights with huge volumes of allocated water being [...]
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:25pm CEST
Former NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge Semifinalist Launches Application Powered by NAVTEQ(R) Map Data CHICAGO, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NAV More...
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:29pm CEST
::: via ::: Ok, it is one thing to be an armchair archaeologist or geologist using Google Earth.. but I am sorry, I have to draw the line at archir scientist and pseudo-science. Not sure what I am talking about? What I am talking about is a “scientist” looking at imagery and going “Hmm, they seem to be pointed North all the time. So it has to be the Earth’s magnetic field doing it!” Dr Sabine Begall and colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen looked at thousands of images of cattle
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:29pm CEST
::: via ::: The Microsoft Virtual Earth blog announces that free 60-day trial versions of the newest (2009) versions of both Streets & Trips and MapPoint are now available for download. Be warned, both downloads are well over a gigabyte in size. While you’re at it, there are free pushpin images and construction updates for both programs. PR blurbs: “MapPoint [...]
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:29pm CEST
::: via ::: Mother Jones’s interactive map showing U.S. military presence worldwide from 1950 to 2007 is making the rounds online. But it’s a little misleading: it’s a heat map, but its scale is logarithmic, which tends to overemphasize smaller numbers. Trends, if any, are hard too see. And sometimes the numbers in question are in the low double digits — are we mostly mapping embassy personnel? Via Boing Boing.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:29pm CEST
::: via ::: Turns out that driving a pick full force into rock-hard dirt four days a week can give you Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Who knew? That’s why posting has been light non-existent over the past two weeks. My hands are on the mend, and regular posting should resume shortly. a Carpal-Tunnelated
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:29pm CEST
::: via ::: Last Olympics post for a while, I promise. This page is a Google Maps mashup that plots all medallists on their hometowns. It’s considerably cruder than the Earthgamz plugin (see previous entry), which also covers all athletes, but is more broadly functional. Via Google Maps Mania. At the other end of the spectrum, I whipped up some very basic heat maps, using Google Spreadsheets’s map widget, showing the number of Olympic last-place finishers per country in this summing-up post
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 1:25pm CEST
Google の Location 関連の動きが活発ですね。 ・Gears の Geolocation API 公開 ・W3C で Geolocation API の Editor's Draft 公開 ・Maps API の ClientLocation API 公開 と、ブラウザから位置情報を取得する為の仕様が立て続けに公開されています。 W3C の方は Google が提出したものなので、今のところ Gears と同じ仕様です。 Gears は現在のところ IE、Firefox、Windows Mobile に対応していますが、将来的には他のモバイル OS にも対応する予定です。 Opera は次期ブラウザに Gears を採用するということを名言していますので、グローバルな位置情報取得手段としては標準になっていくのではないでしょうか。 PC から位置情報を取得しようとした場合、IP アドレスによるターゲティングがサポートされています。 Gears の方の GeoLocation API を試してみたところ 8月25日時点では日本からは利用できませんでしたが、 Maps
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 11:57am CEST
Spatial Tools for the Emerging Renewable Energy Industry One of the world’s quietest large-scale energy transformation is underway in the United States. The emerging development of a mixed source energy sector which integrates both non-renewable and renewable energy sources is happening. In a USA Today article this morning (Wind, solar projects race to finish before tax credit expires, Aug 26) “Randall Swisher, head [...]
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 11:39am CEST
Lately I have been playing with the GDAL/OGR library to generate a GIS Shapefile. The good thing is that there are Ruby bindings for this library. The bad thing is that there is absolutely no documentation for those bindings. So when something fails you get stuck pretty often. This is not a call for documentation but more of a summary where I got stuck and what to watch out for. First, get the
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 9:06am CEST
In 2007, the City of Seattle, Washington, undertook a large-scale, citywide inventory of sidewalks and curb ramps. The city initiated the project to m More...
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 9:06am CEST
In response to a new requirement on minimum standards for sign reflectivity that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) established in December 200 More...
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:59am CEST
also on the plane back from Beijing I got to have a long chat with one of the Jamaican track and field Olympians, which was fun # on the plane with me back from the Games I sat next to a Canadian baseball player that was drafted this year by the Brewers 16th overall # still pretty jetlagged from flying from Beijing to SFO and then driving the 6 hours to SB. nice to be home though # I’m hanging out Goleta, CA, USA Goleta #
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 4:50am CEST
The 4th meeting at the “GIS on Weekend” on last Saturday (23/08/08) was presenting topic of SlG Epi and SaTScan utilization for epidemiology. Those applications can perform health spatial data analysis. SIG Epi is current GIS application developed by Health Analysis Information and System-Pan American Heatlh Organization (HAIS–PAHO) for spatial analysis in epidemiology. PAHO has cooperated with ESRI to develop SIG Epi so that only shapefile (SHP) format can be run by this application. The outp
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 4:29am CEST
Today, people interest to GIS becomes greater since it can be applied to various sectors. It is also shown by the enthusiasm of participants in “GIS on Weekend” training held by the SIMKES, they come from various backgrounds, e.g. lecturers, graduate students, and staff of health office. In the third meeting on last Saturday (August 16, 2008), the topic was “thematic Mapping”, that was, participants were taught the way to make a thematic map. A thematic map displays spatial pattern of a theme o
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:00am CEST
Caliper Corporation, a worldwide leader in GIS, transportation and mapping software, is pleased to announce the latest 5-digit ZIP Code boundaries and points for the entire United States ($195). These boundaries reflect changes such as new housing and commercial development, and are based on Post Office updates through July 1, 2008. The ZIP Code data are for use with Caliper's GIS products, including Maptitude and TransCAD. Pricing A single user license of the ZIP Code Boundaries Data CD
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 1:55am CEST
::: via ::: Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team A lot of map mashups out there have country-wide or world-wide content. That’s awesome because it means there’s something for everyone. What’s not so awesome is that it means that when I get to the map, I often have to spend some time panning and zooming until I’m in my hometown and seeing the local content I’m most interested in. And as you know from previous posts, I’m inherently lazy and get bored whenever I’m forced to engage in unnecessar
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 1:35am CEST
Resistance to War: It Is One Struggle Robin Long War Resister Robin Long Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison By Sarah Lazare / August 25, 2008. Robin Long, an Iraq War resister deported from Canada into U.S. military custody last month, was sentenced today to 15 months of confinement and dishonorable discharge, receiving credit for 40 days of time served. Long's supporters, who flooded the Fort Carson, Colorado courtroom where the court martial was held and held a vigil in his honor, expres
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 1:17am CEST
::: via ::: Received an email from Mike today in reguards to my latest post on the mis-matching of Google map data. It makes for some interesting research and reading, and also a class project. Hi! This Orangeville, PA thing has me real intrigued to find out what is correct. I work as a GIS planner for a county in Pennsylvania. One of the problems I’ve had has been the source of the information we present to people. I’ve created a ton of work for myself by questioning the source of infor
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:21pm CEST
ESRI and Microsoft announced that Virtual Earth would be available through the ArcGIS Online Premium Service a couple weeks ago and today Microsoft took that announcement one step further. Starting today you can license Virtual Earth UltraCam (proprietary) aerial photography without having to license the Virtual Earth platform. This is great for offline use, wrapping your own client or creating an interface that allows for deeper zooming than the VE platform does today. You can purchase the ph
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:38pm CEST
Catching up a little from last week, I missed the news that AGX Build 500 was released. This release isn’t the Build 600 that some have been looking for, but does add the ability to work with the new updated ArcGIS Online, including the premium services (Microsoft Virtual Earth). The update is available from ESRI’s servers.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:00pm CEST
Era um sábado a tarde, daqueles que bate um sono legal após o almoço. Filhote sem nada para fazer pedindo para para assistir um DVD após outro. Oras pensei comigo, em pleno dia de sábado um pequeno desses ficar com a cara entretida na TV. Foi aí que pensei em algo que poderiamos fazer juntos. Lembrei-me das minhas sobrinhas que moram na França que curtiam fazer modelagens com uma tal de massa caseira chamada “pate a sel” , ficavam fazendo bolotitas e bonequinhos coloridos e deixavam no jardim p
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 5:17pm CEST
I had the pleasure of interviewing Peter Raven, president of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, at the ESRI/UC in San Diego. Raven gave a rousing speech focused on the importance of biodiversity, and our one-on-one conversation fills in some of Raven’s background and his strong feelings about the power of GIS. “Once you can store your information [...]
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