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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 11:52pm CEST
http://www.esri.com/flashmedia/arcgis_desktop_93/arcgis_desktop_93.html
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 11:11pm CEST
Want to know how to get help with an out-of-control child? Need assistance paying your gas bill? How about learning what youth programs are nearest your home and how to get there by bus? Well the answers are just one click away. CountyConnection.org offers users current online information about human service and health resources available in Pottawattamie County by using GIS technology paired with Google street maps. The site helps consumers locate resources and professionals find referrals
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 11:05pm CEST
eSpatial, a global enterprise geospatial software and technology company today announced that Dublin Bus, the major public transport provider in the greater Dublin Area, Ireland, has gone live with a new Bus Stop Database system based on the eSpatial iSMART product suite. The transport company will use the system internally for the data capture, analysis, storage and maintenance of bus-stop information. Built using eSpatial’s award winning iSMART technology, the new Bus Stop System (BSS) mode
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:55pm CEST
Edward Saade has been appointed President and Managing Director of Fugro-EarthData, Inc. Taking over for Anne Hale Miglarese, who led the company's transition from private ownership to its current standing as a member of the international Fugro organization, Mr. Saade will assume responsibility for Fugro EarthData's traditional mapping, GeoSAR radar mapping, and GIS business lines to ensure a continued commitment to quality, innovation, and customer service. Along with a background in marine-
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:54pm CEST
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce upcoming Applied Geodesy training sessions for both their Geographic Calculator and Geographic Transformer products on August 7th and 8th, 2008, in conjunction with the ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA. These daylong sessions are in-depth training courses based on these two powerful data conversion applications. Each course features education on the fundamentals of geodesy and mapping, which is useful for both the novice as an introduction, and
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:52pm CEST
It's official. Britain last week put its name to an international commitment to make data produced by government bodies available for free use in the internet economy. This is the first formal statement that the government has come on board the Free Our Data campaign launched by Guardian Technology (and widely derided as impractical) more than two years ago. The commitment to make public sector information free, or charge no more than the marginal cost of maintaining and distributing the extr
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:48pm CEST
This post started as a list of software that I kept sporadically up to date over several years over at my personal site. From then, I started to get feedback from users that found that page and we kept the page updated with the current best of breed software for various spatial analysis and computing tasks. Here's the current list for Linux servers: Operating System: Ubuntu server I had to go with Ubuntu on this one. The recommendation has changed over the years, but ultimately Ubuntu's pa
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:22pm CEST
Just in time for the hiking holiday: Today I learned about a firmware update for the Nokia E90 mobile phone that adds AGPS (Assisted GPS) support. Assisted GPS also uses information from mobile phone networks. It reduces especially the time to determine the first position after switching on the GPS. The Firmware can be installed using the Nokia Software Updater which is part of the Nokia PC Suite. Unfortunately, the Software Updater is not yet compatible with Windows Vista.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:13pm CEST
Gerade rechtzeitig vor dem Urlaub habe ich von einem Firmware-Update für das Nokia E90 erfahren. Das Firmware-Update erweitert die GPS-Funktionalität um das sogenannte AGPS (Assisted GPS, Unterstütztes Globales Positionssystem). Mit AGPS benutzt das Gerät auch Informationen aus dem Mobilfunknetz zur Positionsbestimmung. Insbesondere die Zeit zur initialen Positionsbestimmung nach dem Einschalten wird dadurch deutlich verkürzt. Das Update lässt sich mit dem Nokia Software Updater installieren.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 8:35pm CEST
Four weeks ago today, I was interviewed for a job at Starbucks. Today, I got the job. It's been a long time in the making... much longer than 4 weeks. Four years ago, I would estimate, is when I started thinking about working at Starbucks. Different location then. I picked up an application a couple of times... but never turned one in. Early this year was the first time I turned one in. Then I turned in a second application to the same store. Shortly afterwards, I got the interview. I went to
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 8:17pm CEST
Sometimes we just need to use a gps system for a temporary time period. In such cases, renting rather than buying a gps device could be a good option. Keeping in mind of renting a gps navigation system is a good idea. Whenever you need it, just type “rent gps” on google and navigate On the other hand for UK users Zintech.co.uk offers an in-car Satellite Navigation hire service, covering the UK, Europe, The States, Canada, South Africa and Australia. They supply TomTom units, a trusted a
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 8:03pm CEST
GIS Used to Fight Drunk Driving Published by Roger Hart under GIS - Geographic Information Systems Not every new application for GIS gets posted here. However, this one was so different from the norm it was worth a mention. KUSA-TV in Denver has a story on how Weld County Sheriff’s Deputies are using GIS to help prevent DUI crashes: Several years back, law enforcement started working with the Weld County’s GIS (Geographic Information System) department to create a map that would pinpoint
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 7:38pm CEST
Welcome to Spatial-OR! This site is a place where we can discuss OR techniques as they relate to spatial analysis and problem solving. I've met quite a few people who are interested in this niche area, so we'll see how many there are out there hopefully meet a few new colleagues along the way. I'm interested in what spatial and OR methods practitioners are using out there to solve real world problems. I'm also interested in connecting researchers and academics out there who are adding to the sta
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:40pm CEST
Tomorrow the GIForum starts and the day after tomorrow AGIT 2008 begins. I will submit a poster presentation with the topic “Scenario Visualisation and Comparison for Spatial Decision Support” as coauthor. You can see the poster below. Click on the image to get a larger view. I’ll try to post some articles during the AGIT. Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:37pm CEST
やっと届いたArcGISをいじってます。MacBook ProからWindows xpを起動して使っていますが、非常に快適。ただし、使い方はまだぜんぜん分かんない。
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:35pm CEST
Environmental Systems Research Institute, better known as ESRI, announced last week the release of ArcGIS version 9.3. This release of the desktop application appears to include quite a few significant enhancements over the current version, including for example: A new Convert Graphics to Features function that allows you to create features by drawing graphics without using the editor. The ability to export layers to KML (Google Earth) files is now built into ArcGIS Desktop 9.3. A new HTML p
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:07pm CEST
Interesting things and not so interesting stuff I found from June 29th through June 30th: Komando.com, OpenSource Komando Downloads - Komando.com, Website for The Kim Komando Radio Show® - Fast Facts: Fourth of July 2008 - Forums on fire: the Ni-chan paradox - Add me on Twitter
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:03pm CEST
Il plugin in oggetto si puo scaricare qui E’ il plugin che uso qui sul sito per visualizzare mappe e file xml qui potete trovare maggiori informazioni anche se in tedesco!!! qui L’uso è molto semplice basta inserire il link al file gpx o kml che precedentemente si è provveduto a caricare sul server epoi con i tag sottostanti si impostano tutti i parametri per modificare la visualizzazione. Tag per plugin xml google map maptype: (G_HYBRID_MAP, G_SATELLITE_MAP, G_NORMAL_MAP, G_PHYSICAL_M
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 5:56pm CEST
Approfitto della 1/2 maratona di Roma per sperimentare il caricamento di file kml su google map. Clicando sui point si visualizzano i miei tempi e tutte le altre informazioni come la frequenza cardiaca, presi dal garmin forerunner305. [maptype=Hybrid;urldisplaymode=showvars]test ciao Gianluca
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 5:41pm CEST
*sigh* I can’t figure out what I’m more disappointed in, surveyors thinking they should be doing work GIS professionals should be doing or a magazine previewing articles to government agencies for them to censor them. Inconceivable! Update: It appears that the author withdrew the article, not the publisher. The idea that a state board would even worry about such things shows that obviously don’t have enough to do.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 5:33pm CEST
Campbell Soup’s Bowl of Joy (CPB) June 30th, 2008 Campbell Soup (CPB) just gave us some good news this morning as the company expects to report fiscal-year profit at the upper end of its forecast range. They also set a $1.2 billion stock repurchase program. They are on track to complete an earlier share repurchase by the end of this fiscal year using $600 million in proceeds from the sale of the Godiva chocolate business. Some of the this recommended company’s brands include V8, Pepperidge F
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 5:00pm CEST
[The Center for Spatial Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara is involved in incorporating spatial thinking and analysis into fields of study that range from marine biology to religious studies, and Director Michael Goodchild envisions a future where spatial thinking will be taught in high schools alongside history and algebra.]"There’s been a democratization of GIS over the past couple of years," Goodchild said. "It’s reached the point where everyone needs to learn it."- Good
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:52pm CEST
Digitalisieren bestimmter Gebäuder der TU Kaiserslautern auf Grundlage der ‘TK25′. Zuerst wurden der Rasterlayer ‘TK25′ und der Vektorlayer TU_Kaiserslautern.shp geladen. Auf dieser Grundlage konnten nun die zu erfassenden Gebäude (1,2,3,13,16,32,34,46,49,62,63), durch darübergezeichnete Polygone, digitalisisert werden. Weiter wurden in den Layereigenschaften die Gebäude nach eindeutigem Wert ihrer Fachbereiche digitalisiert und die Farben verändert. Auch die Beschriftung der Gebäudenumm
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 12:24pm CEST
In der sechsten Übung ging es darum ausgewählte Gebäude der Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern aufgrund einer Topographischen Karte von Kaiserslautern zu digitalisieren und attributieren. Zusätzlich mussten die Gebäudenummern und die Fachbereiche der Gebäude erfasst werden. Zur Bearbeitung verwendeten wir das Programm Quantum GIS. Grundlagen waren die TK25, eine Erfassungsdatei zum Digitalisieren und der Gebäudeplan der TU Kaiserslautern. Zunächst wurden auf der Erfassungsdatei
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:36am CEST
Geo-Informationssystem auf Open-Source-Basis Ein Versuch, wenn auch noch nicht so ganz gelungen: Eine Studie zeigt, daß Geo-Informationssysteme für Kommunen nicht notwendigerweise teuer und kompliziert sein müssen. Die Firma Micus Management hat in einem Pilotprojekt für die Stadt Auerbach im Vogtland versucht zu zeigen, daß es schnell und einfach möglich ist, ein Standortinformationssystem mit öffentlichen Geoinformationen und freier Software aufzubauen. Leider gibt es unnötigerweise ein Pr
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:16am CEST
Does it make sense to conserve crop wild relatives in situ? That’s an extreme way of asking the question, I know, but maybe it is worth putting it as starkly as possible. To concentrate minds, let us say. Such musings were triggered (not for the first time) by the latest niche modelling study trying to predict what will happen to species distributions under climate change. As usual, it’s not good. Working on the California flora, researchers at Berkeley found “that two thirds of … ‘endemics’ c
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 9:39am CEST
Soil Maps of Canada The Soil Maps of Canada is a series of high resolution scanned soil maps from Canada. This set of images are available for download from the European Digital Archive of Soil Maps. Other soil information from Canada can be found at the Canadian Soil Information System (CanSIS) and the Atlas of Canada Soil Maps. Soil Landscapes [...]
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:59am CEST
actually after asking other people did notice, we were all just playing it cool # johnathan davies from Lost just walked in the cafe I’m in - no one else noticed # eating the world’s smallest $12 pesto pizza at some hippie cafe - actually quite good # spent the morning looking at berkeley apts will continue to do so in the afternoon (also got in 30 mins of bouldering at indian rock which w # goodnight galaxy, sleep tight # $5.8B CERN collider starts up in August
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 5:44am CEST
The GGSI is not immune to the general market fluctuations. This week it closed down 40.56 points, at 1204.55. In the past month, the index has gone down 9.64%. There were four gaining stocks and 26 losing stocks last week. Winners - Kodak (16.92%), Oce (2.40%), Broadcom (2.05%), Garmin (1.45%) Biggest losers - SiRF (-21.43%), Boeing (-11.75%), Stewart Information Services (-8.50%) News Garmin (1.45%) - Partnered with GyPSii for navigation-based social networking. Introduced revised Ast
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 5:14am CEST
The Scott County Information Technology Department seeks qualified applicants for this full-time position. Incumbent is involved in many aspects of GIS stewardship including data development, software support, application development, mobile and web based GIS, data analysis and distribution, research, and the production of reports, maps and other GIS outputs. B.S. in Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Computer [...]
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:25am CEST
Today’s nuggets June 29th: Victor Keegan: Social networks are growing in niches - Required Reading in Social Media - Marketing Your Social Media Profile - How Social Media Will Change the World - Biodiesel’s New Approval Rating Could Ease Warranty Concerns - climateTimeMachine - Add me on Twitter
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:56am CEST
A short demonstration utilizing free technologies to geotag images and share the kml file with other people. ShareThis
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:28am CEST
Today’s nuggets June 26th: World Mosaic Created From 1001 Web 2.0 Logos - Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser - Photo editing made fun Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's fast, easy, and fun. Myplick - share PowerPoint and Google presentations online, slideshows, slide show - Wizlite | Collaborative Page Highlighting - myn
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:28am CEST
Interesting things I found from June 25th through June 26th: Wikis - Teaching Hacks - Songsterr - House Of The Rising Sun - 40 Sites You Might Actually Use | How To Split An Atom - hakia Search Engine Beta - Quintura - Spock People Search - TripIt | Organize your travel - AdaptiveBlue: The Makers of BlueOrganizer and SmartLinks - [true knowledge]™ - home - Talis - Powerset - Twine - Organize, Share, Discover Information Around Your Interests - Twine is a new service that helps you o
Directions Magazine - Top Stories
Yahoo! News (mostly englisch)
GISUser.com
OGC News Feed
Slashgeo
CADwire.net - GIS industry news
Topix.net
esri Google Group
[Technorati] "GIS" (mostly Englisch)
gis-news
con terra - News (deutsche Version)
Geography 2.0: Virtual Globes
Geo Coding
GIS CAD Interoperability
GIS Matters
Richie's Space
James Fee GIS Blog
AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial
Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog
Sebastian Pache | Blog for Spatial Technology
All geographic information systems jobs | Indeed.com
GIS Jobs Worldwide Google Group
