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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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