-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:42pm CEST
Yes folks, it's that time of year, where I poke and prod all my proof sheets, put on my thinking cap and start the annual round of gallery applications, [starting with the CCP] . This year, it's the maps series. Having found a commercial scanner that scans the way I want format bit depth and with a good quality scanner, I'll be able to afford a whole series of high end scans, which I'll then then print as I can afford them. But first, a basic edit of the low rez scans, on my work's Epson 1680,
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:36pm CEST
Barcelona: HP - Large Format Design Campus I’ll be heading to the HP ‘Behind the Scenes 1988 - 2008′ media event in Barcelona later this week. I have never been to the HP Large Format Design Campus or the HP Labs for Large Format Printers - although I have reviewed them. I notice that a ‘Vision for Design and Construction: Building Information Modeling [...]
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:32pm CEST
I was reading an article over the weekend by Dan Roam covering the use of visual thinking to solve problems. As a mind mapper I know how an image can be used instead of a memo to convey ideas. I use Mind Map on my Mac but not as yet at my current workplace. I'll be interested to see if there are any insights that Dan has and be sure to post them in due course. I'm also reading an article on trust and as a knowledge manager, this is an area that I examined in my thesis and has been a subject of
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:25pm CEST
Garmin GPSMap 60CSx 2.6-Inch Mapping Handheld GPS The venerable Garmin 60CS just got a whole lot better. The 7.5-ounce GPSMap 60CSx now features an insanely accurate, high-sensitivity GPS receiver by SiRF that tracks your position even in tree cover and canyons. Plus, you get a bright, sunlight-readable color TFT display and an included a 64 MB microSD card for storage of optional map detail. Add all that to the 60CSx’s integrated barometric altimeter and electronic compass, and you’ve got a
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:17pm CEST
You’ve been taught how important goal setting is. And lately, you’ve been hearing a lot about writing your goals down. Why would you need to write them down? I promise if you try it, you’ll discover why. First off, let me ask you candidly: “What are your current specific goals”? (Silent pause for you to consider some ideas while looking up to the sky ~ or maybe a beautifully constructed coffered ceiling) I think I heard you say: I want to be happy I want to make a lot of money and be successf
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 8:48pm CEST
Snowboarding GPS foo After last year’s snowboarding GPS fun, I decided once again to carry a GPS for this year’s trip to St Anton, so I could keep a record of where we boarded. Using Rob’s, now slightly battered, Garmin Etrex Legend C, I set the GPS to record our location every 2 seconds and put it in my jacket pocket for the day. At the end of each day, I downloaded our traces from the GPS onto my laptop using GPSBabel, then at the end of the trip, loaded them all into Google Earth and mun
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 8:48pm CEST
Patrik Löwendahl blogged about using C#3 features in .NET 2 via VS.NET 2008 a few days ago:
[www.lowendahl.net] There are quite a few of the new features that works straight out of the box. However, Linq does not, alot of the code that Linq uses is simply not present in the .NET 2 BCL. So, inspired by Patriks post I opened up an old custom Linq engine that I wrote a while back and spiced it up and adapted it for .NET 2. I also added a few of the standard list ex
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 8:11pm CEST
Posted by Linda Summers
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 8:07pm CEST
Thanks to Dr. Hawamdeh for recommending this Mind Mapping video, which contains advice on how to enhance the learning and memory skills of your organic cerebrum cells:
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 7:08pm CEST
from the Journal of Neuroscience Language processing involves multiple neuronal structures in the human auditory cortex. Although a variety of neuroimaging and mapping techniques have been implemented to better understand language processing at the level of the auditory cortex, much is unknown regarding how and by what pathways these structures interact during essential tasks such as sentence comprehension. In this study, the effective and structural connectivity at the level of the auditory
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 6:31pm CEST
also in the group Kim and Madeline i looked around the web and i got a few ideas United Nations Environment Programme a source of ideas that we could look at to create useful maps Global Environment Outlook a source of ideas that we could look at to create useful maps Toxic Release Inventory Maps in ESRI some shape maps from the TRI that that could be apart of our maps Environmental GIS Maps of the World looks like a good source for maps that may be able to aid us in our project US Geo
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 4:11pm CEST
Como funciona o processo de Ray tracing e Photon Mapping? Publicado por: Allan Brito Depois de algum tempo usando ferramentas gráficas, principalmente com tanta freqüência como eu uso, seria normal que me interessasse pelos mecanismos que fazem as coisas acontecerem. Principalmente no meu caso, em que preciso ministrar aulas sobre esses softwares, explicar a função de um botão é fácil. Mas contextualizar a lógica matemática e códigos por trás dele é mais complicado. Apesar de vá
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 4:00pm CEST
Normal mapping and vertex-displacement mapping from the same texture. This ones uses the Kineme texture tools to create the displacement texture. It’s a classic use of the technique. Not sure I’ll ever use this one ‘in anger’ but it’s an interesting test. I’m glad the lighting works so well, too. The base colour comes from the normal map, incidentally. The final screenshot shows the mesh from the back. Not quite sure why it looks so different from that side… Next I have to work out
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 3:58pm CEST
Thought I’d have a go using the Normal Map code from the last post to do some bump-mapping. Turns out it’s quite easy to use the output of the Normal Map CIFilter as normals in a Fragment Shader. All that needs to be done is to transform it into the correct range by multiplying the RGB value of each pixel by 2.0, then subtracting 1.0. Some examples using a simple Phong lighting model, and normals extracted from first a static image, then the live video from the iSight camera, run through the
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 3:51pm CEST
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re doing some pretty nifty stuff with Google Maps (and perhaps in the future, other mapping vendor maps …) on Backyard Post. Most modern browsers support this mixture of CSS and JavaScript hackery, but some do not. Specifically, Internet Explorer 6 is not supported at this time. While you can navigate the site and read the content, the Google Maps are likely to be very slow and/or generate errors. We have spent and will continue to spend time resolving these
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 2:02pm CEST
Google’s master plan 31Mar08 Filed under: info graphics - mapping |
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 1:59pm CEST
Following news of the murder of 14-year-old Amro Elbadawi in London, the Telegraph has plotted figures of murders in the capital last year on a Google map to show their location and frequency by borough. The map gives an at-a-glance overview of the 26 teenagers murdered in London in 2007 and complements the text article, though it would be useful to have more of the information referred to in the piece included on the map - e.g. Metropolitan Police stats on the ethnic origin of last year’s v
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 1:40pm CEST
Food fight - American warfare through history 31Mar08 Filed under: Art-design stuff, info graphics - mapping |
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:18am CEST
Verizon isn't kidding when it comes to social networking. Few days ago, they've announced their customers will have a quick access to MySpace Mobile and now they are launching social-mapping service Loopt. Previously, we saw Sprint partnering with Loopt and under these circumstances — when two of the leading mobile operators in the U.S. are adding Loopt to their offerings — the service is getting the real traction it deserves. From the release: With Loopt, Verizon Wireless customers can leve
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:17am CEST
Just follow the page link on the right to get to my Sector files. I have explained in detail how I came to view the UWPs in these sector files as THE BEST AVAILABLE UWPs on the web. I want to thank Daryen from The Traveller’s Aid Society forums and the Citizens of the Imperium forums for sending me the raw 1117 UWP Sec data and for his insight on the origins and accuracy of the UWPs. For those who use Universe or Heaven and Earth and play using the Classic or Mega Traveller setting, I think yo
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 10:18am CEST
Following on from our announcement that myPOIs.ie had launched, we have now fully integrated both sites - you can now easily purchase a myPOIs.ie subscription on mySatNav.ie. Both Premium and Premium+ products are available on the following product pages: myPOIs.ie Premium Subcription myPOIs.ie Premium+ Subcription Time Limited Special Offer!! If you purchase any compatible Garmin GPS, and add either a Premium or Premium+ subscription you’ll Save €25. When you purchase a Premium or Premium+
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 7:01am CEST
A good short article about how people are telling stories with maps. This one makes explicit use of mapping as a story telling device. The map become part illustration / comic. Of course, maps can be used to tell much more subtle and implicit stories, simply by the way that they are formed and the choices for data represented. I'd love to see some sort of analysis of the inherent biases represented by Google/Yahoo/MSN maps... What stories are lurking beneath the substrate on which so many peop
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 5:38am CEST
There wasn’t much in South Dakota worth blogging about. And I’ve been preoccupied since I got home Friday. Caught up on sleep, went and saw Dan do a great set at Bedrock. Then I met up with C yesterday and saw the exhibit of images from the Hubble space telescope at the Walters Art Gallery - really small exhibit, only one room, but absolutely gorgeous (see illustration). Tomorrow, however (this time I mean it), you’ll get to hear my thoughts about this. Having nearly lost a limb myself, I feel
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 1:10am CEST
For now, see the image…I had a delightful insight this morning…and I will get around to explaining it. This is the placeholder for now. It might be no surprise that organizations can collaborate this way. Many already do. However, what I see collective intelligence efforts doing creates the hub and spoke network shape. Being intentional about creating collaborative organization at face to face events and collaborations seems valuable to me. Furthermore, processes like Open Space, to a grea
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 12:47am CEST
I just received an email from Brad Allan of TPAssist 2007 to let me know that TPAssist 2007 has been updated and is available for download. Please take a look at this significant upgrade to a wonderful MindManager 7 Add-in. TPAssist 2007 version .1 3 is now available for download. This is possibly the most significant update since TPAssist 2007 was launched in September last year. This update draws on knowledge gained from case studies and feedback from our growing communicate of subscribers
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 12:46am CEST
A few weeks ago I ran an extensive test of a number of free analytic tracking packages. Hopefully nobody noticed the added load time from the extra scripts being run? It’s taken me a few weeks to find the time to write up the results but I think they provide some very valuable insight. I think it should be stated that coming into the test I was very commited to Google Analytics. I installed the code and tested the following services for 20 days. Some of these services were only for free tr
-
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 12:24am CEST
This brief tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of the Google Charts API, but no knowledge of the new map chart type. This tutorial will cover all of the required and optional Charts API parameters for the map chart type and will culminate in displaying a US map of red states and blue states. Producing the base map To produce our base map using the Google Charts API requires a URL similar to the following one:
[chart.apis.google.com]
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
