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GISCorps Volunteers Needed for an Urgent Project

Posted: May 9th, 2008, 10:22pm CEST

Just received this request from the GIScorps... Project Title: Compiling Infrastructure damage data (buildings, ports, bridges) in Cyclone Nargis affected areas in Myanmar in Google Earth (GE)...

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Schmap preparing to roll out for iPhone

Posted: May 9th, 2008, 5:50pm CEST

Tags: Social network

Remember Schmap? Recal Shmap is a way cool travel resource guide that last lyear I refered to as "likely one of the coolest, Free apps you'll stumble onto this summer". Well, now the company is...

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NOCO GIS User Meet, Loveland, CO - Mobile GIS

Posted: May 9th, 2008, 4:50pm CEST

Tags: Events

It was good to get out of the office and meet some of the local GISers yesterday as I spent the afternoon at the city of Loveland' s HQ for a GIS user group meetup. This group meets quarterly...

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TerrasServer.com VS Microsoft TerrasServer USA

Posted: May 9th, 2008, 3:44pm CEST

Tags: Free Data

I have to admit, I've wondered about this one for years. I recall stumbling onto the Microsoft resource and wondered "how do they get away with this"? What I mean is that commercial data provider...

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Google Launches Geo Education Home for Teachers

Posted: May 7th, 2008, 10:20pm CEST

Tags: google Earth

Google, always the fan of teachers has launched a resource to help and encourage Geo education in the classroom. The Geo Ed home provides K12 resources and support to support the use of Google MAps,...

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The Autodesk Experience tour - check out AutoCAD 2009 and more

Posted: May 7th, 2008, 10:11pm CEST

Tags: Autodesk

Once again, Autodesk is going on the road and bringing the Autodesk Experience tour to a city near you. This is a good opportunity to see what's new in the 2009 application suite and ask questions...

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Housing Research Interns - Canada

Posted: May 7th, 2008, 7:35pm CEST

Tags: job

Here's a summer opp. for recent grads in Canada - Canadian Policy Research Networks will soon be issuing its second call for Housing Interns for 2008. This is the ONLY housing training programme in...

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TN visa bumping up to 3 years - maybe

Posted: May 6th, 2008, 11:24pm CEST

This may be of interest to any individuals or companies that hire employees on Nafta TN visas (or H1Bs for that matter). This came out of the UCIS just today... U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...

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Get your Geo Shwag!

Posted: May 6th, 2008, 10:24pm CEST

Tags: Events

Some big conferences are coming up and perhaps you or your company is thinking about offering up some cool Geo-Shwag... maybe a coffee mug, cap, computer bag, or a koozie. Here's a pretty decent...

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Summer Jr. Surveying & Engineering Camp

Posted: May 6th, 2008, 3:14am CEST

Here's an interesting idea for kids over the summer - A non-profit Jr. Surveying & Engineering Camp, endorsed by the Ohio PLSO is seeking sponsorship, volunteers and supporters for the 2008 camp....

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GIS Summer EDU reminder

Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 5:13am CEST

Tags: education

A reminder - The Penn State master of geographic information systems (MGIS) degree is designed for working professionals aspiring to leadership positions in the field and wishing to pursue a...

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How many Hispanics in America? How about 45+ million

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 11:25pm CEST

Tags: census

In an official Census Bureau PR release, the nation’s Hispanic population increased 1.4 million to reach 45.5 million on July 1, 2007, or 15.1 percent of the estimated total U.S. population of 301.6...

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USGS spreads contract around to GeoEye, DigitalGlobe, SPOT

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 11:21pm CEST

Tags: imagery

The USGS today announced the award of three multi-year acquisition contracts for high and moderate-resolution satellite imagery to GeoEye of Dulles, VA, DigitalGlobe of Longmont, CO and SPOT Image...

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Will you Get Promoted - some tips

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 9:46pm CEST

Tags: job

An interesting look at the art of promotion - I stumbled onto this blog, I can't recall how, and enjoyed this, perhaps you will also... good luck getting promoted! I like the following advice - work...

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Inside the Geodatabase Blog

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 9:01pm CEST

Tags: developers

Hey ArcGIS blogger fans, Heads-up. Last month the ESRI geodatabase development team revealed a blog "Inside the Geodatabase". Visitors will findnews and tips about ESRI geodatabases directly from...

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GeoBC - gateway to B.C's information via Google Earth

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 7:37pm CEST

Tags: google Earth

I was interested to notice that GeoBC is a sponsor of this year's GeoWeb conference. Even though I'm from BC (since departed) I wasn't familiar with the name. GeoBC is the Province's gateway to ...

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Event of interest, Social DevCamp East

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 7:00pm CEST

Tags: Social network

Heads up on a cool event, Social DevCamp east is scheduled for May 10, Baltimore Md. This DevCamp is for anyone interested in following where Social networking and the social web is headed. See more...

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GeoTagging with Shozu explained

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 2:32pm CEST

Tags: geocode

Are you a mobile camera power user? If so then you know about Shozu (I hope) if not then you should, particularly if you like to blog your photos, flickr them or share them with others. Shozu...

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UCR GIS Summer School

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 5:33am CEST

Tags: education

Heads up on the 11th Annual GIS Summer School from UCR Extension - a great opportunity to get a leg up on the competition as you head off to grab that ultimate job! Earn the Certificate in GIS in two...

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Manifold marketing to KML users ... wow! Hard to resist those Google ads

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 12:10am CEST

Tags: m

I guess I wasn't surprised to see that Manifold.net is promoted via Google ads, although it has to be the first bit of marketing I've ever seen for Manifold - nice to see Dimitri crack open the...

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GIS in the Rockies in NOCO - sweet!

Posted: May 1st, 2008, 11:35pm CEST

Tags: education

Registration is now open for the 21st annual GIS in The Rockies Conference (see pics from last year) - September 10-12, 2008, The Ranch, Loveland, CO. Cool to see that this event is in NOCO this...

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RADARSAT-2 data now available

Posted: May 1st, 2008, 10:59pm CEST

Tags: imagery

Looks like MDA has now made RADARSAT-2 data products available for sale. Some background info... Launched December 14, 2007, RADARSAT-2 offers unparalleled imaging flexibility, dual polarization and...

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Brightkite location-based social networking in Beta

Posted: May 1st, 2008, 6:30pm CEST

Tags: Social network

On the topic of location-based social networking, have you heard of Brightkite yet? It's one of those cool, Twitter-like social networking apps that takes advantage of location-based tagging. The...

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Google Maps Directions Gets help with addition of Street Views

Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:56pm CEST

Tags: google maps

Are you a Google Maps directions fan? I know I couldn't get to and from our ball tournaments every week-end without them! Well now, users of this service will notice that Street View is integrated...

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10-day predictions of path and intensity of hurricanes and tropical storms

Posted: April 30th, 2008, 3:27pm CEST

This one comes out of the insurance industry as Guy carpenter has announced a new forecasting tool - WSI LiveCat Forecast. According to the company, WSI LiveCat Forecast is a service for the...

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Global Mapper v9.03 Released

Posted: April 30th, 2008, 12:22am CEST

Global Mapper has today announced the release of an update to Global Mapper with v9.03 Enhancements include: - Added support for loading Tiger 2007 Shapefiles with full attribution and automatic...

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The Airborne1 ASPRS PowerBall Give-Away

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 7:25pm CEST

Tags: Events

I'm always interested in new, clever give-aways at conferences. Recall the Magellan find your match buttons, or perhaps the Jeopardy parody game show give-away? These were cool and now Airborne1 has...

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Tips for reducing that cell phone bill

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 5:52pm CEST

Tags: mobile

With gas prices soaring here's a tip that could help you cut your cell phone bill down a bit, enabling you to have a bit more change for fuel! If you use data on your mobile then you know that data...

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Energy Day and Geography Awareness Week 2008

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 12:01am CEST

Tags: education

This update comes from Dr. Barry Wellar, Program director, GAW, CAG - Dr. Wellar always keeps me informed of the CAG's plans for celebrating GAW and GIS Day. The following explains a change for this...

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Atlas of Yellowstone Park

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 5:10pm CEST

Yellowstone area universities, National Park Service experts, and other federal and private agencies have joined forces with the University of Oregon to develop the Atlas of Yellowstone, the first...

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Remember Statistics can be very misleading - watch your local market

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 2:52pm CEST

Tags: real estate

Stats are a funny thing. They are great for identifying trends, however, when not conveyed in the correct context or with the whole story they are also very misleading - case in point, the real...

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Reminder - LizardTech adds RSS news feeds

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 6:15pm CEST

Tags: RSS

I recently got a reminder from the gang at LizardTech that they now have an RSS feed available for those interested to add to their news reader (iGoogle etc...) You can view all of LizardTech’s RSS...

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Autodesk revenues exceed expectations in Q1

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 4:41pm CEST

Tags: Autodesk

Some numbers out of Autodesk regarding Q1... With less than one week remaining in the first quarter, revenue is now expected to be between $590 million and $595 million. The previously provided...

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Grab the 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles Free from the Census Bureau

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 5:55pm CEST

Tags: census

I see that some of the free "data flogging" websites are now flogging the free 2007 TIGER/Line files (SHP format) for $100+ bucks! OR.... you can always simply go to...

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What makes Software green?

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 8:38pm CEST

Tags: Open Source

What makes software green? Is it the packaging, or perhaps the people that use it? Maybe it's open sourced, perhaps developed by a company with sustainable practices, or maybe it's simply the name?...

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NASA shares Earth Day programming via NASA TV

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 6:39pm CEST

Tags: imagery

In honor of Earth Day, April 22, NASA will make those views available to people here on Earth with an event highlighting imagery taken by astronauts and the science behind it. Check it out at...

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The intelligent social network for enterprises

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 3:30pm CEST

Tags: facebook

This from Trampoline Systems... SONAR Dashboard, the world’s first intelligent social network for enterprises. How it works... SONAR Dashboard is an intelligent social network designed to increase...

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Going green on earth day

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 3:23pm CEST

Tags: environment

Happy Earth day all... hopefully you're kicking in and doing your part to reuse and recycle... if not, perhaps you will after the barrage of news and earth day tidbits that you'll see and hear about...

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Twittervision Local Rolled out

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 5:05am CEST

Tags: Social network

Cool to see that Twittervision has expanded offerings via a local flavor - see Twittervision local - eg. Colorado - see [twittervision.com] visit www.GISuser.com for even...

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Create your own mini planet of geospatial feeds

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 3:51pm CEST

Tags: RSS

Are you familiar with Jaiku? If not you might like to check out their tools. the company, owned by Google has some great offerings enabling users to mobilize and share their content, feeds, photos...

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A presentation solution from Netpresenter 5

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 4:36pm CEST

Does your company present at conferences? If so perhaps your interested in this solution from Netpresenter - Netpresenter Player 5.0, is a next generation digital signage player software. Key new...

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NASA Earth Views in HD in honor of Earth Day

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 4:22pm CEST

Tags: imagery

In honor of Earth Day, April 22, NASA will make amazing Earth views available with an event highlighting imagery taken by astronauts and the science behind it. From NASA... For the first time ever,...

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Tip - National Geographic DataDoors portal

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 5:49pm CEST

Tags: Free Data

A data tip from NGS - Not exactly free, however, this is a fine resource for viewing data and imagery... National Geographic DataDoors portal (www.natgeodatadoors.com), customers can select the exact...

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Canadian and US topos from Touratel

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 4:39am CEST

Tags: Free Data

Fugawi Touratel (aimed at hikers and outdoor enthusiasts) allows users to view and print Canadian and US topographic maps from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and the United States Geological Survey...

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The H1B lottery and UCIS online case tracking

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 11:57pm CEST

Tags: immigration

Recall that this past April 1 was once again "H1B lottery day" in the US. If you or your company petitioned for an H1B employee you should receive a letter stating your application has been received....

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Spatial Networking releases Whereyougonnabe

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 11:40pm CEST

Tags: facebook

Just released... After several months of work, Petter Batty has announced the release of the Whereyougonnabe application for facebook users. In a nutshell... The key idea of the system is that you...

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Webcast What’s New in ERDAS IMAGINE 9.2

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 9:51pm CEST

Tags: Events

Users and would-be users of the ERDAS remote sensing solution can now get the low-down via free webcast. Each month, ERDAS will offer two different webinar topics. Each webinar will be hosted at 12...

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DotHomes Real Estate Mashup + Google Street View and more

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 9:03pm CEST

Tags: real estate

DotHomes is yet another real estate mashup, however, this app (which I wasn't familiar with) has really harnessed the potential of the Google Maps API. It also answers the question, "What is Google...

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When do Map services get Credit? Microsoft shunned by HGTV

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 7:12pm CEST

I was watching a show on HGTV recently and noticed that the show was displaying location information by displaying screen captures from a Microsoft Map Service, likely Windows Live or MapPoint. It...

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Finally, Videos on Flickr

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 8:04pm CEST

Tags: flickr

Woohoo, flickr is now supporting videos... sweet! I just stumbled on the news and am trying to give it a test for myself to prove that its actually true. Unfortunately my Shozu (mobile uploading app)...

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Take a virtual tour of NOAA's National Hurricane Center (NHC)

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 7:01pm CEST

Recently announced for NOAA, something of interest for you storm chasers. A tour of the NOAA National Hurricane Center is now as close as your computer with the inauguration of a new virtual online...

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The Google Earth Satellite? Please stop

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 6:24pm CEST

Tags: google Earth

Isn't it amazing, just about every newspaper, magazine, blogger, or ?? writes at some point about Google earth. No surprise given the interest in the web service from joe public. What drives me nuts...

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Google App Engine Preview Release

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 4:23pm CEST

Tags: api

This interesting update comes via the Jaiku blog... Today we’re taking off our welding goggles to announce Jaiku will be one of the first apps to run on the new Google App Engine. See also...

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Yahoo! and Google sitting in a tree... K I S S I N G...

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 3:45pm CEST

Tags: Yahoo

Interesting to see how Yahoo! is looking to Google for help in serving up ads for their search results. this comes as Yahoo! tries to fend off hostile takeover from Microsoft. Could Google possible...

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Looking for Historic Aerials?

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:39pm CEST

A nice data tip comes our way from LizardTech a really cool historical aerials site hosted by NETR online (A Division of National Environmental Title Research, LLC). With the help of GeoExpress and...

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A new web resource for businesses looking at the Colorado front range

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 12:09am CEST

Heads-up, if your interested in opening an office on the Colorado front-range (already a hotbed of Geospatial activities) a new web resource was just launched by Larimer County. The site provides...

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Geospatial Firms not using H1B Visa

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 4:56am CEST

Tags: employment

Interesting to see that the latest opening of the H1-B visa lottery has started once again (April 1) and there's not quite as much excitement as there was last year - recall last year some 130,000...

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Committee on Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences seeks input

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 8:01pm CEST

The U.S. National Research Council's Committee on Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade is now receiving public comment on some very important/high profile ...

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Event of Interest - Explore the Mobile Future

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 4:23pm CEST

Tags: lbs

Heads up on this one... Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley Conference to Explore the Mobile Future, April 22. Details - Acknowledging the rise of handheld mobile devices as a dominant computing platform...

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Navteq partners with uLocate

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 3:02pm CEST

Tags: lbs

Wow, these guys don't waste any time partnering up... although you could see this one coming a mile away! Navteq has just announced today that they have partnered up with uLocate (these guys...

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SpotJots from ten23 takes 1st place in 2008 Navteq LBS Challenge with SpotJots

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 12:42am CEST

Tags: lbs

Just managed to catch the award ceremony for the 2008 Navteq LBS Challenge from Vegas... some very interesting apps from some new names. And the winner is... from ten23 Software SpotJots (See...

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Map your assets with Google Maps mashup - Cemetery gMap and Office gMap

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 9:33pm CEST

Tags: google maps

Leave it to another Canuck, Mark Laudon, to come up with a couple of more interesting ways that people can mashup their assets via Google Maps. Mark has put together a couple of clever demos to give...

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Google I/O early reg ends April 4th

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 3:21pm CEST

Tags: google

A reminder, early registration for Google I/O ends April 4th - this Friday! Recall, I/O is a two-day, in- depth gathering for developers to share knowledge about Google's own developer products and...

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Nice job on the video Networks in Motion (NIM)

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 7:20pm CEST

Tags: lbs

I'm not sure why more companies don't do this! NIM has released a YouTube video directly from CTIA Wireless 2008 describing what they to offers visitors to their booth. With smartphones now shipping...

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USer research about the Apple iPhone

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 6:41pm CEST

Tags: iphone

Interesting findings about the Apple iPhone: Som mixed feelings in the research as about 40% report that it can't display all the websites they want to visit. On the up-side, Phone Bills have...

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Catch the greatest in LBS via webcast on Wednesday

Posted: March 31st, 2008, 8:08pm CEST

Tags: lbs

Webcast of interest... can't get to Vegas this week to take in the Navteq LBSChallenge awards ceremony? No problem as you can kick back in your office chair and watch the awards live via webcast - a...

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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 2:34pm CET

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Census data update - USA Counties data files

Posted: March 28th, 2008, 11:24pm CET

Tags: census

Downloadable data files have been created to accompany the web-based USA Counties. Now users can download directly more than 5,900 data items from the Web site for the United States, the 50 states...

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Yahoo? dev net's Mcalister jumps ship to join The Guardian

Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:36pm CET

Interesting to see that The Guardian, you know, that cool UK newspaper, has stolen Matt Mcalister away from Yahoo!'s developer network. Matt will be joining the Guardian crew in London to help...

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Event of interest - FEMA Risk Map Industry Day

Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:13pm CET

Tags: Events

The purpose of the event is for interested contractors to hear from the Federal government on how current business is handled within the Risk Analysis Division and plans for the future of Risk MAP....

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ArcDigita Aggegates GIS updates from the web

Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:44pm CET

This comes my way via GISuser reader Ken, he's developed a news aggregation tool for neogegraphers and everything GIS at ArcDigita.com... this from Ken - "I've developed ArcDigita out of a passion...

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6th Vespucci summer institute in geographic information science

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 9:35pm CET

Tags: education

Michael Gould just passed along some information about the 6th Vespucci summer institute. The 6th Vespucci summer institute in geographic information science is just after the OGC TC meeting in...

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London Profiler themes maps with freeware GMap (Google map) Creator

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 6:42pm CET

Tags: google maps

This interesting story comes out of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London courtesy of the BBC. Using a freeware app know as the Google Map Creator, a team of clever...

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Live Traffic camera feeds made simple via TrafficLand

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 4:19pm CET

I received an update this morning from TrafficLand describing their latest offerings in the Portland, OR area. Curiosity got the best of me and I had to check out the resource. Turns out to be one of...

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6th annual Visualization Challenge deadline near

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 2:33pm CET

HEads up as The 2008 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge draws to a close. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science, the flagship...

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Geosearch the ultimate news aggregator? You better watch out for EveryBlock

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 8:42pm CET

Tags: mashup

So, Metacarta has rolled out their fine, new GeoSearch (isn't that a GIS Career resource??) news aggregator, ideal for News, Real Estate, and Travel Applications - see the official PR here. But will...

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Local Search + maps GenieKnows Local - a decent start!

Posted: March 25th, 2008, 7:39pm CET

Tags: Local Search

I just received a heads-up from the developers of a new local search resource - one heavily focused on mapping - GenieKnows Local. At first glance it offers up a similar functionality to Google Maps...

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Google joins together with Yahoo! and MySpace to create non-profit OpenSocial Foundation

Posted: March 25th, 2008, 5:36pm CET

Tags: google

Announced today over at the Google Code Blog, Google has joined together with Yahoo! and MySpace to create OpenSocial Foundation. According to the news... This foundation, modeled after the...

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