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GeoCommons Maker! discover geospatial data and make your own maps

Posted: September 30th, 2008, 8:40pm CEST

Tags: Free Data

I've been messing around a bit with GeoCommons Maker! - coming to the public this week - sorry but you'll need to wait to try it for yourself - thanks Sean! You may already be familiar with the cool,...

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Paul Newman, Newman's Own and his generosity to The GIS Institute and Service at Sea

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 11:24pm CEST

Like drew Stephens, Director,The GIS Institute, Service at Sea I was also saddened this past week-end to hear about the passing of Paul Newman. What I wasn't aware of was how Newman reached so many...

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Team Garmin Edition of Edge 705 GPS-Enabled Cycling Computer

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 5:13pm CEST

Tags: gps

Now here's a nifty device for you cyclists... a Team Garmin model! Some specs and details: The Edge 705 represents several breakthroughs in cycling technology, including power compatibility, wireless...

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Geotagging with Microsoft Pro Photo Tools

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 5:12pm CEST

Tags: geocode

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools provides a set of tools for photographers to perform various tasks with their images—including RAW captures. The current version enables you to quickly geotag your photos,...

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The Nokia E71 smartphone, great for personal use, fantastic for the business user!

Posted: September 27th, 2008, 4:47am CEST

Tags: NokiaOpenLab08

I've had a way cool Nokia E71 smartphone at my displosal for a couple of weeks. This bad-boy runs on Symbian S60 3, sports a large screen, QWERTY keypad, bluetooth, GPS, loads of memory, incredible...

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Update to Microsoft Virtual Earth, VE Web Services and Maps for Mobile Devices

Posted: September 26th, 2008, 4:27am CEST

Tags: virtual Earth

Good news from the VE Blog about release 6.2... it's here along with version 1.0 of the Virtual Earth Web Services. The following features come in this release: - Maps for Mobile Devices... (WOOHOO)...

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Nokia Data Gathering for field collection

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 4:56pm CEST

Tags: Nokia

Nokia rolls out another new service designed to make the lives of field data collection workers much easier - Nokia Data Gathering. With an emphasize on health care workers in developing countries,...

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US Presidential Election Prediction Maps 08 compared to 04

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 4:11pm CEST

Tags: Politics

Interesting to compare the predictions for the coming election as compared to back in 2004. I fist mentioned these prediction maps several years ago in this article where you can also find some...

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Happy 10th and Google Project 10 100

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 3:18pm CEST

Tags: google

Think you have an idea that could change the World? Maybe a cool map service, mobile geo-location app or ??? Google may be interested in paying you for your idea, and giving you the help you need to...

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Mobile Shopping App Pongr takes top prize in Tele Atlas LBS Contest

Posted: September 24th, 2008, 5:56pm CEST

Tags: lbs

Pongr, a mobile shopping client has won first prize in the Tele Atlas Maps in Apps LBS innovator series contest. The app encourages users to snap a photo of a product or UPC code, send it to them via...

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Which Mobile Device / Smartphone Do You Want Next?

Posted: September 24th, 2008, 5:28pm CEST

Tags: mobile

We've seen a number of very cool, powerful, and useful smartphones hit the market recently... most of them very suitable for work and play. If you could upgrade your mobile device next month which...

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Webcast reminder - Tomorrow, Enable Data Independence for Field Users

Posted: September 24th, 2008, 5:09pm CEST

Tags: PDF

Tomorrow, TerraGo and Adobe are hosting an hour long webinar titled "Enable Data Independence for Field Users". About the session... "Non geo-savvy users need to access and collaborate with...

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International Polar Year Polar Days

Posted: September 24th, 2008, 5:06pm CEST

Tags: environment

On Wednesday September 24th, the International Polar Year is hosting the sixth of a series of themed "International Polar days" that will occur approximately every three months. September 24th...

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at dazbog havin a coffee, like i ...

Posted: September 24th, 2008, 2:38am CEST

at dazbog havin a coffee, like i haven't had enough already!Please visit www.GISuser.com for even more updates about GIS, mapping, and geospatial technologies

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Finally, it's official The Google Android G1 device

Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 5:36pm CEST

Tags: android

Today T-mobile made it offical, the company will be distributing the first Google Android mobile device - the G1 (from HTC). Some details... an open-source mobile platform led by Google. T-Mobile G1...

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OsGeo RFP for FOSS4G 2010 Conference

Posted: September 23rd, 2008, 5:12pm CEST

Tags: Events

From OsGeo... The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, today released a request for proposal for the hosting of the FOSS4G 2010 conference. The RFP solicitation closes December 1st, 2008. See...

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GIS education gets a boost on CO Front Range

Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 6:38pm CEST

Tags: education

Great to see GIS making front page in today's Coloradoan - Fort Collins. Seems the Poudre School District, with some help of a couple of businesses, have secured a small grant to help fuel interest...

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More Nokia OpenLab Videos

Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 5:04pm CEST

Tags: NokiaOpenLab08

Indeed there's tons of images and video that came out of Helsinki at the recently held Nokia OpenLab... almost overwhelming since about 3 dozen attendees and the show planners were all generating...

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Samsung Tools says no to Nokia PC Suite

Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 3:08pm CEST

Tags: mobile

As more and more cool, new devices come out (most of them now GPS enabled) I have the need to test and install numerous apps and services. Recently I was trying to install and use Samsung PC Suite...

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Galveston Island Post Hurricane Ike Imagery

Posted: September 21st, 2008, 5:38am CEST

Tags: Weather

For those of you interested in accessing data on Galveston Isl, post Hurricane Ike, NOAA has made available a vast collection of data including loads of imagery. See...

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Taking in Rocky Mountain National Park & The Stanley Hotel

Posted: September 21st, 2008, 5:01am CEST

Tags: colorado

So, it was a beautiful fall day here in Northern Colorado... what to do??? No, not go to the CSU game, although that would have been cool! Instead, I loaded up the family and we headed on up to Rocky...

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SlideShow from Helsinki Finland - Nokia OpenLab 08

Posted: September 19th, 2008, 5:39pm CEST

Tags: NokiaOpenLab08

Just realized I hadn't created a slideshow of last week's images of Finland yet so here we go... Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. Please visit www.GISuser.com for even more updates about GIS,...

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Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System (Arctic ROOS)

Posted: September 19th, 2008, 4:25pm CEST

Tags: environment

The Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System (Arctic ROOS) web site presents daily updated maps and plots of the arctic sea ice from satellite observations and ice forecasts from ice-ocean modeling....

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Stay Informed about Mobile Gaming via the Nokia N-Gage Insider

Posted: September 19th, 2008, 4:10pm CEST

Tags: Games

Nokia wants to keep the gaming community informed about N-Gage via a cool, new resource called the N-Gage Industry Insider. It's cool, fun, educational, informative, and even has a Sauna! (Please...

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Massey MedalNominations (Canada)

Posted: September 19th, 2008, 2:46pm CEST

Tags: Canada

The CAG has released an invitation to submit nominations for the Massey Medal. Its purpose is to recognize outstanding personal achievement in the exploration development or description of the...

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Geo-Social location services for musicians from Nokia OpenLab

Posted: September 18th, 2008, 6:04pm CEST

Tags: NokiaOpenLab08

An interesting follow-up out of last week's Nokia OpenLab08 comes from musician, Steve Lawson. Steve has a done a great job at sharing his thoughts post-OpenLab, sometimes expressing his frustration...

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TwitPic extends your photos to Twitter

Posted: September 17th, 2008, 6:41pm CEST

Tags: Social network

Oh man these fantastic mobile, social networking apps just keep on coming... enter TwitPic. The service extends the functionality to the mobile Twitter user by providing a gateway where photos are...

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Flickr Bike Mapping

Posted: September 17th, 2008, 5:23am CEST

Tags: n95

Here's a story and a great idea that would be HUGE here in Fort Collins, CO given that huge number of biking enthusiasts that we have (case in point, Tour de Fat from New Belgium). Apparently,...

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GITA Cancels 2008 GIS for Oil & Gas Conference

Posted: September 16th, 2008, 9:32pm CEST

Tags: gita

Heads-up from GITA, In the Aftermath of Hurricane Ike, GITA Cancels 2008 GIS for Oil & Gas Conference. GITA is sensitive to the damage in Houston, Galveston, and the gulf coast region. Key GITA...

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Coming Down from the Nokia OpenLab08 High

Posted: September 16th, 2008, 8:40pm CEST

Tags: NokiaOpenLab08

We'll I'm back from a whirl-wind journey to Finland where myself, along with about 3 dozen other bloggers, new media technologists, early adopters of mobile technology and social media technology...

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the green thing

Posted: September 15th, 2008, 9:58pm CEST

Tags: NokiaOpenLab08

Something we heard about last week at OpenLab was an initiative called the green thing, a community that encourages people to be a little bit greener. We even had group discussions on mobile...

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The Hierarchy of Communication?

Posted: September 9th, 2008, 4:59pm CEST

Tags: Social network

What's the hierarchy of your lines of communication? Personally I'd have to admit that it depends on who I'm communicating with and what the purpose of it is. In general I might have to go...

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Location-Aware voice marks via Geograffiti

Posted: September 9th, 2008, 4:25pm CEST

Tags: Social network

Here's a cool new social networking apps that enables you to leave voice marks anywhere you want.. a slick app for exchanging location-aware tags using a simple phone number to leave your marks. See...

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Preparation for Nokia OpenLab 08, Finland

Posted: September 9th, 2008, 4:57am CEST

Tags: NokiaOpenLab08

Well, I'm getting prepped for my trip to Helsinki Finland to take part in the inaugural Nokia sponsored Open Labs 2008... a networking / brainstorming session including workshops to discuss mobility,...

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Re-testing ping.fm so I can load on ...

Posted: September 8th, 2008, 7:28pm CEST

Re-testing ping.fm so I can load on E71 before trip - then updating shozu default settingsPlease visit www.GISuser.com for even more updates about GIS, mapping, and geospatial technologies

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WOM World, The Connected Life and the future of geospatial

Posted: September 5th, 2008, 5:38pm CEST

Tags: NokiaOpenLab08

Finland or bust... It's been a couple of years but once again I'm preparing for a trip to Finland. I haven't mentioned much about this but given that I'll be absent most of next week I figured I'd...

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Reminder - GeoEye Launch Tomorrow, Sept 6,

Posted: September 5th, 2008, 4:21pm CEST

Tags: g

Heads-up if you plan on watching the launch via live feed over the web. Details... The launch video and commentary will be streamed 'live' over the Internet beginning at about 11:15 a.m. PDT after...

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3D virtual world mobile navigation

Posted: September 5th, 2008, 4:06pm CEST

Tags: mobile

German company 3DVU has the right idea with their Navi2Go application - thiunk Multi-Language 3D Picture Navigation. Using high-res aerial photography, users can travel over the entire UK, US,...

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location-aware social networking application, whereyougonnabe updated

Posted: September 4th, 2008, 6:01pm CEST

Tags: Social network

Looks like Peter and crew have just released a new update for the location-aware social networking application, whereyougonnabe. Some key new features in this release include: - WYTV, a new animated...

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Offset your CO2 emmissions with your mobile

Posted: September 4th, 2008, 2:33pm CEST

If you're interested in helping to save the planet then we.offset is a handy mobile app used to help Monitor CO2 emissio. Nokia has made available an interesting mobile application that enables users...

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The Sarah Palin Twitter search Feed

Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:30am CEST

Tags: Politics

Below are results of the twitter search on "Sarah Palin"... enjoy... Drill bay drill!! View RSS feed Please visit www.GISuser.com for even more updates about GIS, mapping, and geospatial...

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TNRIS Tracking Hurricane Gustav via virtual Earth

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 5:56pm CEST

Tags: Weather

TNRIS has a very nice web mapping service (powered via Microsoft Virtual Earth) showing users where Gustav is currently located - live doppler feed show the progress of the storm as it heads over...

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Mashup maps Impact of Hurricane Gustav on oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:22pm CEST

Tags: virtual Earth

Brian over at the Timoney group has share details of some work his team did over the labor-day week-end to help convey the impacts of hurricane Gustav on oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico....

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