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GIS in Action Contest

Posted: July 5th, 2008, 7:09pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

ESRI is looking for your little slice of GIS life on a video: Do you think your use of GIS is too common to be interesting? Think again. You would be amazed by the many uses of ESRI’s ArcGIS software, which is a good deal of what makes the ESRI UC so inspirational. So, have a [...]
Street View on the Move in the UK

Posted: July 5th, 2008, 6:31pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: google maps

Despite the potential to be referred to the Information Commissioner, Google apparently has started gathering the street level imagery needed to launch Street View in the United Kingdom. According to the BBC, Privacy International, a British rights group, believes that Google’s technology breaks privacy laws in that country: “In our view they need a person’s consent [...]
Voice Input for Google Maps Available in Beta for Blackberry Pearl Users

Posted: July 4th, 2008, 8:19am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: google maps

Google is testing voice search technology for Google Maps and it has announced the availability for Blackberry Pearl users. The experimental technology allows Pearl users to use Googles Maps, obtain directions and located business by issuing voice commands. According to Betanews: Pearl owners can go to m.google.com/maps, press 0 to center the view of the map, [...]
K-12 Education in GIS

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 11:57pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: education

Collection of references and tutorials on how to teach GIS to K-12 level students. Find lesson plans, user groups and more in the category. ArcLessons GIS lesson plans for K-12 level. Excellent source of basic step-by-step lessons to introduce GIS to the classroom. You can also upload your own lesson plans to share with others. ArcVoyager Special [...]
Getting Ahead of Crime Using GIS

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 1:17am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Crime Mapping

Sara Barbour from Miller/McCune magazine writes a summary article on the use of GIS to predict criminal behavior. The start of the article reviews a crime case in which spatial analysis was used to pinpoint and subsequently arrest a sex offender in Toronto. Manny San Pedro, an officer with that police force is quoted as saying [...]
Google’s Street View Car Adventures

Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:36am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Silly but Fun

Apparently one of Google’s Street View car drivers decided that an up close and personal tour of Microsoft’s Campus was in order. According to Gizmodo (the site refers to it as the GooCar): The GooCar…wasn’t just covering regular roads, they were going in-between buildings and getting as many angles as they could of the campus….the Google [...]
GIS for Kids

Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:44am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

Summer’s here! School will be out and the time abounds when many kids take on new learning experiences. Have you ever wanted your child to understand what it is you do all day long? It’s difficult enough to elucidate to an adult layperson what Geographic Information Systems are; knowing where to start explaining GIS to [...]
MapTube

Posted: June 27th, 2008, 6:52pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Community Geography

A new map sharing site was launched last month by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. As the introductory blog post states: Put simply it is a place to share, mix and mash maps with a nod towards professional map makers rather than the more widely seen ‘MyMaps’ type applications. What [...]
Map Makers of the World

Posted: June 27th, 2008, 6:12pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Cartography

The Maps of World site has a categorized listing of some of the most notable mapmakers in history and in contemporary times. From Anaximander who lived around 600 B.C. to Mike Reagon, a cartographer who has done work for National Geographic, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the site has short biographies [...]
British Cartographers

Posted: June 27th, 2008, 6:04pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Career

The Times has short profiles on two British cartographers. The first looks at Jon Ford, a cartographer with the British Geological Survey who splits his time between field surveying and developing 2D and 3D models of his fieldwork. The second profile is on Edward Mainwaring who works for the Ordnance Survey. Mainwaring became interested in [...]
What Say You about GML?

Posted: June 26th, 2008, 6:59am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gis News

The Open Geospatial Consortium wants to know what you have to say about GML: The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change requests for consideration by the OGC Technical Committee on a revision of the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard. GML defines a data encoding in XML for geographic [...]
ESRI Releases

Posted: June 26th, 2008, 6:55am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

Two press releases of note issued by ESRI today announced both a new version of ArcGIS Explorer for download and the long awaited shipping of ArcGIS 9.3. New Version of ArcGIS Explorer Offers More Data Support and Better Map Displays ArcGIS 9.3 Improves Your Entire GIS Workflow
Community Geography à la Google

Posted: June 24th, 2008, 6:09pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: google maps

Google stepped into the community geography ring by announcing Google Map Maker, a new tool from Google that allows users to contribute and edit geographic data used by the popular Google Maps and Earth applications. This is a step beyond the My Maps tools (that allowed users to create and share geographic data) in that [...]
Virtual Earth and Government Aerials

Posted: June 24th, 2008, 8:09am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Current Events

Information about Microsoft’s GoVE imagery acquisition program has been posted on Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog. The program is looking for governments to submit their aerial imagery to Microsoft for publication onto Virtual Earth. We’re just starting a new program called “GoVE” which enables municipalities, state and local governments, aerial photographers, carrier pigeons, whoever, to share [...]
Making Sense

Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 6:22am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

The NY Times (registration required) has a profile on Sense Networks, a company that mines millions of location data points using a tool called Macrosense. This tool mines data using complex statistical algorithms in order to predict human movement. The article quotes Tony Jebara, one of the co-founds of Sense who says: “We can predict [...]
PolicyMap

Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 6:09am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Internet Mapping

PolicyMap offers over 4,000 different indicators covering demographics, economics, housing and mortgage information, crime and other neighborhood level datasets. There is a free registration option that gets you access to a great deal of the functionality offered on the site. If you need access to current year or 5-year projected data then the site offers [...]
COGO/Parcel Maintenance Survey

Posted: June 19th, 2008, 7:05pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

If you maintain land records and use ArcGIS software then ESRI wants to hear from you: ESRI is committed to providing you with the best software tools possible, and you can help us achieve that goal. Please take a few minutes to tell us about your use of GIS land record and parcel maintenance tools. Your [...]
The Re-birth of Pen and Paper in Mobile GIS

Posted: June 16th, 2008, 7:22pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

By Ken Schneider, CEO and President of Adapx Field data collection is vital to the work of many enterprises and government agencies driving important decisions that ultimately affect the bottom line. Many of the current methods and technologies are inconvenient, error-prone, and time-consuming. Whether in engineering, construction, utilities, military, security, law enforcement, or in any industry [...]
Geostatistics

Posted: June 15th, 2008, 11:16pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gis Techniques

Geostatistics is a brand of statistics that deals specifically with spatial relationships. Find information about this branch of mathematics, software and tie-ins to GIS. Geostatistics Glossary Geostatistics terminology. Maintained by Donald Myers of the University of Arizona. Ai-Geostats Mailing list dedicated to issues relating to spatial statistics. Sign up or search the archives from this site. Find courses, [...]
Kvisu - searching with cartographic results

Posted: June 12th, 2008, 6:37pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

Kvisu.com is an interesting search engine that places a surface map of the results alongside the traditional text based results set. Available in both English and French, KartOOvisu creates a visualization of the key words surrounding the search term entered. Instead of having to research the results by adding keywords, the user can navigate through [...]
GPS Your Way to Cheaper Gas

Posted: June 11th, 2008, 8:16pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gps

A couple of GPS companies are offering services to help drivers find the cheapest local gas available. Garmin has teamed up with MSN direct to alert drivers where the cheapest gas is on some of their GPS models. TomTom offers a $14.95 yearly subscription that pulls gas rates from their website and provides directions to the cheapest [...]
Mapping: the Next “Big Web Thing”

Posted: June 11th, 2008, 6:23am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Data Collection

The Financial Times published an analysis piece that looks at the investment by companies such as Nokia, Google, and Microsoft to amass huge amounts of data mapping out the world: “Our goal is to make a kind of mirror world, a replica world,” declares John Hanke, head of its Google Earth unit. Way to go? Mapping looks [...]
KML Validators

Posted: June 5th, 2008, 11:03pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: google Earth

The use of KML is becoming ever more common as a file format for displaying geographic data on the web. In April, KML was accepted as an OGC standard. Given the increasing use of KML, ensuring that your KML code is compliant is important. Galdos Systems recently announced the availability of a KML validator via their site [...]
Five Steps to More “Interoperable” CADD Data

Posted: June 4th, 2008, 4:56am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Data

Paul Bartsch of the Spatial Tips site shares some tips on working with CADD data to make it more “GIS friendly”. The transition between CADD and GIS can be difficult but if you follow these five simple steps, it shouldn’t be very painful. Use Polylines instead of discontinuous lines. For example, when drawing a waterline, don’t break [...]
Making Navteq Maps

Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 7:36pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Data Collection

PocketGPSWorld has an inside look at how Navteq’s survey teams update their street maps. The article looks at how their cars are outfitted with GPS and camera equipment as they travel around the UK updating their geographic data. Included is a video of the process. The making of Navteq Maps: Onboard with the survey team
New Geospatial Coalition

Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 3:18am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gis News

A new press release of note is one released by URISA announcing the formation of the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO). The coalition is currently made up of ten geospatial organizations for the purpose of: COGO was developed to provide a forum for organizations concerned with national geospatial issues that will 1) improve communications among the member [...]
Street View Not Welcome in North Oaks

Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 6:08am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: google maps

The St. Paul suburb of Minnesota is likely the first U.S. jurisdiction to demand that Google remove all imagery of the community of North Oaks from their online database. Apparently the entire city of 4,500 lives on privately owned roads. A letter demanding the removal of the imagery was sent in January and was [...]
Antigenic Cartography: Fighting the Flu with Maps

Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 5:50am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Spatial Analysis

Terry Jones, an antigenic cartographer, posts on the O’Reilly site a follow-up to a talk given at the O’Reilly ETech conference. The use of cartographic techniques to model the jumping of virus through antigenic space can help researchers develop vaccine components by being able to predict the timing and direction of these jumps. Antigenic Cartography: Fighting [...]
TrackThePack

Posted: May 29th, 2008, 7:31pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

Here’s another fun application to be mesmerized by instead of working. TrackThePack is an application that allows you to follow shipments from multiple delivery companies as your packages travel across the United States. You have to register to take full advantage of the service, unregistered users can only track a single package at a time. The shipping [...]
Portable GIS

Posted: May 29th, 2008, 4:08am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

Jo Cook has announced that the first release of Portable GIS is now available for downloading. Portable GIS is a suite of open source GIS applications and supporting tool-kits that can be run off of a memory stick including GRASS, PostgresSQL and open source web mapping software. This concept was presented at FOSS4G2007 in a [...]
Google Earth Browser Plug-in

Posted: May 28th, 2008, 10:17pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: google Earth

Google’s Lat Long blog made the announcement today of a browser plug-in for Google Earth. Today, I’m happy to announce the release of the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google Earth to the web, embeddable within your own web site. Driven by an extensive JavaScript API, you can control the [...]
Paper Maps Being Phased Out

Posted: May 27th, 2008, 7:07pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: maps

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the phasing out of the cartography division that serves the California State Automobile Association. By the end of the year, the twelve-person cartographic unit will be disbanded with mapping services done only by AAA’s national headquarters in Heathrow, Florida. The cause for the demise is the widespread availability of online [...]
Traveling from Canada to Australia Requires a Kayak

Posted: May 27th, 2008, 8:10am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: google maps

Google Maps latest “what the…” in their online mapping directions now occurs when directions from Canada to Australia are requested. Gizmodo discovered the hilarious directions to kayak the 12,724 km across the Pacific Ocean when requesting directions from Sydney Airport, Canada to Stanmore, Australia.
Object Oriented Image Analysis For Urban Development and Management - Afroz S.M.

Posted: May 27th, 2008, 6:11am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

The research topic is land cover mapping with object oriented image analysis approach. The research took urban conglomeration of Vijayawada city as one of the case study. Over the last 30 years remote sensing methods have operationally been used for environmental issues, especially in areas where only insufficient field data are available for urban development [...]
2008 ESRI International User Conference to Host a Special Climate Change GIS Program

Posted: May 27th, 2008, 2:58am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

The upcoming 2008 ESRI International User Conference will play host to over 14,000 attendees and numerous technical and subject-based tracks. One of the new subject threads is the Climate Change GIS track where conference goers can learn about the role of data and technology in investigating and mitigating global warming. Carla Wheeler, ESRI [...]
Grid Computing in Distributed GIS

Posted: May 25th, 2008, 9:38pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

Guest article by Zahid Imran Ahmed, the Sr. IT Manager of Stesalit Inc. Some consider this to be the “the third information technology wave” after the Internet and Web, and will be the backbone of the next generation of services and applications that are going to further the research and development of GIS and related areas. Grid [...]
Asking for Directions

Posted: May 19th, 2008, 7:00am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

Here’s a concept foreign to most that work in the GIS field: go on a trip and find your way around without the help of maps or GPS units. Dzido Szoltysek and Paul Todd are planning to do just that when they travel to Ireland and will rely on directions from locals as they [...]
Google Blurring Street View Faces

Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:09am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

Google has started to automatically blur faces on their Street View imagery. Using a facial recognition algorithm, Google has started to blur faces in New York City. From the Google Lat Long blog: We’re also taking this opportunity to test our new face-blurring technology on the busy streets of Manhattan. This effort has been a year [...]
Where 2.0

Posted: May 14th, 2008, 3:21am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Industry

Where 2.0 kicked off today in Burlingame, California which focuses on the geospatial web: At the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, we expose the tools pushing the boundaries of the location frontier, track the emergence of new business models and services, and spend time examining new sources of data and the platforms for collecting them. You can [...]
Last Chance to Vote - Geospatial Leadership Awards

Posted: May 13th, 2008, 5:20pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Current Events

Jo Treadwell from GeoTec Media is asking for your vote by Wednesday, May 14th: Geospatial Leadership Awards Sponsored by GeoWorld Magazine We need your vote! Polls close Wed., May 14 Vote Now If you have already voted for the 2008 Geospatial Leadership Awards, sponsored by GeoWorld magazine, we appreciate your participation. If you have yet to vote, [...]
ArcNews Survey

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:56pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

ESRI is looking for feedback on the newly redesigned ArcNews publication. ArcNews is published quarterly with stories about GIS implementation using ESRI’s suite of software. The survey takes about 8 minutes to complete. 2008 ArcNews Reader Survey
Mapping Sites Being Investigated by China

Posted: May 7th, 2008, 8:09pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Issues in gis

Min Yiren, vice head of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, claims that there are 10,000 illegal mapping web sites in China. Google, among others, is being investigated as part of an effort to get rid of mapping sites that don’t depict borders according to the requirements of the Chinese government. Additionally, [...]
GIS Interoperability Elusive

Posted: May 4th, 2008, 11:52pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

Government Computer News reports (Where GIS gets lost) that while almost 70% of United States government agencies are using some form of GIS, most agencies have developed their GIS data independently which often creates compatibility issues when using data from other agencies. Currently, there is no uniform standard for data creation and sharing among [...]
Using Google Earth over GIS Software in Archaeology

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 9:53pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: google Earth

Anthropology.net has a post about the publication in the Journal of Human Evolution entitled “Google Earth, GIS, and the Great Divide: A new and simple method for sharing paleontological data” that advocates the use of Google Earth over GIS mapping applications for its ease of use in sharing archaeological and paleontological data. The entry makes the preliminary [...]
PowerPoint Based Presentations for GIS

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 9:17pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gis Techniques

Find ready-made and available for download PowerPoint presentations online. PowerPoint presentations can be valuable tools in presenting GIS ideas or as educational materials. GIS Day PowerPoints Click on the “PowerPoint Presentations” link to access the PowerPoint files available for celebrating GIS Day. GIS Instructional PowerPoints PowerPoint presentations by Dr. Parameter from the Environmental Science Institute from the University of [...]
Online Mortgage Maps

Posted: April 27th, 2008, 11:50pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Internet Mapping

The Federal Reserve has released dynamic maps showing subprime and alt-A mortgage loan information across the United States. While the concept is very interesting, it seems that the Flash application was developed with little understanding of cartographic principals. The chloropleth maps are available at the ZIP Code level but the pop-up statistics only show information [...]
Privacy in GIS Issues

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 6:54pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Link Library

The increase of GIS usage has brought with it a rise in public concern over privacy. The proliferation of easily accessible public information via the web is one of the reasons. The availability of not only aerial and satellite imagery but also street level imagery has also raised questions about the balance between the public’s righto [...]
Earth as Art

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 4:59pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Current Events

Happy Earth Day! The USGS and NASA jointly maintain the “Earth as Art” website which brings to the public stunning images of the Earth taken by the Landsat-7 satellite and the Terra Satellite’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). The site was originally created in 2002 by the USGS National Center for EROS in [...]
USGS Releases New Shake Maps

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 9:35pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Data

The United States Geological Survey has released updated National Seismic Hazard Maps for the United States. From the press release: Earthquakes remain a serious threat in 46 of the United States. For some areas such as western Oregon and Washington, the new maps contain higher estimates for how hard the ground will shake [...]
Twitter in 3D

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 9:24pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Fun

Now you can see all your Twitter messages mapped across a globe. TwittEarth is a Flash application that pinpoints Twitter messages as they pop up around the world. The globe spins in response to new geolocated Twitter messages every 10 seconds. Either login in to post your own messages or simply space [...]
Origami Maps

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 5:50am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Current Events

Origami seems to be a theme of the moment. First Google made the odd statement that “Mapping has come a long way from the origami paper creations of the past” as part of their KML news release. Now a court case is the battleground between two mapping companies fighting over the rights to [...]
Antarctica GIS Resources

Posted: April 21st, 2008, 2:58am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: World gis and Data

Find resources relating to GIS including case studies, articles and access to data relating to Antarctica. Articles and Case Studies Science and GIS in Antarctica Series of articles published in ESRI’s ArcNews Fall 2004 issue about the use of GIS and spatial technology in Antarctica. Data Access Antarctica ArcIMS data viewer created by Gateway Antarctica, the Centre for Antarctic Studies and [...]
Google Earth 4.3

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 5:37pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: google Earth

The release of Google Earth 4.3 brought about some new changes in the user experience of this global data viewer. Users now have an easier way to navigate with scale dependent navigation controls. When navigating at a small scale, the standard pan and zoom controls are available to the user. At the [...]
Online GIS Curriculum Databases

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 11:29pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Distance Learning

Resources to search worldwide for Universities and other institutes of learning for coursework and certificate programs in GIS. Search by geographic area or degree offered. GIS Programs at Universities Alphabetical listing of GIS degree and certificate programs. Australasian Surveying and Mapping Education Directory Web-based directory listing all known GIS courses and curriculums in Australia, New Zealand and Papua [...]
KML Now an OGC Standard

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 8:16pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gis News

Google announced today that KML has become an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Standard. This means that Google will no longer be responsible for maintaining the KML file format which, instead, will be handled by OGC. KML (Keyhole Markup Language) is a file format that uses XML-based language to manage geographic information. Originally, [...]
CO2 Maps and Data

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 1:06am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Data

Purdue University has announced the availability of high resolution CO2 emission maps and data for the United States. The Vulcan Project details carbon dioxide emissions at a level of detail more than 100 times previously available datasets. Additionally, CO2 emissions were calculated in 10 kilometer grids based on a method developed to “extract the CO2 [...]
Top Causes of Errors in Online Mapping Systems

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 12:48am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Internet Mapping

Spatial data errors in online mapping and GPS navigation systems can send travelers off on the wrong route sometimes with comical but sadly, sometimes deadly results. Having been burned by trusting online driving directions before, Chris Silver Smith from Search Engine Land reviews the top reasons online mapping sites have bad data. Reasons he lists [...]
Take Control of Your Maps

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 12:34am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Internet Mapping

Paul Smith (developer of EveryBlock), has a broad article entitled “Take Control of Your Maps” on the “A List Apart” site that takes a look at open source online mapping options other than Google Maps. The article is a good introduction to some of the basics of getting started with open source map servers such [...]
Geospatial Developer Survey

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 6:17pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Trends in gis

Dave Bouwman has a thirty question survey out entitled “What do you do? Geospatial Developer Survey“. Per the post: ”The main reason is that I’m interested in knowing more about how other people doing GIS/Geospatial development work. How many people view themselves as software engineers vs. occasional coders who hack some stuff together as needed. I want [...]
Ancient Tree Hunt

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 6:36am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Conservation Biology

With the plea, “Help us to find and map all the old, fat trees across the UK,” the Ancient Tree Hunt seeks to merge antique and modern mapping to identify and protect ancient trees across the United Kingdom. Historic maps ranging from 1843 to 1893 have been overlayed onto modern geospatial data in an effort [...]
Walmart Expansion Across the U.S.

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 5:17pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Trivia

Starting with the first location in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962, this video maps out the growth of Walmart across the United States. The video shows the progression of Walmart’s expansion that starts out slowly in the late 1960s and rapidly speeds up starting in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, Walmart has over 3,800 [...]
Relief Shading

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 3:32am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Cartography

Relief shading involves the use of shadows to emphasize the topography of a terrain. In GIS, most often this involves the use of a digital elevation model (DEM) that has undergone a technique called hillshading. The variation in shadowing gives the elevation a 3D effect and helps put into context how hilly or flat a [...]
Digital Elevation Models

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 6:35pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Data

Find web sites where you can download digital elevation model datasets for your area of interest. CGIAR SRTM 90m Digital Elevation Data from the Consortium for Spatial Information DEM Catalogue Listing of available DEM datasets compiled by Bruce Gittings. DEM File Finder 1-Degree DEM File Finder. Simply fill out the Latitude and Longitude of the site for which you need 1-degree [...]
Difficulties of Mapping the News

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 11:02pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Cartography

The Wall Street Journal has an article on “Why It’s Hard to Map Media Attention” by Carl Bialik (aka “The Numbers Guy”). The subject of his perspective piece is a recent entry on the french blog, L’Observatoire des Médias, that mapped out the intensity of news articles across the world. By clicking on [...]
Equipment - GIS and GPS

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 6:27pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gps

Links to sites that sell GIS and GPS related equipment. Most commonly GIS users look to purchase plotters, GPS units and digitizers. Look here to find the tools of the trade. BlueGlen Technology Provider of spatial video software and solutions. BlueGlen systems integrate a wide variety of sensors, such as digital cameras, video, speech, laser and [...]
GIO - Geographic Information Officer

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 6:19pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Career

CIO, or Computer Information Officer is a widely recognized executive management position in the Information Technology Field. A growing number of agencies are instituting the GIS counterpart, the Geographic Information Officer (GIO). Geographic Information Officer Summer 2002 ArcNews article overviewing the status of the GIO in many agencies, profiling GIOs in a few U.S. state and [...]
Job Listing Sites in GIS

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 5:15pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Career

Looking for a job in the GIS field? You can browse for jobs and post resumes at sites specializing in employment in the GIS industry. GIS Gig Do you have a job opening in the GIS field? Submit your job listing to GIS Gig. The site is free for posting and browsing GIS related employment. Canadian Geomatics [...]
Google Sued over “Street View” for Alleged Privacy Invasion

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 9:01pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Issues in gis

A couple living on a private road in Pittsburgh is suing Google for invasion of privacy. According to a post on the Smoking Gun, Aaron and Christine Boring accuse Google of an “intentional and/or grossly reckless invasion” of their seclusion and privacy since they live on a street that is “clearly marked with [...]
Agriculture and GIS

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 3:52am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Data

Resources on the use of GIS in Agriculture. Find links to articles, case studies and user groups in agricultural GIS. Agriculture GIS User Group Ag-GIS, a users group dealing with GIS(Geographic Information Systems) as applied to Agricultural problems. GIS and Agribusiness ESRI’s web page on agriculture. Articles and support for utilizing GIS in this field. GIS in Agriculture Presentations Powerpoint [...]
Free Trade Publications

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 1:48am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Trade Publications

We are pleased to offer you this entirely free professional resource. Visit our Free Information Technology resource center today to browse our selection of 600+ complimentary Information Technology magazines, white papers, webinars, podcasts, and more. Get popular titles including: Business Solutions Search IT Channel High Availability on IBM System i (AS/400) - An Introduction
Glossies via Google Maps

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 5:39am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: google maps

It’s always interesting to come across a non-geographic use for geographic technology. Zkimmer, which uses the tagline “the visual web”, is promoting reading magazines using Google Maps. The technology is experimental and several sample magazine issues from 2007 are available for browsing using the standard pan and zoom tools typically used for navigating [...]
Consultants for GIS

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 6:11pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Industry

Consultants can provide invaluable help in determining the best path for a GIS implementation. Find consultants here who specialize in implementing a GIS as well as other GIS projects. Consultant Directory Sortable list of GIS consulting firms. Choosing a GIS Consulting Firm Two-part article by Marshall Payne of GeoNorth, LLC with advice on choosing a GIS consulting firm. [...]
Free GIS Applications

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 6:00am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Free gis

Listed here are applications that provide mapping and spatial analysis functionality in a no-cost software application. BASINS 4.0 BASINS 4.0 is an environmental modeling interface built upon the open source GIS MapWindow. The system contains tools to download data from the internet and can perform basic GIS functions to prepare inputs for modeling pollutant loading [...]
Dictionaries and Glossaries

Posted: March 31st, 2008, 6:00am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Learning gis

New to GIS or confused about all that terminology? Browse through these links to find answers to your frequently asked questions about this field. Glossary from GIS Lounge Find definitions for GIS and Geography related terminology. AGI GIS Dictionary (Free Edition) Nearly 1,000 GIS terms are defined in this dictionary from the Association for Geographic Information. Dictionary of Abbreviations If [...]
Wind and GIS

Posted: March 31st, 2008, 1:41am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Link Library

Find resources for the application of GIS in wind mapping, analysis and modeling. Find data, software applications and tools related to wind. Geographic Information Systems in Support of Wind Energy Activities at NREL The methodology used to make a wind-potential ranking map is described in this 2001 report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. MesoWest Surface Weather Maps Dynamic [...]
African Data

Posted: March 30th, 2008, 3:51am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Data

Data sources, both commercial and free, in GIS format covering the continent of Africa. Find cadastral, environmental and cultural data. Africa Data Dissemination Service Land use and base GIS data. Africover Land cover and agricultural data for 10 nations in eastern Africa from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. ReliefWeb GIS Data ESRI Shapefile and MapInfo [...]
Dotting the Dot Map

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 5:45pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: Cartography

If you’ve ever been curious about how to precisely size your dot density map, this PDF presentation by A. Jon Kimmerling of Oregon State University provides a detailed and mathematical approach to calculating the most appropriate size when creating a dot density map. Dotting the Dot Map, Revisited - A. Jon Kimmerling
MapIconFactory 1.0

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 5:38pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: google maps

Now available in the open source utility library, MapIconFactory v1.0 enables you to more easily create variably sized and colored markers for your Google Maps mashup. This post over at the Official Google Maps API blog has more information including their Google Maps Election demo.
ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 Due Soon

Posted: March 25th, 2008, 6:41pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

The latest Service Pack for ArcGIS is now available. ESRI had announced earlier this month that ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 would be available for download by the end of March. Also available is a PDF that lists and describes “What’s New in ArcGIS 9.2 Service Packs.”
GeoSearch News

Posted: March 24th, 2008, 5:31pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: Current Events

The beta version of MetaCarta’s GeoSearch News was recently launched. According to MetaCarta’s web site, the mapping service pulls from more thatn 1,400 international, national and local news organizations to present a 30-day window of news events around the world. Users can search for news items by place and/or subject matter. News items are displayed [...]
Geography Jobs

Posted: March 19th, 2008, 7:07pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: Career

A relatively new employment resources for jobs in geography, GIS and other related disciplines is the GeographyJobs.com web site. The home page of the site contains a growing list of countries that link to an employment gateway specific to the selected country. The site is free to browse for open positions but registration (also free) [...]
Find out what’s coming in ArcGIS 9.3

Posted: March 17th, 2008, 5:45pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: ESRI

If you’re curious about the enchancements to be found in the upcoming release of ArcGIS 9.3, check out ESRI’s ”What’s Coming in ArcGIS 9.3” page. The update is expected to be released sometime in the third quarter of 2008. If you still have questions, you can ask them through ESRI’s questions page.
Google Developer Event

Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:44pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: google Earth

Google has announced the dates for Google I/O which will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco over two days (May 28th and 29th). Of particular interest to geospatial developers is the track focusing on: ”Maps & Geo: Since the introduction of the Google Maps(tm) API in 2005, geo and map applications have been [...]
ArcGIS Server Resource Page

Posted: February 29th, 2008, 5:15pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: ArcGIS Server

ArcGIS Server is the GIS server based software component from ESRI’s suite of ArcGIS products, replacing ArcIMS. Find links to resources, online support and tutorials for using and developing ArcGIS Server. ArcGIS Server Product Page Product page from ESRI with access to demos, case studies, and extensions relating to ArcGIS Server. ArcGIS Server Help Gateway Launch page from ESRI [...]
Python and GIS Resources

Posted: February 27th, 2008, 3:03am CET by Caitlin

Tags: ArcGIS Desktop

Find resources to web sites about Python scripting to use in ArcGIS as well as ArcView 3.x software. Learn how to use Python to expand your geographic information system. AvPython Python language support for ArcView 3.x software which allows you to embed Python within ArcView 3.x Code Samples Python code samples for GIS mostly involving USGS SDTS DEM files. [...]
Public Health

Posted: February 27th, 2008, 12:02am CET by Caitlin

Tags: Industry

Leads on articles, research and tools for the application of GIS to public health issues. Find out why health organizations find GIS to be an invaluable tool. ESRI Health GIS Conference Annual conference looking at the use of GIS in public health. Conference page also provides access to ESRI’s Health User Group and HealthyGIS newsletter. GIS [...]

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Tags: education

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Tags: gps

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Tags: Data Collection

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Tags: Spatial Analysis

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