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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 7:31pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 4:08am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 28th, 2008, 10:17pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 7:07pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 8:10am CEST by Caitlin
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.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 6:11am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 2:58am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 25th, 2008, 9:38pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 19th, 2008, 7:00am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:09am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 14th, 2008, 3:21am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 13th, 2008, 5:20pm CEST by Caitlin
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, [...]
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Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:56pm CEST by Caitlin
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
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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 8:09pm CEST by Caitlin
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, [...]
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 11:52pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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