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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 [...]

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