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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:36am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:44am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 6:52pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 6:12pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 6:04pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 26th, 2008, 6:59am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 26th, 2008, 6:55am CEST by Caitlin
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
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Posted: June 24th, 2008, 6:09pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 24th, 2008, 8:09am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 6:22am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 6:09am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 19th, 2008, 7:05pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 16th, 2008, 7:22pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 15th, 2008, 11:16pm CEST by Caitlin
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, [...]
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Posted: June 12th, 2008, 6:37pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 11th, 2008, 8:16pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 11th, 2008, 6:23am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 5th, 2008, 11:03pm CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 4th, 2008, 4:56am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 7:36pm CEST by Caitlin
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
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Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 3:18am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 6:08am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 5:50am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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