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Mary Spence, the President of the British Cartographic Society, recently sent the geoblog world atwitter with her pronouncement that Internet mapping is responsible for removing broad strokes of history and local geography through the practice of what she referred to as ‘corporate blankwash‘:
“Corporate cartographers are demolishing thousands of years of history – not to mention [...]
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TypeBrewer is a Flash application that “offers a quick and easy way to explore typographic alternatives and see the impact that various elements of type have on the overall look and feel of a map.“ The application allows your to play around with different fonts, sizes, label densities and font tracking to get a better [...]
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A lack of comprehensive geographic data is an obstacle for effective land management for many countries in Africa according to the latest Map Africa conference. Derek Clarke, the chief director of the surveying and mapping unit at South Africa’s ministry of land affairs, states that only 45 percent of the populated areas of Africa are [...]
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The Adobe Think Tank has an interesting article by Karzys Varnelis and Leah Meisterlin entitled “The invisible city: Design in the age of intelligent maps”. Citing the rise of GPS, online mapping and other digital formats for cartography, Varnelis and Meisterlin discuss the implications on design as they herald, ” Welcome to the age of [...]
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Urban Mapping, a small company based out of San Francisco has created the Panamap. The map is created using layered plastic sheets that, together, offer three different map views on the same page. Depending on the angle the map is viewed from, the user can see either a street map, subway map, or neighborhoods and [...]
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Currently applications and resources geared towards running GIS software on Linux operating systems.
fmaps
GIS/RS application for Linux and Gnome platforms. Open source code is available for downloading from this site.
FreeGIS
FreeGIS CD 1.0.4 for GNU/Linux. This CD contains GRASS, a GIS software application as well as server software for web-based, interactive mapping and programming libraries [...]
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An area in the Netherlands showing cloned trees that was the subject of speculation for some bloggers last week is being investigated by Google Maps. Where there are areas that Google Maps won’t show due to security or sensitivity reasons, these areas are blurred out or pixelated and no attempt is made to camouflage them. [...]
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Floraine Grable presented her work on automating tourists maps at last week’s SIGGRAPH conference. While street level imagery as Google’s Street View and Microsoft’s Pictometry data are popular, Grable found that providing too much information isn’t helpful for tourist maps, stating, “When the maps show every building, every street, it’s very difficult to find specific [...]
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Now that Nokia has aquired Navteq, the phone maker will be selling maps and travel guides for download. Nokia Maps 2.0 provides vector data supplied by Navteq and TeleAtlas. Geographic data for over 200 countries are available, 70 of those countries have navigable data. Travel data will be supplied by Lonely Planet and will give [...]
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The recent conflict in the country of Georgia has led to the question of “where’s Georgia?” on Google Maps. Some sources claimed that Google removed its data for Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia soon after the fighting began in South Ossetia.
A screen shot of Google Maps showing the countries of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan with [...]
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MAPPS, a United States non-profit group comprised of GIS commercial interests, posted the results of their recent poll which surveyed the political preference of their members. Polling restricted to the members of MAPPS showed a preference for Senator John McCain over Senator Barack Obama by 76% to 24. The polling was conducted during the MAPPS [...]
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Flickr has announced the ability to display geotagged photos using OpenStreetMap as the base map with the goal of providing better street level geographic data than what was previously available. To kick off the change, Flickr posted before and after pictures of street level data for Beijing in honor of the 2008 Olympics:
Thanks to the [...]
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Chris Pendelton highlights INLET using Microsoft’s Virtual Earth using a disaster scenario hypothetically occurring in Santa Clarita. INLET stands for Internet-based Loss Estimation Tool and is a “web-based loss estimation and transportation modeling platform used to evaluate whether Information Technology (IT) solutions can reduce the impacts of disasters on transportation systems.“ The application was developed by ImageCat, Inc. based [...]
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The FLEX{er} site provides a quick post covering how to integrate Yahoo! Maps using Flex Builder 3.
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Leslie Rule from the MediaShift Idea Lab (PBS.org) tackles the issue of “How Maps Shape Information and News”. Her post was triggered by a video created bty Alisa Miller on “Global News 2.0″ which looked at “How the news shapes the way we see the world, and why Americans seem to know less and less [...]
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The Eugene Register-Guard profiles an Oregonian cartographer by the name of Dave Imus. Imus has produced maps of Oregon and local jurisdictions in Oregon and won a “Best of Show” award from the American Congress on Surveying & Mapping. The article has some great quotes from Imus and others that were interviewed relating [...]
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Component GIS software enable developers to create custom GIS applications. Find resources relating to Component GIS in this category.
GIS Software Components
In the focus towards custom GIS applications, software components and open source are hot items. Article by Marco Morais.
FME Objects
Safe Software’s FME Objects components for embedding data reading, writing and processing functionality into any [...]
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ESRI has posted a map of attendees at the ESRI International User Conference (seen via All Points Blog). The maps plots out the location of the over 13,000 attendees from 123 countries around the world.
Zoom in close and rubberband a location to get a tabuler count of attendees by city - you have to zoom [...]
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For women who are currently looking for a job, this online panel next week should be of interest:
I just wanted to let you know that the WomenTech Talk Yahoo! Group
[groups.yahoo.com] is holding their August online panel, “Job-Hunting Tips for Women in Trades and Technology” next week, Monday the 11th through Friday the 15th. Whether [...]
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Posted: August 4th, 2008, 10:25pm CEST by Caitlin
An announcement first made at ESRI’s Senior Executive Summit and then repeated during his talk this morning by Dirk Kempthorne (U.S. Secretary of the Interior) is the availability of later this year of over 35 years worth of Landsat data to the public. Directions Magazine’s Joe Francica has posted an interview with Kempthorne about this.
There [...]
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As part of this morning’s segment of the Plenary Session at the ESRI User Conference was a well received (at least judging by the level of applause after each item on the list was announced), “top ten” improvements for ArcGIS 9.3. As a precursor to the list being unveiled, Jack Dangermond stressed that the foundation [...]
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The International Journal of Health Geographics has a series of tutorials and educational articles relating to the use of Web GIS. The Web GIS in Practice series includes:
Web GIS in practice VI: a demo playlist of geo-mashups for public health neogeographers
Web GIS in practice V: 3-D interactive and real-time mapping in Second Live
Web GIS in practice IV: publishing your [...]
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If you’ve been intrigued by the making of Radiohead’s music video, which was developed entirely using LiDAR to render 3D imagery, then you might find Timothy O’Brien’s series of interviews on O’Reilly.com fascinating. Over the next couple of weeks, O’Brien will post interviews of four individuals that remixed the Radiohead content to produce their own [...]
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Open Source programs are applications of which you can access the source code. Listed here are available open source GIS-based applications you can download written for a variety of platforms and in various languages.
State of Open Source GIS
Intensive survey by Paul Ramsey published in September of 2007 that reviews open source GIS grouped by [...]
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A new geospatial term has been popping up on the Internet lately: the GeoCloud. Carl Reed, Chief Technology Officer in the July 2008 OGC newsletter (Chief Technology Officer’s Message: The Cloud) defines cloud computing:
The term “cloud” comes from the fact that we have all used the cloud symbol to represent the internet/web. Cloud computing therefore refers to [...]
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The Yahoo! Geo Technologies group has announced new updates to Yahoo! Maps. Gus Maldonado, Sr. Product Manager posted about the new upgrades which include:
Improved Local Search integration that utilizes the Search/Direct Display Index
More user-friendly Driving Directions - a more user-friendly left rail that’s both wider and more legible (larger text), for easier reading of driving [...]
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In a little more than a year, scientists collaborating around the world have assembled geologic data for a significant portion of the earth. The project, entitled OneGeology, has pulled together geologic data provided by over 15,000 scientists from 79 countres. The results of the project will be presented at the 33rd International Geological Congress (IGC) [...]
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