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Georgia Online

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 6:05pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Features

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 [...]
MAPPS Members Prefer Senator McCain

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 5:37pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: Trends in gis

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 [...]
Flickr goes with OpenStreetMap

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 2:19am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gis News

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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