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Why ArcView 3.x is Still in Use

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 8:37pm CEST by jeppedy

Tags: gis

GIS Lounge writes "Why, despite the release of ArcGIS, is ArcView 3.x still being used by GIS professionals? Why ArcView 3.x is still in use takes a look at some of the reasons that GIS shops still use the desktop GIS program over ArcGIS."
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Driver Assistance: Lasers on the windshield...

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 8:17pm CEST by jeppedy

Tags: Technology

Ubergizmo.com tells us about an old-made-new driver assistance feature coming in the future. I for one think it would be great to have any help I can get. The big question is: will it help me spot that kid running out into the street from behind the car?
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Thematic Mapping Animation

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:51am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: visual_simulation

The High Earth Orbit blog has a video of a time animation of a thematic app in Google Earth. From their summary : "A couple of weeks ago, Bjørn Sandvik pushed out his thematic mapping engine: [thematicmapping.org] It’s a nice and simple tool for classifying and visualizing the freely available United Nations OneStop Data. Unlike most other theming engines, it also handles time very well. I generated a time-history thematic map of internet users around the world and temporally visualized in GoogleEarth: "
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Mapping Satellite Coverage

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:49am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: satellites_sensors

From the Map Room blog : "Satbeams displays satellite coverage maps — i.e., where on the world signals can be received from a given satellite — in a Google Maps context. Neat, comprehensive, and fascinating to look at. Via Mapperz and Ogle Earth."
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A Shift in Online Map Searching

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:47am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: webmapping

From the Map Room blog, here is a quote from About.com’s Matt Rosenberg : "Today, site like Google Maps and software like Google Earth have changed the way we find geographic information online. I can’t remember the last time someone emailed me asking for help finding a place. I expect that these people today simply search for the place name themselves. Maybe they start with Google and if the place name was spelled incorrectly, Google provides them with the correct spelling. The search results provide them with a map, images, and an extensive Wikipedia article about the place in question."
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EarthBrowser Presentation at Google

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:44am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: google

Matt Giger from the EarthBrowser blog has a video up of the presentation he did last week. From his summary : "Last Tuesday I gave a 30 minute presentation at Google about the upcoming EarthBrowser Flash plugin. I also presented an enhancement to improve the expressiveness and utility of KML along with a demonstration with orbiting satellites. Many thanks to Michael Weiss-Malik and the great guys at Google for inviting me to talk about whatever I wanted to!"
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Display Active Wildfire Data with Google Mapplets

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:42am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: webmapping

From the GeoChalkboard blog : "In my last post I covered a simple way that you can add existing KML files to your Google Maps application through the GGeoXML class which is part of the Google Maps API. In that example we displayed an auto-updating KML file containing Global MODIS Hotspots provided by the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) at the University of Maryland inside Google Maps. I’d like to build upon that initial post and show you how to convert this simple functionality into a Google Mapplet. Mapplets are focused, mini-applications wrapped in an XML file that run on top of the Google Maps API, and can communicate with Google Maps, fetch data from remote websites, and store user preferences. In addition, Mapplets use Google Gadget technology which gives them much of this functionality. The point of creating a Mapplet is to expose your application to Google Maps users around the world or simply to your organization."
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DC in 3D

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:36am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: data_sharing

From the GIS Maps and Musings blog : "I just ran across this post in the Google Lat Long Blog which reports that the GIS manager for the District of Columbia has made their 3D building data (some 84,000 models) available to anyone using Google Earth. The blog post describes the four main reasons that DC decided to go to the “trouble” of making their data widely available to the public." For alot more information and a link to the actual article, please visit the blog.
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Why ArcView 3.x is Still in Use

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 8:37pm CEST by jeppedy

Tags: gis

Driver Assistance: Lasers on the windshield...

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 8:17pm CEST by jeppedy

Tags: Technology

Thematic Mapping Animation

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:51am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: visual_simulation

Mapping Satellite Coverage

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:49am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: satellites_sensors

A Shift in Online Map Searching

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:47am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: webmapping

EarthBrowser Presentation at Google

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:44am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: google

Display Active Wildfire Data with Google Mapplets

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:42am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: webmapping

DC in 3D

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:36am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: data_sharing