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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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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 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 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 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: May 29th, 2008, 7:31pm CEST by Caitlin
Here’s another fun application to be mesmerized by instead of working. TrackThePack is an application that allows you to follow shipments from multiple delivery companies as your packages travel across the United States. You have to register to take full advantage of the service, unregistered users can only track a single package at a time. The shipping [...]
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Posted: May 29th, 2008, 4:08am CEST by Caitlin
Jo Cook has announced that the first release of Portable GIS is now available for downloading. Portable GIS is a suite of open source GIS applications and supporting tool-kits that can be run off of a memory stick including GRASS, PostgresSQL and open source web mapping software. This concept was presented at FOSS4G2007 in a [...]
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 6:11am CEST by Caitlin
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 [...]
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Posted: May 25th, 2008, 9:38pm CEST by Caitlin
Guest article by Zahid Imran Ahmed, the Sr. IT Manager of Stesalit Inc.
Some consider this to be the “the third information technology wave” after the Internet and Web, and will be the backbone of the next generation of services and applications that are going to further the research and development of GIS and related areas.
Grid [...]
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Posted: May 19th, 2008, 7:00am CEST by Caitlin
Here’s a concept foreign to most that work in the GIS field: go on a trip and find your way around without the help of maps or GPS units. Dzido Szoltysek and Paul Todd are planning to do just that when they travel to Ireland and will rely on directions from locals as they [...]
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Posted: May 15th, 2008, 7:09am CEST by Caitlin
Google has started to automatically blur faces on their Street View imagery. Using a facial recognition algorithm, Google has started to blur faces in New York City. From the Google Lat Long blog:
We’re also taking this opportunity to test our new face-blurring technology on the busy streets of Manhattan. This effort has been a year [...]
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 11:52pm CEST by Caitlin
Government Computer News reports (Where GIS gets lost) that while almost 70% of United States government agencies are using some form of GIS, most agencies have developed their GIS data independently which often creates compatibility issues when using data from other agencies. Currently, there is no uniform standard for data creation and sharing among [...]
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