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ESRI has a “GIS Best Practices” series that was launched last year to document successful case studies in a variety of industries. The series continues to be added and contains essays on a variety of subject matters including public safety, conservation, and logistics. The latest release is a compilation of past ArcNews articles entitled “Essays [...]
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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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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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Posted: May 7th, 2008, 8:09pm CEST by Caitlin
Min Yiren, vice head of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, claims that there are 10,000 illegal mapping web sites in China. Google, among others, is being investigated as part of an effort to get rid of mapping sites that don’t depict borders according to the requirements of the Chinese government. Additionally, [...]
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Posted: April 8th, 2008, 6:17pm CEST by Caitlin
Dave Bouwman has a thirty question survey out entitled “What do you do? Geospatial Developer Survey“. Per the post: ”The main reason is that I’m interested in knowing more about how other people doing GIS/Geospatial development work. How many people view themselves as software engineers vs. occasional coders who hack some stuff together as needed. I want [...]
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Posted: April 4th, 2008, 9:01pm CEST by Caitlin
A couple living on a private road in Pittsburgh is suing Google for invasion of privacy. According to a post on the Smoking Gun, Aaron and Christine Boring accuse Google of an “intentional and/or grossly reckless invasion” of their seclusion and privacy since they live on a street that is “clearly marked with [...]
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Forget the arguments about whether humans can create spatial data using neogeography. The new question is, “Can a Robot Draw a Map?“ At least that’s the question that some scientists from Carnegie Mellon University are seeking to answer out in the Mojave desert. An experimental rover, going by the name of Zoe, is being tested [...]