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GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems

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  Community Geography à la Google

  Posted: June 24th, 2008, 6:09pm CEST by Caitlin

  Tags:  google maps  

  Google stepped into the community geography ring by announcing Google Map Maker, a new tool from Google that allows users to contribute and edit geographic data used by the popular Google Maps and Earth applications.  This is a step beyond the My Maps tools (that allowed users to create and share geographic data) in that [...]

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  The Google Maps 008 election Maps - follow McCain and Obama

  Posted: June 11th, 2008, 4:51pm CEST

  Tags:  google maps  

  Looks like google has taken it upon themselves to serve up an excellent mashup showing election results from the 2008 election. Jump to the app and search by State to see voting results, see also the...
  
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  Street View Not Welcome in North Oaks

  Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 6:08am CEST by Caitlin

  Tags:  google maps  

  The St. Paul suburb of Minnesota is likely the first U.S. jurisdiction to demand that Google remove all imagery of the community of North Oaks from their online database.  Apparently the entire city of 4,500 lives on privately owned roads.  A letter demanding the removal of the imagery was sent in January and was [...]
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  Traveling from Canada to Australia Requires a Kayak

  Posted: May 27th, 2008, 8:10am CEST by Caitlin

  Tags:  google maps  

  Google Maps latest “what the…” in their online mapping directions now occurs when directions from Canada to Australia are requested.  Gizmodo discovered the hilarious directions to kayak the 12,724 km across the Pacific Ocean when requesting directions from Sydney Airport, Canada to Stanmore, Australia. 

AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial

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  Finder! organizing geographic data, extending GIS to the GeoWeb

  Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:51pm CEST

  Tags:  google maps  

  more cool technology from Where2.0 (ya I was there in row 1) was announced from Sean Gorman of Geocommons. Sean informed us about a new featuer currently being rolled out in Beta - Finder! Finder!...
  
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  Google Maps Directions Gets help with addition of Street Views

  Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:56pm CEST

  Tags:  google maps  

  Are you a Google Maps directions fan? I know I couldn't get to and from our ball tournaments every week-end without them! Well now, users of this service will notice that Street View is integrated...
  
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  Map your assets with Google Maps mashup - Cemetery gMap and Office gMap

  Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 9:33pm CEST

  Tags:  google maps  

  Leave it to another Canuck, Mark Laudon, to come up with a couple of more interesting ways that people can mashup their assets via Google Maps. Mark has put together a couple of clever demos to give...
  
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  Glossies via Google Maps

  Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 5:39am CEST by Caitlin

  Tags:  google maps  

  It’s always interesting to come across a non-geographic use for geographic technology. Zkimmer, which uses the tagline “the visual web”, is promoting reading magazines using Google Maps. The technology is experimental and several sample magazine issues from 2007 are available for browsing using the standard pan and zoom tools typically used for navigating [...]

AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial

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  London Profiler themes maps with freeware GMap (Google map) Creator

  Posted: March 27th, 2008, 6:42pm CET

  Tags:  google maps  

  This interesting story comes out of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London courtesy of the BBC. Using a freeware app know as the Google Map Creator, a team of clever...
  
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  MapIconFactory 1.0

  Posted: March 27th, 2008, 5:38pm CET by Caitlin

  Tags:  google maps  

  Now available in the open source utility library, MapIconFactory v1.0 enables you to more easily create variably sized and colored markers for your Google Maps mashup. This post over at the Official Google Maps API blog has more information including their Google Maps Election demo.

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  ArcGIS Server Code Challenge Winner combines ArcGIS Server 9.2 technology with Google's Google Maps and Microsoft's Virtual Earth

  Posted: March 20th, 2008, 8:27pm CET

  Tags:  google maps  

  Just heard from Alex over at GCS Research in Montana... Alex tells me that his crew picked up a prize in the 2008 ArcGIS Server Code Challenge. The company was recognized innovation in combining the...
  
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  Fluid Eearth, custom pinstripe topo Bowl - and a tip on the FME UC summary

  Posted: March 12th, 2008, 12:43am CET

  Tags:  google maps  

  Thanks (again) to Peter Batty for a very cool tip (actually he has many of them!) This one is a little odd and fun as Peter provided a pointer on his blog to a company that produced a decorative...
  
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  A great local (New York) search Google mashup from OutAlot

  Posted: March 11th, 2008, 5:24pm CET

  Tags:  google maps  

  Heads up, another cool, local search utility has hit the web - enter OutAlot. This clever Google map mashup is currently only providing information in New York (hopefully more places will be added...
  
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  TN Tornado Damage Google map

  Posted: February 8th, 2008, 4:32pm CET

  Tags:  google maps  

  Theron from GeoJobe pointed out to me that so far he's only managed to come up with this one map showing effects and recovery from this week's tornados in the south. Seems the elusive "Jared" has...
  
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  Google Mashup Mishmash

  Posted: February 6th, 2008, 10:15pm CET by Caitlin

  Tags:  google maps  

  The Google Maps Mania Blog has a list of “100 Things to do with Google Maps.”  The list is an interesting study on how many different types of uses people have come up with to map out.  On the list are some very practical mashups including the Satellite Dish Pointer which helps you properly align your [...]
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  Displaying Google Calendar Events on a Map

  Posted: January 30th, 2008, 9:20pm CET by Caitlin

  Tags:  google maps  

  If you maintain a Google calendar with events in different locations, Tony Hirst points out a simple way to display your events in Google Map through the use of Yahoo Pipes in order to geocode the Google calendar feed.  The resulting pipe displayed can be extracted from Yahoo map as a KML feed URL which [...]