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2008-11-20T01:51:39Z
Anything Geospatial from GISuser.com - GIS, Geo Tech, Location Intelligence, Mashups, the Geo Web, Geo-Mobile Geo Social Networking - From the Editor of GISuser.com, LBSzone.com and SymbianOne.com
The GISuser.com AnyGeo Blog
2008-11-20T01:51:39Z
Advancing the Art of Publishing Geospatial Information
GeoPDF
2008-11-19T23:14:28Z
The FortiusOne Blog
Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne
2008-11-19T22:58:28Z
Discussions on Geography and geospatial technologies
VerySpatial
2008-11-19T22:44:06Z
A blog about virtual globes, with a special focus on Google Earth.
Ogle Earth
2008-11-20T00:01:20Z
A Spatially Related Blog by Jeff Thurston
Vector One
2008-11-19T21:33:18Z
Sean Gillies's weblog: geography, Python, the Web, hardboiled
Entries for Sean Gillies Blog
2008-11-19T17:43:40Z
AJAX, Maps, .NET, and Destruction
MapWrecker 2.0
2008-11-19T17:38:36Z
Journey of a .NET GIS developer
Vish's ramblings
2008-11-19T17:48:51Z
Promoting Spatial Design for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Spatial Sustain
2008-11-19T20:12:24Z
Anything Geospatial from GISuser.com - GIS, Geo Tech, Location Intelligence, Mashups, the Geo Web, Geo-Mobile Geo Social Networking - From the Editor of GISuser.com, LBSzone.com and SymbianOne.com
The GISuser.com AnyGeo Blog
2008-11-20T01:51:39Z
Promoting Spatial Design for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Spatial Sustain
2008-11-19T20:12:24Z
Geospatial Technology, Web Mapping and Spatial Services
James Fee GIS Blog
2008-11-19T16:00:20Z
Advancing the Art of Publishing Geospatial Information
GeoPDF
2008-11-19T23:14:28Z
Anything Geospatial from GISuser.com - GIS, Geo Tech, Location Intelligence, Mashups, the Geo Web, Geo-Mobile Geo Social Networking - From the Editor of GISuser.com, LBSzone.com and SymbianOne.com
The GISuser.com AnyGeo Blog
2008-11-20T01:51:39Z
In+ersec+ion for Spatial People
Slashgeo
2008-11-20T02:23:50Z
All about Google Earth...
Google Earth Blog
2008-11-19T13:00:53Z
Promoting Spatial Design for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Spatial Sustain
2008-11-19T20:12:24Z
In+ersec+ion for Spatial People
Slashgeo
2008-11-20T02:23:50Z
Exploring the world of free tools and data for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, Google Maps, neogeography, and more.
Free Geography Tools
2008-11-19T12:00:48Z
In+ersec+ion for Spatial People
Slashgeo
2008-11-20T02:23:50Z
A blog about virtual globes, with a special focus on Google Earth.
Ogle Earth
2008-11-20T00:01:20Z
Discussions on Geography and geospatial technologies
VerySpatial
2008-11-19T22:44:06Z
Map and GIS News finding blog... for UK, Europe and Worldwide Maps... With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
Mobile web users use
Mapperz Mobile Page
Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog
2008-11-19T23:16:07Z
Anything Geospatial from GISuser.com - GIS, Geo Tech, Location Intelligence, Mashups, the Geo Web, Geo-Mobile Geo Social Networking - From the Editor of GISuser.com, LBSzone.com and SymbianOne.com
The GISuser.com AnyGeo Blog
2008-11-20T01:51:39Z
Anything Geospatial from GISuser.com - GIS, Geo Tech, Location Intelligence, Mashups, the Geo Web, Geo-Mobile Geo Social Networking - From the Editor of GISuser.com, LBSzone.com and SymbianOne.com
The GISuser.com AnyGeo Blog
2008-11-20T01:51:39Z
Anything Geospatial from GISuser.com - GIS, Geo Tech, Location Intelligence, Mashups, the Geo Web, Geo-Mobile Geo Social Networking - From the Editor of GISuser.com, LBSzone.com and SymbianOne.com
The GISuser.com AnyGeo Blog
2008-11-20T01:51:39Z
Journey of a .NET GIS developer
Vish's ramblings
2008-11-19T17:48:51Z
Journey of a .NET GIS developer
Vish's ramblings
2008-11-19T17:48:51Z
Powering the GeoWeb
Galdos Systems Inc
2008-11-18T23:51:58Z
A weblog about maps.
The Map Room
2008-11-19T00:01:26Z
Anything Geospatial from GISuser.com - GIS, Geo Tech, Location Intelligence, Mashups, the Geo Web, Geo-Mobile Geo Social Networking - From the Editor of GISuser.com, LBSzone.com and SymbianOne.com
The GISuser.com AnyGeo Blog
2008-11-20T01:51:39Z
The FortiusOne Blog
Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne
2008-11-19T22:58:28Z
Transmitting ideas, observations, and images from 42,000 km.
High Earth Orbit
2008-11-18T21:05:22Z
The FortiusOne Blog
Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne
2008-11-19T22:58:28Z
Information about GIS, GPS, cartography and geography
GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems
2008-11-18T21:21:02Z
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
Fuzzy Tolerance
2008-11-18T19:03:53Z
In+ersec+ion for Spatial People
Slashgeo
2008-11-20T02:23:50Z
Sean Gillies's weblog: geography, Python, the Web, hardboiled
Entries for Sean Gillies Blog
2008-11-19T17:43:40Z
A Spatially Related Blog by Jeff Thurston
Vector One
2008-11-19T21:33:18Z
Promoting Spatial Design for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Spatial Sustain
2008-11-19T20:12:24Z
A blog about virtual globes, with a special focus on Google Earth.
Ogle Earth
2008-11-20T00:01:20Z
A blog about virtual globes, with a special focus on Google Earth.
Ogle Earth
2008-11-20T00:01:20Z
In+ersec+ion for Spatial People
Slashgeo
2008-11-20T02:23:50Z
Geospatial Technology, Web Mapping and Spatial Services
James Fee GIS Blog
2008-11-19T16:00:20Z
Discussions on Geography and geospatial technologies
VerySpatial
2008-11-19T22:44:06Z
Journey of a .NET GIS developer
Vish's ramblings
2008-11-19T17:48:51Z
In+ersec+ion for Spatial People
Slashgeo
2008-11-20T02:23:50Z
Discussions on Geography and geospatial technologies
VerySpatial
2008-11-19T22:44:06Z
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Notes from down-under
As the Whitehall farce that is the OS derived data debacle continues, it’s interesting to contrast the flow of public sector information in the UK with that in Australia which I have just experienced first hand at the first Asia Pacific Spatial Innovation Conference.
Interestingly for a Geospatial conference there was in addition to the usual technology developments, a theme [...]
Policy Wonks For GIS and Emergency Management
I heard one of the best talks by a self-professed "policy wonk" every given...and it was about GIS too. Sandra Lucas of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency gave a cogent argument for getting only the right tools (not the most tools) into the hands of field emergency management workers. A beltway veteran of 23 years, Lucas provided some insights into being the liaison between politicians and first responders. Her remarks could be boiled down to a caution...watch out for "bright shiny objects, i.e. BSO's. Sometimes the tools with the most wiz-bang are not the best for the first responder who needs only the tool that gets them information that's fast and good. A big fan of GIS but not a technologist herself, Lucas was forceful in stating..."right tool, right job."
online seminar - OGC Data Quality Working Group
Webinar of interest, Nov 25 - Free online seminar 25th November 2008 - OGC Data Quality Working Group
Seb Lessware from 1Spatial is Chair of the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Data Quality...
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2008-11-20T01:51:39Z
http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=3089
Glenn
GISuser Tweet of the day
Tweet (ala Twitter) of the day today comes via @dylanhettinger who notes that via some cruel, bitter irony that his org’s GIS Manager decided to give notice on GIS Day of all...
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2008-11-20T01:26:24Z
http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=3086
Glenn
BIM/GIS Integration
The focus in this session was the increasing need to integrate building information models and GIS. The first speaker, Don Murray of Safe Software, talked about the need to address 3D BIM data as a new data type. "From our standpoint, BIM to GIS is just another kind of spatial data transform – [our job is to get users] to be able to move it around to where they want it – we had vector and then raster, and now we have this 3D BIM stuff," he said.
Keith Cooke of ESRI and Steve Milroy of Microsoft gave the next presentation as a tag-team. The duo discussed how ESRI's products integrate with Microsoft Virtual Earth. Essentially, you can think of ArcGIS as doing the analytical "heavy lifting" on the back end, and Virtual Earth as a 2D- and 3D-based visualization tool to help make decisions. Milroy offered the example of a plume model in downtown San Francisco.
David Kingsbury of Autodesk made some bold statements about the 3D revolution. He said, "We are right now on the verge of a whole new paradigm of using spatial data. … In the next 5-7 years, we will think of everything in a 3D context, in an object context. … It's a requirement that CAD, BIM, GIS, visualization and collaboration come together now." He also addressed how the GIS industry is relating to this change: "There's a big of a firestorm among the vendors right now rushing to [prepared for] this switch to 3D."
FortiusOne is hiring - help build GeoCommons
Excited about the GeoWeb? Want to help build the next generation social mapping tools and work on some really awesome technology?
As Andrew mentioned, the GeoCommons team is expanding and we’re looking for some cutting-edge developers and designers to join us. We’re using a wide range of technologies to build an easy-to-use and incredibly powerful [...]
Spatial Data Management session
Three interesting speakers gave presentations during this session on Wednesday at the Rocket City Geospatial Conference. Each addressed a different topic under the loose category of spatial data management.
Joel Lawhead of NVision talked about Oracle Spatial, Oracle Locator and ESRI. NVision is a company with 44 employees that does GIS-related projects. He said, "Oracle [usage] is steadily on the rise." When the company was founded in 2002, they did no Oracle work, but now about 40% of their projects involve Oracle, and the company has hired an Oracle specialist. He described a variety of projects the company has helped with – one for the Department of the Interior's Mineral Management Service, and one for the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD). The last application he mentioned was one that was built just for fun – a tracking application for the TV program, "Deadliest Catch." It shows boats going out to supply the fishing boats that are trying to land that deadliest catch.
Damon Dougherty of Bentley Systems talked about the "geospatial federated approach" to spatial data management. According to Dougherty, the federated approach combines the traditional spatial search of GIS with the unstructured text search style of a search engine like Google. The example he gave was highway projects in New Hampshire. The federated search allows you to look for the GIS data as well as the graphic data and business data. As Dougherty put it, it's all about "finding information in chaos."
Bruce Westcott of Intergraph is known in the industry as being the "metadata guy." He talked about the fact that we need to move past the "withered business case" for building metadata into databases. He described that business case as one built on good will and desire to do the right thing: "You should produce metadata because other people might want to use it." That business case, for the most part, has not been successful, especially in cases where an internal mandate or business case isn't present. Westcott suggested that reexamining the legal tradition in the US of accessing government-produced data for free would be appropriate. Government entities would be given an incentive to include metadata if there was the possibility of generating revenue by providing access to the data.
AVSP GAW08 - GIS Day
Jesse, Sue and Frank talk about some of the things that might help you finding that great career in the geospatial industry.
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Cartographica for Mac - GIS for the rest of us?
ClueTrust, makers of the default free GPS-to-Mac application LoadMyTracks, have today launched a preview of an ambitious new project: Cartographica, a GIS application for the Mac. They're asking for feedback on this currently free download.
I've just given it a spin myself. I found a ShapeFile of Afghani district populations at the wonderful Geocommons library and imported it into Cartographica. After some playing around with the controls I was able to color code them by population like so:
I'm not a GIS pro, so getting results like that in a matter of minutes is a good sign on the ease-of-use front:-)
While it's early days yet for this application, I think it's clear where its makers aim to position it: Not as an ESRI ArcGIS or Manifold competitor, but as something that is good enough for school users, GIS hobbyists and people who georeference their photos — for the last group, Cartographica has menu items like "Timecode Photos from iPhoto Library" and "Plot GPS encoded Photos".
In other words, this application is in the mold of an iMovie or iPhoto for GIS analysis, pushing approachability and ease of use over a full feature set (at least for now). Even the user interface is reminiscent of Apple's i-apps. I don't mean to infer however that the tools are lightweight: There are geocoding tools for addresses, you can set the layer projection (choosing from a long list), acquire WMS and database data directly from the web and of course upload GPX data from a GPS device. (I haven't tried them all, however.)
No word yet on the price, but a discount is promised to those who fill out a survey. In any case, making an approachable GIS application like this available today is a nice way to celebrate GIS Day:-) (Thanks Matthew for the tip)Comments (0)
2008-11-19T22:38:03Zhttp://www.ogleearth.com/2008/11/cartographica_f.html
Ogle Earth
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Dangermond Acknowledges GIS Professionals on GIS Day
It's always special to be with somebody on their birthday. Being with Jack Dangermond on the 10th anniversary of GIS Day (which falls during Geography Awareness Week) is in that same category. During his keynote presentation at the Rocket City Geospatial Conference in Huntsville, AL on Wednesday, Dangermond (president of ESRI) made special mention of the occasion. His central theme was honoring GIS professionals and what they do in the context of making the world a better, and more sustainable, place.
While cataloging numerous applications (planning, transportation, land information systems, public safety and law enforcement, managing natural disasters, natural resource management, social issues, and human health), Dangermond discussed mapping foreclosure patterns. He ran an animation that clearly showed the pattern of higher numbers of foreclosures two hours away from major metropolitan areas, including Los Angeles and San Francisco. "It isn't the downtown areas, or even the near suburbs, but way out – the consistent pattern of increased gas prices caused the foreclosures. … Geography tells that story. … GIS is about telling stories."
Dangermond highlighted the following trends.
• Growth in the number and sophistication of "Fusion Centers" (centers built around the country to support emergency management)
• Increasing popularity of mashups, which will bring the notion of GIS to "virtually everyone"
• Increasing integration of imagery
• More support for mobile applications (LBS)
• Geobrowsers are becoming the norm
• Content (not just data) will become an integral part of GIS, and it will be delivered by services.
Dangermond delivered what can only be described as a pep talk for GIS professionals. "Climate and global warming - loss of biodiversity … there is no 'bailout' for this increasingly challenging situation. … [But] GIS is doing good - it's a counter-balance to some of the negative things that are happening in our society and our world," said Dangermond. "Our world needs a new approach … I don't think it will work out without deliberate and conscious thought about how to do things … to chart a better future. Right now we are certainly doomed. I travel a lot, I see it, and it's not a good future. On the other hand, what you guys are doing … all those things are making a difference. These [applications you develop] are all improving the world."
GeoServer and GeoPDF
Earlier today, Dave Gura forwarded me a pretty interesting website that takes full advantage of both GeoServer and the GeoPDF file format. This website, hosted and maintained by the University of Wisconsin Department of Soil Science and the NRCS, is a great example of how to get a lot of valuable data out to a large audience. More importantly, because the data is published to the GeoPDF format the end user can download and take with them any or all of the tiles they are interested in working with. Click here to jump over to this web mapping application. There are many ways to publish your spatial data! I have mentioned before that with TerraGo's suite of tools, you are able to index and publish your data directly on a web server like the NRCS did with the University of Wisconsin. From there you can access it through something like GeoServer or a medium as simple as KML like you see below...I have grown quite fond of the "KML" method and see great potential as a way for those folks with a lot of data to get it out to those who need it. I guess the question is, are your users (who have no clue what GIS, KML, GeoServer, Google Earth, etc.) going to know what to do with a KML file and the data it references?
London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup
Coming up next Thursday evening at the Google Office in London, will be the first meeting of the London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup Group. I’m sorry I will miss it, but it looks to be a great start for the group interested in one of the hottest areas of tech at the moment.
Written and submitted from the Rydges [...]
GNSS and GIS - Why It Matters Now
For the last few years we have been reading about the promise of GNSS. It has been difficult to move to GNSS in a big way unless a project was state supported financially, for example. Contributing to the bottleneck in switching to GNSS has resulted because it would involve an upgrade from already existing equipment [...]
2008-11-19T18:10:19Z
http://vector1media.com/vectorone/?p=1498
Vector One
HTTP caching explained
Even if you already know, you'll likely appreciate Ryan Tomayko's explanation of the things caches do. [more ...]
AGS SOE’s without the SOAP
Vish recently wrote about calling AGS SOEs via SOAP instead of DCOM. He doesn’t mention that AGS doesn’t make you use SOAP, nor XML for that matter. This low-tech JSON-RPC invoker shows the proof-of-concept:
public string HandleStringRequest(string Capabilities, string request){
MethodCall mc = JavaScriptConvert.DeserializeObjectMethodCall(request);
object result = this.GetType().GetMethod(mc.name).Invoke(this, mc.parameters);
return JavaScriptConvert.SerializeObject(result);
}
public string test(string str1, string str2){
return str1 + str2;
}
class MethodCall{
public string [...]
Writing better javascript - Part 6
One of the most commonly used debugging techniques when writing JavaScript is to use the ‘console.log(…)’ function available when using Firebug to print out useful information to help understand context and program flow. But the Firebug console object comes packed with a whole suite of other functions that can make your life even easier. The ones that [...]
Obama Sends Strong Message on Global Warming
President-elect Obama sent a strong message to delegates of a climate change conference in California this week by delivering a video taped address that unequivocally stated his stance on global warming, and his support for global cooperation.
“Once I take office, you can be sure that the United States will once again engage vigorously in these [...]
2008-11-19T17:05:10Z
http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/?p=1593
Matt Ball
GIS Day Social Bookmarking
If you’re blogging, tweeting, snapping photos etc.. and sharing details of your GIS Day experience ala Web2.0, remember to tag your media accordingly. Via Twitter, if you tweet anything about...
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2008-11-19T17:01:32Z
http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=3083
Glenn
Obama’s Earth Mapping Policy
Kass Green, president of Kass Green Associates and former president of Space Imaging Solutions, spoke yesterday at the Pecora Remote Sensing Symposium about the 30 years of national land imaging success that is still in jeopardy without action from the incoming administration. Green indicated that while the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LCDM) is now [...]
2008-11-19T16:24:08Z
http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/?p=1588
Matt Ball
Happy GIS Day From the GeoMonkey!
Have a merry GIS Day!
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