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21 octobre 2009
23:46
Virtual Worlds Offer GEOINT a Different Geographic Perspective
sur All Points Blog

Though the media hype has died down from virtual worlds like Second Life, the interest and research for applications in the defense and intelligence community have exploded. Tami Griffith, Science and Technology Manager for the Army Research, Deve...Read more

23:46
Virtual World’s Offer GEOINT a Different Geographic PerspectiveAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Though the media hype has died down from virtual world’s like Second Life, the interest and research for applications in the defense and intelligence community have exploded. Tami Griffith, Science and Technology Manager for the Army Research, Deve...Read more
23:46
Virtual World’s Offer GEOINT a Different Geographic PerspectiveAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Though the media hype has died down from virtual world’s like Second Life, the interest and research for applications in the defense and intelligence community have exploded. Tami Griffith, Science and Technology Manager for the Army Research, Develo...Read more
23:46
Virtual World’s Offer GEOINT a Different Geographic PerspectiveAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Though the media hype has died down from virtual world’s like Second Life, the interest and research for applications in the defense and intelligence community have exploded. Tami Griffith, Science and Technology Manager for the Army Research, Develo...Read more
23:46
Virtual World’s Offer GEOINT a Different Geographic PerspectiveAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Though the media hype has died down from virtual world’s like Second Life, the interest and research for applications in the defense and intelligence community have exploded. Tami Griffith, Science and Technology Manager for the Army Research, Develo...Read more
23:46
Virtual World’s Offer GEOINT a Different Geographic PerspectiveAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Though the media hype has died down from virtual world’s like Second Life, the interest and research for applications in the defense and intelligence community have exploded. Tami Griffith, Science and Technology Manager for the Army Research, Develo...Read more
23:46
Virtual World’s Offer GEOINT a Different Geographic PerspectiveAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Though the media hype has died down from virtual world’s like Second Life, the interest and research for applications in the defense and intelligence community have exploded. Tami Griffith, Science and Technology Manager for the Army Research, Develo...Read more
23:45
UK Crime MapsVerySpatial
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Whenever anyone creates a crime map for an area, it always seems to raise the same questions about house values, safety, etc. According to the UK Daily Mail, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) believe a new interactive crime map could seriously hurt home values. The National Policing Improvement Agency provides information on crime and antisocial behaviour in England and Wales. The UK Home Office offers a crime mapping tool allows users to create maps showing counts and rates of crime at local authority level for England and Wales. What is especially interesting is that they ask users to provide feed-back of experience using the tools. The BBC has its own crime statistics map in its The Truth About Crime section. The U.S. National Institute of Justice has a good overview of crime mapping including reviews of a book titled, “Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice”
23:45
UK Crime MapsVerySpatial
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Whenever anyone creates a crime map for an area, it always seems to raise the same questions about house values, safety, etc. According to the UK Daily Mail, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) believe a new interactive crime map could seriously hurt home values. The National Policing Improvement Agency provides information on crime and antisocial behaviour in England and Wales. The UK Home Office offers a crime mapping tool allows users to create maps showing counts and rates of crime at local authority level for England and Wales. What is especially interesting is that they ask users to provide feed-back of experience using the tools. The BBC has its own crime statistics map in its The Truth About Crime section. The U.S. National Institute of Justice has a good overview of crime mapping including reviews of a book titled, “Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice”
23:45
UK Crime MapsVerySpatial
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Whenever anyone creates a crime map for an area, it always seems to raise the same questions about house values, safety, etc. According to the UK Daily Mail, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) believe a new interactive crime map could seriously hurt home values. The National Policing Improvement Agency provides information on crime and antisocial behaviour in England and Wales. The UK Home Office offers a crime mapping tool allows users to create maps showing counts and rates of crime at local authority level for England and Wales. What is especially interesting is that they ask users to provide feed-back of experience using the tools. The BBC has its own crime statistics map in its The Truth About Crime section. The U.S. National Institute of Justice has a good overview of crime mapping including reviews of a book titled, “Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice”
23:45
UK Crime MapsVerySpatial
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Whenever anyone creates a crime map for an area, it always seems to raise the same questions about house values, safety, etc. According to the UK Daily Mail, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) believe a new interactive crime map could seriously hurt home values. The National Policing Improvement Agency provides information on crime and antisocial behaviour in England and Wales. The UK Home Office offers a crime mapping tool allows users to create maps showing counts and rates of crime at local authority level for England and Wales. What is especially interesting is that they ask users to provide feed-back of experience using the tools. The BBC has its own crime statistics map in its The Truth About Crime section. The U.S. National Institute of Justice has a good overview of crime mapping including reviews of a book titled, “Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice”
23:45
UK Crime MapsVerySpatial
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Whenever anyone creates a crime map for an area, it always seems to raise the same questions about house values, safety, etc. According to the UK Daily Mail, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) believe a new interactive crime map could seriously hurt home values. The National Policing Improvement Agency provides information on crime and antisocial behaviour in England and Wales. The UK Home Office offers a crime mapping tool allows users to create maps showing counts and rates of crime at local authority level for England and Wales. What is especially interesting is that they ask users to provide feed-back of experience using the tools. The BBC has its own crime statistics map in its The Truth About Crime section. The U.S. National Institute of Justice has a good overview of crime mapping including reviews of a book titled, “Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice”

22:55
La recherche immobilière maintenant possible dans Google Maps aux États-Unis
sur Directions Magazine : Blogue

Il est possible depuis hier soir d'effectuer des recherches immobilières directement dans Google Maps, aux États-Unis. L'outil se compare ce qu'on trouve déjà sur les sites immobiliers, et permet de faire des recherches en fonction de différents paramètres de base (prix, nombre de chambres et de salles de bain, superficie, etc.). Pour accéder à la couche (si vous êtes aux

22:37
Street View Car Abducted by Aliens
sur Google Maps Mania

Martian Spacecraft Beams Street View Car Aboard

Regular readers of Google Maps Mania will be aware of my dedicated tracking of UFO sightings in Street View. Some sceptics have suggested that the UFOs are actually lens flares, so I am glad to say I now have incontrovertible proof.

In Pittsburgh a series of Street Views clearly show the Google Street View car being beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Check out the video below, in which you can see the UFO hovering over the car and then, in the very next street view, observe as the car is beamed aboard the alien craft,

If that doesn't convince you then check out the screenshot below which clearly shows (through the craft's translucent walls) some alien text on the side of the UFO.

In the image you can clearly make out the word 'visit'. I suspect that this is part of some alien tourism advertising campaign. From the little text that we can actually see I have been able to reconstruct the message in full, It reads, "Visit the Great Orion this Summer".

Still not convinced? Then check out these UFO sightings in Street View.

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22:27
Short Note from Sydney's FOSS4G 2009 - Full Coverage Coming SoonSlashgeo
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Dear users, FOSS4G 2009 is ongoing and it's a *great* conference. There is a lot I'd like to share with you. Since there are so many exciting talks to attend, demos to see, interesting people to meet and talk to, I did not have the time to share it back with you so far. But rest reassured! I will share with you my personal highlights and those found on the geoblogs in the coming days. I'll also catchup other geonews later on even if it will probably require a few weeks to fully go through them. Meanwhile, you are still encouraged to share your findings with the other Slashgeo editors for publication. Cheers!
Read more of this story at Slashgeo.

22:24
Saint-Eustache, une ville très géomatisée
sur OpenSource, Geospatial et Web ?.0

On entend souvent que les municipalités manquent de ressources $ pour offrir les services requis à leurs citoyens. Ça ne semble pas être le cas pour la ville de Saint-Eustache. Premièrement au niveau quincaillerie logicielle, elle est très bien nantie. On retrouve toute la suite ESRI, JMap mais aussi une application PG Govern. Cette ville dispose aussi d'un portail grand public qui permet de consulter les informations du rôle d'évaluation. On peut aussi afficher les infrastructures de la ville sur un fonds Google. Bref, Saint-Eustache semble un leader municipal en services géomatique.

21:21
Google Real Estate Search - Now in U.S.
sur All Points Blog

This from Michael Jones: Last night a Real Estate listings layer was added to Google Maps in both the USA and Australia. Note that the listings are nation-wide in each case irrespective of the availability (to us) of parcel map data. It is inter...Read more

21:21
Google Real Estate Search - Now in U.S.All Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

This from Michael Jones: Last night a Real Estate listings layer was added to Google Maps in both the USA and Australia. Note that the listings are nation-wide in each case irrespective of the availability (to us) of parcel map data. It is inter...Read more
21:09
Image From PortGIS to be Included in Upcoming Book on Human Computer Interation%scratchworkspace%
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

About a month ago, we were contacted by Dr. Muki Haklay about including an image from a previous %scratchworkspace% post in his upcoming book on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and GIS. Wikipedia describes Human Computer Interaction as, “the study of interaction between people (users) and computers.” Dr. Haklay’s book focuses on the concept of usability, and the 5 E’s of usability: effective, efficient, engaging, error tolerant and easy to learn.

There is no question that our relationship to computers has changed the way we live our lives. Many of us carry around Blackberrys, own GPS units, have 2 or more computer screens and/or ergonomic keyboards. However, Even before computers entered our lives, we related to text or traditional data differently than maps/geography/geospatial data. Before computers, we related to text through a book; for some reason I envision a 1000 page copy of Tolstoy’s War and Peace as the ultimate method of conveying text.

Before computers, we had databases indexed by number (AKA unique keys).

And we had atlases, globes and wall maps. Physically each of these are drastically different. How hard would it be to read War and Peace if it was printed on a card catalog or a globe?

Computer software and hardware should be designed to make our lives easier. Thinking about HCI as applied to GIS is very interesting combo. At our world-class Port we have concerns like: What is the best way to design GIS software for use on a touch screen in our Harbor Police vehicles? What is the best way to share our aerial photos with AutoCAD users?

We want to congratulate Dr. Haklay, and his fellow authors, on submitting the manuscript for the book “Interacting with Geospatial Technology,” and we are very excited we could play a small part in the book’s success. Most importantly we look forward to reading it and learning from his research.

If you’d like to learn more about the book I suggest reading this post at Dr. Haklay’s personal blog.

You can also preorder it from the Amazon UK site here.

MaldivesPolitics Zen

20:33
Google Earth Portable - New Option for State and Local Government
sur All Points Blog

In speaking with Dylan Lorimer, the project manager for Google Earth Enterprise, he said that the goal for the coming year is to support state and local governments. In particular, a new application called Google Earth Portable, developed by Google a...Read more

20:33
Google Earth Portable - New Option for State and Local GovernmentAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

In speaking with Dylan Lorimer, the project manager for Google Earth Enterprise, he said that the goal for the coming year is to support state and local governments. In particular, a new application called Google Earth Portable, developed by Google a...Read more

20:28
Québec511 - DMR en vedette
sur OpenSource, Geospatial et Web ?.0

La présentation du site Québec511 du MTQ a suscité beaucoup d'intérêt. La salle est comble et beaucoup de gens sont debouts derrière. Pour vous faire un rappel, ce site de WebMapping est une réalisation de DMR qui a nécessité environ 3 mois d'effort pour 2 personnes à temps plein. C'est une application OpenSource qui doit répondre à une très grande charge et ce, pour un large volume d'utilisateurs. Pour terminer, voici quelques statistiques:
->4500 utilisateurs/hre
->450 utilisateurs en même temps
->30Meg de données poussé sur le web toutes les minutes
->30000 tuiles (à la Google) regénérés aux 3 minutes.

Bravo à James pour cette suberbe présentation!

20:28
DNI Dennis Blair GEOINT 2009 Keynote: Summary of “The National Intelligence Strategy”got geoint?
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Today, Mr. Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) took the stage at GEOINT 2009 and provided a comprehensive view of the recently released “The National Intelligence Strategy,” which sets out the guiding principles: responsive and incisive understanding of global threats and opportunities, coupled with an agility that brings to bear the Community’s capabilities. DNI Blair spent time highlighting the document’s goals and objectives and wrapped up the keynote with a history lesson in the Cuban Missile Crisis and how GEOINT played a critical role in resolving the historic confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Stay tuned for a video of his presentation.

20:22
Google's Michael Jones on Google Map's Parcel Layer
sur All Points Blog

I had a short discussion with Michael Jones, Google's chief technology advocate, about the incorporation of the parcel layer in Google Maps. Jones said it was truly nothing more than improving Google's ability to provide more accurate geocoding. Wh...Read more

20:22
Paul Ramsey keynote at FOSS4G 2009Mateusz Loskot
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

This is video with Paul Ramsey keynote at the Free and Open Source Software For Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference in Sydney. It’s not a high quality video, but the content delivered by Paul is high-end, as always.

Thanks go to OpenGeo for delivering the videos.
20:22
Google's Michael Jones on Google Map's Parcel LayerAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

I had a short discussion with Michael Jones, Google's chief technology advocate, about the incorporation of the parcel layer in Google Maps. Jones said it was truly nothing more than improving Google's ability to provide more accurate geocoding. Wh...Read more

20:11
NGA Director Discusses New Agency Charter
sur All Points Blog

Director Vice Admiral Robert Murrett delivered an address at the GEOINT symposium and discussed the new charter of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) which was signed in July 2009 by the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. The charte...Read more

20:11
NGA Director Discusses New Agency CharterAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Director Vice Admiral Robert Murrett delivered an address at the GEOINT symposium and discussed the new charter of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) which was signed in July 2009 by the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. The charte...Read more

20:03
Director of National Intelligence Addresses GEOINT Audience - Why?
sur All Points Blog

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Dennis Blair, addressed the GEOINT Symposium audience this morning in a keynote address. Blair is the person responsible for the coordination of intelligence information between the various intelligence ag...Read more

20:03
Director of National Intelligence Addresses GEOINT Audience - Why?All Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Dennis Blair, addressed the GEOINT Symposium audience this morning in a keynote address. Blair is the person responsible for the coordination of intelligence information between the various intelligence ag...Read more

18:30
(Géo)politique de l'eau : La Turquie pourra-t-elle assécher ses voisins ?
sur Les Cafés géographiques

Débat le mercredi 21 octobre à 18h30 au Nuovo Caffè Milano 23 Bd de la Victoire à Strasbourg (Tram Universités)avec Pierre Gentelle (directeur de recherche honoraire au CNRS.
18:30
La mobilité internationale pour études : un moteur de reproduction des élites ?
sur Les Cafés géographiques

Débat à Rennes, "La mobilité internationale pour études : un moteur de reproduction des élites ?", au bar "Le Damier", 9, place Sainte-Anne (métro Sainte-Anne)avec Eugénie Terrier de l'université Rennes 2.

18:29
Links: New Panaramio app, Thematic Mapping, ARsights, Disaster Relief, First Pics from WorldView-2Google Earth Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Panoramio launches iPhone app: The team at Panoramio has just released their first iPhone app (iTunes link), to allow you to quickly upload photos directly from your phone. It's a very simple app -- open it, log in, and upload. New Panoramio images are pushed to Google Earth on a regular basis, so this is a simple way to add geo-referenced photos to Google Earth.

However, the app doesn't allow you to view existing photos or browse for photos near you. For that, you'll need to use an existing app such as Layar and have it pull the Panoramio photos into it. I'd expect a future update will have more features along those lines.

Using KML for Thematic Mapping: Bjørn Sandvik has just released his research paper on Thematic Mapping as a free PDF download. In his word: A thematic map displays the spatial pattern of a social or physical phenomenon, such as population density, life expectancy or climate change. The paper (PDF) provides an in-depth look at thematic mapping, while the link above gives a nice overview of the thesis.

ARSights: We discussed InGlobe technologies earlier in the year when they released their slick Augmented Reality program. Using your web cam, you could virtually show a 3D model on your desk. It was a neat program, but had some shortcomings: Windows only, and it only had a few 3D models to use. They've now built a Mac version of their program and introduced ARSights to hook into the Google 3D Warehouse to let you use any of the models in there. Below is a quick video to show how the process works:

Powerful IT for disaster relief: Earlier this month, Google held a day of workshops in Washington for over 20 various humanitarian organizations, to share ideas on how to improve humanitarian and relief efforts when disaster strikes. They covered a lot of topics, using tools such as Google Earth and Google Map Maker to handle various situations. You can read the full recap on the Google LatLong Blog.

First Images from WorldView-2 Satellite: Just twelve days after its launch, the first images from DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 Satellite are available. The first images are of a few locations in San Antonio, Texas, where the GeoInt 2009 Symposium will be held this week. The images look very crisp, and the quality is expected to improve as refinements and calibrations are made to the system. Below is an image that the WV2 captured of Dallas Love Airport. (via SlashGeo)

18:27
Un nouvel accès aux données publiques expérimenté par le BRGM
sur PortailSIG - Actualité

Un nouvel accès aux données publiques expérimenté par le BRGM

18:19
NRO Director Bruce Carlson GEOINT Keynote: “We Are Going To Turn A Corner”got geoint?
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

In what was a highly anticipated keynote address from the new NRO Director, Bruce Carlson, delivered a candid presentation on the challenges and future of the NRO. We will be posting the actual video of this presentation shortly, but wanted to provide a quick primer on his top priorities for the agency. From launching equipment under construction in a timely manner to enhancing the business of launch, it is a wide range of priorities aimed at turning things around.

Carlson’s main priority – in is words, his “#1 priority” – is to move efficiently in launching equipment under construction within the next 15-18 months. He was very passionate about moving forward with this effort and even said to “don’t screw up and don’t get in the way.” Very strong words indeed, and certainly a call to arms to bring this effort forward.

His second priority is to enhance the business of launch, which he concluded was not good overall. He compared this challenge to going to a Hertz rental car location and having to wait in an endless line because there are no cars available. Waiting for a rocket is unacceptable in his eyes.

Carlson’s third priority is to make sure that the S&T budget does not get slashed. In the past five years, the budget had been cut by 50 percent. His exact words were “shame on us and shame on this nation.”

And, finally his fourth priority is to make sure that the NRO staff is a top priority. It is one of the things that keep him up at night because personnel overturn can cause further delays on projects. The NRO needs to retain talent for the long term because most projects take 6-10 years to complete and losing multiple project managers during the process is ineffective.

Again, we will be posting the video of this presentation shortly and we recommend everyone check it out. And, we welcome all comments and feedback on Carlson’s NRO priorities!
18:08
Course Announcement: Working with Geodatabases and Linear ReferencingGeoChalkboard
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

GeoSpatial Training Services would like to announce the availability of a new Internet based, instructor led course. Working with Geodatabases and Linear Referencing, taught by John Schaeffer of Juniper GIS, is designed to teach students all the fundamentals of the Geodatabase; creating and managing the geodatabase, using domains, subtypes and topology to better manage your data, using images with the geodatabase, and using specialized editing tools to correct and clean data, and creating routes.

Students will learn how to use Geodatabases by working through two realistic projects. The first project is preparing data for a burn plan on the Florida Panther Refuge; the second is working with stream data from the Wenatchee National Forest to analyze fish populations.

Course Dates

December 7th – 18th, 2009.

Intended Audience

This course assumes you are comfortable with using ArcGIS 9.x for general GIS tasks and that you have had some editing experience. The course is written for ArcGIS 9.3.1, but will work with 9.2 and 9.3, though the dialog boxes might be slightly different.

Course Outline

The course is divided into three sections.

In the first section we will look at the basics of creating and managing a Geodatabase, and then converting data to the geodatabase format.

In the second section, we’ll show you how to use the geodatabase to validate or check you data for attribute and spatial errors, how to make data entry easier, and how to edit with Geodatabase Topology.

In the third section, we’ll work with Routes and Linear Referencing. Routes let you attach multiple data tables to linear features for analysis and mapping. The easiest way to think about routes is the milepost numbers you see as you drive down roads. Once you have established a route with “mileposts” you can then link this to multiple data sources. In the last module, we’ll show you a sample extension that will make it easier to manage and create reports on your geodatabase.

Modules

Section 1: Geodatabase Basics

Module 1: Geodatabase Concepts and Basics

Module 2: Converting Data to the Geodatabase Format

Module 3: Working with Rasters in the Personal Geodatabase

Section 2: Validating Data

Module 4: Validating Attributes – Subtypes, Domains, Relationship Classes

Module 5: Validating Features – Topology in the Geodatabase

Module 6: Editing Topology

Section 3: Linear Referencing

Module 7: Understanding Linear Referencing

Module 8: Editing and Using Routes for Analysis

Module 9: The Geodatabase Designer

GISCI Education Credit: 16 Hours

Registration

$500 if you register by October 31st. $567 thereafter.

You may also register by downloading the registration form and sending back to use via one of the methods listed on the registration document.

More Information

For more information please contact us at sales at geospatialtraining.com or 210-260-4992.

17:56
KHEOPS technologies devient K2 GEOSPATIAL
sur Directions Magazine : Communiqués de presse

KHEOPS technologies devient K2 GEOSPATIAL

17:55
Map Icons Collection : plus de 600 repères originaux pour Google Maps
sur Directions Magazine : Blogue

Si vous faites vos propres cartes avec Google Maps, que ce soit via "Mes cartes" ou encore l'API Google Maps, vous trouverez ce site intéressant. Le projet Map Icons Collection propose 600 repères (ou icônes, ou marqueurs, comme vous voudrez) personnalisés pour intégration dans vos cartes. Les marqueurs sont organisés par couleurs et par rubriques: administration, tourisme, culture, sports,

17:49
First American Spatial Solutions Confirms the Company is NOT the Provider of Googles Parcel Layer
sur All Points Blog

In a conversation with Scott Little, First American Spatial Solutions (FASS) vice president, he confirmed that the company was not the provider of the parcel layers now seen in Google Maps. He wanted to dispel some of the rumors that have been circ...Read more

17:49
First American Spatial Solutions Confirms the Company is NOT the Provider of Google’s Parcel LayerAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

In a conversation with Scott Little, First American Spatial Solutions (FASS) vice president, he confirmed that the company was not the provider of the parcel layers now seen in Google Maps. He wanted to dispel some of the rumors that have been circ...Read more

17:31
[INSPIRE by clouds] La petite maison dans la prairie de l'interopérabilité
sur GeoRezo.net - Géoblogs

Elle est dans la plupart de mes présentations depuis 6 mois.
Elle est bâtie sur des fondations, qui sont les métadonnées. C'est le plus facile à faire, c'est le premier règlement publié, mais c'est aussi ce qui va permettre de trouver le jeu de données qui va bien pour répondre à un besoin. D'après plusieurs études, un géomaticien passe 1/3 de son temps d'une mission donnée à trouver les bonnes données!

Au-dessus des fondations, un étage d'interopérabilité. Il s'agit d'harmoniser les données. Une fois que je les ai trouvées grâce aux métadonnées, je dois être capable de les exploiter. Et pour cela, l'interopérabilité sémantique et une harmonisation des structures aide beaucoup. Ce sont ce que j'appelle, pour simplifier, les spécifications des thèmes.

Une maison a des murs. Le premier est celui du partage. C'est bien de savoir que les données que je cherche sont chez l'Homme à la Cloche, encore faut-il que je puisse les récupérer. Il y a donc dans la directive des articles sur le partage qui visent à rendre plus fluide l'accès aux données. La "suppression des obstacles pratiques au point d'utilisation", c'est aussi cela.

Un deuxième mur est celui de la coordination : savoir et faire savoir ce qui marche (ou pas), qui fait quoi, favoriser la mutualisation, connaître les programmes ou les besoins des voisins territoriaux. Il y a deux articles sur la coordination dans INSPIRE pour organiser au moins institutionnellement cette nécessaire coordination des acteurs.

Enfin (c'est l'origine de l'idée de la maison!), tout cela c'est fait pour supporter un toit, qui est constitué des services en réseau. Tous les éléments précédents sont censés permettre de manipuler les données géographiques concernées par services web, sans courir après les responsables, sans négocier pendant 6 mois des conventions et en payant en ligne ce qu'il faut payer (Hum! Pour les services de l'Etat, cela ne va pas être le plus simple!).

Voilà à quoi ressemble cette maison de l'interopérabilité dans mes présentations.

Oui, je sais, je suis cartographe, pas architecte!

17:31
La petite maison dans la prairie de l’interopérabilité
sur INSPIRE by clouds

Elle est dans la plupart de mes présentations depuis 6 mois. Elle est bâtie sur des fondations, qui sont les métadonnées. C’est le plus facile à faire, c’est le premier règlement publié, mais c’est aussi ce qui va permettre de trouver le jeu de données qui va bien pour répondre à un besoin. D’après plusieurs études, [...]

17:30
Paul Bissett: Productivity and Cloning in the Spatial Data IndustryWeoGeo Blogs Overview
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Last week there was a brief twitter thread in the geo-community about cloning Adam Estrada. It started innocuously, but as such things often do amongst our chatter class of geospatial professionals, it degenerated rapidly. One could only imagine what the world would be like with multiple copies of a rabid Georgia Bulldog fan.

The technology for cloning GeoNerds has been developed.

This thread was followed by some great follow-up discussions from last week’s post on the new parcels in Google Maps (and see a better article here). It seems that our way of life in the professional mapping industry is going to change as a result of new data and technology that will be available at increasingly lower costs. That means that the players in the industry will have to change or die. Or put a little less morbidly, we will need to become increasingly more productive in order to stay ahead of the “free stuff” curve.

Yet, how do we become more productive with our time, e.g. make more money with less effort? Productivity varies across industries, and sectors within industries. Our industry can be basically broken down into three groups – software vendors, data vendors, and professional service vendors. In Adam’s case, he is in the professional service sector, working for Zekiah Technologies , and is in a similar position to many in the geospatial industry wrestling with the problem of being more productive.

The productivity problem with the professional service sector is that it is a consulting business. Revenues are generated as a function of billable hours, e.g. how many hours it will it take you to install an ESRI ArcGIS Server or build a map of Maryland. Therefore, to make more revenues, one has to generate more billable hours. Yet, the billable hours per person has an upper limit, say 40 hours per week (unless of course you are a lawyer, in which case it is greater than the 168 hours available to us mere mortals). And therein lies the conundrum, the professional services industry does not scale beyond the bodies you can hire. This means in the good times your upside is limited to the amount of dollars per hour you can charge times your total workable hours. And in the bad times, you have the fixed overhead of salary support for someone who isn’t fully billed out. Large downside risk, limited upside potential. Not the best of business combinations.

Given this combination, it is easy to see why Adam might wish to clone himself. If he could scale the number of hours he could work to the available billable hours he could sell, and not incur the additional overhead and risk, Adam would be less stressed, and would make more money. Of course he may have to share his Bulldog tickets with his clones, but there are disadvantages to bulldog cloning that I’ll leave for your imagination.

The geo-data industry sector is different. A lot of effort goes into developing the data product, but once developed this product may be sold multiple times. This make-once, sell-many product model is a great example of a scalable business. Like the software business, the cost of development is incurred upfront, after which the only marginal expenses are sales and marketing. In essence, instead of cloning yourself to garner more revenues, you clone your product (which is a bit easier than cloning yourself with today’s technology).

The problem with the data business model is the upfront costs, as well as the sales and marketing expenses once the data product has been produced. These costs can be significant and there is always the risk of, “if you build it, they won’t come.” So while it scales well, the risks are high. Given this risk and expense, many geo-professionals choose to continue along the path of lower risk, but lower upside, consulting business; and like Adam they dream of cloning themselves while working late in the evenings, instead of watching their favorite college football team.

Is there another path? I would like to think so, but it requires a blending of the data and professional services business model. In this new path, people like Adam, who create content (or advanced data transformers and geospatial analysis tools) on a daily basis for others, would retain an explicit stake in their days work at creating valuable content. Much like songwriters, who retain residuals on the songs that they write, GIS professionals who create products for others could retain royalties and derivative rights on their products. These royalties and rights would allow them to resell their works in a manner that would generate new revenues, which would scale far better than the original hours required to produce the original work.

There would need to be some trade-offs for the original purchasers, e.g perhaps they get a lower price for the job if Adam was able to retain the derivative rights to his works. In this case, Adam could bet a little of his current revenue in the hopes of generating a better scalable revenue stream. This would be a win-win for both parties, as the original purchasers would be getting a product a lower cost (and thereby increasing their overall productivity); and Adam would be able to generate more revenue with less effort, which could possibly create a new business model for greater success in our industry.

16:55

WorldView-2 rend ses premières images

sur Directions Magazine : Blogue

DigitalGlobe a mis en ligne hier les premières images capturées par le satellite WordView-2, à peine 11 jours après le lancement. Toutes les images ont été prises au-dessus du Texas le 19 octobre, dont celle-ci du San Antonio Conference Center où se déroule cette semaine la conférence GEOINT. Cliquez ici pour voir l'image originale en plein résolution.

16:50
Make an OpenLayers Preview from MetadataFuzzy Tolerance
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

My horrific Metadata Navigator hack garnered a lot more interest than I expected, so in addition to patching a couple of bugs some users pointed out (thanks folks!), in the 1.1 release I added an interactive map preview using the onlink metadata element. If your metadata has a WMS link built in, your user will [...]
Head to Make an OpenLayers Preview from Metadata for the full article!

This article is from the Fuzzy Tolerance blog.

16:40
La sécurité en OpenSource, ça existe...
sur OpenSource, Geospatial et Web ?.0

Les compagnies MapGears et Boréalis ont développé conjointement une composante OS pour gérer la sécurité d'accès aux données géospatiales. Cette couche intermédiaire agit comme proxy entre vos applications clientes et vos données. Cette nouvelle composante peut aussi contrôler les outils (édition) en fonction des profils d'utilisateurs. Elle est aussi conçue pour s'arrimer avec des modules de sécurité existant tel que LDAP ou JOSSO. Ma curiosité est piquée, je vais immédiatement discuter avec les développeurs du projet qui s'intitule GéoPrisma.

16:35
Twentieth Cenury Europe on Google Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

In Europa

In Europa is a Dutch television series that looks at the history of Europe in the Twentieth Century. To complement the series a Google Map has been produced that looks at some of the defining events that shaped the continent in the last century.

Above the map is a timeline that enables the user to navigate through the years. The years that have content are shown in red. When you click on a year the relevant map markers for that date are shown on the map. As well as text, the map includes pictures and video clips from the television series.

The map is in Dutch only.

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16:00
Google Panoramio sur iPhone
sur GeoInWeb

Panoramio est une communauté qui partage des photographies de lieux. Toutes les photos sont géolocalisées et sont ensuite visibles à travers Google Maps ou Google Earth.

Google (propriétaire de Panoramio) vient de lancer une application iPhone permettant d’envoyer directement votre photo géotagguée vers le service Panoramio. Il suffit de vous connecter avec votre compte Panoramio pour uploader votre photo.

L’application est téléchargeable ici.

[via Panoramio's Blog]

16:00
OpenStreetMap: le wikipédia de la cartographie
sur OpenSource, Geospatial et Web ?.0

Si vous n'avez jamais entendu parler d'OpenStreetMap(OSM), vous serez surpris d'apprendre qu'il existe une géobase mondiale, gratuite et exempte (ou presque) de licence d'utilisation. Cette initiative a débuté il y a 5 ans et regroupe maintenant plus de 100k utilisateurs. Son contenu est assez surprenant (plus de "data" que Navteq, au dire de son fondateur, Steve Coast). Les données sont soumises et validées par les utilisateurs. Elles peuvent être extraites afin de les charger dans votre propre BD mais il est possible aussi d'ajouter les données de OSM dans vos applications via les normes WMS ou de tuilage. Certaines sections de la planète sont pratiquement cartographiées à 100% comme c'est le cas pour l'Allemagne entre autres. La suite un peu plus tard...

15:11
Argo — A Global Array of Ocean Wireless Measurement SensorsVector One
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Argo is a strategy to continually measure the temperature, salinity and velocity of world ocean’s and consists of 3,000 wireless sensors. These sensors are tracked as they move, collecting and transmitting data . The sensors confirm rising seas at a rate of 3 mm/year. The map below provides an indication of the location of the [...]
15:08
125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At GreenwichSlashgeo
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Found on slashdot : "This week marks the 125th anniversary of the International Meridian Conference, which determined that the prime meridian (i.e., longitude 0 0' 00") would travel through Greenwich, UK. One of the reasons that Greenwich was agreed upon 'was that 72% of the world's shipping already depended on sea charts that used Greenwich as the Prime Meridian.' Sandford Fleming's proposal of a single 24-hour clock for the entire world, located at the center of the Earth and not linked to any surface meridian, was rejected / not voted on, as it was felt to be outside the purview of the conference."
Read more of this story at Slashgeo.
14:58
FIATECH and Integrated BIMLiDAR News
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com
1. FIATECH is a very important AEC industry organization.
2. One of their primary areas of interest is integrating BIM into work processes and business models.
3. I would like to see FIATECH broaden its base of membership as they have created an important foundation.
A fellow member of the ASTM E57 3D Imaging committee, Tad Fry also belongs to FIATECH. He has seen this organization help to develop the ISO 15926 standard in a fairly rapid time frame.This is a data integration standard for lifecycle data management of process plants. He also shared with me last week that he thinks people and companies have an obligation to support the efforts to create standards – I agree.

On paper FIATECH has the potential to be the consortium of industries and companies that the AEC marketplace sorely needs. Many of the key consulting engineering firms and industrial plant owners are represented, but unfortunately there are a number of important players and industries that are not there.

The organization has its roots in the late 1990’s with a group at the University of Texas at Austin, NIST and something called the Owner Operator Forum. The name comes from FIAPP – Fully Integrated and Automated Project Processes, which when applied to the construction industry was not producing the kind of productivity gains that were being seen in other industries. A large part of the reason for that the founders noted was a lack of common standards and protocols for data sharing.

A review of the website reveals an impressive amount of activity and effort being invested. One of the primary focus areas is BIM – Building Information Modeling. There are a number of reports and webinar videos including The Effects of Integrated BIM in the Processes and Business Models by Dr. Arto Kiviniemi that contains a wealth of practical information.

Unfortunately for individuals the cost of membership is prohibitive at $10,000. I had not heard of FIATECH until Tad introduced them to me a few years ago, and I do not see them in the press, which is a shame because they are working on a number of critical integration issues. Perhaps over time the organization can be encouraged to broaden its reach, as they have made great strides in getting to this point.
14:39
ESRI Data and Maps 2009 Update AvailableProgramming and the GeoWeb - Planet GS
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

ArcGIS 9.3.1 users current on maintenance can now request the ESRI Data & Maps 2009 Update here:

[www.esri.com]

Hope this helps!

14:34
Replace Google Maps with Pictures
sur Google Maps Mania

ReMap
ReMap is a playful attempt to explore and appropriate Google Maps by replacing satellite imagery with photographs of similar shapes. The idea is to create a Google Map in which the satellite imagery has been substituted for photographs, taken by remappers, that look similar to the original map tiles.

Check out this screencast that explores some of the imagery already uploaded to ReMap,

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14:20
Convert OCAD Maps Into Garmin FormatFree Geography Tools
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

The CIA World Factbook … provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard [...]
14:20
Convert OCAD Maps Into Garmin FormatFree Geography Tools
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

As with yesterday’s posts on TomTom GPS units, this is another in my series of “stuff that looks cool, but I don’t have everything I need to try it out”. OCAD is a vector-based map-drawing program (current version 10 is not free; version 6 has been released as freeware, available on the Download page). I [...]

14:13
What your mobile local searches say about you...
sur All Points Blog

Turns out, per uLocate, the folks behind WHERE: ...BlackBerry users are more likely to compare gas prices online than other smart-phone owners. IPhone users, meanwhile, are eight times more likely to search for Starbucks ... locations than users of ...Read more

14:13
What your mobile local searches say about you...All Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Turns out, per uLocate, the folks behind WHERE: ...BlackBerry users are more likely to compare gas prices online than other smart-phone owners. IPhone users, meanwhile, are eight times more likely to search for Starbucks ... locations than users of ...Read more
14:12
California's Selection of GIS as a Key Enterprise IT Strategy Featured in ArcNewsNSGIC News
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

California GIO Michael Byrne joins NSGIC President Will Craig on the front page (PDF) of ESRI's ArcNews this fall. Mr. Byrne, who also serves on the Board of Directors of NSGIC, has written an article on the selection of GIS as a one of California's six key enterprise IT strategies.

What this effort really identifies is a set of unifying business examples that can be leveraged across agencies for increased economies of scale in technology service delivery. The fact that one of the technologies is GIS points to just how important GIS is as a solution for California needs. We need solutions that can tackle the large policy issues we face in this diverse state, and few technologies get us there—but GIS does.
Mr. Byrne notes that just under a quarter of California agencies projecting capitol investments in their IT plans include investment in GIS technologies. Including geospatial investments in the state's over-all IT plan allows the state to "analyze common business needs across departments and look for opportunities to align these investments."

He highlights two examples of GIS as IT infrastructure -- CalAtlas (www.atlas.ca.gov) and a Common Operating Picture (COP) effort in response to the state's need to fight major wildfires. And he explains that this is only the start of work to make geospatial data a key part of almost all of the states data assets.

14:10
Le Zoo fait son show aux FOSS4G 2009
sur ReLucBlog - SIG, MOZILLA & NTIC
Nicolas Bozon de 3Liz et Gérald Fenoy de Geolabs font le show aux FOSS4G 2009 en T-Shirt à l'effigie du ZOO.

Le Zoo Project a été présenté aujourd'hui à Sydney. Ce projet a pour objectif de fournir un serveur de services WPS (Web Processing Service norme de l'OGC). Les Web Processing Services permettent de réaliser des opérations sur des données en mode distribué comme par exemple la reprojection, la modification de format, etc. La particularité du Zoo Project est de pouvoir charger dynamiquement des modules externes codés dans différents langages comme le C/C++, le python ou le perl. Les premiers modules réalisées par Geolabs sont basé sur GDAL/OGR, GEOS et Proj4. C'est donc un serveur de services WPS extensible et personnalisable. La seule limite étant votre propre imagination.

Guillaume Sueur en fait la base pour le développement des Web SIG de demain voir même une version full Web de FME!

Bien sûr il reste encore quelques développements avant que le zoo-project soit visible et que vous puissiez le tester. Stay tune!
- Zoo fait le buzz au FOSS4G

14:00
Bilan du secteur de la géomatique en cette rentrée 2009 - France - AFIGEO
sur BalizMedia : Communiqués de presse

Dominique CAILLAUD, Président de l’AFIGéO et Député de Vendée, tiendra une conférence de presse à l’occasion d’un petit déjeuner, pour dresser le Bilan du secteur de la géomatique en cette rentrée 2009, à travers l’action de ses 3 pôles :
Entreprises – Industries
Formation – Recherche
Usages – Utilisateurs.
le 4 novembre 2009 à 9h30 au 101 rue de l’université (Paris 7ème), Immeuble Chaban-Delmas.
Lire la suite...

13:48
Connecting Climate Change to the Spread of DiseasesSpatial Sustain
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

There’s a new field called “conservation medicine” that’s making the connection between ecosystem disturbances and the spread of new pathogens from wildlife to humans. Deforestation has caused animals to move closer to population centers, and also has pushed poorer villagers to expand the kinds of wildlife that they hunt. These pressures increase the interaction between [...]

13:42
Center for Am. Progress: Open Up Classified Imagery for Human Rights
sur All Points Blog

William F. Schulz, senior fellow for human rights policy at the Center for American Progress co-authored a report (pdf) recommending the government deploy social networking, satellite mapping and other technologies to combat oppression overseas. Schu...Read more

13:42
Center for Am. Progress: Open Up Classified Imagery for Human RightsAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

William F. Schulz, senior fellow for human rights policy at the Center for American Progress co-authored a report (pdf) recommending the government deploy social networking, satellite mapping and other technologies to combat oppression overseas. Schu...Read more
13:36
Education TidbitsAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Central Piedmont Community College (NC) and its geomatics program is part of this week's Advanced Technological Education Television (ATETV) episode. ATETV is "a Web-based video series and interactive network designed to connect students and profess...Read more

13:36
Education Tidbits
sur All Points Blog

Central Piedmont Community College (NC) and its geomatics program is part of this week's Advanced Technological Education Television (ATETV) episode. ATETV is "a Web-based video series and interactive network designed to connect students and profess...Read more

13:33
Find Cheap Fares on Google Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

Kayak Insight

Kayak.com have created a Google Map mashup that will do a live search for cheap flights from any airport in the world.

To initiate the map the user just has to type the name of an airport in the search box and press 'change home airport'. The map then shows live searches for cheap fares to other airports around the world. Each flight path and airport is then added individually to the map.

Clicking on any of the map markers will open an information window with details of the fares and a link to the relevant page on Kayak.com. The fares are also displayed underneath the map.

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13:14
Google Teams with Space Agencies to Monitor ForestsSpatial Sustain
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Jose Achache, director of the Group on Earth Observations, indicated that Google will be teaming with the group on a project to monitor forests to fight global warming as reported by Reuters. The idea is a system to make annual assessments of forest carbon stocks via Google Earth, to offer assurances and validation for carbon [...]
13:00
It's stressful not being online - you can't access maps!All Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Actually, the Virgin Atlantic survey shows that more people (35%) are stressed stressed about not being online because they lose contact with family or friends, but the second most stressful thing, at 25%, is lack of access to maps. The survey includ...Read more
13:00
Raytheon Takes Android and Maps to the BattlefieldAll Points Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

"Using Android software tools, Raytheon engineers built a basic application for military personnel that combines maps with a buddy list." It's called Raytheon Android Tactical System, or RATS. - Forbes (via @david_sonnen)...Read more

13:00
Raytheon Takes Android and Maps to the Battlefield
sur All Points Blog

"Using Android software tools, Raytheon engineers built a basic application for military personnel that combines maps with a buddy list." It's called Raytheon Android Tactical System, or RATS. - Forbes (via @david_sonnen)...Read more
13:00
It's stressful not being online - you can't access maps!
sur All Points Blog

Actually, the Virgin Atlantic survey shows that more people (35%) are stressed stressed about not being online because they lose contact with family or friends, but the second most stressful thing, at 25%, is lack of access to maps. The survey includ...Read more

12:43
KHEOPS technologies devient K2 GEOSPATIAL
sur BalizMedia : Communiqués de presse

L’entreprise montréalaise change de nom.
Lire la suite...

11:55
Zoo fait le buzz au FOSS4G
sur neogeo

Arrivés vêtus de T-Shirt aux couleurs du ZOO, Gérald Fenoy de GeoLabs et Nicolas Bozon de 3Liz font le buzz depuis hier dans les couloirs du FOSS4G à Sydney. Il faut dire qu’ils ont fière allure et un réel talent, car expliquer le concept de chargement dynamique dans le kernel d’un produit qui n’a même [...]

11:42
Shopping sur Street View
sur Géographie 2.0

Umzug mit Kindern
Der Umzug ist auch für Ihre Kinder eine Ausnahmesituation. Wie Sie Ihrem Kind den Wohnortwechsel und die damit verbundene Änderung in ihrer Umwelt erleichtern, erfahren Sie hier.

Vor dem Umzug

Bereiten Sie die Kinder lange vor dem Umzug durch Gespräche über die Gründe und die Durchführung des Umzuges vor. Hilfreich ist es auch, wenn Kinder zu Hause und in der Schule bis zum Schluss ihren großen und kleinen Pflichten nachkommen.

Beim Umzug

Lassen Sie Ihr Kind während des Umzuges bestimmte Aufgaben erfüllen, damit es das Gefühl hat, gebraucht zu werden. Das Kind sollte seine wichtigsten persönlichen Sachen selbst einpacken. Kinder haben große Angst vor dem Verlust oder der Beschädigung ihrer Sachen. Es ist besser, wenn die Kinder wegen ihrer persönlichen Dinge selbst mit den Möbelpackern sprechen. Oft entstehen zwischen Umzugsmännern und Kindern kleine „Freundschaften“.

Nach dem Umzug

Stellen Sie sich möglichst bald den neuen Nachbarn vor und erkundigen Sie sich, ob gleichaltrige Kinder da sind, mit denen Ihre Kinder spielen können. Versuchen Sie auch, Ihr Kind auch außerschulisch in Gemeinschaften einzuführen, etwa durch Besuche von Sportvereinen, Pfadfindern oder kirchlichen Gruppen. Besprechen Sie in der Schule mit der Direktion und den Lehrern die Ausnahmesituation Ihres Kindes. Vereinbaren Sie mit den Lehrern eine gewisse „Schonzeit“ für Ihr Kind. Versuchen Sie, in der Schule einen „Paten“ zu finden. Dies sollte ein(e) beliebte(r) oder gute(r) Schüler(in) sein, die (der) Ihr Kind in den Schulbetrieb einführt und ihm hilft, sich in der Gruppe zurechtzufinden und eventuell in schlechten Fächern betreut, um es auf Klassenniveau zu bringen. Nehmen Sie sich Zeit für Ihr Kind, um mit ihm die neue Umgebung zu entdecken und zu erforschen. Laden Sie neue Freunde und Freundinnen Ihrer Kinder immer wieder zu sich ein. Bestehende Freundeskreise müssen sich erst öffnen. Mit der alten Heimat sollte weiter Kontakt bestehen. Besser wenige, aber dafür intensive Kontakte.
http://www.radis.ch/umzug-mit-kindern.html

10:11
OSM : Cartopartie ou Mapping Party
sur ReLucBlog - SIG, MOZILLA & NTIC

Le week-end dernier à Plouarzel a eu lieu la "cartopartie" la plus à l'ouest du continent (Ouest France).

Je profite de l'évènement pour mettre en avant le sondage d'opinion proposé par Pieren pour inventer un néologisme traduisant "mapping party". Le journaliste de Ouest France a choisi son camp selon de "cartopartie" pourtant pour le moment aucun terme n'a été choisi pour communiquer dans les pays francophones sur ces évènements.

Les "mapping parties" ou "cartoparties" ou encore "festographies" sont des évènements où des OSMeurs, contributeurs à OpenStreetMap, chevronnés convient tous ceux qui le souhaitent à cartographier un territoire. Lors de ces "cartoparties", les débutants sont initiés à l'utilisation des récepteurs GPS qui sont souvent prêtés par les organisateurs. L'intérêt des "cartoparties" est de faire ce qui n'a pas encore été cartographié et de s'intéresser à des monuments particuliers. Par exemple à Plouarzel, la "cartopartie" s'est intéressée aux fours à goëmon, calvaires, lavoires, fontaines, etc.

Le sondage étant ouvert à tous alors allez-y et donnez votre opinion.

Le prochain néologisme à trouver sera pour "mapathon" comme celui d'Atalanta qui a été présenté sur Fox News.

9:57
19/10/2009 : P&T Consulting honore son partenariat technologique en participant aux deux prochains événements BlackBerry.
sur SIG la lettre : divers

P&T Consulting, partenaire technologique RIM BlackBerry, a pour vocation d'éditer un ensemble de solutions applicatives destinées aux travailleurs mobiles. A ce titre, l'équipe TIMS de P&T Consulting sera présente sur les deux prochains événements BlackBerry et présentera ses solutions permettant aux entreprises de construire une stratégie de mobilité optimale. - Communiqués de presse

9:34
Un nouveau tutoriel sur la reprojection de fichiers DWG avec AutoCAD Map 3D et AutoCAD Civil 3D
sur Geospatial made in France

La reprojection de données est vraiment d’actualité !

Je vous en ai déjà parlé dans les articles suivants :

- “Comment changer le système de projection d'un fichier DWG AutoCAD ?” : avec une vidéo pour montrer la manière de reprojeter.

- la FAQ “Autodesk et les systèmes de projections”

Pat vient de poster un nouveau tutoriel en PDF sur GeoRezo, dans le forum Autodesk_SIG.

Bonne lecture (et merci à Pat) !

8:52
Google Map of Drug Charges
sur Google Maps Mania

Toronto Drug Charges

Our favourite Canadian newspaper, the Toronto Star, features a regular Map of the Week column on its website. This week's map shows the average annual drug charges per 1,000 residents in Toronto from 2004-2008.

The Star have produced a heat map using shaded polygons to give the reader a quick overview of the frequency of drug charges in different neighbourhoods. The Star says that the map shows a "familiar check-mark shape extending diagonally down though the west end, through the downtown and up again through Scarborough". This same pattern has emerged on The Star's Homicide Map and the home addresses of Toronto's Provincial Inmates Map.

However, as The Star points out, the map doesn't reveal if the charges relate to residents of these areas or to people from outside who are visiting the area to buy drugs.

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2:09
Softcopy Photogrammetry PricingThe Fiducial Mark
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

It's rare to see any publicity at all around photogrammetry software pricing, so I was surprised to see this post from the All Points Blog:

"I saw a quick demo of Intergraph’s ImageStation which provides image analysts the ability to view in stereo. Intergraph has provided a solution for softcopy photogrammetry for many years. What is different however is the price point. The combination of stereo glasses, a video card using OpenGL technology, a single high-resolution monitor and software will cost under $10K. In the early days of Intergraph's Z/I Imaging softcopy photogrammetry solutions, the price exceeded $100K."

In general I think there has been a downward pricing trend over the past several years, but I also suspect that all the major vendors have "modular" pricing. I doubt the $10K price quoted above would be a full seat (e.g. full range of capabilities) of ImageStation - but if it does it would certainly be a competitive price... It will be interesting to see if and how pricing models evolve as various vendors (hopefully) shift away legacy desktop systems to SaaS and other approaches.
1:58
Pantera goes LinuxMateusz Loskot
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Pantera, my way better half, has installed Linux on her new gadget Asus Eee PC 901. The Linux comes from Eeebuntu distribution based on Ubuntu, EeeConfigure system and Array kernel - custom Linux kernel for Asus Eee PC hardware - kudos to Adam McDaniel!

Another happy customer ;-)
1:01
Make An ESRI MapMapperz - The Mapping News Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Make a Map—The Make a Map feature includes a simple interactive Web map showing seven different U.S. demographic layers. Visitors can zoom in to an area of interest, select a demographic layer, then embed the map into their own Web pages simply by copying and pasting the automatically generated HTML for free map services.

Quick to embed, limited datasets and seems to be USA only (datawise).

(Even geo-locates Area 51 above)

Make your map here

Related

[www.esri.com]

source:

[www.esri.com] Mapperz News Blog
0:23
NSGIC President Pens NSDI Goverance ArticleNSGIC News
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com
NSGIC President Will Craig's article, Governance of the NSDI, made the front page of the Fall 2009 issue of ArcNews.

The US has been working its National Spatial Data Infrastructure -- the NSDI -- since 1994, he observes, but has not made significant progress. He says that the problem is institutional, not technical.

We simply haven’t figured out how to engage and coordinate all the significant players – federal, state, and local, and tribal governments, or the private sector. We need comparable data that comes from all these players and which meets all of their needs: Data for the Nation.
The problem is becoming apparent to Congress. In July a subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee held an oversight hearing on federal geospatial data management. That hearing was preceded by a report of the Congressional Research Service called Geospatial Information and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Current Issues and Future Challenges. The report investigates coordination efforts both internally within the federal government and externally with state and local government.

The US has focused all its geospatial data coordination efforts in the Federal Geographic Data Committee. According to Will Craig, the FGDC has a good mission and a good staff, but comes up short in two critical areas:

First, it has no power to require federal agencies to deliver their assigned components of the NSDI. Second, it coordinates only federal activities, not state or local activities.
States have figured out how to coordinate their activities. Many have designated a Geographic Information Officer (GIO) – giving them the power to make state agencies work together and a mandate to encourage cooperation among other levels of government.

Mr. Craig notes that his home state, Minnesota, has two advisory councils -- one for state agencies and one for other GIS communities. Both have direct connections with the GIO.

He suggests that the federal government should follow a simple model:
- Add a GIO to work with the new federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
- Empower FGDC to coordinate federal efforts by moving it to OMB.
- Create a new council to coordinate non-federal activities – giving it the resources to make a difference.
- Finally, add a Congressional oversight committee to watch over all this.

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Python idioms for GIS EducationEntries for Sean Gillies Blog

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I'd like to see GIS students taught to program in Python using Python idioms, not Avenue idioms. I hate to pick on Utah State's GIS Programming with Python just because of its popularity, but it contains some good introductory code that can be easily tuned up to teach even better Python GIS programming skills. For example, let's look at Lesson 5: Writing/Reading Text Files, Python Lists & Dictionaries, part 5a:

# Author:  John Lowry
# Date: Dec. 21, 2007
# Purpose: Lesson 5a: Use split and Write to a text file
#############################################################

#Import modules
import string

# Open a new text file to write to
outFile = open(r"C:\john\TeachingGIS\WILD6900_ArcGISPython\Lesson5_results\write_example.txt", "w")

# Make a string variable of featureclass names
fcString = "nests1990.shp,nests1995.shp,nests2000.shp"

# Make a list variable from the string variable using the split method, then print
fcList = fcString.split(",")

# Write each item in the list to a separate line the output file
outFile.write(fcList[0]+ "\n")
outFile.write(fcList[1]+ "\n")
outFile.write(fcList[2]+ "\n")

# Close the files
outFile.close()

There are 3 defects in that code:

It imports the string module but never uses anything from it. You should almost always use string object methods anyway.
It presumes knowledge of the number of items in the comma-separated string, specifically that it is at least 3.
It needlessly concatenates newlines to items before writing.

The equivalent code, with none of those defects, looks like this:

outFile = open('/tmp/out.txt', 'w')
for item in fcString.split(','):
    outFile.write(item)
    outFile.write('\n')
outFile.close()

In Python 2.6 you can use a with statement to make it even more compact. The file closes itself at the end of the block. And you can use file.writelines to write the data and newline in one go. It's more efficient to pass it a tuple than to pass it a list.

with open('/tmp/out.txt', 'w') as f:
    for item in fcString.split(','):
        f.writelines((item, '\n'))

In the next part of the lesson, 5b, we see:

# Author:  John Lowry
# Date: Dec. 21, 2007
# Purpose: Lesson 5:  Reading a and writing a textfile
#############################################################

# Open the text file in read mode
inFile = open(r"C:\john\TeachingGIS\WILD6900_ArcGISPython\Lesson5\nests2005_coords.csv", "r")

# Open a new text file to write to
outFile = open(r"C:\john\TeachingGIS\WILD6900_ArcGISPython\Lesson5_results\nests2005_format.txt", "w")

# Read entire file and print one line at a time
for line in inFile.readlines():
    nestList = line.split(",")
    id = nestList[0]
    cnd = nestList[1]
    x = nestList[2]
    y = nestList[3]
    outFile.write("Siteid: " + id + "\n")
    outFile.write("Condition: " + cnd + "\n")
    outFile.write("X Coordinate: " + x + "\n")
    outFile.write("Y Coordinate: " + y + "\n")
    outFile.write("\n")

# Close the files
inFile.close()
outFile.close()

The more effective version of the looping block is this:

for line in inFile:
    outFile.write(
      'Siteid: %s\nCondition: %s\nX Coordinate: %s\nY Coordinate: %s\n\n' \
      % tuple(line.split(','))
      )

String formatting is more efficient than string concatenation (or not -- see the update below) and you can avoid needless variable assignments by using the split results directly.

I blogged before about how smelly the ArcGIS scripting cursor syntax was. I hear it's better now, but you can still see the old style in the USU course code.

Update (2009-10-21): Here's my benchmark script. I'm isolating just the inner part of the loop and focusing just on the extra assignments and file writes.

import timeit

# Sample input line
line = '1,good,433207.8362,4518107.044'

# A file-like object
class MockFile(object):
    def write(self, line):
        pass

outFile = MockFile()

# GIS Style programming. Assignment to intermediate variables
# and each written separately.

s1 = """\
nestList = line.split(',')
id = nestList[0]
cnd = nestList[1]
x = nestList[2]
y = nestList[3]
outFile.write(id)
outFile.write(cnd)
outFile.write(x)
outFile.write(y)
"""

t1 = timeit.Timer(
    stmt=s1,
    setup='from __main__ import line, outFile'
    )
print "GIS style"
print "%.2f usec/pass" % t1.timeit()
print

# Idiomatic Python. No intermediate variables and all written as
# a group

s2 = """\
outFile.write(''.join(line.split(',')))
"""

t2 = timeit.Timer(
    stmt=s2,
    setup='from __main__ import line, outFile'
    )
print "Idiomatic Python"
print "%.2f usec/pass" % t2.timeit()
print

The results:

$ python benchmarks.py
GIS style
2.07 usec/pass

Idiomatic Python
1.29 usec/pass

Someone else has looked at string performance more closely than I, and it looks like I'm wrong. On my Python 2.6, too, concatenation wins over formatting. Use of join is faster than concatenation for lists longer than 1000 items or so.

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