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25 novembre 2010
22:40
Google Map of Korean Incidents
sur Google Maps Mania

North Korea v South Korea: Every Incident Mapped

The Guardian newspaper has used Fusion Tables to create a Google Map of over 150 incidents between North and South Korea since the Korean War in 1950. The map uses data from a report by the Congressional Research Service, published in 2007.

The map covers every incident, from diplomatic hostilities, through to the more serious events where people have died. The data is also available to other developers through The Guardian's Data Store.

Via: Le Technoblog du LAC

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21:40
Cameron Shorter: Goals and schedule for OSGeo-Live 4.5
sur Planet OSGeo

We are starting to build the 4.5 OSGeo-Live DVD and want to hear from all included projects, translators, packagers, users, testers or others who wish to help improve OSGeo-Live. OSGeo-Live 4.5 will be released mid March 2011, ready for a number of big GeoSpatial conferences soon after.
Focus on this next release will be on improved Quality and Translating documentation.
Packaged projects - which version?
Could each project please tell us which version is intended to be included. Status is maintained here. Understanding what will, or will not change helps us coordinate reviewers and testers. We will be building from the Xubuntu 10.04 base, which is the same as last release.
If you have a established, stable project which you would like included on OSGeo-Live, then please talk to us about it.
Use Natural Earth dataset for examples
In order to ensure consistency and reduce disk space used, we ask that, where appropriate, examples use the common Natural Earth dataset, as explained here.
Translations
We expect to have main pages, Project Overviews and possibly OGC Standard Overviews translated into multiple languages for this next release. People have already translated much of the documentation into German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Greek.
Could all projects please update your English Project Overviews as soon as you can to give translators enough time to translate.
Please contact us if you are able to help with translation, or would like to translate a new language. The process is described here.
Quick Starts
Half the packaged projects had Quick Starts written for the last release (4.0) and we'd like to see Quick Starts for all projects for the next release. One of our users has volunteered to review Quick Starts for usability and help projects capture screen grabs. This is a big job and we'd like to hear from anyone else who'd can help out.
Again, could projects please update Quick Starts early to allow time for review and screen grabs.
User Testing
With ~ 50 applications to be packaged on the next OSGeo-Live, our core OSGeo-Live team have not had time to run all the Quickstart applications. We would really like some help. If you have very little experience with OSGeo software, then all the better, as you would be like a typical first time user of OSGeo-Live.
Running this user testing is one of the best ways to become familiar with the breath of OSGeo Software available. If interested, please join the OSGeo List, and start running Quick Starts as soon as they have been completed by projects.
OGC Standard Overviews
The OGC have already written one page overviews for half the OGC standards and have committed to writing up the remaining standards for then next release. We will be calling on the standards community to help review these standards to ensure they are accurate, clear and understandable.
Key Milestones 24 Jan 2011 Application Overviews ready for Review 31 Jan 2011 Application Feature Freeze 21 Feb 2011 Deliver to User Acceptance Test 14 Mar 2011 Final sent to printers
... full schedule
About OSGeo-Live
OSGeo-live is an XUbuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and soon to be released USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything.
Contact Us?
Website: http://live.osgeo.org
Mailing List: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
or contact Cameron Shorter directly at: cameronD O TshorterATlisasoftD O Tcom.

21:03
Cameron Shorter: Goals and schedule for OSGeo-Live 4.5
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

We are starting to build the 4.5 OSGeo-Live DVD and want to hear from all included projects, translators, packagers, users, testers or others who wish to help improve OSGeo-Live. OSGeo-Live 4.5 will be released mid March 2011, ready for a number of big GeoSpatial conferences soon after.
Focus on this next release will be on improved Quality and Translating documentation.
Packaged projects - which version?
Could each project please tell us which version is intended to be included. Status is maintained here. Understanding what will, or will not change helps us coordinate reviewers and testers. We will be building from the Xubuntu 10.04 base, which is the same as last release.
If you have a established, stable project which you would like included on OSGeo-Live, then please talk to us about it.
Use Natural Earth dataset for examples
In order to ensure consistency and reduce disk space used, we ask that, where appropriate, examples use the common Natural Earth dataset, as explained here.
Translations
We expect to have main pages, Project Overviews and possibly OGC Standard Overviews translated into multiple languages for this next release. People have already translated much of the documentation into German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Greek.
Could all projects please update your English Project Overviews as soon as you can to give translators enough time to translate.
Please contact us if you are able to help with translation, or would like to translate a new language. The process is described here.
Quick Starts
Half the packaged projects had Quick Starts written for the last release (4.0) and we'd like to see Quick Starts for all projects for the next release. One of our users has volunteered to review Quick Starts for usability and help projects capture screen grabs. This is a big job and we'd like to hear from anyone else who'd can help out.
Again, could projects please update Quick Starts early to allow time for review and screen grabs.
User Testing
With ~ 50 applications to be packaged on the next OSGeo-Live, our core OSGeo-Live team have not had time to run all the Quickstart applications. We would really like some help. If you have very little experience with OSGeo software, then all the better, as you would be like a typical first time user of OSGeo-Live.
Running this user testing is one of the best ways to become familiar with the breath of OSGeo Software available. If interested, please join the OSGeo List, and start running Quick Starts as soon as they have been completed by projects.
OGC Standard Overviews
The OGC have already written one page overviews for half the OGC standards and have committed to writing up the remaining standards for then next release. We will be calling on the standards community to help review these standards to ensure they are accurate, clear and understandable.
Key Milestones 24 Jan 2011 Application Overviews ready for Review 31 Jan 2011 Application Feature Freeze 21 Feb 2011 Deliver to User Acceptance Test 14 Mar 2011 Final sent to printers
... full schedule
About OSGeo-Live
OSGeo-live is an XUbuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and soon to be released USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything.
Contact Us?
Website: http://live.osgeo.org
Mailing List: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
or contact Cameron Shorter directly at: cameronD O TshorterATlisasoftD O Tcom.

20:28
Report Local Problems with Google Maps
sur Google Maps Mania
Neat Streets

Australian website Neat Streets allows anyone to report community problems which are then passed on to the appropriate authorities. The application works in both Australia and New Zealand.

You can download a Neat Streets application for the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android based phones. With the apps you can take pictures and submit community problems directly from your smartphone. The latest submitted photos and problems are displayed on a Google Map on the Neat Streets website home page.

Using Neat Streets you can report road obstructions, vandalism, potholes, fallen trees, abandoned trolleys, litter, and graffiti. Neat Streets then automatically forwards the reports to the appropriate authority based on the GPS location

Also See
- SeeClickFix - US site for citizens to report local problems
- FixMyStreet - UK site, allows citizens to report local problems. All problems are then passed onto local government
- Verbeterdebuurt - Dutch local problems reporting site
- Gerecht Geht Anders - German local problem reporting website
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19:30
L'impact du géodécisionnel dans le secteur de l'assurance - conférence en ligne organisée par Pitney Bowes Business Insight
sur Directions Magazine : Blogue

Pitney Bowes Business Insight acteur du géodécisionnel vous invite à assister gratuitement à sa conférence en ligne dédiée au secteur de lassurance :

Invitation conférence en ligne gratuite

Limpact du géodécisionnel dans le secteur de lassurance :
Le 2 ou le 7 Décembre 2010.

Les données géographiques sont aujourd'hui au cur d'un nombre de plus en plus important de décisions et

18:59
Slashgeo.org: Ads on Slashgeo.org
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Dear users, some of you might have noticed the appearance of Google ads on Slashgeo's website. Here's some explanations. Our website and services have been provided ad-free during our first 5 years. Hopefully, Slashgeo.org is driven by your contributions and a team of volunteer editors (want to join? :-), but the occasional donations (see related right-hand side box) has never been enough to cover hosting expenses. Our open budget indicates we're about $4,000 in the red. It's actually not a major problem, but we're looking for means to reduce our monthly deficit. Slashgeo is managed by a registered non-profit organization. In order to reduce annoyance, there is only one ad displayed, and settings we modified to remove sexually-oriented ads and the like. During Summer 2007, we tried to experiment with ads, but our account was quickly closed due to a suspicion of click fraud (which I still don't understand). Now that we're using Drupal and that user clicks are properly tracked, we shouldn't run into similar problems. That said, please don't click on ads unless sincerely interested by it. Thank you for your comprehension. -- AlexYou are not watching this post, click to start watching

18:02
De Qgis ou gvSIG vers Inkscape
sur PortailSIG - Actualité

De Qgis ou gvSIG vers Inkscape

17:17
gvSIG Team: From gvSIG Desktop to Inskcape
sur Planet OSGeo

I want to share an interesting post from Anna Hodgkinson on the gvSIG international mailing list about how to edit a gvSIG produced map layout on Inskcape using PDF format as an exchange format.

Dear Wolfgang, dear list,

I have been exporting maps from gvSIG and editing (fine-tuning) them later with Inkscape for a while now and never had any major problems.

My usual workflow is as follows:
- Create the map layout in gvSIG, do as much fine-tuning as possible before exporting, such as making sure the scalebar is set to the right Intervals etc., but don’t worry – you can do a lot of editing in Inkscape, so even rectangles in white that you might want to use to offset map elements against backgrounds can be changed etc. Make sure you set your margins and page size correct (Map – age setup)!!!

- Export as PDF (use the PDF button on the toolbar).

- Open Inkscape, and do “File – Import” – select the PDF you just created in gvSIG and import it. The page size should remain the same!

- In Inkscape, ungroup all elements – select all (either ctrl+a or “draw” a frame around all elements), then do “Object – Ungroup”. Repeat this several times, you will have to select all objects again before repeatedly ungrouping. Make sure you “draw” your selection frame around the entire batch of objects to be ungrouped – click on them and you may accidentally move them!

Pay attention to the scalebar: You can, after about 3-4 “ungrouping” actions unmerge the numbers from the bar to make it “look nice”, same with all sorts of map elements, change colours, line weights etc.

You can either “mask” any vector data that, through ungrouping, has been exploded and now sticks out beyond the margins, or (cheap and easy) draw white, frameless rectangles in the margins to cover them up.

- In Inkscape do “File – save as” and save as PDF. When closing Inkscape you will be prompted to save the drawing as .svg as well – it’s worth doing so, as you will be able to do further editing in case you need to.

I hope this helps. I have been using this methodology for over a year now, and find it very simple and good to use!

Please refer to the manual for editing maps in Inkscape, recently published by Oxford Archaeology [1] for details on the above procedure!

All the best,

Anna

[1] [library.thehumanjourney.net]

Quite interesting, isn’t it? Well is not just as straight forward as having the possibility to direct render a map layout on SVG, but well is better than nothing and Anna has shown a succesful use case.

Filed under: english, gvSIG Desktop Tagged: Inskcape, pdf
16:51
Spatialytics.COM: Developing geospatial business intelligence solutions, article in Geospatial Today – 11-2010
sur Planet OSGeo

The article is finally out! My partner Dr. Thierry Badard prepared an article for the magazine Geospatial Today and you can find it on page 34 (pp. 34 to 37) of the November issue (#24, 11-2010). The title is “Developing geospatial business intelligence solutions” and briefly covers 1. BI concepts, 2. Merging geospatial and BI technologies (touches GIS, classical BI tools and GeoBI) and 3. presents the Open Source GeoBI projects you can find on Spatialytics.ORG.

A perfect GeoBI solution can be developed by integrating the spatial component and its functionalities into each component of business intelligence infrastructure. (T. Badard)

You can have access the article online here (powered by PRESSMART, Adobe Flash Player 8+ Required).

It’s obvious the term “Business Intelligence” is getting more and more popular, how not to love two beautiful and powerful words like “business” and “intelligence”? Any IT progress for the business is certainly bringing more intelligence… so is this BI? In the article, Thierry describes a complete BI infrastructure starting with ETL, Data warehouse, OLAP Server, MDX querying language, interaction via dashboard… output in reports.

The “Geospatial Business Intelligence” Spatialytics is referring to is this BI infrastructure that includes and handles Geospatial all the way. Beyond pushpins placed on a map = The Geospatial dimension … Beyond dates placed on a calendar = The Temporal dimension.

Thanks Geospatial Today!
16:42
Gwenael Bachelot: Masquer des styles dans une légende MapGuide
sur Planet OSGeo

Gwenael Bachelot: Masquer des styles dans une légende MapGuide

16:42
Masquer des styles dans une légende MapGuide
sur Geospatial made in France

J’ai eu cette question récemment, et comme la réponse n’est pas triviale, autant la documenter. J’en profite pour remercier mon excellent collègue Maxime Suing pour m’avoir indiquer cette solution.

Le problème : on accède à une couche PostGIS (le même problème se poserait par exemple pour Oracle), qui ne contient que des polygones.

Par défaut, la légende MapGuide affiche des points, des lignes et des polygones :

Pour faire disparaitre de la légende les types d’objets non utilisés dans la couche, dans MapGuide Studio, dans la ressource de type Layer, cliquez sur Thème :

Puis décochez la case “Afficher dans la légende” :

On peut faire la même chose pour le type Lignes, et obtenir ensuite une légende correspondant au type d’objet présent dans la base :

16:34
Journée Interopérabilité 2010 : les présentations sont en ligne !
sur Le Forum français de l'OGC

Les présentations de la Journée Interopérabilité 2010 sont maintenant disponibles en ligne.
Visualisez les vidéos des différentes sessions, les photos prises tout au long de cette Journée.
Et, nouveau, consultez les démonstrations d'interopérabilité qui ont été présentées.

16:30
APOS Systems consolide son partenariat avec ESRI Canada
sur Directions Magazine : Communiqués de presse

APOS Systems consolide son partenariat avec ESRI Canada

16:27
Tim Waters: WherecampUK 2010 Recap
sur Planet OSGeo

Last week I journeyed down on the train to Nottingham to go to WhereCampUK – an unconference for all things “geo” – but it was only a few months since the similarly named WhereCampEU of (which I never actually wrote something about) down in London. Before I share some of the best bits, here’s some of the similarities and differences.

* Less international folks

* Less big geo personalities and keynotes

* More OSM

* No T-Shirts

* More beer – we drank a large pub dry, literally. The next day, the landlord swore at me for pissing off their regulars.

* More cake

* Cheaper and quicker to run, setup and organise.

For more pointers in how to run an unconference, check out Steve Coast‘s latest post, where he writes about what he did for Wherecamp in Denver. How I ran a successful unconference in 6 hours and you can too.

Overall, the event was great.

I ran two sessions. The main one was “What is Psychogeography“. The best part of this was sending all participants out with directions in twos and threes, for 10 mins before lunch. They had directions such as “left left right”, “follow someone”, “ask where the centre is, follow that direction, ask again”, “find hidden portals”, “find fairies”, “hear something, take a photo”.

I also quickly slotted in the NYPL Warper presentation, and included this slide. You get 20 points if you know what this refers to!

I also mentioned the words “neogeography” for the first time in the conference, and that was at 3:30pm, which says quite a bit about the use of the term.

Talks I liked were:

* Vernacular Geography & Informal Placenames

* Geo Games

* Education and mobile maps

* Augmented Reality roundup

* How streets get names

* Peoples Collection Wales

* Haptic Navigation

* OSM Talks including – Potlatch 2

* Gregory Mahler’s – I’m a Psycho Mapper!

* OSGEO

16:09
Slashgeo.org: GlobCorine 2009 Land Use Land Cover Data for Europe Available
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

While we mentioned the GlobCover dataset quite a few times, we never mentioned the CORINE european dataset. And now the ESA announced the availability of a new european land use land cover dataset: GlobCorine 2009. From the article: "The map, based on ESA’s Envisat MERIS data from 1 January to 31 December 2009, is the first of its kind to be produced in such a short time – nine months as opposed to years. [...] The map, providing a resolution of 300 m, was delivered to the European Environmental Agency (EEA), the project’s main user, in October. [...] "GlobCorine is much more than a project aiming to deliver a European land cover map. It is the scientific and technical demonstration that a description of the state of land surface on a continental scale can be provided within a year.""You are not watching this post, click to start watching
15:59
Slashgeo.org: OpenStreetMap Founder Steve Coast Joins Microsoft
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

This is certainly major news. Steve Coast, the OpenStreetMap founder, joined Microsoft's Bing Maps team. From the announcement: "Continuously innovating and improving our map data is a top priority and a massive undertaking at Bing. That’s why we’re excited to announce a new initiative to work with the OpenStreetMap project, a community of more than 320,000 people who have built high quality maps for every country on earth. Microsoft is providing access to our Bing Aerial Imagery for use in the OpenStreetMap project, and we have hired industry veteran Steve Coast to lead this effort. [...] As a first step in this engagement, we plan to enable access to Bing's global orthorectified aerial imagery, as a backdrop of OSM editors. Also, Microsoft is working on new tools to better enable contributions to OSM." Amongst the geoblogs reactions, James Fee provided his analysis of what this really means: " Microsoft needs to get involved with OpenStreetMap to continue to be relevant in the web mapping space and OSM needs Microsoft, their aerial images, their big pocketbook and their need to dominate all spaces they exist to join up." All Points Blog shares some more: "I don't think OSM has all the data inputs needed, nor the paid and unpaid staff needed, nor the smart software needed to win this competition. Not yet anyway, but clearly their backers are slowly adding to their dowry." Overall, from the "open data" point of view, it can certainly be considered a major win. Last August, Bing Maps was already offering the OpenStreetMap layer, and MapQuest already dived into OpenStreetMap some time ago.You are not watching this post, click to start watching

15:59
Slashgeo (FOSS articles): OpenStreetMap Founder Steve Coast Joins Microsoft
sur Planet OSGeo

This is certainly major news. Steve Coast, the OpenStreetMap founder, joined Microsoft's Bing Maps team.

From the announcement: "Continuously innovating and improving our map data is a top priority and a massive undertaking at Bing. That’s why we’re excited to announce a new initiative to work with the OpenStreetMap project, a community of more than 320,000 people who have built high quality maps for every country on earth. Microsoft is providing access to our Bing Aerial Imagery for use in the OpenStreetMap project, and we have hired industry veteran Steve Coast to lead this effort. [...] As a first step in this engagement, we plan to enable access to Bing's global orthorectified aerial imagery, as a backdrop of OSM editors. Also, Microsoft is working on new tools to better enable contributions to OSM."

Amongst the geoblogs reactions, James Fee provided his analysis of what this really means: " Microsoft needs to get involved with OpenStreetMap to continue to be relevant in the web mapping space and OSM needs Microsoft, their aerial images, their big pocketbook and their need to dominate all spaces they exist to join up." All Points Blog shares some more: "I don't think OSM has all the data inputs needed, nor the paid and unpaid staff needed, nor the smart software needed to win this competition. Not yet anyway, but clearly their backers are slowly adding to their dowry."

Overall, from the "open data" point of view, it can certainly be considered a major win. Last August, Bing Maps was already offering the OpenStreetMap layer, and MapQuest already dived into OpenStreetMap some time ago.
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15:30
Google Maps pédale sans Montréal
sur Directions Magazine : Blogue

Dici une semaine, les utilisateurs de Google Maps se verront offrir loption «itinéraire à vélo» pour se déplacer dans huit villes canadiennes. Depuis mars, Google Maps offrait cette fonction dans plusieurs dizaines de villes américaines en plus des options «auto», «transport en commun» et «à pied».

Source : Métro Montréal

Lannonce a été faite mardi dans le cadre du Sommet

15:30
Visualise GPS Tracks with Google Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs is a great application that allows you to view your GPS tracks using Google Maps and the Google Earth browser plug-in.

Using Breadcrumbs you can create map based visualisations of your GPS tracks and include geotagged photographs and videos. The application includes automatic geotagging of your photos and videos and an easy to use editing tool that enables you to correct GPS points. It is also possible to add information and markers to illustrate interesting points on your tracks.

Completed tracks can be shared via a Breadcrumbs public page for each track and through direct integration with Facebook.

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15:00
James Fee GIS Blog: Happy Thanksgiving!
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Time to reflect on what we are thankful for. I count my blessings each and every day to be working for such a great company, in a great industry with great people. Enjoy your Turkey folks!

From our family to yours -- Happy Thanksgiving!

Clockwise from the lower left; Steve Coast (stevec), Peter Batty (@pmbatty), Learon Dalbey (@learondalby), Thea Clay (@theaclay), Andrew Turner (@ajturner), Mikel Maron (@mikel), Kate Chapman (@wonderchoock), Paul Bissett (@pbissett), James Fee (@cageyjames).

HT: Norman Rockwell

15:00
Happy Thanksgiving!
sur James Fee GIS Blog

Time to reflect on what we are thankful for. I count my blessings each and every day to be working for such a great company, in a great industry with great people. Enjoy your Turkey folks!

From our family to yours -- Happy Thanksgiving!

Clockwise from the lower left; Steve Coast (stevec), Peter Batty (@pmbatty), Learon Dalbey (@learondalby), Thea Clay (@theaclay), Andrew Turner (@ajturner), Mikel Maron (@mikel), Kate Chapman (@wonderchoock), Paul Bissett (@pbissett), James Fee (@cageyjames).

HT: Norman Rockwell

13:17
[La Minute GeoRezo] Les formations aux SIG
sur GeoRezo.net - Géoblogs

Le Monde Informatique publie un article très intéressant sur les formations en Géomatique.

Extrait :

Selon l'association française pour l'information géographique, 80 formations aux SIG ont té comptabilisées cette année en France. Cependant, les recrutements ont ralenti dans les bureaux d'études et les SSII.

L'enseignement en géomatique semble gagner du terrain dans l'Hexagone. C'est ce qu'indique l'association française pour l'information géographique (Afigeo) dans un bilan 2010 consacré à ce domaine. Selon l'Afigéo et le portail francophone de la géomatique et des systèmes d'information géographiques (SIG) Georezo, 80 formations ont été comptabilisées cette année dans ce secteur sur le territoire français, Outre-mer compris....

Lire la suite...

On y parle de GeoRezo, votre portail favori ! C'est suffisamment rare pour que l'on vous en fasse part.

Bonne lecture

L'équipe GeoRezo

13:12
Les récipiendaires des bourses d'étude 2010 de ESRI Canada
sur BalizMedia : Communiqués de presse

Plus de 2,5 millions de dollars en bourses d'étude, logiciels, livres et formation sont décernés dans 46 collèges et universités au Canada
en lire plus

12:25
Google Maps Tutorials
sur Google Maps Mania

Geocodezip - Using the Google Maps API v3

Geocodezip has put together a great list of examples and tutorials for creating Google Maps with V3 of the Google Maps API (and V2).

The examples range from the very simple (for example adding coloured map markers to a map) to more complex examples (such as animated driving directions). The list includes a number of examples of ways to use driving directions, polygons, polylines and create custom information windows.

If you are interested in or involved in creating Google Maps mashups then this long list of Google Maps examples and tutorials will undoubtedly prove very useful.

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10:59
Jackie Ng: Announcing: FDO Toolbox 1.0 beta 3
sur Planet OSGeo
Here it is! The 3rd beta of FDO Toolbox 1.0
Some of the highlights include:
- A new type of automated task: Sequential Process
- FDO 3.6.0 (build F037). Like I said previously, the old PostGIS provider is no longer bundled.
Along with some fixes:
- FDO Data Stores containing Object and Association properties can now be exported
- Improved Object and Association property support in the Data Store Editor
- Insert/Update/Preview support for Object and Association properties. Many thanks to Crispin for providing this patch
- Geodetic polygons with bad orientation are fixed when bulk copying to SQL Server 2008
Download
Report Issues/Enhancements

10:37
The Map Guy(de): Announcing: FDO Toolbox 1.0 beta 3
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com
Here it is! The 3rd beta of FDO Toolbox 1.0
Some of the highlights include:
- A new type of automated task: Sequential Process
- FDO 3.6.0 (build F037). Like I said previously, the old PostGIS provider is no longer bundled.
Along with some fixes:
- FDO Data Stores containing Object and Association properties can now be exported
- Improved Object and Association property support in the Data Store Editor
- Insert/Update/Preview support for Object and Association properties. Many thanks to Crispin for providing this patch
- Geodetic polygons with bad orientation are fixed when bulk copying to SQL Server 2008
Download
Report Issues/Enhancements
9:20
Vector One: Brittany, France to Offer Up Free Geographic Data
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Portal Géobretagne in France will soon offer up free geodata. Via www.geobretagne.fr, the portal for geographic information in Brittany, all public have already shared their data on public space. This includes a database of reliable pooled geodata serving their interest missions and will now include Brest Metropole Oceane and Rennes Métropole – allowing all citizens [...]

8:18
Projet Galileo - une vidéo est en ligne
sur Geospatial made in France

Je vous parlais rapidement du projet Galileo hier.

Autodesk Labs vient de publier une vidéo sur YouTube et de mettre en ligne la page du projet.

Le logiciel n’est pas encore téléchargeable (ce sera bientôt le cas), mais la vidéo donne quelques idées sur ses capacités.

Lien vers la vidéo HD sur YouTube>

Si vous ne pouvez pas accéder à la vidéo, vous pouvez la télécharger.

Au niveau du descriptif :

Project Galileo is an easy-to-use planning tool for creating 3D city models from civil, geospatial and building data, and 3D models. Galileo also enables users to sketch conceptual infrastructure ideas within the 3D city model. Using Galileo, planners, GIS analysts, project managers, and architects can help stakeholders better understand infrastructure projects and plans in the context of the built and natural environment.

Ce qui donne en français (je fais une traduction rapide) :

Le projet Galileo est un outil de planning, facile à utiliser, qui permet de créer des modèles de villes en 3D à partir de jeux de données de type génie civil, géospatial et bâtiment, ainsi que de modèles 3D.

Galileo permet aussi aux utilisateurs de faire des ébauches conceptuelles pour des infrastructures dans le modèle 3D de la ville.

En utilisant Galileo, les urbanistes, géomaticiens, chefs de projets et les architectes peuvent apporter aux parties prenantes une meilleure compréhension des projets d’infrastructures et avoir une planification tenant compte du contexte, tant sur le plan du bâti que de l’environnment naturel.

Je vous rappelle que ce sera une Technology Preview.

Pour télécharger gratuitement Galileo, surveillez le site Autodesk Labs !

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8:09
Carte des édifices gothiques en France avec Google Maps
sur GEMTICE

Mapping Gothic France est un site qui permet de visualiser les édifices gothiques en France grâce à l'API de Google Maps.
Sur la carte, on retrouve les différentes églises, repérées à l'aide de croix; un repère simple propose une photographie du bâtiment et quelques indications. On peut développer ces données sur la gauche du site avec une vue double: celle du plan de l'édifice puis en dessous, éventuellement, une photographie ou une image d'un espace particulier comme le chœur ou le déambulatoire.
Par ailleurs, sur la droite du site, une couche d'une douzaine de cartes historiques sont disponibles, notamment la couche des domaines de l'état royal en 1180...
Par ailleurs, il est possible de visualiser les plans des cathédrales, leurs dimensions et bien d'autres éléments dans la partie "Pastelboard"; enfin, une simulation 3D des édifices est également disponible dans la partie "simulation".
Trois logos représentent ces trois entrées en haut à gauche.

Site assez complet, créé par des universitaires de Columbia, Mapping Gothic France est vraiment à explorer; même pour un novice en histoire médiéval comme moi!

Source: Google Maps Mania

7:56
Mapping the Recovery Act
sur Google Maps Mania

Signs of a Failed Stimulus

The website for Republican Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform are using Google Maps to show the location of billboards that display where money has been spent as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Republican members of the committee claim that $192 million stimulus dollars are being spent on these signs. If you click on any of the map markers you can view the submitted sign. Strangely information about the number of jobs created by the projects behind each sign is missing from the map.

USDA ARRA Projects Map

The USDA ARRA Projects Google Map shows the locations of United States Department of Agriculture projects funded by the American Recovery Act of 2009.

Is is possible to search the map by location, by agency or by funding amount. The map also includes some cool navigation tools, such as mouse-over state overlays and marker clustering. There is even the option to add your own comments on how your tax dollars are being spent.

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7:00

JournalismGIS: Making a choropleth map with Cartographer.js

sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Happy Thanksgiving! What am I thankful for? Besides my friends and family, I’m thankful for the Cartographer Javascript library. This library makes it easy to add choropleths, pie charts and point clusters into Google maps. The project is in the early stages, but looks promising. I especially love the ability to call color schemes from ColorBrewer. I’m excited to see developers actually take cartography into account when building mapping libraries.

Here is a quick tutorial to show how easy it is to make this interactive Google choropleth map. Download a zip of the project.

If you can see this, your browser doesn’t understand IFRAME. However, we’ll still
link you to the file.

This project has 3 parts.

A project folder.
A folder for the javascript libraries, called “js.”
HTML page.

How it works:

First we call the javascript libraries. The first call is for Google Maps. The examples are using V2…so you will need to grab an API code for this to work on your server. The next call is the Cartographer.js library and the third is the Raphael.js library. Cartographer uses the SVG engine from Raphael.

<script type="text/javascript" src=" [maps.google.com] 
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="js/raphael-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="js/cartographer.min.0.4.js"></script>
<script language="javascript">

The next section is the javascript that makes the map work. Basically, Cartographer places pre-encoded polygons on the Google map.

function load() {
  if( GBrowserIsCompatible() ) {
    var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
    map.enableScrollWheelZoom();
    map.setCenter(new GLatLng(18, 0), 2);
    map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl());
    map.addControl(new GHierarchicalMapTypeControl());
    map.setMapType(G_PHYSICAL_MAP)
 
    var countyNames = (new String("APACHE,COCHISE,COCONINO,GILA,GRAHAM,GREENLEE,LA-PAZ,MARICOPA,MOHAVE,NAVAJO,PIMA,PINAL,SANTA-CRUZ,YAVAPAI,YUMA")).split(",");
	
	var percentBrewer=(new Array(34,62,43,62,65,48,67,55,73,54,47,58,32,65,57));
	
    var countyData = [];
    for( var i=0, ii=countyNames.length; i<ii; i++ ) { 
      var name = countyNames[i];
	  var value = percentBrewer[i];
	 var code = "AZ-" + name;
      countyData.push( { region:code, val:value, label: Cartographer.regions[code].name + " County, " + "AZ" } ); 	
    }
 
    var cartographer = Cartographer( map, { colorize:"#000", colorizeAlpha:.3 } );
    cartographer.choropleth(countyData, { colorScheme:"RdBu", reverseColors:"true"});
  }
}

The first part of this code creates the Google map.

Then we declare the variables. CountyNames is a alphabetical list of counties in Arizona. PercentBrewer is the percentage of votes Jan Brewer got in the mid-term election.

Next we loop the number of counties and place the counties and the values on the map.

Finally is the Cartographer declarations. ColorScheme can be customized or use a list of standard colors. This uses “RdBu” and then reverses it. The higher the number, the more Red the polygon will be. The lower the number the more Blue it will be. Read more about the choropleth declarations.

(To change counties: Create an alpha list of your counties. Put a dash “-” for any counties with spaces in them, like La-Paz. Change the “AZ-” to your two digit state code. For example CA for California. )

Now we build the map with some HTML.

<body onload="load()" onunload="GUnload()">
<h3>Percent of votes Brewer, 2010</h3>
<div id="map" style="width:500px; height:500px;"></div>
</body>

Here is the complete code.

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src=" [maps.google.com] 
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="js/raphael-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="js/cartographer.min.0.4.js"></script>
<script language="javascript"> 
 
function load() {
  if( GBrowserIsCompatible() ) {
    var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
    map.enableScrollWheelZoom();
    map.setCenter(new GLatLng(18, 0), 2);
    map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl());
    map.addControl(new GHierarchicalMapTypeControl());
    map.setMapType(G_PHYSICAL_MAP)
 
    var countyNames = (new String("APACHE,COCHISE,COCONINO,GILA,GRAHAM,GREENLEE,LA-PAZ,MARICOPA,MOHAVE,NAVAJO,PIMA,PINAL,SANTA-CRUZ,YAVAPAI,YUMA")).split(",");
	
	var percentBrewer=(new Array(34,62,43,62,65,48,67,55,73,54,47,58,32,65,57));
	
    var countyData = [];
    for( var i=0, ii=countyNames.length; i<ii; i++ ) { 
      var name = countyNames[i];
	  var value = percentBrewer[i];
	 var code = "AZ-" + name;
      countyData.push( { region:code, val:value, label: Cartographer.regions[code].name + " County, " + "AZ" } ); 	
    }
 
    var cartographer = Cartographer( map, { colorize:"#000", colorizeAlpha:.3 } );
    cartographer.choropleth(countyData, { colorScheme:"RdBu", reverseColors:"true"});
  }
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="load()" onunload="GUnload()">
<h3>Percent of votes Brewer, 2010</h3>
<div id="map" style="width:500px; height:500px;"></div>
</body>
</html>

Download a complete version of this project. Make sure you change the Google map API. More examples of choropleths using this method are available at the Cartographer website.

0:00
Politiques de la fragmentation urbaine et violence, l’exemple de Kingston, Jamaïque
sur Cybergeo

Cet article traite de la fragmentation socio-économique, ethnique, et politique de la capitale jamaïcaine, Kingston. Les acteurs et les enjeux de cette division géopolitique du territoire sont présentés. Il ressort de l’analyse des victimes de cette ségrégation (populations « noires » et pauvres concentrées dans une ville basse miséreuse) et des bénéficiaires (élites politiques et économiques, etc.). Si le mécanisme qui a conduit à la fragmentation ethnique, économique et politique de l’espace est explicite, et les responsables partiellement identifiés, il est indéniable qu’une certaine inertie du phénomène conduit plus subtilement à la reproduction de cette division dans l’espace culturel. Cette inertie est localement connue comme « syndrome de Lynch ».

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