Planet Georezo » January 20, 2011

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20 janvier 2011
23:13
blog.davebouwman.com: Video from FedUC of Multi-Temporal Landsat Viewer App
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Esri has put up more videos up from the 2011 Federal Users Conference. Conveniently, the demo of the Multi-Temporal Landsat Viewer and Change Mapping app we built is right at the start of this video. Kass starts by discussing the Landsat Services, and then shows how to create change maps of deforestation in Haiti as well as creating a map of change around Lake Mead (shown below).

Thanks again to Kass Green (KGA), Mark Tukman (TukmanGeospatial), our awesome team here at DTS - specifically Jeff Germain and Michael Hayden, and Esri for providing everyone access to the Landsat archive!

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23:07
MapFish: Strange. Why was there no feedback to your post? …
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Strange.
Why was there no feedback to your post?

Hope to see this in OL in near future!
22:37
James Fee GIS Blog: The File Geodatabase API Is Available
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So I guess there really is news at the Esri FedUC (was beginning to wonder if it was just more of the same from the last year). Esri has finally released their File Geodatabase API. Without having looked into it yet Esri says you can do the following:
- Create, Open and Delete file geodatabases ¹
- Read the schema of the geodatabase
- Create schema for objects within the simple feature model
- Read the contents of datasets in a geodatabase
- Insert, Delete and Edit the contents of simple datasets:
- Perform attribute and (limited) spatial queries on datasets
A couple points here. First off there is no raster support. Second you are totally on your own here. You have total control over screwing up your geodatabases here. Some may want to continue using ArcObjects as it gives you some framework to work within. Lastly this is a C++ API, while I don’t see the need for .NET or Java “versions” feel free to continue complaining about Esri ignoring you below.

I still can’t believe they finally released this thing.

Notes:
1. we be talking about little g, not big g – more GeoDesign jokes for no reason ↩

22:37
The File Geodatabase API Is Available
sur James Fee GIS Blog
So I guess there really is news at the Esri FedUC (was beginning to wonder if it was just more of the same from the last year). Esri has finally released their File Geodatabase API. Without having looked into it yet Esri says you can do the following:
- Create, Open and Delete file geodatabases ¹
- Read the schema of the geodatabase
- Create schema for objects within the simple feature model
- Read the contents of datasets in a geodatabase
- Insert, Delete and Edit the contents of simple datasets:
- Perform attribute and (limited) spatial queries on datasets
A couple points here. First off there is no raster support. Second you are totally on your own here. You have total control over screwing up your geodatabases here. Some may want to continue using ArcObjects as it gives you some framework to work within. Lastly this is a C++ API, while I don’t see the need for .NET or Java “versions” feel free to continue complaining about Esri ignoring you below.

I still can’t believe they finally released this thing.

Notes:
1. we be talking about little g, not big g – more GeoDesign jokes for no reason ↩

22:33
Tunisie : la suite
sur Serial Mapper

Nous vivons une époque moderne où la sur-information sévit.
Nul ne devrait être surpris du degré de corruption et de prédation qui sévissait en Tunisie ... En tout état de cause voici une infographie qui vient de paraitre :

Ce poster n'est pas sourcé. Quelqu'un a-t-il des informations ?
Sur ce type de sujet on peut préférer le modèle en arche utilisé pour représenter la concussion telle qu'elle sévissait au Comté de Knox aux États-Unis :

22:29
geo.geek.nz: ArcGIS File Geodatabase API Now Available!
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The long awaited ArcGIS File Geodatabase API is now available for download! As mentioned in my post here: [geo.geek.nz] initial details were released around the make up of this new API. The File Geodatabase API provides a...

22:17
La solution logicielle Elyx Aqua de STAR-APIC, sera présentée au Carrefour des Gestions Locales de l’Eau 2011, à Rennes
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STAR-APIC sera exposant, stand 195, au Carrefour des Gestions Locales de l'Eau qui se tiendra les 26 et 27 Janvier 2011 au Parc des expositions de Rennes.

Lors de cette manifestation qui rassemble, depuis près de 12 ans, de nombreux acteurs de l’Eau, STAR-APIC présentera sa solution logicielle Elyx Aqua qui offre toutes les fonctionnalités utiles à la gestion cartographique du patrimoine enterré.

Traduisant rigoureusement les processus métier, cette solution permet d’améliorer l’exploitation et la productivité d’un réseau d’eau ou d'assainissement grâce à une gestion plus efficace et plus intégrée, en prenant en compte, toutes les problématiques critiques comme les fuites, les coupures, les hydrants ou les interventions.
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22:14
L’imagerie SPOTMAPS dans les terminaux GPS Trimble
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La France en carte SD (secure digital) pour plus de précision et de localisation

Toulouse, le 18 janvier 2010 – Astrium lance une nouvelle offre de solutions de géo-information sur la France destinée aux professionnels utilisant des terminaux GPS. Les géomètres, les transporteurs ou autres professionnels bénéficieront de cartes détaillées à jour et d’une précision inégalée. La division GEO-Information Services d’Astrium s’associe sur le marché avec D3E Electronique, revendeur exclusif des solutions GPS SIG Trimble.

La couverture de la France, continue et homogène, est basée sur le produit SPOTMAPS, mosaïque orthorectifiée, constituée d’images couleurs du satellite Spot-5 à 2,5 m de résolution.
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21:46
GeoChalkboard: Arc2Earth Cloud Services Drives Vineyard Power Site Selection
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Recently, GeoSpatial Training Services completed a custom, web based GIS application using the new Arc2Earth Cloud Services and its associated REST API. Arc2Earth Cloud Services is an excellent alternative for deploying GIS applications to the web without the hassles and costs of standing up and configuring a GIS server. In this article we’ll provide you with an overview of Arc2Earth Cloud Services and then take a shallow dive into the REST API to show you how to take advantage of this new service for building web mapping applications.

Arc2Earth Cloud Services is particularly attractive to small and medium sized organizations that need to deploy their data and applications to the web but don’t have the expertise nor the budget to purchase, install and configure, administer, and maintain a GIS server. Vineyard Power, a renewable energy cooperative in Massachusetts, is a perfect example of this scenario. Vineyard Power is planning a cooperatively owned offshore wind farm at a site to be selected by its members. They worked with their membership and the community to develop siting criteria to compare the suitability of potential sites. With these criteria as their guide they created and compiled a variety of GIS layers to describe the physical characteristics that affect a site’s economic viability, the locations of important wildlife habitats and commercial fishing areas, and potential visual impact. Other layers include shipping lanes, sub-merged shipwrecks and popular recreational fishing areas.

To support its members in making an informed decision Vineyard Power needed a way of distributing this data in a meaningful way to a broad audience. Using Arc2Earth for ArcGIS Desktop and Arc2Earth Cloud Services, Vineyard Power was able to export these data layers to the cloud where they could then be integrated into a Google Maps viewing application using the Arc2Earth Cloud Services REST API. You can see a screenshot of the application below. Tilesets are displayed in the viewer as the user clicks an item from the table of contents on the right hand side of the application or when clicking a subject tab just below the map.

According to Tyler Studds, Project Manager, “The functionality provided by A2E has been an incredible asset to our site selection process. The interface between cloud and desktop GIS is smooth and it has made it very easy to upload tilesets and to experiment with how they will appear in the web application.”

What is Arc2Earth Cloud Services?
Arc2Earth Cloud Services is a new ArcGIS Desktop software extension (currently in public beta testing) for uploading your existing GIS datasets to the cloud as vector datasets or tileset map caches. Once uploaded, vector datasets can be searched and edited through ArcGIS Desktop or a custom, browser based map viewer. In addition, Arc2Earth Cloud Services also provides various services including the ability to combine attribute searches with spatial operations.

As we have done with the Vineyard Power application, you can extend your data into Google Maps, Bing, and OpenLayers and build both web and mobile applications. The API is also compatible with the ArcGIS Server Open Geoservices REST specification which allows you to use all of the ArcGIS.com infrastructure, web applications, mobile applications, and web APIs with your Cloud hosted data.

Arc2Earth Cloud Services is built on Google App engine which is designed for automatic and instant scalability along with the reliability, performance, and security of Google’s infrastructure. Storage costs are dramatically reduced due to the cost efficient hosting provided by Google App engine. You only pay for the CPU/Bandwidth/Storage that you use.

Creating and Using an Arc2Earth Cloud Service
Before you can begin using Arc2Earth Cloud Services you’ll first need to create an instance which is hosted by Google App Engine. This article from Arc2Earth fully describes this process.

After creating an Arc2Earth Cloud instance you can then start creating Tilesets and uploading vector layers. You can then manage your instance through the interface as seen below. Here you see a listing of tilesets that have been loaded for a cloud instance.

Clicking a particular tileset will display additional information including a display of the data on a Google basemap.

The Arc2Earth Cloud Services REST API

All data uploaded to an Arc2Earth Cloud instance is accessible through a standard REST API which exposes several APIs including the following:

Datasource API – Read/Write access to vector data using industry data standards

Tileset API – Read/Write access to all tile caches

Static Map API – All tilesets have built in support for combining multiple tilesets on the server to create a single static image.

Vineyard Power published several dozen layers as individual tile caches to their unique Arc2Earth Cloud. We then used the Tileset API to access the various tiles that had been published to the Cloud and display them in a Google Maps application. In addition to using the Tileset API and the Google Maps API we also took advantage of the Dojo JavaScript framework to create the user interface and handle browser differences. Dojo widgets including the TabContainer and Tree were used to handle the display of various tilesets in the map viewer. We also created a custom base map layer for Google Maps using a NOAA tileset that was uploaded to the Arc2Earth Cloud. See the figure below.

Programming with the Tileset API
As I mentioned earlier in the article we only used the Tileset API for this particular application since we were dealing with tilesets. In future articles we’ll explore the Datasource API and Static Map API and the capabilities of each, but for now we’ll concentrate on the Tileset API.

With the Tileset API you can get a list of all tilesets for a Cloud instance, get an individual tileset, add a new tilset, delete a tileset, and bulk uploaded tiles. You can view the documentation for the Tileset API.

In the Vineyard Power application which functions solely as a map viewer the only thing we’re interested in doing is accessing tilesets from the Cloud instance. The tileset that we access depends upon the layer that has been clicked in the table of contents. Map tiles can be accessed using either the Google Maps or Microsoft Bing naming conventions as seen below.

We used the Google Maps naming convention along with the ImageMapType class from the Google Maps API v3 to add a tileset to the map. A code example is provided below. The ImageMapType class is provided for rendering image tiles such as the ones stored in our Arc2Earth Cloud instance. This class takes a parameter of type ImageMapTypeOptions which is used to set various properties of the new ImageMapType including the Url (getTileUrl) to the tileset, tilesize, if the image is a PNG, transparency value (opacity) and others. Once these parameters are set we simply call the ‘push’ method on map.overlayMapTypes to push the tileset into the Google Maps display.

There was a lot of additional code that we implemented in the application to create the tree and tab structures, layout the application, clear the layers, and add a NOAA basemap, but the primary purpose of the application was to display tilesets on a Google Maps base layer and this is pretty easy to accomplish using the Tileset API for Arc2Earth Cloud Services. In future posts we’ll take a look at other functionality provided by the Tileset API along with the Datasource API and Static Map API.

GeoSpatial Training Services is an authorized reseller of Arc2Earth and a Google Maps Qualified Developer.

21:30
Un serveur wms pan-européenne AeroGRID
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Un serveur wms pan-européenne AeroGRID

19:55
Avenza Resources Blog: Georeferencing an Image in Adobe Photoshop with Geographic Imager
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Avenza Resources Blog: Georeferencing an Image in Adobe Photoshop with Geographic Imager
19:54
Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne: Acetate: A Technical Introduction – part 1
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*Note: this is a cross post from our developer blog: [developer.geoiq.com]
What is Acetate?
This week we launched Acetate a collaboration between us, Stamen , and 41 Latitude which allows users to create more compelling maps in GeoCommons by essentially re-ordering the basemaps to incorporate their own layers. This allows users to places their own data within the the basemap, creating a more visually pleasing effect and making maps easier to understand.

The goal of this post is to introduce you to the technical concepts of Acetate. I’ll start by providing a high-level introduction to the software and data we used to create and serve the maps, and then I’ll dive into how to use Acetate within GeoCommons.

It’s worth mentioning that this post is only the beginning of our look at the technical pieces of Acetate. In the coming days/weeks I’ll be writing a series of detailed posts on the various pieces that make up Acetate. So stay tuned!
Software and Data
As was mentioned in other introductions to Acetate the software and data stack we’ve used is all open source as is the entire Acetate project (Acetate on Github). The software used in Acetate centers on using Tilestache to render and serve map tiles. Tilestache relies heavily upon both Mapnik (to style data) and PostGIS (to store data). I’ll be diving into the details on installing and configuring those pieces in a follow up post to this coming very soon.

The majority of the data used in Acetate is from OpenStreetMap, Natural Earth , and NASA’s SRTM data. Each dataset are tied together with a series very nice stylesheets designed by Stamen and are served as map tiles via Tilestache. Again, more on the details of these in a later post.
Acetate Layers
The general idea behind Acetate is that it’s a basemap in the same vein as OpenStreetMap, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and MapQuest, but it separates itself by providing several independently accessible layers. Each layer is described below.
Acetate Roads:
The Acetate Roads layer is a very light-weight layer with only roads on a transparent background. This layer is “sortable” and can be placed over/under other datasets within maps.

Acetate Place Names:
The Acetate Place Names layer is another sortable layer that allows you make your maps much more clear by being able to place map labels on top of all dataset layers in your maps.

Acetate Hillshade:
The hillshade layer is the base layer used in the Acetate Terrain layer (see below) and is generated from NASA’s SRTM Digital Elevation Model (DEM).

Acetate Background:
The Acetate Background layer is general basemap used in Acetate. It’s free of all labels in order to keep it very light-weight and simple.

Acetate Terrain:
This layer is a composite layer, meaning it combines two or more layers together. For the Acetate Terrain layer we’ve combined the Acetate Background with the Acetate Hillshade layer to create a more visually pleasing basemap.

Acetate:
And finally we have the full composite basemap (not currently used in GeoCommons). This layer uses each of the above layers (except the hillshade and terrain) to form a fully functioning basemap with roads and place name labels.

Using Acetate in GeoCommons
If you go to GeoCommons right now and make a map you’ll notice that Acetate is now the default background map in all new maps. In the layers “palette” (the list of layers in the upper right hand corner of the map) there are two “injected” layers: Roads and Place Names. These layers are the movable components within Acetate meaning that your map layers can be re-ordered and shuffled with respect to these two layers.

This is a before and after of the layer re-ordering with Acetate layers.

You can see that map layers can be re-ordered to create different effects. Roads and labels can be placed above or below your own data layers. If you’d like to try re-ordering some layers is map available for you to edit and play around with:
[geocommons.com]

In addition to re-ordering and placing layers between Place Names and Roads you can also change the underlying basemap to be the new Acetate Terrain layer. To do this follow these steps:

Step 1. While in “edit mode” in your map select the “Basemap” button near the top right corner. The Basemap palette will appear in the upper left corner of the map.

Step 2. In the Basemap palette select the terrain icon and choose the Acetate option from the list. The underlying basemap will then change to the Acetate Terrain layer. In the screenshots below you can see the before and after effect:
Before adding Terrain:
After adding Terrain:

And that’s it! You can try experimenting with different layer styles and types and see how Acetate can make really great maps! If you’re curious to see some examples of maps that have been created with Acetate so far this link. If you want to share what you’ve done with Acetate you can add an ‘acetate’ tag to your map and share it the world.
Next time:
In my post on Acetate I’ll dive deeper into the software and data we’ve used in Acetate. I’ll go through the details of installing Tilestache, getting your own database rolled out, and how to get started with the Acetate code base.

19:32
Podcast: FEMA Chief Says Social Media Aid Disaster Response - Wired
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"On a recent visit to California, FEMA chief Craig Fugate?s agenda read like an all-star roster of tech companies: Start the day at Twitter and Craigslist, drop by Wired at lunch, then on to visit Apple and Facebook. "Why is this bureaucrat, head of the oft-maligned Federal Emergency Management Agency, on a tour of the techno-elite?s offices?" Because he gets social media. He gave the keynote at the Esri FedUC 2011.

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More about: emergency response, esri feduc 11, federal government, fema, social media, vgi

19:24
James Fee GIS Blog: Where I Lose My Mind Thinking About GeoDesign
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There is no such thing as a GeoDesigner
To understand what GeoDesign is you have to drop any ideas of it being a profession. Yes that means you don’t have to worry about little Timmy growing up to be a GeoDesigner. I sat for almost a day listening to people argue about an ontology for us to argue about a definition about GeoDesign. Yea, you read that right, ontology has been added to the list of drinking words at any GeoDesign summit.

After that first day I was a little shaken by what I saw but a night’s sleep clears the mind. People arguing about ontologies are only concerned about either writing about GeoDesign or teaching it. The 99.999% of the rest of us can move on and not worry about such minutia as the term “dashboard” ¹ being offensive.

That all said, we all agreed that there is nothing called a GeoDesigner and we all took a blood oath to never let such a job be created.

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the GeoDesign Room!

What’s The Point Then?
OK, so “we” reject the idea of creating an ontology ² and the idea that we can all go back to school and get our MA in GeoDesign. Why did I bother going to the GeoDesign summit anyway? Clearly I’ve got better things to do the first week of the year than spend it in Redlands, right?

Clearly no. I’ve said again and again that the Geography needs to be a deeper part of all planning. Sure we’ve all been “doing GeoDesign” since man could first pick up a stick and drew up where the dinosaurs lived so they wouldn’t be eaten ³. Place is critical to any planning and thus whether you are a GeoDesign believer or GeoDesign agnostic, you have to give me the point, “place matters”. Thus, the concepts of GeoDesign matter even if calling it that makes your skin crawl.
Let Us Stop Making Things Complicated
What concerns me about GeoDesign though is that many of the people defining what it is or isn’t seem to live by the theory, complex problems require complex solutions. I don’t know about any of you, but my life and job are complex enough without “design strategies” defined on high. I want simple solutions to my problems because those are the ones that are implemented. Complex ones get stuffed in binders and put on a bookshelf ⁴. Time to make that stop!
A Way Forward?
Part of why I didn’t rush out and write about what I saw and heard at the 2011 GeoDesign Summit is that I’m not sure the details of what happened matter. GeoDesign 2011 is in the past and it probably was a good outcome as a second summit. There was some interesting talks, but nothing that I really wanted to jump up and say “Yes!”. What was sorely needed was someone showing how they are going to use “geo” and “design” together in the future. I think we’ve grown beyond proving we all have been doing GeoDesign for years and show how we are going to design ⁵ in the coming months, years, decades. There is all this big talk about GeoDesign being able to save humanity from ourselves but we continue to show work we did years ago. Aren’t we better than that?

If we commit to using Geo with Design, think about where we’ll be in 2001!

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Notes:
1. I think the point was calling a website information panel a “dashboard” is offensive to dashboards ↩
2. Ontologies are irrelevant in the age of a Google search. Chew on that thought for a while. ↩
3. At least that is what The Flintstones taught me about history. ↩
4. Yup, I’m pissed my hard work over the years with planners has spent most of it’s time on the shelf. ↩
5. Big “D” or little “d” design; I’m pretty sure I’m making a joke there but I guess you had to be there. ↩

19:15
Community News on Google Maps
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OpenFile

OpenFile is a new collaborative community news site for Canada. Anyone can submit a story to OpenFile and reporters are then assigned to the story. However anyone can add comments, images, video and helpful links to the story.

Currently OpenFile covers four cities: Vancouver, Hamilton, Toronto and Ottawa. The dedicated page for each city includes a Google Map that shows the location of the user submitted stories.

If you select any of the map markers you can then click through to read the story in full. The web page for each story also includes a smaller Google Map highlighting the location of the story.

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18:50
All Points Blog: Hottest Thing on #FedUC Floor: Zebra Imaging’s Holograms
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I visited the Zebra Imaging booth in part because of the kind and respectful e-mail I received from the company. But I also noted the Esri imaging team was in the booth for a really long time last night! The company offers holograms, printing on ...Read more

18:50
Hottest Thing on #FedUC Floor: Zebra Imaging's Holograms
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I visited the Zebra Imaging booth in part because of the kind and respectful e-mail I received from the company. But I also noted the Esri imaging team was in the booth for a really long time last night! The company offers holograms, printing on ...Read more

18:39
All Points Blog: Google Tidbits
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Google officially announced the new "widget" which enables layers in Google Maps on the desktop. - Google Lat Long Blog Google Earth, among other Google tools, is available in Iran. - Google Blog All of Google's intiatives this year are m...Read more

18:39
Google Tidbits
sur All Points Blog

Google officially announced the new "widget" which enables layers in Google Maps on the desktop. - Google Lat Long Blog Google Earth, among other Google tools, is available in Iran. - Google Blog All of Google's intiatives this year are m...Read more

17:03
Ogle Earth: links for 2011-01-20
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- BBC News – Google Earth available in Iran US export restrictions have been eased on Iran. As long as you are not downloading on behalf of the Iranian government, Google Earth, Chrome and Picasa are now available to Iranian IP addresses.
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16:45
All Points Blog: Indian Infrastructure Development #GWF
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For those of you who hear of the tremendous expansion of the infrastructure within India but don't always get to see it, I wanted to offer these photos from Hyderabad (I took the photos while attending the Geospatial World Forum):Rajiv Ghandi Airpo...Read more

16:45
Indian Infrastructure Development #GWF
sur All Points Blog

For those of you who hear of the tremendous expansion of the infrastructure within India but don't always get to see it, I wanted to offer these photos from Hyderabad (I took the photos while attending the Geospatial World Forum):Rajiv Ghandi Airpo...Read more

16:14
All Points Blog: #FedUC Session on Geospatial Platform and Geodata.gov
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The session detailed the state of both and more importantly, their relationship....Read more
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16:14
#FedUC Session on Geospatial Platform and Geodata.gov
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The session detailed the state of both and more importantly, their relationship....Read more
Continue reading "#FedUC Session on Geospatial Platform and Geodata.gov"

16:13
All Points Blog: Remote Sensing, Data Policy Keys Discussions in India #GWF
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Remote Sensing and data policy were a key issues at the 2011 Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India, Jan. 18-21. The following are reports filed from the conference.Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resources, Science and Technology provides his vi...Read more

16:13
Remote Sensing, Data Policy Keys Discussions in India #GWF
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Remote Sensing and data policy were a key issues at the 2011 Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India, Jan. 18-21. The following are reports filed from the conference.Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resources, Science and Technology provides his vi...Read more

15:36
got geoint?: Migration to NGA’s New Campus East Has Begun; Photos of New Campus East
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This week, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) marked a significant milestone by having its first employees moved into the agency’s new 2.4 million square-foot campus at Fort Belvoir’s North Area in Springfield, Va. The move is the first deployment of NGA mission personnel to result from the consolidation of the agency’s facilities in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area to a single location due to 2005 Base Realignment and Closure requirements. The campus was purposely designed to facilitate greater collaboration both within NGA and with mission partners and customers supporting the geospatial intelligence mission around the world. The campus will accommodate 8,500 people while allowing for future growth. Be sure to check out our photo montage of New Campus East in this post.

Aerial View of New Campus East

Another Aerial View

Alternate Aerial View

Main Building

15:13
The Summits of Europe on Google Maps
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Gipfel Europas

Gipfel Europas is a lovingly designed personal website by a German climber, about the mountains and summits of Europe.

The site boasts an interactive Google Map header that shows all the summits climbed by Peter Ulrich and also acts as a menu to the individual summits. The map can be enlarged by clicking on the down arrow and the individual summit pages can be accessed by selecting it from the map.

Each individual page includes details on the summit's page and also an interactive graph that show the summit's height in comparison to Europe's other mountains.

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14:40
LiDAR News: LiDAR and IFSAR
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You can use IFSAR for the wide, less developed areas and LiDAR when you need more detail. Continue reading →

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14:22
All Points Blog: Quotes of the Week
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"Tomorrow it is Google Earth versus Delorme Xmap versus ESRI - the battle of the GIS's" - @JackShaffer "And theyre particularly interested in recruiting people with GIS skills (geocaching enthusiasts, thats you!)." - KQED Quest webpage about r...Read more

14:22
Quotes of the Week
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"Tomorrow it is Google Earth versus Delorme Xmap versus ESRI - the battle of the GIS's" - @JackShaffer "And theyre particularly interested in recruiting people with GIS skills (geocaching enthusiasts, thats you!)." - KQED Quest webpage about r...Read more

14:19
Vector One: EU – GALILEO Program On-Track
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The Europe Union issued a report that says the GALILEO satellite program is on-track. A large number of people are interested in the progress of this new satellite navigation system, and are sensitive to delays in the system development. The European Union will likely have to stay on top of rumor and erroneous media reports [...]
13:36
All Points Blog: Local GIS Tidbits
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Columbia County, GA will spend $158,000 on aerial photography. It's contracted with High Point, N.C.-based Spatial Data Consultants, which has held the contract since 2004. The company won the contract "in large part because it processes its informat...Read more

13:36
Local GIS Tidbits
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Columbia County, GA will spend $158,000 on aerial photography. It's contracted with High Point, N.C.-based Spatial Data Consultants, which has held the contract since 2004. The company won the contract "in large part because it processes its informat...Read more

13:31
Share a Travel Journal with Google Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

Traveljournals.net

Traveljournals.net provides a simple means for travellers to share their journeys and travel photographs with their family and friends. Registered users of the site can upload their travel journals and pictures and get a unique URL that they are free to share with anyone they want.

Traveljournals.net provides a simple Google Maps interface to the journeys uploaded to the site. The map displays markers around the world where stories have been submitted. If you roll-over a map marker you can view statistics about the number of stories submitted in that region,

If you click on a map marker you will be taken to the dedicated page for the selected country / region where you can then browse the shared travel journals and photographs.

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13:25
Google Earth Blog: Predict how much solar power your house could generate
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

The fact that the rise of alternative energy and the rise of Google Earth are happening at the same time has led to some amazing Google Earth visualizations of potential alternative energy use, particular with solar power. We've seen a 3D rendering of the solar panels at the Googleplex and the US Solar Jobs Map, which shows the potential for hundreds of thousands of new solar-related jobs in the next few years.

We also showed you the Berlin Solar Atlas Project, which allows you to view the "solar potential" for over 14,000 roofs in the city. Today's story is very similar, but on a much wider (though less detailed) scale.

Coming from the University of California - San Diego is the "California Solar Irradiance Map", which shows the entire state of California and the amount of energy a horizontally oriented solar panel could expect to receive over the course of a year.

Beyond the overview map that you see above, you can zoom down and get specific data for thousands of individual points on the map, the most important of which is likely the "monthly mean irradiation" that shows how much energy could be generated at different times of the year.

To try it for yourself, download their KMZ file. To see the individual placemarks, be sure to turn on the "Placemark Data" folder inside of the KMZ.

(via Clean Technica)

13:14
La géopolitique et le géographe (Y. Lacoste, P. Lorot)
sur Les Cafés géographiques

Yves Lacoste, 2010, La géopolitique et le géographe, Entretiens avec Pascal Lorot, Choiseul, Paris, 270 p.
Pierre Gentelle écrivait, pour les Cafés géographiques, que le curriculum vitae ne devrait pas être une liste de diplômes et de fonctions, mais devrait présenter les lieux dans lesquels chacun a vécu, qui ont marqué son imaginaire spatial et qui ont « formaté » son regard (voir la Lettre de Cassandre n°100). C'est à ce type d'exercice que se livre Yves Lacoste - géographe parmi les plus connus du grand public - (...)

13:00
All Points Blog: Geospatial Revolution: New Episode Dates Released
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Several folks have asked me when the next two episodes will appear. Put these dates on the calendar! March 1 and April 19, 2011 - GR blog...Read more
13:00
All Points Blog: Esri #FedUC Tidbits
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

"#ESRI #feduc attendance up considerably 38% of attendees are first time attendees demonstrating growth in the industry www.ESRI.com/federal" @GIS_Advocate (Christopher Thomas) Note: This is the 21st FedUC. "Excited about #Esri new Mapping Wid...Read more

13:00
Geospatial Revolution: New Episode Dates Released
sur All Points Blog

Several folks have asked me when the next two episodes will appear. Put these dates on the calendar! March 1 and April 19, 2011 - GR blog...Read more
13:00
Esri #FedUC Tidbits
sur All Points Blog

"#ESRI #feduc attendance up considerably 38% of attendees are first time attendees demonstrating growth in the industry www.ESRI.com/federal" @GIS_Advocate (Christopher Thomas) Note: This is the 21st FedUC. "Excited about #Esri new Mapping Wid...Read more

12:35
Géoportail Russe
sur Géographie 2.0

Les Russes ont désormais leur propre géoportail, produit par l’agence spatiale fédérale russe. Après quelques secondes de test, je n’ai pas trouvé comment dépasser le niveau de zoom 12, échelle à 2km, il y a pourtant toute une série de couches activables sur le côté, mais en russe ce n’est pas évident. Pour le tester [...]

12:16
Firefox 4 Mobile devrait permettre mousemove et touchnmove
sur ReLucBlog - SIG, MOZILLA & NTIC

Update D'après Paul Rouget, Mozilla Evangelist, cette évolution ne devrait pas être dans la release dommage!

A la création de Fennec, Mozilla a fait le choix de permettre à l'utilisateur de cacher toute l'interface de l'application afin de profiter pleinement de son petit écran. C'est ainsi que lors de la navigation, la barre d'url disparait lorsque l'utilisateur fait défiler le contenu de la page Web. Ceci permet aussi de cacher à gauche les onglets et à droites les différents boutons que l'on retrouve sur nos navigateurs à côté de la barre d'url.

Cette gestion de l'interface de l'application offre l'avantage de profiter pleinement de son écran lors de la lecture de page Web et d'accéder à de nombreuses fonctionnalités.Elle est très bien adaptée à des pages Web fixes mais pas du tout avec des pages Web dynamiques qui exploitent les évènements mousemove ou touchmove.

Afin de toujours permettre à l'utilisateur d'accéder à l'interface de l'application, ces évènements (mousemove et touchmove) sont capturés par l'interface et ne sont pas transmis à la page Web. Mais depuis la sortie de la première version de Firefox Mobile, anciennement Fennec, le Web a évolué, le HTML5 est de plus en plus mis en avant et Mozilla a organisé un concours de développement de jeu basé sur les technologies Web ouvertes. Le résultat de ces évolutions du Web font que Firefox Mobile se coupe du Web en tant que plateforme de développement.

Ce problème avait été identifié assez tôt, [https:]] , puisqu'il nétait pas possible de naviguer dans Google Maps avec Fennec. Jusqu'à hier, mercredi 19 janvier 2011, ce problème n'était pas prioritaire. Il l'est maintenant. La solution choisi pour résoudre ce problème est de conserver une bordure autour des bords de l'écran afin de toujours pouvoir accéder à l'interface de l'application.

Firefox 4 Mobile s'ouvre donc aux applications Web cartographiques, aux Jeux Web, et à toutes les applications Web nécessitant l'utilisation des évènements mousmove et touchmove.

11:10
20 et 21 janvier 2010 : Carrefour de la Recherche, Colloque international sur la ville durable et Convention d'affaires Green City - Marne-la-Vallée
sur GeoConcept

Le Ministère de l'environnement organise, les 20 et 21 janvier prochains, le colloque international « Faire la ville durable, inventer une nouvelle urbanité ». Il se tiendra à Marne-la-Vallée (ESIEE/Cité Descartes) en partenariat avec le PRES Université Paris Est, l'Epamarne et le pôle ADVANCITY.

A l'occasion de cette rencontre, l'accent sera mis sur une large ouverture internationale, avec une forte proportion d'intervenants étrangers. Le colloque s'adressera à un public large de décideurs du secteur privé et du secteur public, d'élus, de chercheurs et de professionnels de la ville.

Parallèlement au colloque et à la convention, des porteurs de projets collaboratifs innovants soutenus par l'UPE, Epamarne et ADVANCITY présenteront leurs nouvelles solutions en matière de ville durable dans le Carrefour de la Recherche.

En tant qu'acteur majeur du projet Wikiwalk - guidage vocal collaboratif destiné aux piétons aveugles - mené dans le cadre du pôle de compétitivité ADVANCITY, GeoConcept prendra part à l'évènement. Nos experts vous présenteront les détails et l'avancée du projet sur notre stand, situé dans le Carrefour de la Recherche. Nous vous y attendons nombreux.

Informations complémentaires et inscription sur le site ADVANCITY
11:10
20 et 21 janvier 2011 : Carrefour de la Recherche, Colloque international sur la ville durable et Convention d'affaires Green City - Marne-la-Vallée
sur GeoConcept

Le Ministère de l'environnement organise, les 20 et 21 janvier prochains, le colloque international « Faire la ville durable, inventer une nouvelle urbanité ». Il se tiendra à Marne-la-Vallée (ESIEE/Cité Descartes) en partenariat avec le PRES Université Paris Est, l'Epamarne et le pôle ADVANCITY.

A l'occasion de cette rencontre, l'accent sera mis sur une large ouverture internationale, avec une forte proportion d'intervenants étrangers. Le colloque s'adressera à un public large de décideurs du secteur privé et du secteur public, d'élus, de chercheurs et de professionnels de la ville.

Parallèlement au colloque et à la convention, des porteurs de projets collaboratifs innovants soutenus par l'UPE, Epamarne et ADVANCITY présenteront leurs nouvelles solutions en matière de ville durable dans le Carrefour de la Recherche.

En tant qu'acteur majeur du projet Wikiwalk - guidage vocal collaboratif destiné aux piétons aveugles - mené dans le cadre du pôle de compétitivité ADVANCITY, GeoConcept prendra part à l'évènement. Nos experts vous présenteront les détails et l'avancée du projet sur notre stand, situé dans le Carrefour de la Recherche. Nous vous y attendons nombreux.

Informations complémentaires et inscription sur le site ADVANCITY

10:50
Volunteering with Google Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

Cancer Research UK

Cancer UK are using Google Maps to provide a store locator and to promote volunteering opportunities and upcoming events.

The Cancer UK Google Map shows the location of the organisation's shops as well as the location of volunteering opportunities and local events. It is possible to search the map by address and filter the results by category of 'shop', 'volunteering' or 'events'.

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9:11
ArcGIS 10: Evolutions des caches ArcGIS Server (2/3)
sur arcOrama, un blog sur les SIG, ceux d ESRI en particulier

Je poursuis ma série d'articles consacrés aux évolutions des caches dans ArcGIS Server 10. Aujourd'hui, regardons de plus prêt la notion de cache "mixte". Le cache "mixte" est une nouveauté d'ArcGIS 10 permettant d'avoir, au sein d'un même cache, un mélange de tuiles aux formats JPEG et PNG. Un cache Mixte utilise le format JPEG au centre de la carte et le format PNG 32 sur les bordures de la

7:20
GeoNetwork & INSPIRE
sur neogeo
À la demande du BRGM, nous avons réalisé un état des lieux de l’implémentation des règles INSPIRE dans l’outil GeoNetwork afin d’évaluer le niveau de conformité de cet outil aux attentes d’INSPIRE et d’identifier les travaux à entreprendre pour réduire l’écart.

En effet, la directive INSPIRE se décline dans la pratique en 3 types de guides :
- Les règles d’implémentations,
- Les guides techniques,
- Les spécifications sur les données
Côté catalogue, les principaux guides à appliquer sont :
- Les règles d’implémentation sur les métadonnées,
- Le guide technique sur les services de découverte (version 2.12 non finalisée)
- Les spécifications sur les données dont un chapitre présente les compléments à apporter en plus des règles d’implémentation. En général, ces compléments portent sur les éléments de qualité.
Ce document (en anglais) présente pour chacun de ces guides l’état actuel dans GeoNetwork. Il donne quelques explications sur les mécanismes internes de GeoNetwork relatif à INSPIRE et au CSW. Le dernier chapitre présente comment configurer un nœud GeoNetwork afin d’activer l’ensemble des fonctions INSPIRE du catalogue (on notera que GéoSource est pré-configuré avec la majorité de ces options). De plus, nous en avons profité pour apporter à GeoNetwork quelques corrections et améliorations afin d’avoir des rapports de validation plus proches entre l’outil de validation du JRC et les résultats dans GeoNetwork.

Tout ceci est dès à présent disponible dans GéoSource 2.3.3-1, GeoNetwork 2.6.3 et le trunk de GeoNetwork.

5:52
All Points Blog: GeoEye’s View of the Size of the Satellite Data Business #GWF
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

GeoEye presented a market view of the size of the satellite data market at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India. They said that the defense and intelligence business is obviously a mature market. In increasing growth GeoEye sees these mar...Read more

5:52
GeoEye's View of the Size of the Satellite Data Business #GWF
sur All Points Blog

GeoEye presented a market view of the size of the satellite data market at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India. They said that the defense and intelligence business is obviously a mature market. In increasing growth GeoEye sees these mar...Read more

5:24
GIS Lounge: GovMaps.org Launches
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

News from Esri on the launch of GovMaps.org: Today, Esri president Jack Dangermond announced the new website GovMaps.org during the plenary session of the Esri Federal User Conference in Washington, D.C. The prototype site offers a customized view into commonly used nationwide layers and maps in ArcGIS for a better understanding of national issues and trends. Quick [...]
3:58
The Map Room: Flooding in Queensland, Australia
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

NASA's Earth Observatory has a number of high-resolution satellite images of the floods in Queensland, Australia. Nearmap managed to get an even closer look at the flooding, with two-centimetre-resolution imagery taken on January 13 and 14. ABC News (Australia) has a very neat infographic where you can slide between...

3:23
Equipo GeoTux: PGDay Latinoamericano - CUBA
sur Planet OSGeo

Buen día, en el mes de febrero en CUBA se estará realizando el Tercer PGDay Latinoamericano [1], donde acudirán muchos expertos en el sistema manejador de bases de datos PostgreSQL.
Asistirán al evento si no todos, la gran mayoría de los desarrolladores o colaboradores del Kernel de PostgreSQL como son: Álvaro Herrera, Chile; Jaime Casanova, Ecuador; Rafael Martínez, Noruega; Hitoshi Harada, Japón; y Mariano Reingart, Argentina.

Muy bueno para las colombianos que asistirán

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[1] [postgresql.uci.cu]

Saludos.

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0:17
OpenGeoData: Project of the Week: Banks and ATMs
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Banks banks banks. Not the banks of a river, but financial
institutions. I'll just run out to the bank for a moment. But which
bank is closest and most convenient? Do you need a bank with
wheelchair access, or with drive through service? Or are you looking
for a late night automated teller machine? We can put all of this
information on the map and that is the Project of the Week. Map your
local banks.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2011/Jan_19
This is your Project of the Week. Make suggestions. Inspire other
mappers. What is it about contributing to OpenStreetMap that
interests you? Postboxes? Bowing alleys? Share your OpenStreetMap
interests by contributing a Project of the Week.
[wiki.openstreetmap.org]
Bank machine photo by Dave Stone [www.flickr.com]
is licensed CC-By-SA [creativecommons.org]

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0:00
El Mapa del África Occidental Española de 1949 a escala 1:500.000: orgullo militar, camelladas y juegos poéticos saharauis
sur Cybergeo

El primer mapa “científico” del Sáhara Occidental fue realizado por el Servicio Geográfico del Ejército español entre 1943 y 1949: recuperaba así un protagonismo cartográfico en parte perdido tras la asignación del Mapa Topográfico Nacional de España desde 1870 a un organismo civil. Supuso además una oportunidad para mitigar el aislamiento de la dictadura del general Franco, al vincular su realización con el mapa internacional 1:1.000.000. Para su elaboración se recorrió palmo a palmo el desierto ante la imposibilidad de adquirir películas e instrumentos para realizar un vuelo fotogramétrico como consecuencia del aislamiento de España, pero también por los condicionantes del desierto en la visibilidad de teodolitos y miras, la existencia de inmensas llanuras y la acción mecánica del polvo en aparatos topográficos. La ayuda abnegada de los saharauis fue imprescindible en el desierto, especialmente duro en las zonas de la Hamada y del Tiris, que gracias sus juegos poéticos basados en la descripción de los paisajes del desierto, disponían de un mapa mental que fue imprescindible tanto en los recorridos topométricos, como en las sesiones de transcripción de los nombres de lugares y accidentes geográficos.
0:00
El Mapa del África Occidental Española de 1949 a escala 1:500.000: orgullo militar, camelladas y juegos poéticos saharauis
sur Cybergeo

El primer mapa “científico” del Sáhara Occidental fue realizado por el Servicio Geográfico del Ejército español entre 1943 y 1949: recuperaba así un protagonismo cartográfico en parte perdido tras la asignación del Mapa Topográfico Nacional de España desde 1870 a un organismo civil. Supuso además una oportunidad para mitigar el aislamiento de la dictadura del general Franco, al vincular su realización con el mapa internacional 1:1.000.000. Para su elaboración se recorrió palmo a palmo el desierto ante la imposibilidad de adquirir películas e instrumentos para realizar un vuelo fotogramétrico como consecuencia del aislamiento de España, pero también por los condicionantes del desierto en la visibilidad de teodolitos y miras, la existencia de inmensas llanuras y la acción mecánica del polvo en aparatos topográficos. La ayuda abnegada de los saharauis fue imprescindible en el desierto, especialmente duro en las zonas de la Hamada y del Tiris, que gracias sus juegos poéticos basados en la descripción de los paisajes del desierto, disponían de un mapa mental que fue imprescindible tanto en los recorridos topométricos, como en las sesiones de transcripción de los nombres de lugares y accidentes geográficos.

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