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28 février 2012
23:51
Esri Asia Pacific User Conference 2012 Coming To New Zealandgeo.geek.nz
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

How Can Geospatial Technology Help You? Join GIS users and experts from Esri, including president and founder Jack Dangermond, to explore the power of geography at the Esri Asia Pacific User Conference (APUC) to be held November 5-7, 2012, in...

23:39
Cameron Shorter: OSGeo-Live 5.5 ready to distribute at international conferences
sur Planet OSGeo
Version 5.5 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection and accompanying Lightening Presentation, has been released, ready for distribution at a large number of geospatial conferences and workshops from around the world.

About OSGeo-Live
OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux that is pre-configured with a wide variety of robust open source geospatial software. The applications can be trialled without installing anything on your computer, simply by booting the computer from the DVD or USB drive. The lightening overview introduces all these applications, and hence provides a comprehensive introduction to the breadth of Geospatial Open Source.
- http://live.osgeo.org
Highlights
- 50 Quality Geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured
- Quality free world maps and geodata
- One page overviews and quick start guides for all applications
- Overviews of key OGC standards
- Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and Japanese
Contents

Browser Clients
- OpenLayers - Browser GIS Client
- Geomajas - Browser GIS Client
- Mapbender - Geoportal Framework
- MapFish - Web Mapping Framework
- GeoMoose - Web GIS Portal
Crisis Management
- Sahana Eden - Disaster management
- Ushahidi - Mapping and Timeline for events
Databases
- PostGIS - Spatial Database
- SpatiaLite - Lightweight Database
- Rasdaman - Multi-Dimensional Raster Database
- pgRouting - Routing for PostGIS
Desktop GIS
- Quantum GIS (QGIS)
- GRASS GIS
- gvSIG Desktop
- User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig)
- Kosmo Desktop
- OpenJUMP GIS
- SAGA
- OSSIM - Image Processing
- Geopublisher - Catalogue
- AtlasStyler - Style Editor
- osgEarth - 3D Terrain Rendering
- MB-System - Sea Floor Mapping
Navigation and Maps
- GpsDrive - GPS Navigation
- Marble - Spinning Globe
- OpenCPN - Marine GPS Chartplotter
- OpenStreetMap - OpenStreetMap Tools
- Prune - View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks
- Viking - GPS Data Analysis and Viewer
- zyGrib - Weather Forecast Maps
Spatial Tools
- GeoKettle - ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool
- GDAL/OGR - Geospatial Data Translation Tools
- GMT - Cartographic Rendering
- Mapnik - Cartographic Rendering
- MapTiler - Create Map Tiles
- OTB - Image Processing
- R Spatial Task View - Statistical Programming
Web Services
- GeoServer
- MapServer
- deegree
- GeoNetwork - Metadata Catalogue
- pycsw - Metadata Catalogue
- MapProxy - Proxy WMS & tile services
- QGIS Server - Web Map Service
- 52°North WSS - Web Security Service
- 52°North WPS - Web Processing Service
- 52°North SOS - Sensor Observation Service
- TinyOWS - WFS-T Service
- ZOO Project - Web Processing Service
Data
- Natural Earth - Geographic Data Sets
- OSGeo North Carolina, USA Educational dataset
- OpenStreetMap - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap
Geospatial Libraries
- GeoTools - Java GIS Toolkit
- MetaCRS - Coordinate Reference System Transformations
- libLAS - LiDAR Data Access
Other software of interest (not available Live)
- MapWindow GIS - Microsoft Windows based GIS
- MapGuide Open Source - Web Service
Where to find OSGeo-Live

You can pick up an OSGeo-Live DVD or USB and/or see the presentation at:
1. Our http://live.osgeo.org website
2. Malaysian Geospatial Forum, Malaka, Malaysia, March 2012
3. Spanish FOSS4G 2012, Girona, Spain, March 2012
4. FOSSGIS 2012, Dessau, Germany,March 2012
5. AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference, New Orleans, USA, March 2012
6. GISRUK 2012, Lancaster University, UK, April 2012
7. FOSS4G North America 2012, Washington DC, USA, April 2012
8. FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012,
9. MapWindow/FOSS4G Regional Netherlands, Velp, The Netherlands, June 2012
10. International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS), Leipzig, Germany, July 2012
11. 34th International Geological Conference, Brisbane, Australia, August 2012
12. International FOSS4G2012, Beijing, China, September 2012
13. INTERGEO, Hannover Germany, October 2012
Credits
Over 80 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software.
Packagers, documenters and translators include:Agustín Díez, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Alan Boudreault, Alexandre Dube, Alex Mandel, Andrea Antonello, Andrea Yanza, Angelos Tzotsos, Anne Ghisla, Anton Patrushev, Argyros Argyridis, Astrid Emde, Brian Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Cameron Shorter, Christos Iossifidis, Dane Springmeyer, Daniel Kastl, David Mateos, Diego González, Dimitar Misev, Dominik Helle, Edgar Soldin, Eike Hinderk Jürrens, Eric Lemoine, Etienne Dube, Fran Boon, François Prunayre, Frank Gasdorf, Gavin Treadgold, Gérald Fenoy, Hamish Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan Olivera, Howard Butler, Ian Turton, Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak, Javier Sanchez, Jesús Gómez, Jim Klassen, Jody Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, Jorge Arévalo, Jorge Sanz, José Antonio Canalejo, Judit Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Kristof Lange, Lance McKee, Lars Lingner, Lucía Sanjaime, Mage Whopper, Manuel Grizonnet, Marco Puppin, Mark Leslie, Massimo Di Stefano, Mauricio Miranda, Mauricio Pazos, Michaël Michaud, Michael Owonibi, Micha Silver, Mike Adair, Milena Nowotarska, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, Nobusuke Iwasaki, Oliver Tonnhofer, Òscar Fonts, Otto Dassau, Paul Meems, Pedro-Juan Ferrer, Pirmin Kalberer, Ricardo Pinho, Roald de Wit, Roberto Antolín, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Samuel Mesa, Sergio Baños, Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Steve Lime, Thierry Badard, Thomas Baschetti, Tom Kralidis, Trevor Wekel, Valenty Gonzalez, Yoichi Kayama
Sponsoring organisations
- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) provides the primary development and hosting infrastructure and personnel for the project, and for many of the software teams which contribute to it.
- LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward the management and packaging of software onto the Live DVD. http://www.lisasoft.com
- Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis provides hardware resources and development support to the OSGeo-Live project. http://ice.ucdavis.edu
- The DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of the core packages. [wiki.debian.org] and [https:]]

23:39
OSGeo-Live 5.5 ready to distribute at international conferencesCameron Shorter
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com
Version 5.5 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection and accompanying Lightening Presentation, has been released, ready for distribution at a large number of geospatial conferences and workshops from around the world.

About OSGeo-Live

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux that is pre-configured with a wide variety of robust open source geospatial software. The applications can be trialled without installing anything on your computer, simply by booting the computer from the DVD or USB drive. The lightening overview introduces all these applications, and hence provides a comprehensive introduction to the breadth of Geospatial Open Source.
- http://live.osgeo.org
Highlights
- 50 Quality Geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured
- Quality free world maps and geodata
- One page overviews and quick start guides for all applications
- Overviews of key OGC standards
- Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and Japanese
Contents

Browser Clients
- OpenLayers - Browser GIS Client
- Geomajas - Browser GIS Client
- Mapbender - Geoportal Framework
- MapFish - Web Mapping Framework
- GeoMoose - Web GIS Portal
Crisis Management
- Sahana Eden - Disaster management
- Ushahidi - Mapping and Timeline for events
Databases
- PostGIS - Spatial Database
- SpatiaLite - Lightweight Database
- Rasdaman - Multi-Dimensional Raster Database
- pgRouting - Routing for PostGIS
Desktop GIS
- Quantum GIS (QGIS)
- GRASS GIS
- gvSIG Desktop
- User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig)
- Kosmo Desktop
- OpenJUMP GIS
- SAGA
- OSSIM - Image Processing
- Geopublisher - Catalogue
- AtlasStyler - Style Editor
- osgEarth - 3D Terrain Rendering
- MB-System - Sea Floor Mapping
Navigation and Maps
- GpsDrive - GPS Navigation
- Marble - Spinning Globe
- OpenCPN - Marine GPS Chartplotter
- OpenStreetMap - OpenStreetMap Tools
- Prune - View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks
- Viking - GPS Data Analysis and Viewer
- zyGrib - Weather Forecast Maps
Spatial Tools
- GeoKettle - ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool
- GDAL/OGR - Geospatial Data Translation Tools
- GMT - Cartographic Rendering
- Mapnik - Cartographic Rendering
- MapTiler - Create Map Tiles
- OTB - Image Processing
- R Spatial Task View - Statistical Programming
Web Services
- GeoServer
- MapServer
- deegree
- GeoNetwork - Metadata Catalogue
- pycsw - Metadata Catalogue
- MapProxy - Proxy WMS & tile services
- QGIS Server - Web Map Service
- 52°North WSS - Web Security Service
- 52°North WPS - Web Processing Service
- 52°North SOS - Sensor Observation Service
- TinyOWS - WFS-T Service
- ZOO Project - Web Processing Service
Data
- Natural Earth - Geographic Data Sets
- OSGeo North Carolina, USA Educational dataset
- OpenStreetMap - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap
Geospatial Libraries
- GeoTools - Java GIS Toolkit
- MetaCRS - Coordinate Reference System Transformations
- libLAS - LiDAR Data Access
Other software of interest (not available Live)
- MapWindow GIS - Microsoft Windows based GIS
- MapGuide Open Source - Web Service
Where to find OSGeo-Live

You can pick up an OSGeo-Live DVD or USB and/or see the presentation at:
1. Our http://live.osgeo.org website
2. Malaysian Geospatial Forum, Malaka, Malaysia, March 2012
3. Spanish FOSS4G 2012, Girona, Spain, March 2012
4. FOSSGIS 2012, Dessau, Germany,March 2012
5. AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference, New Orleans, USA, March 2012
6. GISRUK 2012, Lancaster University, UK, April 2012
7. FOSS4G North America 2012, Washington DC, USA, April 2012
8. FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012,
9. MapWindow/FOSS4G Regional Netherlands, Velp, The Netherlands, June 2012
10. International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS), Leipzig, Germany, July 2012
11. 34th International Geological Conference, Brisbane, Australia, August 2012
12. International FOSS4G2012, Beijing, China, September 2012
13. INTERGEO, Hannover Germany, October 2012
Credits

Over 80 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software.

Packagers, documenters and translators include:Agustín Díez, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Alan Boudreault, Alexandre Dube, Alex Mandel, Andrea Antonello, Andrea Yanza, Angelos Tzotsos, Anne Ghisla, Anton Patrushev, Argyros Argyridis, Astrid Emde, Brian Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Cameron Shorter, Christos Iossifidis, Dane Springmeyer, Daniel Kastl, David Mateos, Diego González, Dimitar Misev, Dominik Helle, Edgar Soldin, Eike Hinderk Jürrens, Eric Lemoine, Etienne Dube, Fran Boon, François Prunayre, Frank Gasdorf, Gavin Treadgold, Gérald Fenoy, Hamish Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan Olivera, Howard Butler, Ian Turton, Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak, Javier Sanchez, Jesús Gómez, Jim Klassen, Jody Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, Jorge Arévalo, Jorge Sanz, José Antonio Canalejo, Judit Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Kristof Lange, Lance McKee, Lars Lingner, Lucía Sanjaime, Mage Whopper, Manuel Grizonnet, Marco Puppin, Mark Leslie, Massimo Di Stefano, Mauricio Miranda, Mauricio Pazos, Michaël Michaud, Michael Owonibi, Micha Silver, Mike Adair, Milena Nowotarska, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, Nobusuke Iwasaki, Oliver Tonnhofer, Òscar Fonts, Otto Dassau, Paul Meems, Pedro-Juan Ferrer, Pirmin Kalberer, Ricardo Pinho, Roald de Wit, Roberto Antolín, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Samuel Mesa, Sergio Baños, Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Steve Lime, Thierry Badard, Thomas Baschetti, Tom Kralidis, Trevor Wekel, Valenty Gonzalez, Yoichi Kayama

Sponsoring organisations
- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) provides the primary development and hosting infrastructure and personnel for the project, and for many of the software teams which contribute to it.
- LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward the management and packaging of software onto the Live DVD. http://www.lisasoft.com
- Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis provides hardware resources and development support to the OSGeo-Live project. http://ice.ucdavis.edu
- The DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of the core packages. [wiki.debian.org] and [https:]]
23:20
Searching for Old Maps OnlineGIS Lounge
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Finding scanned historical maps can be a bit cumbersome. Now, the site Old Maps Online, has made finding those maps a whole lot easier. Old Maps Online is a portal that allows the user to search geographically for historical maps housed via some of the largest online map collections. Current collections include the David Ramsey [...]

22:59
Australia's New Broadband Network Map
sur Google Maps Mania

In Australia a new broadband network is being rolled out. Over the next ten years over 200,000 km of fibre-optic cable will be deployed across the country and up to 6,000 homes a day will be connected to the new network.

Australians can use the NBN Rollout Google Map to see when their homes will be connected to the network. Users of the map can search by address, postcode or suburb and find out if NBN work is underway or planned to commence soon in their area.

Some areas on the map may not appear on the rollout plan, as the map only shows areas where plans for the national network have been announced so far.

22:48
OpenStreetMap en fonc de plan dans QGIS
sur PortailSIG - Actualité

OpenStreetMap en fonc de plan dans QGIS

22:33
Time to Give Back: Azavea Staff Allocate 2011 Charitable ContributionsAzavea Atlas
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com
As a certified B Corporation, Azavea is held to a high set of sustainability and social value standards. We’re committed to keeping the interests of employees, our community, and the environment at the core of our mission. And we strive to create a challenging and intellectually stimulating environment for our colleagues while seeking out projects with social value that help create more vibrant, sustainable communities (learn more here).

In addition to carefully selecting the types of projects with which we engage – public health, crime analysis, elections, human services, cultural resources, economic development, and land conservation, to name just a few – Azavea operates a pro bono program and gives away a portion of its annual profits to nonprofit organizations each year. Each of our 25 staff members is given the opportunity to allocate the contributions. Each person receives 10 points they can distribute across a list of organizations that match our areas of interest including:
- Ecosystems
- Local Arts and Culture
- Open Government and Rule of Law
- Internet and Open Data
- Sustainable Transportation
- Growing Underdeveloped Markets
We’re pleased to announce that our staff selected the following organizations for our 2011 charitable contributions. We believe that the work they are doing is well worth our support, and we hope you’ll take a moment or two to learn more about them.

Ecosystems
Local Arts and Culture
Open Government and Rule of Law
Internet and Open Data
Sustainable Transportation
- Bicycle Coalition of Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Neighborhood Bike Works
Growing Underdeveloped Markets
We also made donations to support other organizations and activities, including:
- Books for Africa
- Code for America Hackathon
- Entchev Legal Defense Fund
- Rob Stuart Memorial Fund
- Random Hacks of Kindness Philadelphia
22:26
GIS Coordinator | New BraunfelsGIS Lounge
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

The City of New Braunfels is accepting applications for the position of GIS Coordinator for the Support Services Department. This position is open until filled. Apply at the reception area of the Municipal Building 424 South Castell Avenue, New Braunfels, TX. Applications also available on the City website at www.nbtexas.org Resume can be submitted with [...]

22:16
MMQGIS : un bon complément au menu Vecteur de QGIS
sur PortailSIG - Actualité

MMQGIS : un bon complément au menu Vecteur de QGIS

21:57
Slashgeo (FOSS articles): PostGIS vs Oracle Spatial: PostGIS Wins
sur Planet OSGeo

Unless you're new here, you've heard of PostGIS several times. It's really hard to find documentation about spatial database benchmarks since, if I'm not mistaken, proprietary software licenses often prohibit publicly sharing such benchmarks (am I right?). And I guess there's at least one good reason for this: doing fair benchmarking is difficult to accomplish. But here's one (currently available) benchmarking report comparing PostGIS (PostgreSQL) and Oracle Spatial.

From the conclusions of the 46-pages report: "From the experimental results that we saw, we can conclude that Postgres performs better than Oracle 11g both in the Cold Phase and Warm Phase. Though in few queries Oracle 11g performed better but on the whole Postgres overpowered Oracle 11g. In the warm phase in 3 out of 4 queries Postgres performed significantly well, from this we can conclude that Postgres has better automatic memory management capabilities and page replacement policies. [...] Since Postgres uses the underlying GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) library functions for implementing the geometric operations whereas Oracle 11g implements them on its own, and since in majority Postgres performs well, we can conclude that GEOS geometric algorithms are more efficiently designed than Oracle 11g. And also Postgres planner is more efficiently designed to take advantage of any available indexes to use in queries for achieving better performance whereas in Oracle 11g we saw that we have to specify them explicitly through functions."

Here's what Paul Ramsey of the PostGIS fame has to say about it: "Methodologically there are two obvious issues: one is that the Oracle database was on Windows while the PostGIS database was on Linux; the other is that neither database got any tuning, they were both installed and run with default parameters. However, this is one of the nicer comparisons I have read: concise, focussed and with enough technical detail to evaluate what's going on."
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21:57
PostGIS vs Oracle Spatial: PostGIS WinsSlashgeo.org
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Unless you're new here, you've heard of PostGIS several times. It's really hard to find documentation about spatial database benchmarks since, if I'm not mistaken, proprietary software licenses often prohibit publicly sharing such benchmarks (am I right?). And I guess there's at least one good reason for this: doing fair benchmarking is difficult to accomplish. But here's one (currently available) benchmarking report comparing PostGIS (PostgreSQL) and Oracle Spatial.

From the conclusions of the 46-pages report: "From the experimental results that we saw, we can conclude that Postgres performs better than Oracle 11g both in the Cold Phase and Warm Phase. Though in few queries Oracle 11g performed better but on the whole Postgres overpowered Oracle 11g. In the warm phase in 3 out of 4 queries Postgres performed significantly well, from this we can conclude that Postgres has better automatic memory management capabilities and page replacement policies. [...] Since Postgres uses the underlying GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) library functions for implementing the geometric operations whereas Oracle 11g implements them on its own, and since in majority Postgres performs well, we can conclude that GEOS geometric algorithms are more efficiently designed than Oracle 11g. And also Postgres planner is more efficiently designed to take advantage of any available indexes to use in queries for achieving better performance whereas in Oracle 11g we saw that we have to specify them explicitly through functions."

Here's what Paul Ramsey of the PostGIS fame has to say about it: "Methodologically there are two obvious issues: one is that the Oracle database was on Windows while the PostGIS database was on Linux; the other is that neither database got any tuning, they were both installed and run with default parameters. However, this is one of the nicer comparisons I have read: concise, focussed and with enough technical detail to evaluate what's going on."
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21:26
After US v. Jones, FBI Turns Off 3,000 GPS Tracking DevicesSlashgeo.org
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Two days ago, Slashdot discussed a story named After US v. Jones, FBI Turns Off 3,000 GPS Tracking Devices.

Their summary: "The Supreme Court's recent ruling overturning the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices has caused a 'sea change' inside the U.S. Justice Department, according to FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann. Mr. Weissmann, speaking at a University of San Francisco conference called 'Big Brother in the 21st Century' on Friday, said that the court ruling prompted the FBI to turn off about 3,000 GPS tracking devices that were in use. These devices were often stuck underneath cars to track the movements of the car owners. In U.S. v. Jones, the Supreme Court ruled that using a device to track a car owner without a search warrant violated the law. After the ruling, the FBI had a problem collecting the devices that it had turned off, Mr. Weissmann said. In some cases, he said, the FBI sought court orders to obtain permission to turn the devices on briefly – only in order to locate and retrieve them."

Will this mean less GPS tracking stories in the future?
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20:35
Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, Universal Orlando Goes 3-DAnyGeo - GIS, Maps, Mobile and Social Location Technology
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Some fun news out of Universal Orlando as Spidey will look really impressive now thanks to 3D technology! From Universal Orlando… The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man includes all-new 4K digital high definition animation, sophisticated 3-D projection systems, a new music score and all-new 3-D “Spider-Vision” glasses. The glasses, seen here, feature new lenses made of [...]
19:30
Spatial Humanities: Step by Step GIS InstructionsGIS Lounge
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

The Spatial Humanities site has a growing list of step by step instructions on how to create and work with GIS data using such spatial technologies as ArcGIS, HyperCities, Google’s Fusion Tables, and Google Maps. The latest set of instructions provides downloadable sample files to run the user through heads up digitizing in order to create [...]
19:28
2012 Mobile Future Report Sees Android with Half the US Smarphone Market, iOS 30%AnyGeo - GIS, Maps, Mobile and Social Location Technology
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

More interesting mobile industry research today, this time via the 2012 Mobile Future in Focus Report from comScore Inc. This report looks at key trends driving smartphone adoption growth, mobile media usage in categories such as social networking and retail, mobile ecosystem dynamics, and shifts in multi-device digital media consumption. Some of the findings this year [...]
19:09
Bing Maps and Nokia get UnifiedSpatially Adjusted
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

There is such focus on Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and projects like TileMill that you forget about the smaller elephant in the room (the one behind the Google elephant). It looks like Bing Maps and Nokia are getting “unified”.

Last year, we entered into a strategic partnership with Nokia which included plans to offer a unique and compelling mapping experience for our customers. Since then we’ve been working with Nokia and Windows Phone to deliver a unified map style based on one set of design principles with the goal of providing a more intuitive and pleasing online mapping experience. Our Bing Maps designers teamed closely with our partners at Nokia Maps and the Windows Phone team to unify our map elements, improve contrast and usability to ultimately create a more beautiful and functional map. Today we’re excited to share the new map design, available on desktop and mobile versions of Bing and Nokia maps.

So it looks like both services will use the same background tiles and leverage the technologies that both bring to the table (including Navteq). A quick look at the tiles, at least on the desktop still show Bing Maps using the older style, but Nokia Maps seems to be using what is described in the blog post above.

I’ll be honest, I do like the new tiles as they are shown in Nokia Maps. There is just something about grey backgrounds that appeal to me.

Now maybe Bing is going to roll out these new tiles soon, but for now you’ll need to use [Nokia Maps][8] to see what they are looking at. Even on my iPhone, I’m still seeing the older Bing Maps tiles.
19:00
Bing Maps and Nokia Release Unified Map DesignBing Maps Blog
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Last year, we entered into a strategic partnership with Nokia which included plans to offer a unique and compelling mapping experience for our customers. Since then we’ve been working with Nokia and Windows Phone to deliver a unified map style based on one set of design principles with the goal of providing a more intuitive and pleasing online mapping experience. Our Bing Maps designers teamed closely with our partners at Nokia Maps and the Windows Phone team to unify our map elements, improve contrast and usability to ultimately create a more beautiful and functional map. Today we’re excited to share the new map design, available on desktop and mobile versions of Bing and Nokia maps. You can check out Nokia's announcement post here.

Let’s take a closer look at the updates.

Common color palette for road map style

We’ve updated our color palette to create a cleaner and consistent view of roads and landmarks resulting in a map that’s easier to interpret. For instance, the new road color is further clarified from rivers while not competing with traffic colors or overlaid information.

Celebrate Typography

We focused significantly on improving various typography components in order to provide further clarity on maps including font updates, improved readability and contextual labeling. Type size hierarchy further delineates classes of labels. The user watches city names consistently grow and become more transparent through the zoom levels. Small type is demystified from its surroundings with a technique that reduces clutter instead of adding glows or ever-present strokes. The right use of typography helps our customers consume mapping details more quickly.

Using Visual Hierarchy to create Focus and maintain context

At each level, there’s an appropriate amount of information conveyed to the user. Too little or too much information can lead to overload and thereby an unpleasant user experience. We’ve redesigned with this in mind, so a very different level of information is presented to you when you zoom compared to when you pan out. Go in for detail, pull back for context. We strive to keep the orientation and context of a user within the map surface persistent across various levels of zoom.

In addition to our map design updates, we’re also adding a significant amount of mapping coverage and data due to our partnership with Nokia and NavTeq. Each map data refresh from NavTeq brings with it many improvements, and each one also attempts to include as many new roads/subdivisions/ changes/etc. as possible. This update is no exception and the changes are too vast to list but most notably, there are a few entire countries that really improved including Egypt, Israel, Malta, Philippines, Uruguay and Venezuela to name a few.

All in all, we believe that the new map styles available on Bing Maps [www.bing.com] and Nokia Maps [maps.nokia.com)] and on your mobile device are easy, satisfying, and truly a delight to use. We hope you enjoy the update.

The Bing Maps team,

Rom Impas, Donald Barnett, Duncan Lawler, Nikolai Faaland, David Buerer, Jason Willison
18:58
Bristol Solar Power Hotspots MapMapperz - The Mapping News Blog
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A mapping website launched by Bristol city council rates every residential and commercial building in the city on its suitability for having solar panels...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

18:33
Finding Hotels in Croatia
sur Google Maps Mania

Find.hr is an excellent Google Maps based website for exploring and booking accommodation in Croatia.

The application allows users to find hotels by location, price, rating and type and even view nearby points of interest. Two simple drop-down menus allow the user to select the price range and star rating of the accommodation they are after. Selectable radio buttons in the sidebar then allow the user to choose what type of accommodation (hotels, family hotels, apartments or private accommodation) they wish to book.

Categorised points of information make it easy to find what kind of facilities are available in the area around a hotel. For example, if you want to find a hotel near a beach, you can select 'beach' from the points of information menu.

18:02
The Quantified Self at a Geographic Interactivity LevelSpatial Sustain
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Nicholas Felton is a designer that spends a great deal of time and effort quantifying his life, and has done everyone a service by pulling together these interactions into annual reports that compile and analyze this data with detailed graphics and figures. His latest 2010/2011 report is now online and available for purchase, with an [...]
17:45
Tips For Saving on Gas and Your Expenses At The PumpAnyGeo - GIS, Maps, Mobile and Social Location Technology
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Yes indeed, summer is coming (Well, eventually), however, those high gas prices associated with summer are here already – heck, just yesterday in BC Canada the price of gas at the pump shot up 20 cents a liter in one shot (that’s about 75 cents a gallon in one whack folks) and there’s no signs [...]
17:21
Geologists Map Forests of Dinosaur TimesSpatial Sustain
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In this month’s journal Geology, there is a feature that recounts the efforts of scientists to map the forests during the Cretaceous period. The map and database of more than two thousand fossilised forest sites during this time of dinosaur abundance recount a broad reach of humid tropics, with forests that extended close to both [...]

17:09
LightSquared Update - CEO Resigns - 2/28/12
sur All Points Blog

LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned after the Federal Communications Commission turned down the company's plan to build a nationwide wireless network, the company said. He'll remain chairman, but the cheif network officer will take over as CEO. Phil Falcone has joined the... Continue reading

17:09
LightSquared Update - CEO Resigns - 2/28/12All Points Blog
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LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned after the Federal Communications Commission turned down the company's plan to build a nationwide wireless network, the company said. He'll remain chairman, but the cheif network officer will take over as CEO. Phil Falcone has joined the... Continue reading
17:08
ArcGIS as an ServiceSpatially Adjusted
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Last week at the Esri Federal GIS Conference I sat in a couple of sessions on Esri and hosted GIS (what they call “the Cloud”). I even blogged about one of the sessions which I though that Esri did a really good job explaining how hosted GIS works and what you need to know before you bet the farm on it. Buried in there I said this:

I’m happy to see a Linux AMI choice, but unfortunately the news is that I still can’t roll out 10.1 linux myself, I have to use Esri’s AMI.

I’ve said that a couple times before over the years but on the plane ride home from D.C. I started to think about why this was the case.
1. I’ve been using ArcGIS Server for so long, I feel like I need to have total control over it.
2. I think I can create an AMI better than the thousands of engineers at Esri.
3. I won’t be able to use the AMI how I want.
4. I’m getting old in my age and I don’t like change.
I want to be my own gatekeeper.

I think that about covers it. When it comes down to it, I’m just worried that ArcGIS Server on AWS using Esri’s AMI might be bloated and slow. I think deep down I could probably configure that thing in a way that would make it sing. But as I sat on the runway at JFK for an hour waiting to take off, I began to second guess myself. Let me turn those 4 points back on themselves.
1. Sure I’ve been using ArcGIS Server forever, but Esri’s AMI isn’t locked down. It’s a full featured ArcGIS Server (depending on how you license it).
2. While I’m darn good at what I do, something tells me that Esri probably knows how to scale ArcGIS in AWS. And seriously, scaling ArcGIS Server is a huge pain in the rear so why do I think I want to handle that myself?
3. I use AMIs all the time that I didn’t create myself.
4. I don’t want to get a neck beard so I better stop thinking like that.
So ArcGIS Server 10.1 will be on Ubuntu as an AMI and all I have to do is request Esri to release it to me. Let’s just ignore the licensing for a minute, that’s pretty sweet. I need an ArcGIS Server? Bam, there it is. But the sweetness only goes so far, I’m still suck without an ELA so this utopia isn’t as wonderful as it seemed while our airplane was in line waiting to take off. Still, if Esri can ever figure out how the licensing works for users like me, there might be a great future here.

So this is where I embrace the new world order on using ArcGIS Server with AWS and just let Esri handle the details as to how ArcGIS Server should work. I can focus on what I really want to focus on, leveraging ArcGIS Server for my customers (again, assuming the licensing is ever resolved). Almost there…

Time to dig that Esri shirt back out and wear it proudly.
16:45
On Crowdsourcing, Crisis Mapping and Data Protection StandardsGEODATA POLICY
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by Patrick Meier, iRevolution, February 5, 2012 The International Organization for Migration (IOM) just published their official Data Protection Manual. … At the same time, the 150-page report does not mention social media even once. This is perfectly understandable given IOM’s work, but there is no denying that disaster-affected communities are becoming more digitally-enabled—and thus [...]
16:32
Spatial Data Supply ChainSocium
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All across the world, in virtually every industry I can think of, you can see examples of data supply chains, where data transitions from collection to aggregation then to processing and through to supply. In the spatial world the collection and aggregation phase often entails multiple remote contributors, creating and supplying data to a central, Primary organisation who is solely responsible for the aggregation.

Those involved in the process know that one of the most complex and costly aspects is the quality assurance process. How can you make sure that all the data being submitted is accurate? After all, if it isn’t accurate then the moment the data is submitted, the quality of the database is impeded. The knock on effect has real business impacts…this could be as simple as sending a letter to the wrong address, or as serious as sending an emergency service vehicle to the wrong location. At the end of the day, data must be fit for purpose and in order to achieve this, the data quality process within a supply chain is critical.

Ideally the data quality process should be completed at source and prior to submission to the Primary organisation. This ensures the data consistency at all levels of the supply chain and distributes the workload making the activity more manageable and time efficient. However this ideal model comes with its own challenges. How do you ensure all contributors are working to the same data quality standards? How can you enable all contributors to utilise the same technology to ensure the provision of consistent results? After all, deploying identical desktop software on all contributor sites is both extremely expensive and time consuming.

As a result, it is the data quality aspect of the supply chain that all too often gets pushed to the bottom of the priority list or is considered far too time consuming and costly.

However, with the revolution of cloud computing, the ideal process can be achieved without the need for all these capex costs and instead, data quality can easily be built into a supply chain workflow or process and no longer has to be a drain on time or resources. By providing a single cloud based data quality service, all contributing organisations can access the same technology, enforcing the same data quality standards without the need for any local installations or up-front costs.

In addition the key with the supply chain is to automate the quality checks as not only does this remove the possibility of human error, but also far increases the cost and time benefits that can be seen – this of course isn’t rocket science, as this is often the case when comparing automated and manual processes.

This is where the Online Validation Service (OVS) has been really beneficial within the Spatial Data Supply Chain as not only is it a cloud service, removing the capex costs, but it is also a fully automated process, easily scalable and fully configurable for the organisation or individual by applying purpose built rules. Socium has worked with Primary organisations that are tasked with aggregating the submitted data, to help define the quality standards that the incoming data needs to adhere to. This then forms the rules that Socium create inside the OVS so that the organisations or individuals submitting the data can easily run it against the rules prior to sending it to the Primary organisation. Once all the data is submitted, or as a final check before putting it live in the central repository, the Primary organisation runs it all through the OVS again to complete a final data quality check against the quality standards they defined.

Supply chains can be complex but when simplified are extremely effective.

To find out more about the benefits that this service can provide with a Spatial Data Supply Chain, why not have a look at the following webpage: [www.socium.co.uk]
16:18
The Location Business Summit Europe 2012Slashgeo.org
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The 3rd annual Location Business Summit Europe, to be held in May 22-23 2012 in Amsterdam, is the biggest meeting place for hands on knowledge and networking within the mobile and location industry. Following our blockbuster events in Silicon Valley and Amsterdam last year, the biggest and best companies in the community will come together at the most influential LBS focused summit in the world.

From LBA, indoor positioning, and SoLoMo, to business models, key strategies and the hottest market analysis, this is a sure-fire roadmap to solidify your strategies for the coming year.

Hear case studies from leading brands such as Starbucks and the BBC, to in-depth analysis around payments from PayPal. You’ll be able to benchmark your company against the Giants such as Google, and Microsoft, and hear from the agencies such as Ogilvy, AKQA and JiWire.

Find out more information here.

Slashgeo was a media partner of the Location Business Summit USA in 2010.
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The Oscar for the best Google Map goes to ..
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Tripline allows anyone to easily create an embeddable interactive Google Map of a journey or trip. Discover Los Angeles has used Tripline to create this map of LA Locations from 'The Artist'.

The winner of five Oscars, The Artist is set in 1920's LA. The Locations from 'The Artist' map takes the user on an animated tour of some of the locations featured in the film.

For those who live in LA the map creates a great guide to get out and visit the locations used in the film. For those of us who don't live in LA the map is missing photos and the option to view the locations in Street View.

14:21
Despite GPS, People Still Want Paper Road Mapsgot geoint?
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With GPS and other location-based apps available on smart phones these days, one would assume that the demand for paper road maps from AAA has gone down tremendously. Well, this not necessarily the case. According to the Travel Manager for AAA in travel manager in Pottsville, PA, many GPS people are using paper maps as a back up. For example, if they are stuck in traffic, then they can rely on paper maps to easily look for an alternative route. With this AAA branch giving out about 20,000 paper maps free to members in a year, which are all updated annually, it begs the larger question: do we still need paper-based GEOINT?

In a parallel world, many are predicting that the music CD will finally go away. Will the same thing happen in the GEOINT world? In the consumer world, it seems that paper-based maps are still necessary.

We welcome all thoughts, comments and feedback.

13:40
U.S. Sleep Map and other Health GIS News
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University of Pennsylvania researchers created a state by state sleep map using national data collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The map suggests southerners have more sleep disturbances and daytime fatigue and westerners the least. The data is from a phone... Continue reading

13:40
U.S. Sleep Map and other Health GIS NewsAll Points Blog
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University of Pennsylvania researchers created a state by state sleep map using national data collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The map suggests southerners have more sleep disturbances and daytime fatigue and westerners the least. The data is from a phone... Continue reading

13:20
PanoMap Sues Apple, Google over StreetView-type Map Display Patent
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PanoMap, based in Florida, filed a patent infringement case against Apple and Google last week. It's really about the display of data, not the capture and thus the allegations are against big users of these types of display. The patent, US No. 6,563,529, was filed back in 1999 and... Continue reading

13:20
PanoMap Sues Apple, Google over StreetView-type Map Display PatentAll Points Blog
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PanoMap, based in Florida, filed a patent infringement case against Apple and Google last week. It's really about the display of data, not the capture and thus the allegations are against big users of these types of display. The patent, US No. 6,563,529, was filed back in 1999 and... Continue reading

13:16
CARTO n° 10
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Carto n° 10, Mars-Avril 2012

Au Japon, il peut se passer des événements très étranges. Dans les cimetières, les esprits guettent les âmes en peine et sont capables de vous emmener dans un monde parallèle, comme dans Quartier lointain, de Jiro Taniguchi, l’un des maîtres nippons actuels de la bande dessinée. On se souviendra plus facilement de Ponyo sur la falaise, le film d’animation de Hayao Miyazaki, une histoire d’amour entre un jeune garçon et une petite fille poisson rouge qui rêve de devenir humaine. La colère de son père, un sorcier, provoque un tsunami, cette immense vague destructrice. Toutefois, la dévastation n’est plus ni une menace ni une fatalité au « Pays de l’Origine du Soleil ». Elle ne rend la société japonaise, obsédée par la réussite, que plus forte et le manga se transforme alors en un exutoire face aux défis de la nature. Il y a un an, le 11 mars 2011, l’un des plus forts séismes jamais enregistrés sur Terre (de magnitude 9 sur l’échelle ouverte de Richter) provoquait un raz de marée qui rayait de la carte des villes entières de la côte est du Japon. Près de 20 000 personnes y perdirent la vie. Pis encore : un accident à la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima réveillait les pires cauchemars de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Dans une ville comme Tôkyô, la plus grande mégalopole du monde, la vie ne s’est pas arrêtée. Bien au contraire. Si les défis (politiques, économiques et sociaux) sont nombreux, comme le montre le dossier de ce numéro de printemps, la jeunesse japonaise assimile la tragédie à une culture du délire technologique. Peu importe si, finalement, le monde disparaît… Il restera toujours l’espoir de la réincarnation.
Celle-ci est devenue « réalité » en Corée du Nord, où l’unique dynastie communiste de la planète a assis sur le trône le jeune Kim Jong-un après le décès, en décembre 2011, de son père, Kim Jong-il, le « cher leader » d’un régime dont l’effondrement bouleverserait l’architecture géopolitique de la région. Toutefois, comme au Japon, le peuple refuse parfois de se laisser faire. Au Sénégal, un mouvement populaire dénonce la corruption et l’incapacité du président Abdoulaye Wade, au pouvoir depuis 2000, mais qui refuse de partir. La réincarnation et la résistance sont ainsi au cœur de notre rubrique « L’actualité vue par les cartes » : en Russie, le Premier ministre Vladimir Poutine veut redevenir président, au mépris des manifestations qui dénoncent la dérive autoritaire (au sens « brejnévien » du terme) de Moscou ; en Amérique latine, les Amérindiens qui s’élèvent contre des projets menaçant leurs territoires réussissent à faire plier les gouvernements ; au Royaume-Uni, l’Écosse rêve d’indépendance.
Carto aborde également deux problématiques qui concernent toutes les sociétés : l’obésité et l’artificialisation des terres. Les responsables de ces deux « épidémies », qui touchent bien entendu la France, portent un nom : la malbouffe et l’urbanisation. Si les hamburgers ne sont pas les seuls responsables des problèmes de poids, la maladie n’est pas réservée aux seuls pays riches et oblige à une réflexion globale dans un monde où les mannequins – et l’image qu’ils véhiculent – sont rois. De même, les terres agricoles disparaissent petit à petit face à la pression urbaine. La menace est réelle, même si les villes françaises ne suivent pas le modèle japonais. À Tôkyô, les adresses telles que nous les connaissons n’existent pas et même les chauffeurs de taxi – s’ils n’ont pas de carte ! – se perdent.

En partenariat avec Carto, retrouvez mercredi 7 mars 2012 à 14 h sur France Culture Philippe Pelletier, contributeur de ce numéro, pour une émission de Planète Terre présentée par Sylvain Kahn, sur « L’homme, la nature, les sciences et la technique au Japon ».

Au sommaire :

Dossier Japon
L’ère post-Fukushima
par Philippe Pelletier

L’actualité vue par les cartes
Europe
• Réflexe nationaliste en Serbie
• Le droit de vote des étrangers, une menace à la souveraineté ?
• L’unité du Royaume-Uni en question
• Le pari insulaire de l’Islande face à une Europe en crise

Décryptage
• Artificialisation des terres : la France rurale menacée

Amériques
• Objectif Maison Blanche : la course aux dollars est lancée
• Les deux visages du Panama
• Pouvoir indigène

Asie-Océanie
• Réveil démocratique tardif en Russie
• Incertitudes asiatiques après la mort de Kim Jong-il
• Chine : la colère sociale gronde

Pôles
• TAAF : la France à 12 000 km de Paris

Enjeux internationaux : Carte détachable
• L’obésité, une épidémie mondiale

Afrique
• Les islamistes au Maroc : l’épreuve du pouvoir
• Coup d’État constitutionnel au Sénégal
• Le Mali en proie à une nouvelle rébellion touareg

Moyen-Orient
• Crise sociale en Israël
• La Charia, un concept islamique aux réalités plurielles
• La Ligue arabe : une organisation inutile ?
• Tensions à Ormuz : la géopolitique des tubes

L’œil du cartographe
De la vulgarisation dans la cartographie de presse
par Cécile Marin

Environnement
• Le fleuve Jaune victime de la puissance économique chinoise
• La mer Baltique : dynamique et vulnérable

Histoire
Retour sur… Le Japon, ressources cartographiques à la BnF
par Guillaume Lebailly et Jean-Yves Sarazin
• Les grandes batailles : La bataille d’Angleterre, juin-octobre 1940

Trésor de carte
• La Réunion

Insolito carto
• De vraies « fausses » cartes
par Frank Tétart

13:08
The Google Maps API as a GIS
sur Google Maps Mania

The Kentucky Land Use Map is a very impressive Google Map from The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture. It is another great example of the Google Maps API being used as a fully functioning geographic information system.

The map allows the user to view a number of land use data clouds directly on the map. The layers include soil boundaries and flood zones. It is also possible to click on the map and view the NRCS soil survey data for the chosen location.

12:58
Share your GIS success story and win a free ticket to Where 2.0 2012Google Earth Blog
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As you know, in April I'll again be attending the excellent Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco. It's an excellent event and encourage you to consider making the trip out there.

If the cost of the event is too much for you to handle, EngagingCities.com might have the solution for you -- they're giving away a registration for Where 2.0 simply by leaving a comment on their blog.

Their rules are very simple:

All we ask is that you share a story of how you or somebody else successfully used geo-location technology to engage citizens and stakeholders... Please share links to projects, research, news, a blog post - anything that documents your story.

As of right now they only have five submissions, so if you have a compelling story to tell you have a very real chance of winning this contest. The deadline is tomorrow, Feburary 29, so enter now. Good luck!
10:35
Podcast: New Players Dot Landscape for AnalyticsDirections Magazine - Top Stories
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Analytics and big data are becoming areas that are truly leveraging geospatial technology, and new and not-so-new players are entering the geo arena. We'll look at companies like SpaceCurve, Teradata, Rhiza and Tableau and examine what they are bringing to the table.

More about: big data, cloud computing, energy utilities and telecommunications, location based services, location intelligence and business geographics, visualization

10:00
New Geo APIs - 2/28/12
sur All Points Blog

Bing Maps Geocode Dataflow API: The Geocode Dataflow API is a component of the Bing Spatial Data Services. The API is used to geocode and reverse-geocode large sets of spatial data. Additional functionality includes creating a job to geocode and reverse-geocode the data, upload data... Continue reading
10:00
Honolulu Mayor Cites Open Data and Hacking State of the City and other Government GIS News
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Here are the geo "money quotes" from Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle's 2012 State of the City Address: CAN-DO.Honolulu.gov was created last year to provide access to government data in a searchable, downloadable, useable format – all without cost to the public. A new part of the... Continue reading

10:00
New Geo APIs - 2/28/12All Points Blog
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Bing Maps Geocode Dataflow API: The Geocode Dataflow API is a component of the Bing Spatial Data Services. The API is used to geocode and reverse-geocode large sets of spatial data. Additional functionality includes creating a job to geocode and reverse-geocode the data, upload data... Continue reading
10:00
Honolulu Mayor Cites Open Data and Hacking State of the City and other Government GIS NewsAll Points Blog
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Here are the geo "money quotes" from Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle's 2012 State of the City Address: CAN-DO.Honolulu.gov was created last year to provide access to government data in a searchable, downloadable, useable format – all without cost to the public. A new part of the... Continue reading
4:37
HAER Employs Laser Scanning and kubitLiDAR News
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This article explains how HAER is using 3D laser scanning, AutoCAD, and kubit to document the history of the built environment in America. Continue reading →

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3:39
Slashgeo's back onlineSlashgeo.org
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Our server host had major issues the past few days. This downtime was entirely out of our control. The good news, Slashgeo.org is now back online and will resume geonews aggregation pretty soon. Thank you for your comprehension. Alex for Slashgeo
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Opportunity Knocks for Mobile Developers – Enter The AT&T Mobile App HackathonAnyGeo - GIS, Maps, Mobile and Social Location Technology
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An interesting event for mobile developers, geo mashup artists and others that are interested in a cool challenge – the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon – scheduled to take place the week-end of March 23-24 in San Diego. Some details… Our Mobile App Hackathon (an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program, City of San Diego, [...]
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 345VerySpatial
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A VerySpatial Podcast

Shownotes – Episode 345

February 26, 2012

Our conversation with Nate Jennings about A Python Primer for ArcGIS®
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Music

This week’s podsafe music: “New York City” by The Counselors

News

298-million-year-old fossilized forest found in China
URISA calls for comments to GMCM
Google AR glasses by the end of the year?
Google Street View to collaborate on mapping the Great Barrier Reef
Landsat 5 Suspension of Operation Extended
ArcGIS 10.1 announcements from FedUC

Web Corner

Regional GeoBlog

Main Topic

Our discussion with Nate Jennings of Jennings Planet and American River College on his new text A Python Primer for ArcGIS®

Tip of the Week

Atlas of Design

Events Corner

Be Together: Bentley User Conference: 15-17 May, Philadelphia, PA
NACIS: 17-19 October, Portland, OR
Taking Archaeology Digital: 25-28 Oct, Tacoma, WA
AAG 2013: 9-13 April, Los Angeles, CA

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