im heading off for a weeks worth of roadtripping up the nile tagging along with some egyptologist friends. the narrow populated swath along the river should be awash with 3g connectivity so i plan to stay connected. if i make any good 360degree panoramas ill upload them to 360cities and post them here.
meanwhile
mumbai terrorists used google earth te...... [Show More]
the ancient rome links
rome reborn 2.0 website launched the most recent iteration of the ancient rome dataset rome reborn 2.0 gets its own website with photo galleries project news and associated scholarly papers . how do i know because the projects director of 3d modelling kim dylla told us so on her own livejournal page .
virtual byzantium google talks about r...... [Show More]
as im sure many have seen arcgis service pack 1 is available on esris servers. im interested to see how the new error reporting has improved the first service pack over previous service packs. esri is still going to release a service pack a quarter so dont worry about the future. the links below go to the download page which also has info about the what fixes were included.
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brady has just posted the news on the geowanking list . full text after the jump.
howdy
joshua has been quietly looking for a good home for geowanking for a while. he approached oreilly and we have agreed to support the list.
id like to thank joshua for starting the list and helping the community grow. hes put in a lot of time and energy for us. thanks
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there are really good reasons to use the file geodatabase in the esri world over the shapefile and personal geodatabase but it doesnt mean it is easy to share. sean gorman knows that the more file formats he supports the more likely people especially gis pros will be using geocommons. i suppose the simple answer for sean is to buy a license of fme server and support everything and...... [Show More]
one of the frequent questions we get asked are what file formats will geocommons support in the future. currently we are working on adding georss kml network links and kmzs. the big push with these file formats is to allow dynamic data to be added to geocommons which we think will open a lot of new possibilities for what you can do with both analysis and data visualization. the question we...... [Show More]
catching up Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Nov 03 2008 18:17:01
i was out last week in new orleans and of course had no time to block so im going to try and catch up this week.
alexander karnstedtashares his thoughts on dave bouwmans presentation at the texas gis forum .
i strongly agree with dave bouwmans assumption that this is the result of a long lasting strategy of trying to cram desktop gis into the browser with gis manufact...... [Show More]
aprovechando que la semana est por iniciar que maana me asolear probando la estacin total sokkia y que estar de viaje a partir del martes les recomiendo 10 lecturas de inters
1. la teledeteccin terahrcica una buena fumada a cargo de geochente en geomatic blog
2. el geoetiquetado moiss nos habla en itacas de qu es y como lo ha logrado recientemente.
3. guia de...... [Show More]
links list 10.17.08 Post Source: blog.fortiusone.com Posted: Oct 17 2008 20:07:38
james fee writes that the esri javascript api is better than webadf . the simplicity of the javascript api and the way it works makes the classic webadf and html viewers obsolete for most users
jeff thurston at vectorone discusses map intelligence and data workflows . while most workflows using a gis follow a stepbystep procedure jeff states that no matter how proficient ...... [Show More]
we have been officially launched for a week so i thought id pass along some of the usage trends weve seen on geocommons. weve really appreciated the positive coverage from folks in the community and the traffic it has driven to the site. the best news so for is people are making maps 822 in the first week. not a gigantic number but encouraging.
i spent a good par...... [Show More]
i was thinking the past week about a project that we will start working on soon. simply put it is updating a mapobjects ims application we deployed almost 10 years ago that is still working . when i saw that it was not only still running but it was still a critical part of their business workflow it started me thinking about why such an application was so successful. it obviously wasnt the...... [Show More]
links list 9.26.08 Post Source: blog.fortiusone.com Posted: Sep 26 2008 14:05:38
is the geospatial industry affected by the worlds financial situation not as much as you would think according to jeff thurston and matt ball of v1 magazine . thurston claims the geospatial industry tools are relevant because they are based on reality. ball states that as long as geospatial technologies serves critical markets government homeland security etc. the industry ...... [Show More]
on the mississippi Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Sep 25 2008 20:58:10
ive been quiet this week because ive been at the fiscal year end management meetings. the rsp minneapolis office is located in the old grain belt brewhouse which is just incredible office space.
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the weather has been just so hit and miss. flying in on tuesday we almost had to divert to omaha ne and the rain once we did get on the ground made it almost impossible t...... [Show More]
as was widely reported google maps is now exclusively using tele atlas as its digital mapping data provider dropping navteq which provided data for google maps proper but not for the mobile or api products all points blog james fee mike blumenthal google maps mania . this is presumably the result of googles fiveyear deal with tele atlas .
but theres a ...... [Show More]
oracle and amazon today announced that oracle would be offering some of their products inside amazons ec2 cloud .
thea oracle database 11g a oracle fusion middleware anda oracle enterprise manager acan now be licensed to run in the cloud ona amazon ec2 . customers can even use their existing software licenses with no additional license fees.a
while i see nothing specifically ...... [Show More]
so google has finally gotten aroun t makin sure both th google maps api and th google local search api are usin th same underlyin data.
google maps has now switched their map data provision completely oer t teleatlas from navteq. shiver me timbers ill warrant ye now th google maps th google api and ...... [Show More]
arrr since today be talkn like a pirate day as others have mentioned .a i figured ye scurvy dogs needed a post on on to make ye own pirate mapa this also be something ye can do with the little bilge rats as well.
what ye be needin
a paper grocery bag ye need to tear out to be makin a large piece no need to be makin it look pretty
permanent markers any colors be just fine
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links list 9.19.08 Post Source: blog.fortiusone.com Posted: Sep 19 2008 14:43:08
google maps is moving above and beyond with their new mobile offering for street view. the application now includes a 360 degree pedestrian perspective. google maps mobile version was introduced this week and is available for the blackberry and other smart phones.
speaking of google maps googlers members of the google team were invited to visit the university of alaska at ...... [Show More]
to get cutepdf you will need to download and install 2 separate programs ghostscript and cutepdf click links 2 download. sorry about the video qualityim working on it.
click for someanot ljja zen...... [Show More]
post updated at 200 pm september 9 2008 to reflect blogs we missed. our next edition will include only the top 25 blogs but we wanted to keep all on the original list from this week.
here at off the map were always interested in what bloggers have to say about new technologies and services in gis and on the geoweb. with our interest in cartography through the development of ma...... [Show More]
as gustav increases in intensity traveling through the gulf the threat of it hitting louisiana and potentially new orleans appears to be increasing. it also looks like gustav could intersect with a variety of critical us energy infrastructure . weve been tracking both the storm and the potential impact on energy infrastructure and thought we would share some of the data. the map below...... [Show More]
there has been a fascinating thread going on over on james fees site about a web mapping application built by morris county nj to view their public geodata . james blog post and the comments to it all decry the lack of usability and shortcomings of the site and how it is par for the course in regards to most state and local web mapping applications.
while all ...... [Show More]
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