gis.stackechange.com Public Beta Starts Today (0)
7/29/10 •
Billed as a “Q&A site for programmers, DBAs, Cartographers, Geographers and anyone interested in GIS professionally”, gis.stackechange.com will officially enter public beta today. The collaborative knowledge site is scheduled to start public beta shortly after noon PST today. More about the effort in a previous post “Crowd Sourcing GIS Technical Knowledge.”
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New Update on wiki.GIS.com (0)
7/29/10 •
Have you shared your GIS knowledge lately? Check out the article in Esri’s ArcWatch about the wiki that explains the who, what, where, and how of the site. Collin, the administrator for wiki.GIS.com has an update on changes that have made the wiki more user friendly: As with any resource, ease of usability is a big ... read more
“Father of GIS” Interview (0)
7/26/10 •
The Ottawa Citizen has a profile of Roger Tomlinson explaining, “Millions of users and more than 300,000 government agencies owe a debt to the Ottawa man who brought geography into the high-tech era.” Although British born, Tomlinson has made his hometown in Ottawa and received the moniker “Father of GIS” for developed the GIS model ... read more
America’s Moods, Courtesy of Twitter (1)
7/23/10 •
When and where are Americans happiest? If you go by Twitter, Americans seem to feel the lightest in the early and late hours of the day (based on EST). West coast residents and Floridians seem to stand out as the overall happiest. Between September 2006 and August 2009, over 300 million tweets were analyzed by ... read more
Capturing the Gulf of Mexico Oil Slick (0)
7/21/10 •
NASA has put together an informative page on the challenges of capturing imagery of the Gulf of Mexico oil slick and why new images aren’t posted each day. Terra and Aqua satellites are the only two NASA satellites that can provide pictures in near real-time. But unlike weather satellites that look at the same region on ... read more
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