Date archive for July, 2007
July 25, 2007Flood Map from BBCGeographyBBC, the British television station, has created a Google Map that displays information about the flooding in Great Britain including “photos, videos, flood warnings and BBC audio reports across Berkshire”. Red markers are BBC radio broadcasts, green markers are video (through YouTube) and blue markers are user submitted files. Additionally, river flood conditions are marked ... read more July 24, 2007First Impressions of the ESRI User ConferenceFeaturesBoth in their first year as full-time GIS professionals, Kristina Jacob and Marc Zuber attended their first ever ESRI International User Conference this past June in San Diego, California. As Geography graduates from California State University, Northridge, both found positions as GIS technicians for two cities located in the Southern California area. Their proximity to ... read more July 23, 2007BlinkGeo LaunchedGIS NewsModelled after the widely popular Digg.com site, BlinkGeo seeks to replicate community driven news items for the Geospatial community. BlinkGeo operates in the same way as Digg by having registered users submit spatially related news to the submit. Other users can then vote and comment on the submitted stories. Visit Blinkgeo.com read more...GRASS GIS Releases Version 6.2.2SoftwareGRASS is an open source, free GIS software package that can run on a variety of platforms. The acronym stands for Geographic Resources Analysis Support System and includes includes “tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery.” GRASS GIS ... read more July 19, 2007NASA in Google EarthGeographyGoogle Lat Long Blog has announced the availability of the NASA layer group in Google Earth: The new “NASA” layer has three components: Astronaut Photography of Earth The “Astronaut Photography of Earth” layer showcases some of the best of photos from the online Astronaut Photography collection. Satellite Imagery The “Satellite Imagery” layer highlights some of ... read more July 18, 2007Outstanding Aerial Photos around the WorldGeographyThe Oddee blog has some fantastic pictures taken around the world; from rows of low income housing in Mexico to a love-struck message on a freeway in Seattle, Washington. Outstanding Aerial Photos around the World read more...July 16, 2007ArcExplorerFeaturesPromoted during the plenary session at the recent ESRI International User Conference, ArcGIS Explorer on the surface looks like ESRI’s answer to Google Earth. As explained by Mark Bockenhauer and Bern Szukalski during a technical session at the User Conference, what takes ArcGIS Explorer beyond the mapping capabilities offered by other such applications is the ... read more July 13, 2007Slashgeo Call for CollaboratorsGIS NewsSlashgeo’s creator Alex Leroux’s post on July 3rd, announcing the imminent closure of the news aggregation site, has sparked a renewed interest in the geospatial community to keep the site running. A call for collaborators to keep Slashgeo operational has been put out with volunteers able to put in as little as an hour per ... read more July 11, 20077 New Wonders of the World in Google MapsGeographyA recent Internet poll decided that the new 7 Wonders of the World are as follows: Chichen Itza, Mexico Christ Redeemer, Brazil The Great Wall, China Machu Picchu, Peru Petra, Jordan The Roman Colosseum, Italy The Taj Mahal, India It was only a matter of time before someone pulled the results into a Google Mashup ... read more July 10, 2007Where is that?GeographyUse this neat Google mashup to test your knowledge about the world. Mindpinic offers this test of your geography knowledge by asking you to match the satellite image with its location on earth. When you click on the world map, a set of markers pop up to show you how far you were away from ... read more |
