Date archive for May, 2008
May 29, 2008 TrackThePackFeaturesHere’s another fun application to be mesmerized by instead of working. TrackThePack is an application that allows you to follow shipments from multiple delivery companies as your packages travel across the United States. You have to register to take full advantage of the service, unregistered users can only track a single package at a time. The shipping ... read more May 28, 2008Portable GISFeaturesJo Cook has announced that the first release of Portable GIS is now available for downloading. Portable GIS is a suite of open source GIS applications and supporting tool-kits that can be run off of a memory stick including GRASS, PostgresSQL and open source web mapping software. This concept was presented at FOSS4G2007 in a ... read more Weird European Names QuizGeographySpiegel, the German magazine, has fun with some of the weirder names of locations found in Germany and other European cities: Germany has a string of cities that take one through the entire digestive tract: Essen (eat), Darmstadt (intestine city), and Pforzheim (which is close enough to the German word for “fart” to make it ... read more Google Earth Browser Plug-inWeb MappingGoogle’s Lat Long blog made the announcement today of a browser plug-in for Google Earth. Today, I’m happy to announce the release of the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google Earth to the web, embeddable within your own web site. Driven by an extensive JavaScript API, you can control ... read more Mapping Xenophobic Attacks in South AfricaGeographyWith violence against foreigners in South Africa increasing, United for Africa has been mapping out incidents. The site maps out using Google maps the locations of all incidents as well as a rolling table describing each event. Visitors to the site can submit incidents either online or via SMS (all submitted claims are verified before ... read more May 27, 2008Largest GPS Drawing Exposed as a FraudGPSAn art student claimed to have prepared a self-portrait using the world as his canvas. Erik Nordenankar explained on his website that he used a briefcase outfitted with a GPS unit on a detailed journey. The briefcase was allgedly sent by DHL to over 62 countries over a course of 55 days in a very specific order ... read more Paper Maps Being Phased OutMapsThe San Francisco Chronicle reports on the phasing out of the cartography division that serves the California State Automobile Association. By the end of the year, the twelve-person cartographic unit will be disbanded with mapping services done only by AAA’s national headquarters in Heathrow, Florida. The cause for the demise is the widespread availability of online ... read more May 26, 2008 Object Oriented Image Analysis For Urban Development and ManagementFeatures, Industry and Subjects in GIS, Remote SensingThe research topic is land cover mapping with object oriented image analysis approach. The research took urban conglomeration of Vijayawada city as one of the case study. Over the last 30 years remote sensing methods have operationally been used for environmental issues, especially in areas where only insufficient field data are available for urban development ... read more 2008 ESRI International User Conference to Host a Special Climate Change GIS ProgramFeaturesThe upcoming 2008 ESRI International User Conference will play host to over 14,000 attendees and numerous technical and subject-based tracks. One of the new subject threads is the Climate Change GIS track where conference goers can learn about the role of data and technology in investigating and mitigating global warming. Carla Wheeler, ESRI writer, presents ... read more May 25, 2008Grid Computing in Distributed GISFeaturesGuest article by Zahid Imran Ahmed, the Sr. IT Manager of Stesalit Inc. Some consider this to be the “the third information technology wave” after the Internet and Web, and will be the backbone of the next generation of services and applications that are going to further the research and development of GIS and related ... read more |
