Date archive for May, 2008
May 18, 2008Asking for DirectionsFeaturesHere’s a concept foreign to most that work in the GIS field: go on a trip and find your way around without the help of maps or GPS units. Dzido Szoltysek and Paul Todd are planning to do just that when they travel to Ireland and will rely on directions from locals as they make ... read more May 14, 2008 Google Blurring Street View FacesFeaturesGoogle has started to automatically blur faces on their Street View imagery. Using a facial recognition algorithm, Google has started to blur faces in New York City. From the Google Lat Long blog: We’re also taking this opportunity to test our new face-blurring technology on the busy streets of Manhattan. This effort has been a ... read more May 13, 2008Where 2.0Industry and Subjects in GISWhere 2.0 kicked off today in Burlingame, California which focuses on the geospatial web: At the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, we expose the tools pushing the boundaries of the location frontier, track the emergence of new business models and services, and spend time examining new sources of data and the platforms for collecting them. You ... read more Last Chance to Vote – Geospatial Leadership AwardsGIS NewsJo Treadwell from GeoTec Media is asking for your vote by Wednesday, May 14th: Geospatial Leadership Awards Sponsored by GeoWorld Magazine We need your vote! Polls close Wed., May 14 Vote Now If you have already voted for the 2008 Geospatial Leadership Awards, sponsored by GeoWorld magazine, we appreciate your participation. If you have yet ... read more Immigrant Assimilation in the USGeographyA new report issued by the Manhattan Institute entitled “Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States” looks at the rate at which immigrants adapt to living in the United States. The study looked at the degree of similarity between native and foreign-born adults living in the United States using Census data. The think tank compared ... read more May 9, 2008 48 States in 106 HoursGeographyJoshua Keeler, Joey Stocking and Adam Gatherum blasted through the 48 continental states in 106 hours in order to break and old Guinness records. After the trio reached Four Corners (the point where New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah intersect, they posted the following: Well, we made it. And we decimated our goal. We covered ... read more May 8, 2008ArcNews SurveySoftwareESRI is looking for feedback on the newly redesigned ArcNews publication. ArcNews is published quarterly with stories about GIS implementation using ESRI’s suite of software. The survey takes about 8 minutes to complete. 2008 ArcNews Reader Survey read more...May 7, 2008Mapping Sites Being Investigated by ChinaFeatures, Issues in GISMin Yiren, vice head of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, claims that there are 10,000 illegal mapping web sites in China. Google, among others, is being investigated as part of an effort to get rid of mapping sites that don’t depict borders according to the requirements of the Chinese government. Additionally, sites that ... read more May 4, 2008Internet for GeographyGeographyInternet for Geography is a guide to finding geography learning sites on the Internet created by librarians John Blunden-Ellis and Pete Maggs. The site is broken into different sections to educate the user about some of the best geography related sites. The site is somewhat biased towards United Kingdom sites but still presents a well ... read more GIS Interoperability ElusiveFeatures, Issues in GISGovernment Computer News reports (Where GIS gets lost) that while almost 70% of United States government agencies are using some form of GIS, most agencies have developed their GIS data independently which often creates compatibility issues when using data from other agencies. Currently, there is no uniform standard for data creation and sharing among the ... read more |
