Date archive for June, 2008
| June 30, 2008Getting Ahead of Crime Using GISIndustry and Subjects in GISSara Barbour from Miller/McCune magazine writes a summary article on the use of GIS to predict criminal behavior. The start of the article reviews a crime case in which spatial analysis was used to pinpoint and subsequently arrest a sex offender in Toronto. Manny San Pedro, an officer with that police force is quoted as saying ... read more June 29, 2008 Geography GirlGeographyHere’s a flashback moment (at least for me) to grade school geography. Visit the image on Flickr, read the fun posts and help out Skye by adding a note on where you live. read more...Google's Street View Car AdventuresFunApparently one of Google’s Street View car drivers decided that an up close and personal tour of Microsoft’s Campus was in order. According to Gizmodo (the site refers to it as the GooCar): The GooCar…wasn’t just covering regular roads, they were going in-between buildings and getting as many angles as they could of the campus….the Google ... read more June 27, 2008Ice-free North Pole?GeographyResearchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado are predicting that the North Pole may be briefly ice free this summer. Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist states, “It’s a 50-50 bet that the thin Arctic sea ice, which was frozen last autumn, will completely melt away at the geographic North Pole.“ ... read more MapTubeInternet MappingA new map sharing site was launched last month by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. As the introductory blog post states: Put simply it is a place to share, mix and mash maps with a nod towards professional map makers rather than the more widely seen ‘MyMaps’ type applications. What makes this ... read more Map Makers of the WorldCartographyThe Maps of World site has a categorized listing of some of the most notable mapmakers in history and in contemporary times. From Anaximander who lived around 600 B.C. to Mike Reagon, a cartographer who has done work for National Geographic, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the site has short biographies ... read more British CartographersCareer, CartographyThe Times has short profiles on two British cartographers. The first looks at Jon Ford, a cartographer with the British Geological Survey who splits his time between field surveying and developing 2D and 3D models of his fieldwork. The second profile is on Edward Mainwaring who works for the Ordnance Survey. Mainwaring became interested in ... read more June 26, 2008 Shape-Shifting HighriseGeographyItalian architect David Fisher has announced plans to build an 80-story highrise in Dubai with 80 apartments that will spin independently of one another in order to constantly change the shape and look of the building. Dubai plans ‘moving’ skyscraper – BBC News read more...June 25, 2008What Say You about GML?GIS NewsThe Open Geospatial Consortium wants to know what you have to say about GML: The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change requests for consideration by the OGC Technical Committee on a revision of the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard. GML defines a data encoding in XML for geographic ... read more ESRI ReleasesSoftwareTwo press releases of note issued by ESRI today announced both a new version of ArcGIS Explorer for download and the long awaited shipping of ArcGIS 9.3. New Version of ArcGIS Explorer Offers More Data Support and Better Map Displays |
