Date archive for July, 2008
July 28, 2008gvSIG NewsSoftwareFrom the gvSIG Virtual Office News: We would like to inform you that gvSIG source code repository SVN has been freed for public use (read only). From the gvSIG project, we hope that it makes working easier to the developers community, and to stimulate developing software for gvSIG application more and more. read more...July 27, 2008Mashup Training from ESRIEducationESRI will be presenting a free seminar on July 31st to teach ArcGIS users “how to use the new ArcGIS JavaScript APIs to build high-performance, easy-to-use online mapping applications.“ The seminar will air at 9am, 11am and 3pm Pacific Standard time. The topics covered in the seminar are: The concept of a mashup The ArcGIS ... read more July 26, 2008Using Location Intelligence, Office Max Grows Business and Improves OperationsGIS NewsMapinfo has provided a case study on location intelligence in the retail sector with this article on OfficeMax’s use of MapInfo Location Intelligence in their recent expansion. As a leader in both business-to-business office products, solutions and retail office products, OfficeMax, Incorporated serves enterprise-level, mid-size and small businesses, as well as individual consumers. The company ... read more July 22, 2008California No More in RussiaGeographyThe village of California located in a Russian Volga province is no longer. The deserted village has not contained residents since 1992. The origination of the name is vague: According to one version of events, the village was given its name in the 19th century by a landowner who had been impressed by a visit ... read more The Jekyll and Hyde of Google MapsWeb MappingCNET poses the question, “Are Google Maps good or evil?” in reaction to receiving two different press releases touting both the benefits and negative aspects of Google Maps: The first was from an outfit called Stop Child Predators, which launched a campaign to tell parents about the potential ills of Google Maps’ Street View, which ... read more News from the Online Map WorldWeb MappingA couple of announcements of note from the Online Mapping world: Google Maps is now offering walking directions for their maps. From the Lat Long Blog: Starting today, you can tell Google Maps that you want walking directions, and we’ll try to find you a route that’s direct, flat, and uses pedestrian pathways when we ... read more July 21, 2008Printing Free on MapquestWeb MappingThe Mapquest Developer Network announced that printing maps (from developer applications) is now free. According to the post the conditions are as follows: You can print up to 5000 copies of a map per run/publication The printed map can be up to a maximum of 8.5″ x 11″ inches printed It has to be a ... read more July 20, 2008The Many Names of Crowdsourcing GISGIS NewsThe advent of tools that invite and encourage even non-GIS trained users to provide geographic data and mapping in a collaborative, wiki-like environment has both fans and naysayers. The debate about this growing effort aside, even coming up with a universally accepted name has been elusive. There are certainly many competitors seeking to be “the ... read more Why ArcView 3.x is Still in UseFeaturesDespite the introduction of the ArcGIS platform at the 2000 ESRI International User Conference, some GIS shops either partially or exclusively still use ArcView 3.x as a means by which to do GIS. The original ArcView was introduced in the early 1990s as a graphical interface to view geographic data. ArcInfo, at the time, was ... read more July 16, 2008Google Maps BlurredWeb MappingITSecurity.com lists 51items you can’t see on Google Maps because they are blurred out. Reasons for the digital erasure vary from sensitive government sites to privacy lawsuits. The list is organized into categories containg government sites, sites removed for political reasons or due to litigation, nuclear sites and college and reasearch labs. Based on some ... read more |
