Date archive for July, 2008
July 16, 2008Town without wasteGeographyThe BBC reported on the Japanese town of Kamikatsu which has no trash pickup. Residents have to composte their green waste and recyclables are sorted into 34 different categories at the recycling center. Residents are responsible for disposing of all their trash. Read: Living in a world without waste – BBC News read more...ArcGIS 9.3 Seminar SeriesSoftwareWith the release of ArcGIS 9.3 comes plenty of opportunities offered by ESRI to explore the new upgrade. You can visit their “What’s New in ArcGIS 9.3” page to find out the new enhancements and view demos of 9.3 functionality. Announced today is the ArcGIS 9.3 Seminar Series which will start in September and be ... read more July 13, 2008GIS Volunteers for ObamaGIS NewsThe Obama Campaign is looking for volunteers to help out with their GIS skills: GIS for Change Political campaigns rely heavily on location based data and with the November election rapidly approaching we are looking for Obama supporters in the GIS professional community to step forward and help win November! Anything from 5 hours per ... read more Starbucks Closures MappedMapsWith the announcement of 600 Starbucks stores to close across the United States, it was only a matter a time before somebody took on the tast of mapping out the closures. Apparently Starbucks is only announcing the closures in batches. However, Starbuck employees are given a 30-day notice which is allowing the Seattle Times to ... read more Crime Mapping – Step by StepCartographyHere’s a step by step accounting of the manual process by which one local paper maps out their crime. What’s interesting is that the process to get the crime locations takes up a grand total of two steps and the process to get the maps so they can be printed is eight steps. Not surprisingly, ... read more July 8, 2008placeSpottingGeographyHere’s a challenge to your understanding of zoomed in places around the world. On placeSpotting.com a zoomed in view of an aerial is presented with up to four hints about the location. Solving the challenge is done by zooming in on a world image below the clue to match the zoom and location presented. The ... read more New World Heritage SitesGeographyThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added nineteen new cultural and eight new natural sites to the World Heritage List. There are now 878 sites in 145 countries on the list. The latest 27 added sites include four new countries: Papua New Guinea, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, and Vanuatu. Photos of the ... read more Collaborative mapping for disastersFeaturesBusinessWeek takes a very superficial look at the use of community driven mapping efforts during emergencies. While the article doesn’t go much in depth on the different types of mapping efforts that kick in during emergencies, it does look at two sides of the collaborative mapping issue. read more...July 6, 2008 Earth LiveGeographyThe Discovery Channel has a fascinating and educational interface with their Earth Live application. The site pulls in data from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NAS0 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to allow viewers to see visualizations of the earth’s methane, atmosphere, earthquakes and other global datasets. Users can also custom load ... read more July 5, 2008GIS in Action ContestSoftwareESRI is looking for your little slice of GIS life on a video: Do you think your use of GIS is too common to be interesting? Think again. You would be amazed by the many uses of ESRI’s ArcGIS software, which is a good deal of what makes the ESRI UC so inspirational. So, have ... read more |
