Date archive for February, 2009
| February 14, 2009BCS John C. Bartholomew Award for Small Scale MappingCartographyFor the past 30 years, The John C Bartholomew Award has recognised excellence in the field of small scale mapping. This year, HarperCollins through Collins Bartholomew, in association with the Bartholomew family and the BCS are happy to continue this tradition. This award is given for originality and distinction in the field of thematic cartography (non-topographic, ... read more February 11, 2009MapQuest Still Number OneInternet MappingDespite the increasing popularity of Google Maps, MapQuest is still the most visited online mapping application in the United States according to Hitwise Intelligence. Accordng to Heather Hopkins at Hitwise Intelligence, Mapquest captured 39.49% of U.S. Internet visits compared to Google Maps which garnered 35.67%. However, the overall trend seems to show that Google Maps ... read more The Future of GIS According to Roger TomlinsonIssues in GISThe February 2009 volume of GEOconnexion International has a short interview with Roger Tomlison that takes the reader back in time to review the overlay methodology that birthed the concept of GIS and then looks forward for Tomlinson’s take on developments in GIS over the next 10 years. Visit: Roger Tomlinson on GIS History and Future ... read more Online Mapping as Both a Tool and A WeaponIssues in GISSpiegel Online has a perspectives piece on the double-edged usefulness of online mapping. Looking at Google Map applications in particular, the article looks at how online mapping can vary from being useful visualizations of natural disasters (such as the recent Australian fires), to curious (mapping out of celebrity deaths) to dangerous (through the targeted geographic ... read more February 9, 2009Santa Clara Ordered to Release Parcel DataIssues in GISThe California Court of Appeals upheld the Santa Clara County Superior Court’s order to Santa Clara County to release public information requests of its parcel basemap. The County unsuccessfully tried to prevent dissemination of the GIS data under the Federal Homeland Security provision of “Protected Critical Infrastructure Information”. Read more: Court of Appeal Rejects Santa Clara ... read more Mapping Excel Data Using Google Maps and EarthLearning GISThe Closet Entrepreneur has step-by-step instructions for turning addresses into x,y coordinates for mapping in Google Maps and Earth. If do-it-yourself mapping isn’t your thing, then the site recommends using batchgeocode.com or Dabble DB to upload and map out addresses from Excel. read more...February 8, 2009February 7, 2009Tutorials in GISLearning GIS, Link LibraryOnline lessons in a wide range of subject matters for learning GIS. Take an introduction to GIS class. Other subject matters include using Census data in GIS and an Introduction to Hydrology. ArcGIS Tutorials List of mostly video-based ArcGIS tutorials demonstrating step by step instructions on functions using ESRI’s desktop GIS software. Accessing Spatial Data Tutorial Tutorial ... read more February 3, 2009Updates of NoteSoftwareGoogle Earth 5.0 was released yesterday with some new features per Google’s Lat Long Blog: Historical Imagery: Until today, Google Earth displayed only one image of a given place at a given time. With this new feature, you can now move back and forth in time to reveal imagery from years and even decades past, revealing ... read more |
