Clip Art for GIS and Geography

Sunday May 24th 2009
Filed Under Fun, Link Library 

Find commercial free sources of clip art for globes, maps and other images useful for developing reports, web sites and banners relating to GIS and geography. Read more

         

GIS Forums

Monday February 09th 2009
Filed Under Community, Link Library 

Forums are online communities. Listed here are GIS related forums on the Internet.  Discussion forums are a great way to find answers to GIS questions, and connect with other GIS professionals. Read more

         

Recruiters in GIS

Monday February 02nd 2009
Filed Under Career, Link Library 

Headhunters can help streamline the process of getting a job. Find links to GIS specific recruiting sites. Read more

         

Bibliographies

Monday February 02nd 2009
Filed Under Link Library, Reference 

Annotated bibliographies and literature reviews in the field of GIS. An excellent resource for finding articles on case studies in GIS. See what advances others in the field are making. Read more

         

Distance Learning

Tuesday January 06th 2009
Filed Under Distance Learning, Education, Link Library 

Don’t have a school near you offering GIS? Distance learning is becoming a popular way to learn GIS. Click here to find schools offering internet-based classes. Read more

         

Discussion and Mailing Lists

Monday January 05th 2009
Filed Under Community, Learning GIS, Link Library 

Learn where to get your most complex questions answered by other GIS professionals. Mailing and discussion lists are an invaluable tool in keeping “in the know” in the field of GIS. Read more

         

Basics: Foundations to GIS

Sunday January 04th 2009
Filed Under Education, Learning GIS, Link Library 

GIS is a multi-faceted discipline built upon many tools and concepts. To really understand the capabilities of GIS, it is important to learn cartography, spatial and statistical analysis, database management and programming. Find starting points to learning about the basics of GIS. Read more

         

Women in GIS

Saturday January 03rd 2009
Filed Under Link Library 

Web sites with information specifically regarding women in GIS. Read interviews about women in this field or find GIS related support groups. Read more

         

North American Tribal Data

Friday January 02nd 2009
Filed Under Data, Link Library 

Free sources of data for North American Tribal regions. Read more

         

Christmas and GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

Sunday December 21st 2008
Filed Under Link Library 

Christmas related spatial technologies. Find ways to track santa and to view Christmas lights. Find interesting information about the geography of Christmas. Read more

         

Making a Mountain out of a Hill

Saturday September 20th 2008
Filed Under Current Events, Features, GPS 

It’s a case of life imitating the reverse of art.  In 1995, Hugh Grant played a cartographer who tried to turn a Welsh mountain into a hill by remeasuring.  The film “The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain” was set in 1917 in a small Welsh town.  Fast forward to 2008 where three walkers remeasured a local peak in Wales in order to reclassify it from a hill to a mountain.

Two thousand feet of height is what is required to be named as a mountain according to the Ordnance Survey.  For over two hundred years, that’s exactly what the classification of Mynydd Graig Goch in Snowdonia, Wales which until recently, had an official measured height of 1,998ft which put it two feet shy of being ranked as a mountain.   John Barnard, Myrddyn Phillips, and Graham Jackson launched an intensive survey of Mynydd Graig Goch to remeasure the height.  The team borrowed equipment from Leica Geosystems to take 7,000 GPS readings over two hours.  These measurements, which revealed the mountain to be 2,000.5 feet in height, convinced the Ordnance Survey to reclassify Mynydd Graig Goch as a mountain.  The revised digital data will be available online in the next few weeks and will be published in the OS Explorer and OS Landranger sometime in 2009-2010.

Read more: Hikers make a mountain out of an old Welsh hill – Associated Press

         

Heidelberg-3D – Interactive 3D City Mapping Based on OGC Standards

Wednesday September 10th 2008
Filed Under Features, Internet Mapping, Open Source 

Recently a first version of the interactive 3D city information system Heidelberg-3D.de was made available online. It can be used freely by anybody. The core of the system is one of the first implementations of the OpenGIS Web 3D Service (OGC W3DS) discussion paper. The system comes with a free 3D-Client called <XNavigator>. This client is a Java WebStart-Application and will be installed automatically if you follow the respective URL and if Java 6 is already installed on the computer. XNavigator allows the user to explore and analyse the 3D city and landscape models which are streamed by the W3DS server. A range of applications have been integrated in order to let the user work with the 3D model. In contrast to conventional proprietary 3D GIS, the whole system is totally based on standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

The main goal of the project is to build and evaluate a whole 3D spatial data infrastructure (3D-SDI) based on OGC services, not only to develop a further visualization component. Read more

         

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