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Posted: July 28th, 2008, 5:24pm CEST by Caitlin
From 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.
- The URL of the repository [...]
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Posted: July 28th, 2008, 4:04am CEST by Caitlin
ESRI 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 JavaScript API
The [...]
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Posted: July 27th, 2008, 4:04am CEST by Caitlin
Mapinfo 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 was [...]
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Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 6:25am CEST by Caitlin
CNET 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 shows [...]
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Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 4:25am CEST by Caitlin
A 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 know about [...]
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Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 12:32am CEST by Caitlin
The 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 free publication (flyer, [...]
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Posted: July 21st, 2008, 3:43am CEST by Caitlin
The 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 [...]
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Posted: July 21st, 2008, 2:44am CEST by Caitlin
Despite 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 [...]
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Posted: July 20th, 2008, 5:12pm CEST by Caitlin
Whether it’s your first time or tenth time attending ESRI’s Annual User Conference in San Diego, this annual get together is always a fantastic opportunity for users and developers of ESRI software to enhance their skills and to network with other GIS professionals from around the world. Starting August 4th this year’s event marks the [...]
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Posted: July 17th, 2008, 1:17am CEST by Caitlin
With 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 [...]
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Posted: July 14th, 2008, 5:17am CEST by Caitlin
The 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 [...]
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Posted: July 14th, 2008, 2:51am CEST by Caitlin
Here’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, [...]
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Posted: July 9th, 2008, 2:35am CEST by Caitlin
BusinessWeek 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.
On one side of the issue are efforts like [...]
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Posted: July 5th, 2008, 7:09pm CEST by Caitlin
ESRI 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 a [...]
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Posted: July 5th, 2008, 6:31pm CEST by Caitlin
Despite the potential to be referred to the Information Commissioner, Google apparently has started gathering the street level imagery needed to launch Street View in the United Kingdom. According to the BBC, Privacy International, a British rights group, believes that Google’s technology breaks privacy laws in that country:
“In our view they need a person’s consent [...]
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Posted: July 4th, 2008, 8:19am CEST by Caitlin
Google is testing voice search technology for Google Maps and it has announced the availability for Blackberry Pearl users. The experimental technology allows Pearl users to use Googles Maps, obtain directions and located business by issuing voice commands. According to Betanews:
Pearl owners can go to m.google.com/maps, press 0 to center the view of the map, [...]
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Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 6:24pm CEST by Caitlin
Rather than continue to try and compete with the mapping services provided by other Internet search engines, Ask.com is now using Microsoft’s Virtual Earth to providing mapping services.
Read more: Ask Maps Now Using Virtual Earth - Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
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Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 6:07am CEST by Caitlin
Google has signed a five-year agreement with TeleAtlas which means the geographic data provider will be supplying Google with data covering over 200 countries for Google Maps, Google Earth and other applications that need geographic data. What is interesting is that the agreement allows TeleAtlas access to the community edits:
Bill Henry, CEO of Tele Atlas: [...]
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Posted: July 1st, 2008, 11:57pm CEST by Caitlin
Collection of references and tutorials on how to teach GIS to K-12 level students. Find lesson plans, user groups and more in the category.
ArcLessons
GIS lesson plans for K-12 level. Excellent source of basic step-by-step lessons to introduce GIS to the classroom. You can also upload your own lesson plans to share with others.
ArcVoyager Special [...]
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Posted: July 1st, 2008, 1:17am CEST by Caitlin
Sara 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 [...]
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