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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 [...]
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ESRI has a “GIS Best Practices” series that was launched last year to document successful case studies in a variety of industries. The series continues to be added and contains essays on a variety of subject matters including public safety, conservation, and logistics. The latest release is a compilation of past ArcNews articles entitled “Essays [...]
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The UK newspaper, the Independent, profiles Iain MacDonald, a cartographer in their “I Want Your Job” series. MacDonald works for Collins Geo which is a division of Harper Collins that produces maps and atlases. The skils he states for doing his job well: “You’ve got to be computer literate and logical, with excellent spatial [...]
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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 [...]
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Off the Map has triggered an interesting discussion in the blogging community after posting a list of “Top 25″ (amended to a list of 37 geospatial related blogs). The initial list was compiled based on authority ranking (both actual and estimated) as listed on Technorati and then amended to pull in additional blogging sites [...]
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Google has a plethora of 2008 Presidential Election related maps in their Election 08 Gallery. There are many interesting maps showing electoral votes, locations of super delegates and the locations of Obama and McCain videos. More maps are sure to be added as we near the November election. The Fundrace map is interesting as it shows the the [...]
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Government Technology has an story about how GIS was used in the effort to find Dean Christy, a retired educator, who became disoriented due to fog while hiking in the San Bernardino Mountains, California. The search and rescue effort benefited from San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s (SBSD) Mobile Mapping Unit which helped prepare maps pinpointing [...]
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An early heads up from ESRI which announced the future availability of Service Pack 1 for the recently released ArcGIS 9.3. The release date is anticipated for November. Read the PDF of the announcement for four pages of detail on issues that will be addressed by this release. Stay tuned to ESRI’s RSS feed for [...]
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The Washington Post has compiled a list of links relating to hurricane Gustav. The top link is the an interactive tropical tracking map showing the hurricane’s current location, wind speed and projected path. Additional resources listed are for NHC and NOAA models and other related maps.
Read more: Hurricane Gustav Maps and Models - Washington Post
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Want to launch maps over the internet but can’t afford commercial software? Check here for links to free map servers.
ALOV Map
Free, portable Java application for publication GIS data to Internet and interactive view on web browsers. Site contains live demos.
GeoTools
GeoTools is an open source, Java GIS toolkit for developing standards compliant solutions. It’s modular [...]
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