Tag: Google Earth
Web-based GIS
Access to spatial data as well as advanced mapping and spatial analysis over the Internet is becoming more common. Find information about map server technology and examples of online mapping.
Geospatial Redux: ArcGIS 10 SP 1, Soft-Maps, Google Earth 6, Steve Coasts Moves to Bing, GIS Day 2010,
Love maps so much you want to snuggle with them? Now you can get close to your favorite Brooklyn map by Emily Fischer. The blankets are called Soft-Maps and feature hand-stitched maps of Brooklyn neighborhoods and parks: Soft-Maps. Come and get it! The ArcGIS 10 (Desktop, Engine, Server) Service Pack 1 is now available for downloading. Esri [...]
Of Interest: Using WordPress as a Data Portal, Map Spamming, Google Earth
The Fuzzy Tolerance blog has step by step instructions for using WordPress to create your own data portal. The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers about “map spamming”. The BBB defines map spamming as “the practice of dishonest advertisers using popular Web-based map directories, such as Google Maps or Yahoo! Maps, to create the false [...]
Hurricane Earl and Google Earth Enterprise Portable
Google Earth Enterprise Portable is designed to allow organizations the ability to use Google Earth offline. This comes in handy in emergency management situations where first responders may be in the field without Internet access. Sean Wohltman, a geospatial engineer with Google, has step-by-step instructions on how to prep and download data based on a [...]
How Google Earth is Helping an Amazon Tribe
Scientific American profiles the effort by Google’s philanthropic Google Earth Outreach to help the Surui tribe in western Brazil combat illegal logging and mining in the Amazon forest. Google Earth has been working with Chief Almir Surui and the Amazon Conservation Team (a non-profit) to document the illegal logging while also collecting stories and information [...]