BBC, the British television station, has created a Google Map that displays information about the flooding in Great Britain including “photos, videos, flood warnings and BBC audio reports across Berkshire”. Red markers are BBC radio broadcasts, green markers are video (through YouTube) and blue markers are user submitted files. Additionally, […]
July, 2007
GIS Learning
First Impressions of the Esri User Conference
Both in their first year as full-time GIS professionals, Kristina Jacob and Marc Zuber attended their first ever Esri International User Conference this past June in San Diego, California.
GIS Software
GRASS GIS Releases Version 6.2.2
GRASS is an open source, free GIS software package that can run on a variety of platforms. The acronym stands for Geographic Resources Analysis Support System and includes includes “tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite […]
GIS Data
NASA in Google Earth
Google Lat Long Blog has announced the availability of the NASA layer group in Google Earth: The new “NASA” layer has three components: Astronaut Photography of Earth The “Astronaut Photography of Earth” layer showcases some of the best of photos from the online Astronaut Photography collection. Satellite Imagery The “Satellite […]
GIS Learning
ArcExplorer
Promoted during the plenary session at the recent ESRI International User Conference, ArcGIS Explorer on the surface looks like ESRI’s answer to Google Earth. As explained by Mark Bockenhauer and Bern Szukalski during a technical session at the User Conference, what takes ArcGIS Explorer beyond the mapping capabilities offered by […]
Maps and Cartography
Where is that?
Use this neat Google mashup to test your knowledge about the world. Mindpinic offers this test of your geography knowledge by asking you to match the satellite image with its location on earth. When you click on the world map, a set of markers pop up to show you how […]
Maps and Cartography
Visualization of Air Traffic Patterns
Aaron Koblin has some fascinating visualizations of commercial air traffic patterns over the United States. A digital media artist, Aaron Koblin used air-traffic data from the Federal Aviation Administration to show flight patterns over a 24 hour period over the United States and Canada. The resulting movie is surreal, with […]
Maps and Cartography
Cartographic Capabilities in ArcMap
The release of ArcGIS 9.2 brought increased cartographic capabilities to ArcMap especially in the area of rendering. As with last year’s conference, this was evident by the range of technical workshops offered at the recent ESRI International User Conference held this past June. On hand at the conference were ESRI […]
GIS Industry
Paleontology and GIS
Often, GIS is used to look at current trends and to predict future ones. GIS also has a use in understanding the conditions of the past, going as far back as prehistoric times. Listed here are resources that use geopatial technology in the field of paleontology. MioMap From the web […]
GIS Software
Google Earth Outreach
Google lauched their latest mapping initiative on Tuesday, June 26th called “Google Earth Outreach.” This new program is aimed to help non-profits to use maps and imagery to promote awareness of their organizations while recruiting more volunteers and raising donations. The Google Earth Outreach page offers tutorials as well as […]