Christopher K. Tucker from Federal Computer Weekly calls on the federal government to create a data portal he calls where.gov: “At that portal, you could draw a bounding box on a map, declare a slice of time and instantaneously discover everything our government knows about that place. And we should […]
September, 2009
GIS Learning
O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference 2010 – Now Accepting Speaking Proposals
O’Reilly’s Where 2.o Conference is looking for people pushing the boundaries of location-enabled technology. If you are working on cutting-edge mobile projects, rich data, analysis tools, or augmented reality we want to hear from you. Geo programmers, researchers, early stage startups, garage hackers, social media mavens, CTOs, entrepreneurs, and product […]
GIS Learning
Book: Rethinking Maps
Rethinking Maps (Routledge Studies in Human Geography) brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship.
Maps and Cartography
Love of the American Road
It’s always been said that Americans love the open road. Ben Fry has illustrated just how much with his map entitled “All Streets” of the Lower 48 states solely through the symbolization of roads. With 26 million roads segments, the outlines of lakes and features of mountains becomes apparent as […]
Maps and Cartography
Monopoly Used to Conceal Escape Maps
During World War II, Monopoly had a greater role than just enjoyment. The popular board game was used by the British Secret Service to hide escape maps. The maps were printed on silk which had the double advantage of being both durable under environmental stress and whisper quiet. The escape […]
GIS Learning
GIS Market to Grow by 50% Over the Next Five Years
A market study by the ARC Advisory Group predicts that the geospatial industry will grow by 50% over the next five years: The worldwide market for Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) is forecast to grow 50% over the next five years, representing a compound annual growth rate of 9.3%, according to […]
GIS Software
Lunar GIS
Go beyond the earth and find applications of mapping and GIS technology for the moon. Find data, online mapping and spatial data relating to the moon.
GIS Data
Earth viewed from books
Over on the Inside Google Books blog, Mathew Grey, a software engineer at Google, has created a time series of maps of the earth based on the number of times a location was mentioned in books from Google Books Search. Grey expanded on a project, originally created by David Petrou […]
GIS Data
Shapefile Viewer for Data.gov
ESRI has a viewer that makes viewing shapefiles available from the Data.gov data warehouse a breeze. Click on the Data.gov tab to browse through a list of available shapefiles. Viewing the dataset is as simple as dragging the orange SHP icon to the Zip URL file text box and clicking […]
GIS Learning
Dictionaries and Glossaries
New to GIS or confused about all that terminology? Browse through these links to find answers to your frequently asked questions about this field.