Visualizing Data: World Obesity Rates, NY Marathon Route Census Analysis
The World Health Organization (WHO) has put out a mapping application showing the global prevalence of obesity for males and females over twenty years of … Read more
Geospatial Redux: Geographic Imager 3.3, RapidEye’s New Website
Industry news in the geospatial world includes announcements from Avenza, GTG, RapidEye, and the Wycombe District Council. Avenza has released Geographic Imager3.3 for Adobe Photoshop. The latest … Read more
Mapping Citizen Engagement through GIS
Guest article by Timothy W. Carl Nowadays mapping tools are commonplace, especially on the internet, and we can see anything and anywhere with just a … Read more
Web Mapping News
Google has decided to resume gathering street level imagery in four countries. Â Google announced on its European Public Policy blog that it will resume Street … Read more
Accessing Directions and Mapping Via Mobile Phone Growing in Popularity
The use of accessing directions and maps via mobile phone is rising in the United States. Â A market study by comScore found that 14% of … Read more
Approved Online Map Providers for China, Where’s Google?
Eighteen providers have been officially approved by the Chinese government to provide online mapping services in that country. Â The providers, all domestic, were selected from … Read more
Making Mapping an Accessory to a Crime
Using any type of online mapping to help to commit a crime will result in a longer prison sentence. Â The Louisiana Senate approved Senate Bill … Read more
NYC Adds Aerials from 1924
NYCityMap, the online map viewer for the City of New York has added aerials from 1924 to their application. Now, in addition to viewing how … Read more
PortableMaps
PortableMaps is tile based mapping framework for ArcGIS at the View license developed by Michael Chamberlain. It allows users to publish their content to the … Read more
Bye Bye Geography Network
The Geography Network, which made its debut at the International ESRI User Conference back in 2000, is being shown the door by ESRI. The ArcGIS … Read more
Online Mapping Sued
What do Expedia, Google, Microsoft, the Washington Post, Ticketmaster, Travelocity, Tripadvisor, Yahoo, Yellow Pages, Yelp, and Zagat Survey have in common? They are all being … Read more
MapQuest Plays Catchup
ReadWriteWeb has a quick write up on some of the cartographic changes with MapQuest, similar to what Google rolled out last week. Also in the … Read more