Ogle Earth shares a plethora of links with everything from a 3-D globe viewer from Microsoft Virtual Earth’s API to heatmaps of georeferenced Panoramio photos to a job search using ReliefWeb’s map of humanitarian vacancies. It really shows that you can use a map for anything.
Reverse geocoding for Google Maps is [...]
Continue Reading →Adena at Directions Magazine shared the Mozilla announcement that Geode is coming. Geode is a geolocation add-on for Firefox which will enable localized content. ReadWriteWeb describes it as a tool that “understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content" and VentureBeat explains it’s a location determination tool, built on the W3C spec, [...]
Continue Reading →VectorOne posed the question whether or not geospatial technology could drive political consensus on environmental issues. Environmental issues such as flooding, disease, conservation, and/or water quality require top geographic information, spatial analysis and integration. The GIS and spatial technologies industry should assist anyone making decisions to better understand these issues and make informed decisions [...]
Continue Reading →Urban Mapping has created a multi layer paper map called Panamap. Powered by their “MapAction Technology,” users can view different layers of the map in different angles. The map provides three images that “are interlaced by alternating horizontal strips from each. The resulting compound image is calibrated to a specially designed polymer lens [...]
Continue Reading →Sean mentioned in his blog about how pooling together of efforts by Andrew, Sean, Bill et. al, the Fortifacture/MapuCommons folks were able to bring to you in record time the near-real time pollution data from Beijing. As we were working on this, we realized that there is a huge difference in the perceptions between the [...]
Continue Reading →While getting ready to launch Finder! we had an internal debate whether or not to put limits on dataset downloading. There were several options, ranging from requiring a user to be logged in before they downloaded to limiting the number of downloads a user could make in a day. A lot of the argument centered [...]
Continue Reading →Travel has put me a bit behind on getting up a post on the second day of “State of the Map”. However, having a few days to reflect on the conference it was really very impressive. Probably the single biggest differentiator between this and most every other conference I’ve been to is that every speaker [...]
Continue Reading →Cuba has been in the spotlight lately as Raúl Castro officially takes over as President ending the 49 year rule of his brother Fidel Castro. What will be the legacy of Fidel Castro and the socialist revolution that he led since 1959? One of the most acclaimed successes for the Cuban government has been its [...]
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