When Laurie was working on her blog post covering the geopolitics of oil, she asked Raj and I to help out with creating some maps. She had some nice data showing the known oil and natural gas reserves around the globe. Specifically, she wanted some 3D maps to really show the relative amounts of oil [...]
Continue Reading →The Carbon Project announced the release of their Secure Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) 1.0 extension for ArcGIS 9.2 desktop this week. The SDI 1.0 is a selected suite of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards endorsed by government agencies to promote interoperability. The extension will be the world’s most powerful geospatial security [...]
Continue Reading →Yahoo officially opened their experimental geo-location platform, Fire Eagle, to everyone on Tuesday. The location management service enables users to post their positional data on the web. One of the notable features is privacy. Although users are sharing their location, they can set limitations on what location information can be released. Pownce, [...]
Continue Reading →With so much of talk about energy policies on the Presidential campaign trail, I decided to look into the nuclear option that both the candidates support to different degrees. Lo and behold I found a listing of nuclear power plants in Finder!. Now that we have all these nuclear power plants [...]
Continue Reading →Microsoft Virtual Earth and ESRI’s ArcGIS have integrated. Microsoft’s mapping and imagery content will be available for use inside ArcGIS 9.3. Users will be able to access ‘resources that add comprehensive depth to their projects.’ The new service is not free; it will be $200 a year per user. [...]
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 →Not only can you drive with Google Maps directions, you can now take a walk with them. Google added walking directions to its Google Maps product today. The walking directions ignore one-way streets and Google Maps tries to give pedestrians the most direct and flat route possible.
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Continue Reading →Going green is taking businesses and consumers by storm. Yet, what is the role of GIS and GPS in renewable energy development? When GIS and GPS partner, they are ‘uniquely positioned to analyze and monitor earth system processes to make certain that renewable power generation sites are optimally sited and that the power that [...]
Continue Reading →ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API is now available. The two extensions that were also released at the same time were ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for the Google Maps API and the ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for the Virtual Earth. For more information on this free API, visit the ArcGIS 9.3 [...]
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