This past week, Google Maps and Tele Atlas agreed to a five-year partnership. The Dutch-based mapping company will provide Google with more maps and geographic data, allowing Google to disseminate the information to over 200 countries. The agreement broadens Google Maps and Google Earth, but also allows for a mobile platform [...]
Continue Reading →As the outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul from raw tomatoes spreads throughout the country, we thought it would be good to track the cases over time. You can find all of these updated datasets, ready to be mapped, at Finder!.
This map, made from the dataset Cases of [...]
Continue Reading →Data Transfer Solutions (DTS) developed an application for the Texas Forest service called the Texas Wildfire Data Browser. The application provides viewing for wildfire threats, fuel hazards and fire locations.
In light of the Iowa flooding, MSNBC posted an interactive map allowing users to track flooding locations in [...]
Continue Reading →Jessica Wyland of Spatial Sustain and V1 Magazine discusses the role of GIS when measuring carbon footprints. Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) scientists are using GIS to measure ‘carbon-rich biomass in heavily wooded areas to indicate the effect that deforestation and land use have on rising carbon levels in our atmosphere.’ Through GIS, [...]
Continue Reading →The first of our series on “Cartography and the GeoWeb” covers the cartography of GeoWeb base maps – one of the most obvious places cartography is applied on the GeoWeb. The tiles from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are nearly ubiquitous in map mashups. As each of the technology giants got into the mapping game, they [...]
Continue Reading →GIS Blog discusses the launch of the Acrobat 9 maps feature. The program receives support for the new PDF maps from ArcGIS 9.3. An additional benefit to the feature is that the free Adobe Reader also supports the mapping features, creating the possibility for quicker adoption than we’ve seen with GeoPDF.
Who [...]
Continue Reading →Computing, GIS and Archeology in the UK shares a tip for importing UK Mastermap data into Postgres or Shape files. The Mastermap importer imports mastermap data into ogr formats such as shapefiles, or into a postgresql database, in a free and easy to use way.
Glenn at the AnyGeo Blog posts an [...]
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