There is an interesting discussion over at Slashdot (thanks to SlashGeo for pointing me in the direction of it) talking about questioning how GPS is changing us. Obvious examples surround the atrophy of our navigational abilities, but others are saying how it is transforming how we think about travel and navigation.
Between the Poles has a roundup of the presentation that won the ‘Best Presentation’ award at the GITA ANZ Geospatial Solutions Conference in Sydney last week. The presentation was given by John Moore, Manager Building and Infrastructure Project, Emergency Information Coordination Unit (EICU) of the Land and Property Information Department of the Government of New South Wales, and focussed on the Sydney Down Under Project.
If you manage imagery at your place of work (or, you know, as a niche hobby), The Field Guide have a post investigating the storage costs of uncompressed imagery. Spoiler: big savings can be made.
GIS and Science talk about an Australian study that created an automatic tool for creating subdivisions for urban and regional planning.
What’s a week without a Google Maps Mania post? This week they are outlining the handy flight planning and booking tool, Hipmunk. Hipmunk has just added hotel search function that includes an interesting hotspot facility.
Speaking of Google Maps Mania (oh, how I grow weary of typing that name), they also show a web-based directions tool, meaning you can have directions on your phone, without needing an app. Someone out there might find this useful.
To round off the Best of Blogs for the week, the ever fascinating Vector One has a post posing a thought: if geospatial models acted like stock market models…
