Jeff Thurston of Vector One asks the question “Do surveying – GIS workflows really exist?” GIS often relies on surveyed data, but are survey equipment makers still only targeting CAD applications?
Jose from Communica has written an overview of a new mashup map put out by Ausgrid (formerly Energy Australia, and major energy supplier for Sydney) that shows both electricity usage and works undertaken in an area.
The Google Earth Blog has a post outlining the improvements that the recent move to WebGL has brought Google Maps, including a link to a comparison video.
Speaking of WebGL, Google Maps Mania has a post that shows off some great WebGL (and HTML5) applications based on Google Maps. The Urban Arteries one is particularly memorable.
SlashGeo is discussing a recent News.com.au article that talks of an unnamed Queensland shopping centre that is about to fit receivers that will track individuals’ movements down to 2 metres, using the unique radio frequency codes broadcast by mobile phones.
Speaking of privacy, O’Reailly Radar has put up a video of O’Reially Media’s CIO, Jonathan Reichental, speaking at TEDx in Chicago on whether the web has ultimately become our least private domain and whether, in fact, that may be a good thing.
The LiDAR News blog points us to an article in which Shawn Butcher, a grad student at Oregon State University, documents his recent experience in Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami. With most of the damage from the earthquake obliterated, the team that Shawn was part of focused their efforts on laser scanning the damage that occurred to structures from the ensuing tsunami.
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