Wired has a great piece on cartographer Kate McLean’s “sensory maps”, which show how people use their different senses to navigate a city. As she explains on her website: "My research investigates smell perceptions of the city environment, depicting the findings in a variety of artistic, cartographic forms and augmenting and altering the maps on the basis of audience response."
David Hocking, president of SIBA, has published a piece in Directions Magazine that is in support of a "coherent legislative framework for sharing government-held spatial information between agencies."
The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on UAVs entitled ‘Here comes the Drone Age.’ It’s definitely prime-time for UAVs.
Cameron Shorter has published a (potentially controversial) post entitled ‘Will Australia’s CRCSI “Spatial Infrastructure” research see the light of day?’ Have a read and feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
If you’re interested in finding out what the recent Trimble/FARO OEM deal has in store for their future products, LiDAR news spoke to FARO’s CEO, Jay Freeland, and has posted what he learned.
Google Earth Blog highlights an interesting project that uses Google Maps to try and help save African elephants from poaching. The elephants are being tracked using Google Maps, with analysis on their movements being done so that alerts can be sent when something looks amiss. There are also some public maps displaying information on illegally killed elephants, and other topics.
Computerworld has a story on New Zealand’s building industry’s proposal for a national online system for building consents, which could save the country $1.5 billion annually.
