GIS Lounge has a post on a great piece of memorabilia from the 1893 World Fair – a map contained within a cane. Came maps were a popular way of finding your way around town in the days before we’d ever even reached space, let alone placed navigational satellites there.
Google Maps Mania has a great post entitled ‘Desiging Google Maps with style’, which highlights some amazing styles possible using GMaps, but also points you to articles on how to achieve some of them. Well worth a look if you ever design webmaps.
Another post from Google Maps Mana talks of a hybird between Google’s Instant Search and Street View. You can start typing an address, and have a StreetView image of the potential results appear as you type. Very cool.
Geoff Zeiss from Between the Poles has a very interesting post on the evolution of the open source software foundation, based mainly on a discussion by Steve Wallu of the OuterCurve open source software foundation.
LiDAR News points us to an article in Our Amazing Planet that outlines the way that the USGS used LiDAR to quantify the destruction of coastal dunes in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The data will be used to predict coastal damage from future hurricanes and storms.
LiDAR News also has a video n NAVTEQ’s new 3D mapping capture and visualisation tech, called True. It’s simply staggering how far 3D has come in the last few years. Well worth a look at the video.
The All Points Blog talks of TomTom’s new SDK (software developer kit) for LBS (location-based service) apps on both iOS and Android.
