GIS Café have some 1m resolution aerial imagery collected just one day after a level 4 tornado struck Harrisburg, Illinois on Feb 29. Well worth a look.
The GIS Doctor has decided that, with the rise and rise of the popularity of Open Street Maps, 2012 will be the ‘year of OSM’. Find out why.
Indeed, LBS company, Foursquare has now switched to OSM for its basemap. Will the new API charges that Google are beginning to enforce be the end of Google Maps’ use in the commercial realm?
Hot on the heels of GeoNext’s Startup showcase, an article in Startup Smart talks of Sydney’s ability to harbour a startup scene, including a link to a startup transit-style map.
O’Reilly Radar has a post profiling “data journalism” – an emerging field that pairs data with reporting. Of course, almost all data has a spatial context, and readers love maps, so it’s very relevant to our field, even thought the data does often step beyond mapping.
Google Maps Mania shows us a ‘Hot or Not’ for satellite imagery. Users can submit their favourite place on Google Maps, and users vote on it with a thumbs up or down. Eventually, you’ll be able to browse the most popular images. Great for anyone that loves looking down on Earth (don’t we all?).
Another Google Maps Mania post, but this one covers a rather important issue. It’s a crowd-sourced map of areas in the world where slavery is still apparent.
