The Map Room has a great example the beauty possible in modern cartography, in the form of the Reykjavík Center Map. The online map is a nod toward the hand-drawn maps of yore, and features a beautifully illustrated isometric projection of Iceland’s capital. The Google Earth Blog shows us a fantastic infographic created […]
Field GIS data collection for iPhone and iPad
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011Following the release of the iCMTGIS for the Apple iPad, Corvallis Microtechnology, Inc. has announced the release of the iGPSGIS application software for use on the Apple iPhone. Like the iPad app, iGPSGIS allows the creation of GIS data in the field, including the export and import of shp files. The app […]
Google Earth Builder, online GIS
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011Google and Directions Magazine have put a webinar online that outlines the features of Google's cloud-based GISystem, Google Earth Builder. The webinar is free to watch, as long as you throw your contact details their way. Despite the circa 1999 audio quality of the presentation, there is a lot to be impressed with. […]
GeoCommons makes cloud-based GIS analysis free for everyone
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011While there are many web-based mapping tools available for free, there are precious few that allow you to also run analytics – the heart and soul of a GISystem – without charging fees. The reason is simple; analytics cost serious CPU time. However, GeoIQ has recently integrated its once enterprise-only web-based GIS analysis […]
Trimble introduces updated software, data processing service
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011Trimble recently introduced version 2.50 of its Trimble Business Centre software for surveying offices and a new Data Processing Service, a component of the Trimble Access Services. Trimble Business Center allows survey data managers to combine GNSS and optical surveying data as well as digital image data from Trimble surveying instruments into a […]
A web portal training students for geoinformation
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011A new web-portal with the aim of increasing the geoinformatic competencies of European students has launched today. The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria today unveiled their new digital-earth.eu project, a European network connecting those using Spatial Media and Geoinformation in School Education. The project involves experts in the use of geographical […]
Run for plants viewable online
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011Two guys are running from Sydney to Melbourne to help save plant species, and you can track their progress online. Chris Turnbull, aged 27, and Len Gervay, aged 30, stared their 900km journey at the Sydney GPO at dawn on Sunday 19 June. As it stands when I write this, they are currently […]
Best of the Blogs 21/6/11
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011The latest effort in the ongoing saga of humanity handing over the control of their brains to the machines comes from Bellevue, Washington, where three young women had to clamber from their vehicle after the driver followed their SatNav unit’s instructions so precisely that she ended up driving into a lake. Considering there was […]
International LiDAR Mapping Forum
By Spatial Source on 14 June, 2011The International LiDAR Mapping Forum [ILMF] is the premier event for the LIDAR industry, attracting professionals from all over the world and is supported by ASPRS. WHEN: 2012-01-23 to 2012-01-23WHERE: Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Conference Center, Denver, Colorado, USASTATE: InternationalCOUNTRY: INT The ILMF conference is a unique platform on which to launch the latest […]
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