A new report says social location sites such as Foursquare, Loopt, MyTown, and Brighkite have yet to hit the big time. Forrester has found that only four per cent of US adults have ever used these type of online services. Just one per cent of adults actively engage with these services more than once per week […]

    The All Points Blog points to a project where students are using GIS to track past cases of Lyme Disease. Presentations from the 2010 ESRI User Conference are now available online. GIS Lounge tells you where to go for wind GIS data. Google maps mania directs us to the nearest travel guide. Nasa […]

  Goggle has produced another Australian federal election mashup. Spatialvision reports on a proposal to deliver a maps-based mashup of historic plans and images as a teaching tool for teachers in Australia. The All points blog finds a job ad which suggests GIS professionals may need to start going to the gym. A number of […]

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) international geospatial standards body is seeking opinions on a Geography Markup Language (GML) XML encoding for describing the characteristics of a moving object, such as a GPS enabled car. The group wants to develop a standard way of describing, in simple terms, the motion of an object, such as a […]

  The UK is looking into deploying a remote sensing system, rather than relying on outside providers. The new space minister, David Willets, has said he will study the feasibility of providing Britain with an independent remote sensing capability according to Aviation Week. The system would probably be based on EADS’ Paradigm’s Skynet 5 satellite […]