Best of the Blogs 24th August

By Spatial Source on 24 August, 2010

Here is a roundup of the best things from the web this week. Mibazzaar tells us about a project mapping the world’s happiest countries. The All Points Blog has a podcast interview with the King of Bing. AnyGeo takes a quick look at facebook places. The Baacha Khan Trust Education Foundation has made an […]

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GIS teaching software online for free

By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2010

The Global Software Institute has announced that a new GIS software suite will be made available to schools and universities that wish to use it as a teaching tool. OpenDragon offers a full suite of image analysis and raster GIS capabilitie, including image enhancement, supervised and unsupervised classification, geometric correction, measurement and statistics, vector capture […]

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Delights of Brisbane modelled in 3D

By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2010

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Federal election mapped online

By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2010

An interactive map of how Australians voted in the 2010 federal elections is available online. The ABC news map takes dry results data from the Australian Electoral Commission and displays it in a more accessible form for users. One of the map’s creators, Antony Green, wrote in a blog posting: “The map works like […]

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GPS graffiti artist defaces continental US

By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2010

A ‘GPS artist’ in the US has spent 30 days and driven 12,238 miles to create an enormous message telling the world to “Read Ayn Rand”. Nick Newcomen created the message by driving 12,328 miles across the US in 30 days, using a GPS logger to track his movements on Google Earth. “The main […]

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New Zealand puts seabed maps online

By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2010

Highly detailed maps of New Zealand's seabed have been made available by the nation’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. The data provides the most up-to-date bathymetry of the major features and the maps are generated from multibeam data, combined with traditional bathymetric data. Multibeam echo sounders emit a fan of sound beams […]

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UK row over publishing public mapping data

By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2010

Public sector bodies in the UK will not be able to publish data on Google Maps, despite a new deal lifting restrictions on the distribution of public mapping data. UK government mapping agency the Ordnance Survey collects and sells mapping data to the public and private sector. The agency recently signed an agreement with […]

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China R&D academy hooks up with Erdas

By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2010

The China Academy of Urban Planning & Design is using the Apollo System from Erdas to manage and deliver its imagery. The academy is a research institution based within the State’s Ministry of Construction. To conduct its urban and rural planning research, CAUPD requires a vast collection of images displaying large, continuous areas of urban […]

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EU to put geo data in the cloud

By Spatial Source on 23 August, 2010

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has signed an agreement with Esri to develop a cloud architecture to share environmental data. The EEA helps the EU community and member countries make informed decisions about improving the environment, integrating environmental considerations into economic policies, and moving toward sustainability by providing accurate information on the environment. The new […]

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