The 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 […]
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WASSIC 2011 coming up soon
The 2011 Western Australian Surveying and Spatial Information Conference will be held on 20-21 June at the Burswood Entertainment Complex in Perth, WA. The conference aims to put on show all the spatial expertise that WA has to offer, with an emphasis on the development of the resource sector. This year, […]
Spatially enabling documents
Pacific Hydro, a global developer and operator of clean energy projects that include solar, geothermal, hydro and wind, has linked their ESRI GISystem with their Microsoft SharePoint document storage, spatially enabling the organisation’s documents. Maja Barnett, GIS Co-ordinator at Pacific Hydro, estimates that over 95% of documents across the organisation have some sort […]
Best of the Blogs 24/5/2011
Uh oh! It’s not the first time, and it probably won’t be the last, but the Gothamist has pointed us to the tale of a Jersey man trusting his GPS over his gut, and using it to navigate in foggy conditions. This obviously led to disaster, when his car (and family) ended up driving […]
ISDE7 – 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth
ISDE7 will provide an exciting insight into the use of digital technologies in today’s and tomorrow’s world. WHEN: 2011-08-23 to 2011-08-25WHERE: Perth Convention and Exhibition CentreSTATE: WACOUNTRY: AUS ISDE7 – 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, 23 – 25 August 2011 The 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE7) […]
Ozri 2011
Organised by Esri Australia, Ozri is a user conference for professionals within the spatial industry to come together, collaborate, learn and be inspired. WHEN: 2011-10-12 to 2011-10-14WHERE: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition CentreSTATE: VICCOUNTRY: AUS The countdown has begun: Ozri, one of the largest geospatial events on the Asia Pacific calendar, will be held at the […]
GIS lacking support from C-level executives
Esri Australia has conducted research showing that IT professionals believe state-of-the-art mapping technology had the potential to increase their business success if it were understood better by C-level executives. The research, conducted among 397 Australian businesses, shows 93 per cent of professionals who use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) identify it as being an […]
ISRSE34 is underway
The 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment is happening this week in Sydney. The theme of the symposium is The GEOSS era: towards operational environmental monitoring, and contains five parallel streams: Earth observation supporting disaster management and situational awareness; Briefings from space agencies; GEO forest carbon; Space policies; A panel on climate and […]
Social network map of unrest in Libya
ESRI has released a mashup map of the unrest in Libya that combines information, images, and videos from geo-located posts to Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. The default search terms return good results, but can also be tweaked to find the specific type of information that users are interested in. There is also an […]
GeoRabble roundup
The first-ever GeoRabble event was held last week in Sydney, with around one hundred geo-types crowding into the Occidental Hotel for a casual night of tales, laughter, drinks, and a few talks. Speakers included Stephen Lead from Ajilon, Monique Potts from the ABC, Francisco Urbina from Esri Australia, Chris Broadfoot from Google, Peter […]
