Archive for October 2005





EO Natural Hazards

Oct 31st, 2005 | By

Natural hazards mapping…NASA…satellite imagery. What more do you need on Halloween night…other than candy corn. EO Natural Hazards: Natural Hazards Main Page



BBC NEWS | Planet under pressure

Oct 31st, 2005 | By

Back in the fall of 2004 the BBC news site started a series called “Planet under pressure”. It covers alot of the important issues facing the world including global warming, pollution, and hunger. BBC NEWS | Planet under pressure



Boston HyperMap Atlas with Google Maps API

Oct 31st, 2005 | By

We received the press release this morning for the Boston HyperMap Atlas from StrataVarious, Inc. which pairs Google Maps with the interactive HyperMap Atlas to link together the basic web mapping interface with an atlas that provides all kinds of information, from historic landmarks to government buildings, to hotels and shopping. I checked the site [...]



Happy Halloween! and Check out Haunted Map!

Oct 31st, 2005 | By

Poly9 has created a cool Virtual Earth map showing haunted places in the US. Check it out at Hauntedmap.com Via ViaVirtualEarth



Digg.com map round up

Oct 31st, 2005 | By

These are the map related entries on digg.com for the past week or so. Mapmix.com – Social Networking via Google Maps An Atlas of Cyberspaces…. Maplandia: A Google Maps homepage for every country Nasa Worldwind 1.3.3.1



Show notes for AVSP Episode 15

Oct 30th, 2005 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 15 October 30, 2005 Main Topic: Digital Cartography Click to directly download Episode 15 Click for the detailed shownotes



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 15

Oct 30th, 2005 | By

Main topic: Digital cartography. News: ArcGIS Explorer, Metafunction, Student Satellite, Missing map



Cartography’s Review of Online Mapping Sites

Oct 30th, 2005 | By

The folks at Cartography have just completed a 9 part series on the state of online mapping as follows: 1) Introduction 2) Google Maps/Local 3) Map24 4) Maporama 5) MapQuest 6) MSN Maps 7) Rand McNally Yahoo! Maps 9) Summary



ArcGIS Explorer round-up

Oct 30th, 2005 | By

ESRI formally announced its new ArcGIS Explorer at the European ESRI User Conference this week and the below are some of the discussion on this announement. GISMatters From Fantom Planet EdParsons SpatiallyAdjusted SpatiallyAdjusted2 OgleEarth



Jesse’s wrap up

Oct 30th, 2005 | By

I have been bouncing around this week due to work and haven’t posted very much, but instead of filling up the page and RSS feed with a few notes all at once I am going to just touch on a few announcements in one post. ESRI has released the proceedings from this past weeks Health [...]