Archive for November 22nd, 2005




Christmas Shopping with Google Maps and Froogle

Nov 22nd, 2005 | By Sue

Google just unveiled its latest online mapping tool. If you use Froogle’s search to find products, the results will be displayed on a Google Map. I tried it out for our area, kinda cool.
Check out the new Froogle search here
Via ABCNews.com

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) GeoBlog

Nov 22nd, 2005 | By Jesse

Another GIS blog has found its way into my RSS aggregator: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) GeoBlog. This blog does a great job of the 2 things I think blogs are supposed to do:
point to resources that you think are useful to others (yeah, he mentioned us today ), and
dole out a little [...]

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NASA’s World Wind now has Moon images

Nov 22nd, 2005 | By Sue

A nice article at NYTimes.com (free registration required) highlights NASA’s World Wind viewer and the ten-terabyte satellite imagery archive that is available and now includes imagery of the lunar surface at a resolution of about 66 feet. Be aware, though, that World Wind requires a high-speed, broadband Internet connection and a computer with pretty decent [...]

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