I just saw this article on Geocommunity. Apparently , a private company called Mapflow is teaming up with the Dublin Transportation Office (Ireland) to do a feasibility study on the use of satellite technology to track cars in real-time, and then charge drivers for the distance they travelled on the toll road. The study is
SRTM data now available from Geosoft’s public server
Geosoft has added Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data to its public server. Elevation data for basically the whole world is available at 90 meter resolution and the US at 30 meter resolution. I checked out the site, and the data is in the public domain and free to download. Here is the link to
Geograph British Isles – photograph every grid square!
Here is a cool UK website that details a project that “aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles” They bill it as a geography project for the people, since the photos are submitted, and apparently already have 30,000 grid squares covered. http://www.geograph.co.uk/
BBC NEWS | Hubble reveals new map of Pluto
Extraterrestrial mapping efforts continue The future of Hubble may seem similar to that of Landsat 7, but it is still getting the job done. Archives are nice too… BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble reveals new map of Pluto
Continuing issues with Google imagery access
First Australia, then Korea, now the Dutch. However, for the first time I see someone has mentioned the USGS’s National Map. While the National Map focuses on the US and does not have the smooth interface that AJAX offers yet…it does offer better overall imagery throughout the US. www.GovExec.com – Google satellite imaging software raises
How Hot is Aerial Mapping Technology?
This article from GeoCommunity’s Spatial News will tell you…. http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2005/aug/18/news5.html
NCSS Web Soil Survey
The NRCS’s Web Soil Survey has finally gone live. I have seen it since its alpha, and it is a good substitution to the hard copy soil reports. The WSS is built on ArcServer and ArcSDE technologies and will continue to grow. Take a look to see what they have implemented and I will try
Terraserver Mural – The Design Weblog
Always new ways to use aerial imagery. Terraserver Mural – The Design Weblog – design.weblogsinc.com _
Clouds on Google Maps
OK, it is late I probably shouldn’t blog just before sleep, but I figured I would forget this link in the morning. The Digg submission linked below is a person who found clouds on the aerial imagery when they were on Google Maps. They don’t say whether they think this is good or bad, but
HiRise high-resolution camera set to depart for Mars
Continuing my obsession is an article regarding NASA’s new instrument for capturing the martian surface. Please not that they talk about the number of pixels the instrument will collect at a time, but not what the spatial resolution of each pixel will be, which is actually more important for the end-user. The other important information,
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