We never really talk about GE Energy’s Geospatial Asset Management solution Smallworld. This mostly has to do with the fact that we have never had a chance to see it in action (other than a few still photos). One of the reasons it has always kept my interest piqued, however, is the fact that it [...]
As I’m sure many of you remember, I have been a fan of Microsoft Research’s Photosynth since we saw the first tech previews back in July 2006. Today I finally got some time to sit down and try it out myself. After setting up my profile on the Photosynth site and downloading and installing Photosynth, [...]
The use of cartograms as representational tools for the US election results got a lot of attention last week, with links to a number of sites such as Mark Newman’s . Cartograms are powerful cartographic visualizations, but are not necessarily easy to produce. I remember having to run a very tempermental ArcView script to generate [...]
UC Berkeley, partnering with Nokia and Navteq, have been working on a project to use GPS data from cell phones to create a traffic monitoring network that will allow users to get real-time traffic conditions, as well as relay their own information to the network. Dubbed the Mobile Millennium Project, a public beta will be [...]
Today ERDAS sent out a press release that states that they are moving to an annual release cycle with a major release in the fall and a minor release in the spring. This is fairly ambitious with so many applications in their basket. Today’s announcement also included the roll out of 9.3 versions of Imagine [...]
I am supposed to be posting another interview right now, but I just bought and started playing with EarthScape Basic, a virtual globe program that runs on the iPhone and iPod Touch (and apparently som other mobiles as well). While there are quite a few features missing for a $9.99 app in my opinion (such [...]
For you open source geographers out there, I’m sure you’ve always been curious exactly what the adoption rate of Linux might be world wide. Luckily, you can now see your answer. They start with an agreegate of Linux in general, and then break it down by distribution. You can certainly argue with their statistics, as [...]
If you live in the UK (or are just interested in improving their access to data), you can now add your idea to a growing movement to make more public information available to the public. A competition called Show Us A Better Way, from the UK government’s Power of Information Taskforce, has just been announced [...]
As a one time field archaeologist I can say whole heartedly that dirt (known to some as soil) is good. But this post is about the Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki that has been garnering some attention over in the Digital Humanities circuit, but it is a great site for anyone who is doing research [...]
You know I just love Photosynth (although I wish Microsoft would finally make it available in some form other than a technology preview), so I had to check out the video National Geographic has posted of Stonehenge as seen through Photosynth technology and photos by Rebecca Hale. Even in the short video, the virtual tour [...]
