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Oddens’ Bookmarks

Published on September 22, 2005 by in Cartography, WebMapping

If you want to know where to find anything about maps and mapping on the Internet, check out Odden’s Bookmarks. It’s a mapping-related links site maintained by the University of Utrecht Faculty of Geosciences that has a handy search function.

Link to it here

 
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Pay-As-You-Go GPS

Published on September 22, 2005 by in Navigation

A British company is rolling out (no pun intended) a Pay-as-you-go GPS/Navigation system for cell phones. The vision is for it to be used by motorists in an ad hoc fashion to avoid traffic. What I think is interesting is all the computation is done back at the server end with the result pushed to the phone. They call it “off-board” navigation. I wonder if it could compete well with on all the time products like Onstar?

Via Piston Heads

 
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GIS Unshackled – from GeoWorld

Published on September 21, 2005 by in GIS_Software, WebMapping

This is a feature article from the August issue of GeoWorld that gives an overview of open source GIS tools. Since I have to admit that I am not that familiar with using open source stuff for GIS applications, I thought it was a good introduction.

You can read the article on Geoplace

 
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Mapping The Web’s Future – Forbes.com

Published on September 21, 2005 by in WebMapping

An article on web mapping’s significance in the future of the web over at Forbes.com.

Mapping The Web’s Future – Forbes.com

Via Google Maps Mania

 
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Real-time Ship Tracking

Published on September 20, 2005 by in Navigation, Remote Sensing

IBM and Maersk (Danish shipping company) announced they are teaming up on a project to provide real-time wireless tracking for cargo ships, via a device attached to individual cargo containers. They’re actually going to start testing this fall.

Read the article here

(via abcnews.com)

 
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Top Spot or not

Published on September 20, 2005 by in WebMapping

Top spot or not is a site where you can vote on thousands of locations throughout the world. As usual, it uses Google Maps to display the locations. Check it out at Top Spot or not / Hands of Victory.

Via Digg

 
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The Full Moon Atlas

Published on September 20, 2005 by in Remote Sensing

This is an image map of Lunar photographs. It is broken into sections so that you can zoom in to few more detail of different portions of the moon. Check it out at The Full Moon Atlas

Via The Map Room

 
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Paying your highway tolls via satellite?

Published on September 20, 2005 by in Navigation, Remote Sensing

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 also being funded by the European Space Agency. Yeah……. I think I will leave it at that, and let you read the article

http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2005/sep/19/news2.html

 
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Show notes for AVSP Episode 09

Published on September 19, 2005 by in Show Notes

VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 09
September 18, 2005

Main Topic:
Geographic Information.

Click for the detailed shownotes
Read more…

 
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National Geographic and Google Earth

Published on September 19, 2005 by in WebMapping

I have read about it everywhere, I mentioned in the podcast, now it is time to blog it. Google Earth has included layers pointing to National Geographic information, primarily multimedia. Another reason to while away time playing with Google Earth.

Via Download Squad among others

 
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