GIS_Software

• May 28, 2008general, LBS, WebMapping

  Mobile location apps are poised

  Information has begun to roll out about the companies that have received support from the iPhone venture capital funding announced back in January…all two of them so far. Whrrl, a […]

• May 15, 2008general, Software, VirtualEnvironments

  Virtual Worlds. Pubs, direction, and just plain cool

  Geography is just as important in virtual worlds as it is in the real world. While the users of these technologies (e.g. Second Life or World of Worldcraft) may inhabit […]

• May 12, 2008general, Travel, WebMapping

  Schmap for the iPhone/iPod Touch

  We have talked to the folks at Schmap a couple of times and I was pretty interested in what they do on the web and the desktop, but their iPhone/iPod […]

• May 5, 2008general, GeographyAwareness, Navigation

  GPS talk on MacBreak Weekly

  Since this is becoming so common I will probably not highlight individual podcasts talking about GPS/LBS after this but MacBreak Weekly Episode 87 had a great discussion on the utility, […]

• May 3, 2008general, Software, WebMapping

  IBM’s Many Eyes collaborative visualization tools

  IBM has a cool project now in beta called Many Eyes, which was developed by their Collaborative User Experience‘s Visual Communication Lab. Many Eyes is a set of visualization tools […]

• April 30, 2008general, LBS, WebMapping

  BrightKite – social location web app

  I have started taking a tour of some of the location based social apps that are out there since I haven’t had time to write code myself. The first one […]

• April 29, 2008general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  India getting into the lunar mapping game

  At a press conference on Monday, officials from India’s ISRO announced that they are planning to launch the Chandrayaan-I satellite that will orbit the Moon for two years on a […]

• April 26, 2008Gadgets, general, Navigation

  GPS on the iPhone…really?

  The rumor mill has kicked in for the 2nd Gen (3G) iPhone that seems to be just on the horizon. The rumors include the addition of a GPS receiver in […]

• April 25, 2008general, Navigation

  Leo Laporte talks location again

  This weeks MacBreak Weekly (Episode 86) ended with Leo talking about Ovolab’s GeoPhoto and its use to geotag photos (RAW, jpg, etc) and about the importance of geotagging information for […]

• April 24, 2008general, Remote Sensing

  Landsat Archive to be Made Available at No Charge

  Our readers Michelle and Ed both gave me a heads-up on the USGS’ plans and timeline for making the entire Landsat archive of imagery (with less than 20% cloud cover) […]