GIS_Software

April 21, 2008general, WebMapping

Google Geo Developer series on YouTube

The folks over at the Official Google Maps API Blog have provided links to the YouTube versions of each of the seven the Google Geo Developer series. If you are […]
April 17, 2008general, Human Geography, WebMapping

WikiCrimes, Brazil’s police alternative

Just coming off a session where we were talking about how user generated content can offer great advantages to local communities it was interesting to read this article which talks […]
April 17, 2008general, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Physical Geography, WebMapping

What Are You Doing for EarthDay? Google Wants to Know!

Google has put up an interactive Google Map where you can share Earth events and ideas with people around the world. It’s a fairly basic site, but there are some […]
April 15, 2008general, Human Geography, Remote Sensing, WebMapping

A Remote Tribe Goes High Tech With Google

The Surui people, who have been so remote in the Brazilian forests that they were only ‘discovered’ in 1969, have turned to the high tech tools of Google Earth to […]
April 15, 2008Events, general, GIS_Software

The ArcPad Dev Summit Video

Over on the The ArcPad Team Blog they have been kind enough to link to their 2008 ESRI Developer Summit ArcPad Video. The video focuses on “Programming & Design Patterns […]
April 9, 2008general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

Carbon Footprint Map of the US

The Vulcan project is an interesting project out of Purdue University. They seek to “quantify North American fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at space and time scales much finer […]
April 5, 2008General, general, Human Geography, WebMapping

Nonprime Mortgage Maps

As geographers, I know everyone out there is thinking, “I get the the home buying industry in the US is imploding like a black hole, but I still am having […]
April 3, 2008general, Remote Sensing, Software

LGGI becomes ERDAS…again

I have to admit that I JUST started calling Imagine and other Leica Geosystems Geospatial Inc products â€œLeica Imagineâ€. Now I have to unlearn this behavior as they have rebranded […]
March 22, 2008general, GIS_Software

FCC Approves Plan to Map Broadband Access by Census Tract

The issue of broadband availability (or lack thereof) in the US has generated a lot of debate and criticism, especially the way in which the FCC had been defining whether […]
March 20, 2008general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

Extrasolar discovery of organic molecule

It’s a baby step, but an important one. NASA reported yesterday that they found the first evidence of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet outside of the […]