GIS_Software

• October 7, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

  SketchUp to Second Life Exporter

  We haven’t talked about SecondLife for at least a couple of weeks, so here is a handy tool to help those of you who are building in SL. The tool […]

• October 5, 2006general, WebMapping

  Gothamist Maps – a little too real

  Gothamist Labs has a GoogleMaps mashup of near real-time incident data from NewYork City called Gothamist Maps, using emergency call data. I spent a few minute just looking the calls […]

• October 4, 2006general, WebMapping

  EarthAlbum – GoogleMaps with Flickr and YouTube

  I haven’t posted about a Google Maps mashup in quite awhile, but I read about EarthAlbum over on the GoogleMapsMania blog and had to check it out. It mashes up […]

• October 1, 2006Cartography, general, WebMapping

  TeleAtlas MapInsight – users help improve data accuracy

  TeleAtlas has a new service in limited release – MapInsight – where users can report errors in TeleAtlas’ addressing data layers. After a year of all those stories about drivers […]

• September 28, 2006Gadgets, general, Navigation

  Surveyors to get long lunch in 2011 or 2012

  Engadget has a post on some research that suggests that there will be an almost 90 percent loss of GPS signals for a number of hours at the height of […]

• September 27, 2006Gadgets, general, VirtualEnvironments

  Weblo.com – What is the point

  When Sue first mentioned Weblo to me last week it seemed kind of cool. Weblo is a site that lets you buy virtual property, but unlike most games, Weblo is […]

• September 27, 2006general, WebMapping

  NYC Subway By Smell

  The sense with the greatest memory is said to be your sense of smell. A mere whiff of something can take you back decades. Unfortunately, there haven’t been too many […]

• September 26, 2006general, Human Geography, WebMapping

  SoundAboutPhilly – off-the-beaten-path podcast tours of Philadelphia

  SoundAboutPhilly is a project, funded in part by the Pew Charitable Trusts, to generate podcast tour guide for lesser known areas of Philadelphia, historical tours, and other special topics. According […]

• September 22, 2006general, WebMapping

  Way Cool Web Mapping Application

  The National Geographic has their new Map Machine web mapping service up and online. Since it’s put together by ESRI, it’s a safe bet they used some combination of ArcIMS […]

• September 15, 2006Gadgets, general, Navigation

  Loki updates and new features

  While I await the royalties from the Chumby LBS based on Loki’s WiFi location capabilities I wanted to point out, belated as it may be, that there is a new […]