GIS_Software

June 21, 2006Columns, Remote Sensing, Reviews

Book Review – Remote Sensing for GIS Managers (Aronoff, 2005)

Recently, we received several books from ESRI Press for reference and review, and first up is Remote Sensing for GIS Managers (2005) edited by Stan Aronoff. Aronoff and his co-authors […]
June 21, 2006Gadgets, general, WebMapping

Opera 9 and widgets

As you all may know I am a fan of the widget. Konfabulator was wonderful, Yahoo Widgets made them more ubiquitous, and of course Apple stole widgets from Konfabulator 🙂 […]
June 20, 2006Gadgets, general, VirtualEnvironments

Use tablet instead of table to control GE

Inspired by the Smackbook demo and the tabletop Google Earth at the Where Fair, I am trying to use my Toshiba M200 tablet to control Google Earth (and others). Unlike […]
June 19, 2006general, WebMapping

AVSP Calendar in GeoTagThings

I saw the link to GeoTagThings.com on SlashGeo and had the idea to make a map of our calendar, linking to the conference web page. I have dumped out a […]
June 17, 2006general, LBS, Navigation

Satellite Navigation for the visually impaired

ESA News has a really interesting article about a prototype satellite navigation system for the visually impaired that was successfully tested in Madrid, Spain. The system uses a mobile phone […]
June 17, 2006general, WebMapping

IBM’s new Enterprise Mashup

That’s right, IBM is going Web 2.0. On Thursday at a PHP conference in New York, IBM announced their own Enterprise Mashup, which will use web services to provide news, […]
June 13, 2006general, Hardware, VirtualEnvironments

Table top control of 3D space

A Phd student at the University of Calgary’s Interactions Laboratory has come up with some pretty cool new interactive tools for Google Earth and Warcraft III (not at the same […]
June 13, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

Hurricane Simulator

For people in the interior of countries, the difference between a category 2 hurricane and a category 3 hurricane might not be all that aparent. That’s why the good people […]
June 12, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments, VirtualWorlds

Google Earth City Data for the UK

While there is already some GE 3D city data for London, 3pointD posted a news release from Cities Revealed that suggests they will be making portions of their building data […]
June 9, 2006Events, general, WebMapping

Mapping Boston’s CowParade 2006

For those of you familiar with the urban phenomenon of painted cow statues known as CowParade, Boston is getting its turn this summer with over 100 statues placed throughout the […]