GIS_Software

• June 6, 2006general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing, WebMapping

  Google Maps of Active Volcanoes

  If you’re like me, when you go to plan your summer vacation, weird questions like, “Is there a major earthquake fault or active volcano in the area?” will eventually come […]

• June 6, 2006general, WebMapping

  Google’s Summer of Green Map Guides

  Google, in conjunction with Earth Day Network, has released a series of Google Maps mashups for five US cities (Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, and San Francisco) that […]

• June 2, 2006general, Programming/Dev, WebMapping

  CarbonCloud from The Carbon Project

  In the May issue of The Carbon Project’s newsletter, The Carbon Project announced that the latest release of CarbonTools, CarbonTools PROâ„¢, will launch at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in […]

• June 1, 2006general, WebMapping

  EarthDay IS everyday

  I meant to blog this a few days ago, so I am little behind the times, but this ties in nicely with our EarthDay episode from back in April. Google […]

• May 31, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

  Harvard Business Review discusses Avatar-based Marketing

  We-Make-Money-Not-Art posted about an article from the Harvard Business Review about avatar-based marketing in virtual worlds like Second Life. The article argues that, while the real-world subscribers to online virtual […]

• May 29, 2006general, WebMapping

  NBC Nightly News video features digital mapping

  If you head over to MSNBC, you can check out a 2-minute news report from the NBC Nightly News on web mapping and capturing geographic data. (They don’t have a […]

• May 29, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

  Talkin’ About the Metaverse

  Mark over at 3pointD posted a link this morning to an article at CNNMoney from David Kirkpatrick, a FORTUNE senior editor, that is written in the form of a conversation, […]

• May 27, 2006general, Remote Sensing

  More atmospheric Remote Sensing coming

  The BBC has an article on a new satellite that will be launched next year that will look at the mesosphere and very high clouds. Apparently the expansion of these […]

• May 26, 2006general, WebMapping

  Wiki + Google Maps = WikiMapia!

  Here’s a cool project – make a google map that allows people to tag anything on the face of the planet and write stuff about it. All you do is […]

• May 26, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  World of Warcraft Online Google Map

  I blogged this way back in January when it first came out. It’s a World of Warcaft Online Map using the Google Maps API. They’ve added a bunch of functionality […]