GIS_Software

May 9, 2006general, LBS, WebMapping

Mapping the Earth in Near Real-Time

One of the projects Microsoft researchers are working on is called SenseWeb, and Technology Review has a nice article that gives an overview of SenseWeb which, when incorporated into Windows […]
May 8, 2006general, Navigation

Henry Rollins on GPS and tech

I am a huge admirer of Henry Rollins, from Black Flag to Rollins Band, from spoken word to his show on IFC, he has simply gotten better with time. This […]
May 7, 2006general, WebMapping

Ask.com Elevation maps

Although Ask.com has really gotten a lot of press or attention, they do have one interesting feature, that recent posts at The Map Room and AllPoints Blog referred to: elevation […]
May 3, 2006Data, general, GIS_Software

Server-side image storage

LizardTech has recently (?) released a solution (Spatial Express) to store JPEG2000 and MrSID images natively in Oracle Spatial. This brings to mind the existing and upcoming server based solutions […]
May 2, 2006general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

What would the US look like if water rose 3.5 meters?

Harvard magazine has an interesting article about global warming. It’s a longer read than many of our posts, but worth checking out. Of particular note is the artistic rendering of […]
May 2, 2006general, Navigation, WebMapping

Where’s Tim?

Tim lives in Lawerence, Kansas. He likes to travel. For instance, last tuesday, Tim traveled 103.25 miles to Prairie Village Kansas. How do I know this? Because Tim uploads his […]
May 1, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

Traveling Exhibit of EarthWorks virtual reconstructions

Continuing my theme today of virtual reconstructions of cultural and archaeological resources, I just saw a press release on ScienceDaily that EarthWorks, a ten-year-old project to virtually reconstruct Native American […]
May 1, 2006general, GIS_Software

ArcSketch for ArcGIS

ESRI has released a new free extension ArcSketch for ArcGIS for use in ArcMap. The ArcSketch extension seems similar to the Tablet extension but with a little more under the […]
May 1, 2006general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments

Preserving China’s past in digital form

3PointD linked to this article from CRIEnglish.com about several projects under way to digitially recreate a number of China’s endangered or destroyed cultural resources. Among the projects are stuctures at […]
April 30, 2006general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

CloudSat and Calipso satellites successfully launched

I didn’t get a chance to blog this earlier because of our slow internet connection in San Juan, but NASA’s 2 new cloud monitoring satellites, CloudSat and Calipso, were successfully […]