GIS_Software

• March 25, 2006general, General, WebMapping

  Mapping the North American Internet backbone

  Ben Worthen, a writer for CIO.com and Bill Cheswick, a chief scientist at Lumeta, collaborated on this map(PDF), which shows who owns all of the routers that handle North American […]

• March 24, 2006general, WebMapping

  Platial featured on Wired.com

  A while back we blogged about Platial, the Google maps mashup site co-created by Di-Ann Eisnor (who will be a featured speaker at Where 2.0), and it seems the site […]

• March 21, 2006Cartography, general, GIS_Software

  BBC NEWS | Pipe network to be mapped in 3D

  BBC News provided an article on a project led be University of Leeds and University of Nottingham and 19 other organizations that seeks to map underground utilities in the UK. […]

• March 20, 2006GIS_Software

  Last call for Desktop GIS round-up

  I am about a month behind on getting our Desktop GIS round-up podcast out, but now that our conference push is out of the way for 6 weeks I am […]

• March 13, 2006Data, GIS_Software

  GeoDRM report

  On Friday, the GeoData Alliance announced the publication of their 98-page report on Geospatial Digital Rights Management, prepared by them in conjunction with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and […]

• March 13, 2006General, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), WebMapping

  Google Mars!

  Way cool for space nuts out there like me…. Google Mars!  It’s just like Google Local, except with data from Mars.  There’s a nice elevation dataset and some interesting visible […]

• March 10, 2006Events, WebMapping

  Virtual Globes session at AAG

  Probably the best session I’ve attended here at AAG in Chicago was yesterday afternoon’s “Geography v2.0: Internet-based Virtual Globes”. The presenters included Dave Maguire, head developer at ESRI, and Tim […]

• March 10, 2006Data, WebMapping

  Geographic Names Data for Countries Around the World

  Geographic names databases are pretty important for search spatial data textually. Normally geographic names are published on a country by country basis. Cartography is reporting about this new service Geonames.org […]

• March 10, 2006WebMapping

  Can’t Decide What Free API to Use?

  Batch Geocoding Blog has a nice quick and dirty rundown of the differenences between Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and MapQuest’s APIs. They hit the highpoints of what each offers and […]

• March 9, 2006General, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Signs of Water on Saturn Moon Enceladus!

  Nasa is reporting this after that their Cassini probe has discovered what appears to be liquid water errupting “Old Faithful” style from the surface of Enceladus.  As everyone is probably […]