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February 16, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments

Google Earth Changing the Way Scientists Collaborate

A pretty interesting article in Nature.com talks about how free tools like Google Earth are changing the way scientists collaborate on projects. The best quote comes from Michael Goodchild when […]
February 16, 2006General, WebMapping

Real Time Mapping with Google maps

This is one of the cooler uses of Google Maps. The DARTmaps Project shows the real time movement of trains on train tracks in Dublin. While you can watch the […]
February 16, 2006Remote Sensing

Identifying Ancient Maya sites with Remote Sensing

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire, in conjunction with scientists at NASA, have been using remote sensing techniques to identify prehistoric Maya sites in Central America. The dense tropical […]
February 15, 2006WebMapping

Mapping a city government’s accomplishments

The Washington, DC Mayor’s Office website now features an interactive map highlighting the city administration’s 2005 accomplishments in 14 policy areas. Each of the icons is a hotlink to a […]
February 8, 2006GIS_Software, Human Geography

“Million Dollar Blocks” mapping project

The Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University has been working with the Justice Mapping Center to map the phenomenon of “million dollar blocks” in US cities. These are US […]
February 6, 2006VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

eDuShi

eDuShi is a 3D mapping site for the city of Shanghai, with a cool Sim City kind of look instead of using satellite imagery, and has a navigation interface simliar […]
February 5, 2006Events, GIS_Software, Groups

Open Source Geospatial Foundation begins…

Schuyler Erle over at MappingHacks.com has a round-up of Saturday’s activities in Chicago. The upshot is that we now have the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, OSGeo (eventually to be at […]
February 3, 2006Navigation

TrailRunnerX

We received an email regarding an interesting free MacOS X tool for route planning for trail related sports (running, skiing, hiking, biking…)Ã‚Â Here is a quote from the developer: ” […]
February 2, 2006VirtualEnvironments

Yes, even you can afford Virtual Reality

This NY Times article from back in January takes a look at some of the ways people are creating Virtual Reality setups without having to spend a million dollars to […]
February 2, 2006GIS_Software

Laser-Scan’s new Radius Studio

I know that Jeff at Vector One mentioned his interest in this product last week and today I received Laser-Scans enewsletter so I thought I might quote from it… “Radius […]