GIS_Software

• October 17, 2005Human Geography, WebMapping

  CommonCensus Map Project – Mapping Where You Think You Live

  This is a pretty cool project that I just read about via Wired. It is about mapping our world based on our perception of it, not just by physical coordinates. […]

• October 15, 2005General, WebMapping

  Map-o-Rama! widget

  There is a Konfabulator/Yahoo! Widgets widget that uses www.maporama.com. I had a couple of the undergrads at the lab whip up a map service based widget back in July, but […]

• October 14, 2005WebMapping

  News Map – Google Maps and Reuters News

  If you want to see where news is happening, this Google Maps app, called News Map, links recent Reuters News stories to the locations where they take place. Via Digg.com

• October 14, 2005GeographyBlogs, GIS_Software

  ESRI Podcasts

  I guess ESRI has decided to join the fray with some of their existing audio/video content from the ’05 User Conference. This is analogous to IT Conversations from Where 2.0. […]

• October 12, 2005Human Geography, Navigation

  Community Mapping Project in San Jose, Ca

  A project will be getting underway this winter to map 19 poor and underserved communities in San Jose. This is the continuation of a community mapping project begun in 2003. […]

• October 12, 2005General, WebMapping

  “data providers do hold all the cards just now”

  Adena over at AllPointsBlog states “While we try to understand the implications of the new offerings [from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!], let’s not forget that geospatial apps run on data […]

• October 11, 2005WebMapping

  So THAT’S how they did it……..

  I was checking out the MapPoint magazine website this morning, and I came across this video from back in August. It the “real” story behind the making of Virtual Earth. […]

• October 10, 2005GIS_Software

  GIS Long Tail

  James over at Spatially Adjusted comments on an article by Dave Bouwman that discusses the differences in the user bases between the traditional GIS software and the new web map […]

• October 7, 2005WebMapping

  Putting Shapefiles into Virtual Earth

  We received an email from a Redmond employee who created a Virtual Earth shapefile loader. This has been pointed to by several sites including James at Spatially Adjusted. If I […]

• October 7, 2005WebMapping

  OpenStreetMap – open source web mapping project

  This is an ongoing open source project based in the UK that I read about on Mappinghacks.com, whose main goal is to provide free geographic data to anyone. openstreetmap was […]