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• November 3, 2005WebMapping

  Yahoo Maps Beta

  As Jesse noted in a post yesterday, Yahoo has redesigned its online mapping interface and added functionality to try to compete with Google Maps. It is currently in beta, and […]

• November 3, 2005VirtualEnvironments

  NVIDIA Immersive Dome Experience

  Check out these pictures of NVIDIA’s Immersive Dome Experience at SIGGRAPH2005. Now that’s 3D visualization! Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne did some cool visualization experiments using FAA flight pattern data […]

• November 3, 2005Cartography

  CartoTalk

  After our podcast episode on cartography, John Krygier emailed us, and mentioned that CartoTalk might be a good resource for people interested in cartography and map design. It is a […]

• November 2, 2005WebMapping

  Yahoo! Maps, Flash

  I have to admit that I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to Yahoo! Maps lately but I don’t know when it went to Flash. Either way it looks […]

• November 2, 2005Cartography

  ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ Movie Map

  As mentioned over at the Map Room, the movie pages for the upcoming The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe feature a map based on the great land of Narnia. […]

• November 2, 2005GeographyBlogs, WebMapping

  Trends blog does a roundup of 3D

  I stumbled across the Trends blog (by R. Banks) while I doing some searches on 3D visualization, and found a nice roundup titled “3D. What is it Good for?”, which […]

• November 1, 2005GIS_Software

  Intergraph adding 3D visualization to GeoMedia

  Intergraph announced that they will be integrating Skyline Software System’s 3D visualization technology into their GeoMedia product line. It seems that Skyline’s visualization functionality will be embedded directly into the […]

• November 1, 2005GeographyBlogs

  Perhaps the geekiest geo blog yet: SQL for Geographers

  But don’t let the title fool you. Those of us using geospatial technologies in conjunction with enterprise databases use SQL more often than we would probably like and could use […]

• November 1, 2005WebMapping

  Online mapping in China

  Here’s a short article on online map resources available in China, from the English language online edition of the Shanghai Daily. The 3D mapping features on Shanghai’s E-city government website […]

• October 31, 2005Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  EO Natural Hazards

  Natural hazards mapping…NASA…satellite imagery. What more do you need on Halloween night…other than candy corn. EO Natural Hazards: Natural Hazards Main Page