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  • NASA sees a weakening Cyclone Funso's 'closed eye'

    ScienceDaily: Geographical News
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:48 pm
    Powerful Cyclone Funso's eye has been clear in NASA satellite imagery over the last several days until NASA's Aqua satellite noticed it had "closed" and become filled with high clouds on January 27.

  • Urban Farming: The Future of Agriculture?

    About.com Geography
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:12 pm
    The greatest demand for agricultural products comes from the urban areas of the world. What if more were done to grow those products within the cities themselves? Learn all about the exciting future of urban farming from this latest article by Terry Hain. The possibilities are incredible!

  • An amazing 3D tour of the Costa Concordia

    Google Earth Blog
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:09 am
    Last week we showed you the fresh satellite imagery and tour of the wreck of the Costa Concordia. It was a great file that helped to show what happened, but now Peter Olsen (who just days ago unveiled the excellent Terra Nova models) has built an incredible 3D tour of the wreck, with the entire journey animated! The speed has been increased to save time, so you don't have to wait 2-1/2 hours for it to finish, but it's otherwise as accurate as possible. To see it for yourself, simply visit the Costa Concordia Disaster Animation page in the Google 3D Warehouse and choose the "View in Google…

  • Traveling Through Time with GIS

    Esri News Feed
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:32 pm
    GIS provides a powerful platform for analyzing the past and designing the future.

  • Esri Releases New Version of ArcGIS for SharePoint

    Esri Speaker Series Podcasts
    Derek Law
    17 Jan 2012 | 11:16 am
    ArcGIS for SharePoint product manager Derek Law discusses the enhancements in the new release of ArcGIS for SharePoint, Esri's solution for integrating mapping capability in the Microsoft SharePoint environment.
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    ScienceDaily: Geographical News

  • NASA sees a weakening Cyclone Funso's 'closed eye'

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:48 pm
    Powerful Cyclone Funso's eye has been clear in NASA satellite imagery over the last several days until NASA's Aqua satellite noticed it had "closed" and become filled with high clouds on January 27.

  • NASA eyes cyclone Iggy's threat to western Australia

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:48 pm
    NASA satellites are providing valuable data to forecasters as Tropical Cyclone Iggy nears Western Australia. NASA's Aqua satellite provided visible and infrared data on Iggy, observing colder cloud tops and strengthening storm. Iggy has already triggered warnings and watches along coastal areas.

  • NASA study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy'

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:32 pm
    Two years ago, scientists released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and measurements of ocean heating amounted to evidence of "missing energy" in the planet's system. Where was it going? Or, they wondered, was something wrong with the way researchers tracked energy as it was absorbed from the sun and emitted back into space? An international team of atmospheric scientists and oceanographers set out to investigate the mystery.

  • What really happened prior to 'Snowball Earth'?

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:05 pm
    The large changes in the carbon isotopic composition of carbonates which occurred prior to the major climatic event more than 500 million years ago, known as "Snowball Earth," are unrelated to worldwide glacial events, a new study suggests.

  • NASA satellites see cyclone Funso exiting Mozambique Channel

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:45 pm
    Powerful Cyclone Funso is now beginning to exit the Mozambique Channel, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured a stunning image of the storm that shows the depth and extent of it.
 
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    About.com Geography

  • Urban Farming: The Future of Agriculture?

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:12 pm
    The greatest demand for agricultural products comes from the urban areas of the world. What if more were done to grow those products within the cities themselves? Learn all about the exciting future of urban farming from this latest article by Terry Hain. The possibilities are incredible!

  • Croatia Votes to Join the European Union

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:13 pm
    Despite the European debt crisis, on Sunday Croatian voters overwhelmingly chose to join the European Union. The referendum on joining the EU was supported by 66% of Croatia's population. Once the twenty-seven members of the EU approve, Croatia should be able to join the EU on July 1, 2013. A statement issued by the EU stated, "We welcome the positive outcome of the referendum on Croatia's accession to the European Union. With this vote, Croatia's citizens have given their endorsement to European integration. We congratulate Croatia and its people on their choice: EU membership will open up…

  • Arctic Council Expansion?

    23 Jan 2012 | 2:22 am
    The Arctic Council is an organization of eight countries that include territory that borders the Arctic Ocean. Member countries of the Arctic Council include Russia, Canada, the United States, Denmark (for Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Norway, Iceland, Sweden, and Finland. However, countries that are interested in Arctic issues are allowed to join as observer states. Currently, there are six observer states: United Kingdom, France, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, and Spain....Read Full Post

  • China's Urban Population Now Exceeds 50% of Population

    21 Jan 2012 | 4:08 pm
    China's National Bureau of Statistics announced earlier this week that the world's most populous country has reached the point of being more urban than rural. The agency announced that 51.27% of China's 1.35 billion people live in urban areas, which represents a total urban population of 690.8 million. The average annual income in urban areas is 21,810 yuan ($3,444) while the income of rural dwellers is 6,977 yuan ($1,102).  Around 2030, China's population is expected to peak at about 1.4 billion and then begin declining.

  • The History and Use of The Compass

    20 Jan 2012 | 7:51 am
    The compass has, for hundreds and hundreds of years, been an essential component to cartography and exploration. Learn about the history of this incredible device and its use from contributing writer Xanthe Webb Aintablian in her brand-new article, The Compass.
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    Google Earth Blog

  • An amazing 3D tour of the Costa Concordia

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:09 am
    Last week we showed you the fresh satellite imagery and tour of the wreck of the Costa Concordia. It was a great file that helped to show what happened, but now Peter Olsen (who just days ago unveiled the excellent Terra Nova models) has built an incredible 3D tour of the wreck, with the entire journey animated! The speed has been increased to save time, so you don't have to wait 2-1/2 hours for it to finish, but it's otherwise as accurate as possible. To see it for yourself, simply visit the Costa Concordia Disaster Animation page in the Google 3D Warehouse and choose the "View in Google…

  • Google Earth 6.2 Released with Google+

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:51 pm
    Google not only released all new more beautiful imagery of the Earth today, but they also released a whole new version of Google Earth - version 6.2. You can download it here. The biggest news is the integration with Google+: Here is a quick list of the new features: Integration with Google+ - you can now sign into your Google+ account and you can Share your current view with Google+. This feature could have meant that your "My Places" content would be shared on different machines, but apparently they have not implemented that capability yet. New Search Interface - Google has made substantial…

  • Google Releases Pretty Earth

    26 Jan 2012 | 7:01 am
    Google has just this morning released a new, prettier, version of the Earth for Google Earth. The short version is that it now looks much more Earth-like and less like a bunch of satellite and aerial photos patched onto a sphere. And, it really does look MUCH better! Since Google Earth was first released in 2005, Google has made thousands of changes to their imagery. Changes to how the imagery looks (colors, contrast, lighting) when combined so it has a more pleasant look from space. One of the most frequent comments about Google Earth is "why are these ugly patches of rectangular images on…

  • Google Earth 6 now required for Street View

    25 Jan 2012 | 7:28 am
    When Google Earth 6.0 was released, it completely changed the way that Street View worked. However, Google kept the older layer active for previous versions of Google Earth so that those users could continue to use Street View. Not anymore. Sometime in the past few weeks, Google has turned off that old layer. If you're wanting to use Street View in Google Earth, you're now required to be using version 6.0 or higher. Here's a quick look at how to use Street View in Google Earth 6: In addition to that video, I've built a few other Google Earth tutorials to help explain some features, including…

  • 100 years since the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica

    24 Jan 2012 | 6:57 am
    100 years ago saw two very ill-fated attempts to explore Antarctica; Robert Scott's 1912 expedition to the South Pole and Sir Douglas Mawson's 1912 Eastern Expedition. In honor of those events, Peter Olsen has built a handful of 3D models in Antarctica and they look amazing. You may remember Peter from his excellent models of the MLK National Memorial and Stone Mountain, among many others. Here is a look at Robert Scott's hut at Cape Evans on Ross Island in Antarctica: Peter has a a total of nine models available in his 3D Warehouse collection, with more on the way. To learn more about these…
 
 
 
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    GIS Education Community Blog

  • Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) Report: Ties to GIS Education

    tbaker
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:02 am
    Several documents over the past 20 years have played key roles in shaping GIS in education and remain excellent resources for making the case why the work of the GIS education community is necessary. One of the first and one of my personal favorites was the U.S. Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report. This report identified that the “task of learning is the real work of today, whether at school, in the university, on the job…” (1991, page 5). SCANS then stated (1992) that core subjects must be taught and learned “in context.” “In context”…

  • Fun with GIS #105: Ecoregions, Drought, and iPad

    tbaker
    23 Jan 2012 | 1:05 pm
    A year ago, I wrote a blog about using ArcGIS Online to explore ecoregions, and doing it on an iPad, in addition to a regular computer. I want to enhance the map by adding another key layer: drought status. I'm interested in learning which ecoregions face a near-term issue. The U.S. government runs a portal about drought, with maps, data, news, and links. But what if you just want to see drought data added into your ecoregion map? Think back to another recent blog entry that walked through finding and adding special services. This time, we need to find some drought data. By searching the…

  • Fun with GIS #104: Building Data Inside ArcGIS Online

    tbaker
    17 Jan 2012 | 10:17 am
    Need an easy way to make a point data file within ArcGIS Online, doing data entry within the map? This five-minute video (silent but annotated) shows how to turn a simple two-line text file into a way to add data points with attributes to your map. Generally, mapping and classifying a set of points with attributes is easier to do by generating your complete data table as a spreadsheet first, and then mapping the completed spreadsheet, but sometimes you need a different workflow. (If you are reconstructing data from a field trip or outing after the fact, this is one way to do it.) The movie…

  • Open-Ended Tools, Open-Ended Curricula

    tbaker
    13 Jan 2012 | 7:58 am
    I recently wrote about the connections between ePortfolios, innovative technologies, and the use of GIS in education, beginning with an interview with English professor and Executive Director of the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL), Dr. Trent Batson. Besides believing in innovative technology as a vehicle for transforming how education is designed, Dr. Batson had these intriguing things to say about pedagogy: “Pedagogy is the wrong term for educators to be using regarding higher education for two reasons: it refers to teaching and therefore…

  • Esri at BETT 2012 ( #BETT2012 )

    tbaker
    10 Jan 2012 | 10:43 am
    BETT - Over 30,000 education professions will review educational technology solutions and resources from around the world at London's Olympia Center, January 11-14. Visit education representatives from Esri and Esri UK at this year's exposition at booth B80 (locator) to learn more about how ArcGIS, ArcGIS Online, and Digital Worlds are used at all levels of education. You can also explore the ArcGIS Online World Geography sampler assembled for the BETT Expo. Learn more about BETT and plan to attend.
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    GIS Lounge

  • New Plant Hardiness Zone Map

    Caitlin Dempsey
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:33 pm
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM).  The map is the first updated in over twenty years and incorporates greater accuracy and detail since the last map from 1990.  The new map was developed by the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Oregon State University’s (OSU) PRISM Climate Group and is available [...]

  • Geomagnetic Storm to Hit Earth

    Caitlin Dempsey
    24 Jan 2012 | 1:01 pm
    A strong geomagnetic storm is set to hit the earth today.  This storm is the strongest one in seven years but is expected to only have a minor effect on the disruption of satellites, power networks, and navigation systems.  The geomagnetic storm is cause by a coronal mass ejection (CME) which happens when a cloud of magnetised [...]

  • WorldMap: An Open Source Software Platform

    Caitlin Dempsey
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:24 pm
    Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis recently released WorldMap, an open source mapping application designed to make it easier for researchers to upload large GIS datasets and to create online maps using thousands of geographic layers available to them from the Worldmap Library. WorldMap is built using open source software (access the WorldMap source code via github.com) and is hosted on Amazon’s EC2 cloud [...]

  • GPS Tracking Needs a Warrant

    Caitlin Dempsey
    23 Jan 2012 | 1:16 pm
    The Supreme Court ruled today that law enforcement agencies need to obtain a warrant before using GPS tracking on a person’s vehicle.  The ruling for United States v. Jones came from an appeal by the Justice Department of a lower court’s ruling that GPS tracking required a warrant.  Antoine Jones was a Washington D.C. nightclub owner whose [...]

  • Wind and GIS

    Caitlin Dempsey
    20 Jan 2012 | 5:23 pm
    GIS  has many applications in wind mapping, analysis and modeling. Geographic data and modeling of wind performance can help site wind turbines.  Study of wind patterns also is used for assessing wind damage potential. The GIS staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory provides both national wind resource assessment of the United States and high-resolution wind data.  GIS data [...]
 
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    Directions Magazine - Top Stories

  • 2010-2011 Review of Publicly Traded Location Technology Stocks

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:05 am
    Editor in Chief Joe Francica provides an encapsulated review of publicly traded geospatial information and location technology companies. The global economic turmoil has had a dramatic impact on this technology sector, with few companies delivering positive gains for shareholders. The roller-coaster ride of the last two years is unlikely to change but opportunities exist for investors who believe that location-based information is still an essential driver of business. More about: business intelligence, database, geospatial technology, gis, google, lbs, location intelligence, location…

  • Meet Your Colleagues: Dino Ravnić

    25 Jan 2012 | 2:05 am
    Dino Ravnić is the co-founder and CEO of GIS Cloud, Ltd, and he is passionate about the present and future of GIS in the cloud. When asked to send us a picture of something he enjoys doing (fishing? hunting? ballroom dancing?), he gave us one of him working on GIS cloud capabilities for GPS. More about: cloud, cloud applications, cloud gis, cloud gis apps, cloud solutions, colleagues, gis, gps

  • Why LiDAR Has Become the “Go To” Technology for Utility Corridor Mapping

    25 Jan 2012 | 2:05 am
    In December, Infotech Enterprises and DTS GIS participated in a Directions Magazine webinar to present a cost-effective solution to the NERC-mandated transmission line monitoring. This webinar sparked more good questions than could be answered during the allotted time. Here those answers are presented in detail. More about: gis, google, lidar, utilities

  • Socium: 1Spatial’s Online Data Validation Service Launches in US

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:05 am
    Socium, a subsidiary of 1Spatial, is launching an online data validation service in the United States on February1st. Directions Magazine interviewed Abbie Beckford, customer relations and marketing manager at Socium, to learn the details of the offering. More about: cloud adoption, data validation, geographic data, geospatial technology, gis, software as a service

  • Podcast: GIS Teachable Moments in the News

    24 Jan 2012 | 3:25 am
    Three items in the news in early January are teachable moments in geotechnology, for students and citizens and for the geospatial community. They include satellite imagery from the cruise ship Costa Concordia, Google tangling with OSM and World Bank, and an outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease explained by geography. More about: costa concordia, crowdsourcing, digitalglobe, education, google, health, legionnaire's disease, open source, openstreetmap, remote sensing, state and local government, world bank
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    Spatially Adjusted

  • FOSS4G North American 2012

    James Fee
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:24 am
    Not much notice, but there will be a FOSS4G in North America this year. On the heels of last year’s successful and well-attended international FOSS4G event in Colorado, many of us in the community of free and open source geospatial software developers, users, and advocates in North America recognized the need for a regular gathering in North America. So this year we have come together to plan the first ever FOSS4G North America conference, an event to take place April 10–12, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. FOSS4G-NA will bring together many public…

  • Bing Maps gets Nokia Brand and Possibly the Boot

    James Fee
    19 Jan 2012 | 10:23 pm
    The Microsoft/Nokia relationship gets a little confusing these days.  According to Pocket-Lint: Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, has told Pocket-lint that we shall soon be seeing the Nokia brand name within other devices and not just the company’s own phones. “You’ll starting seeing the word ‘Nokia’ on a map that you get from Microsoft properties over a period of time,” Elop explained to Pocket-lint in an interview behind closed doors at CES in Las Vegas. “Even if you are on a BlackBerry device, who recently said they were going to start using Bing…

  • A Minimalist OpenStreetMap Baselayer

    James Fee
    19 Jan 2012 | 12:24 pm
    I’m a sucker for these simple background base maps. I am designing a new minimal OpenStreetMap base map in TileMill to use with MapBox hosting platform’s map builder. The goal for the design is a general OpenStreetMap layer that can be used as a light, very subtle background for compositing further data on top of. Here is an early look at the features and design aspects I have been working on for the map. Read the post, this is how you create a baseman you can actually use.  Stop putting your data on top of map services designed for navigation that end up clashing/competing…

  • I Can’t Figure Out a Use For This, But I Want A 65-inch Multi-touch 3D Display

    James Fee
    19 Jan 2012 | 9:42 am
    CES is boring, all companies do is announce products that by the time they hit the shelves they are stale.  But this Ideum MT65 3D Display feels so right: Engadget says it is available in either Windows 7 today or Linux by March, so you can totally be rolling with either your Esri or Open Source GIS tool of your choice.  It costs about $18,000 so start saving those pennies!

  • It’s Only Evil if You Get Caught, Right?

    James Fee
    17 Jan 2012 | 9:48 am
    From RWW The official blog of Open Street Map reports tonight that someone at a range of Google IP addresses in India has been editing the collaboratively made map of the world in some very unhelpful ways, like moving and deleting information and reversing the direction of one-way streets on the map. I’m not going to bring up the don’t be evil quote, but clearly Google is beginning to lose control of their empire.  Rouge employees do what they think is best for the company, but cleaning house won’t change things.  It’s a culture of…
 
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    VerySpatial

  • Vexillology…I think I just learned something

    Jesse
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:55 am
    Yet ANOTHER reason why I love The Big Bang Theory. “I’m surrendering…to fun.” The sad part is that they probably won’t make the 52 promised episodes.

  • Warrantless GPS tracking unconstitutional

    Jesse
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:07 am
    Based on a syllabus from the Supreme Court released on January 23, the use of GPS tracking outside of a warrant is a breach of the Fourth Amendment. As stated in the syllabus: the Government’s physical intrusion on an “effect” for the purpose of obtaining information constitutes a “search.” There seem to be quite a few implications that come out of the decision that attaching the device is tantamount to trespassing due to the fact that the action was taken outside of the warrant period (11th of 10 days) and location (Maryland vs DC). There seems to be quite a bit of import being…

  • A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 340

    Jesse
    22 Jan 2012 | 6:44 pm
    A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 340 January 22, 2012 An all news episode Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes Music This week’s podsafe music: “A Laptop Like You” by Jonathan Coulton News SOPA Dead…. but not buried Version 2.4 of the ArcGIS API for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone now out Bing Maps to show Nokia branding Hexagon acquires Microsurvey Update on TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X mission IndoorGML Working Group formed Free LizardTech GeoViewer for iPad Controversial Microsoft patent Web…

  • SOPA Blackout

    Jesse
    18 Jan 2012 | 10:05 am

  • A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 339

    Sue
    16 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
    A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 339 January 16, 2012 Our conversation on cultural mapping Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes Music This week’s podsafe music: “Settle for the Sunrise” by Wheeland Brothers News Fisher-Price partners with Spatial View for View-Master 3D content Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize Google Science Fair 2012 announced Google previews Google+ geo-game US Congress backs off on some parts of SOPA Web Corner Code Year Main Topic This week we feature our conversation discussing some of…
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    GIS Stuff

  • San Diego Fire – FY 2011 Incidents & Response Times

    @SDBBQ
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:11 am
    Here’s a quick web map I made from data available for the San Diego Apps Challenge. There is a ton a data available – especially spatial data – for the City of San Diego. This challenge is a great way to win a little cash and create some nice geospatial apps! View Larger Map Map built from CSV file on ArcGIS.com. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Looking for a Park in the City of Poway?

    @SDBBQ
    17 Nov 2011 | 4:56 pm
    There are quite a few parks within the City of Poway. Here’s a map of them to aid you in locating where to go for a walk, or party, or dog walk, or whatever. Want to make a map with your topic of interest on it, and use it in your web site? It’s easy! Esri continues to update and expand ArcGIS.com with new features and functionality.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • City of Carlsbad Libraries

    @SDBBQ
    16 Nov 2011 | 3:10 pm
    Here’s a quick example of a simple locations map showing the libraries in the City of Carlsbad. And this blog post serves as an example of embedding a live map from ArcGIS Online into a web page, and I will also register this on ArcGIS.com as yet another example. View Larger Map The HTML code for this embedded map was auto-generated by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Locations for Sandbag pickup in San Diego County

    @SDBBQ
    4 Nov 2011 | 2:16 pm
    The County of San Diego is nice enough to provide free sandbags to folks that live in the unincorporated areas. Great on days like today when we get the first real rain of the season - or for people that still have fire scares on their property, etc. The County website has additional information here:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • GIS Managers' Open Summit - Esri UC 2011

    @SDBBQ
    5 May 2011 | 9:28 am
    Did you attend the Esri User Conference (UC) last year? Did you make it to the GIS Managers' Open Summit? It was an interesting day, and our first time having an unconference as part of the UC. Most of the folks there were not really familiar with the idea of an unconference or how it works, but they all survived and I think most got a lot out of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    GIS - Google Blog Search

  • GISCafe.com - The GIS Lens - GeoCity by Ars Electronica

    Sanjay Gangal
    28 Jan 2012 | 2:01 am
    GeoCity is a new way to visualize geospatial data and information with a presentation and information platform in a use friendly way. This futuristic, interactive and customizable solution is …

  • Power grid Calculating In Dispersed GIS | Midlife Career Change ...

    david
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:49 pm
    To clear up these complaints we have seen medalupdates considerably study to the section of similar handling of GIS facts. This implies the effective use of 1 laptop or computer with various cpus or various computers that are related more

  • The Wiawaka Project: Toolkit: GIS

    MSpringate
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:29 pm
    Toolkit: GIS. GIS stands for Geographic Information System. GIS uses computer programs to view and analyze geographic data ranging from landforms to demographic information. You can use GIS to look at differences in

  • Yale Library Map Department announces GIS Workshops for Spring ...

    Yale University Library
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:37 am
    The Yale Library's Map Department is pleased to announce the continuation of their schedule of GIS Workshops for the Spring 2012 Semester. Most workshops are held in the Bass Library Electronic Classroom L06A, in the

  • Esri Insider : Traveling Through Time with GIS

    unknown
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:35 pm
    A "time machine" is a plot device frequently used in science fiction. From H.G. Wells' groundbreaking 1895 novel The Time Machine to Marty McFly's use of a temporally-enabled DeLorean in Back to the Future , time travel has
 
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    GIS in Education

  • Connecting GeoMedia and ERDAS IMAGINE

    talk
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:30 am
    Intergraph Corporation announces the availability of Live Link, connecting GeoMedia and ERDAS IMAGINE. For the first time, users can leverage GeoMedia's rich set of vector handling tools and ERDAS IMAGINE's raster capabilities to support synchronized data sharing, viewing, editing, updating, and analysis. "Users can now enjoy truly connected image processing and GIS products from a single provider, not only simplifying purchasing and maintenance, but also providing a stronger, more streamlined geospatial workflow," said Mladen Stojic, Vice President Geospatial, Intergraph. "With this new…

  • GI_Forum 2012: Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg

    talk
    23 Jan 2012 | 7:42 pm
    GI_Forum 2012 – Linking Geovisualization, Society & Learning 3-6 July, 2012, Salzburg, Austria GI_Forum 2012 offers full-fledged, intertwined tracks on GIScience & Technology and Learning with GI with a focus on geovisualization, society and learning, and their inter-relationships. The interdisciplinary GI_Forum focuses on an international audience, communicating in English, and sharing an interest in translating theory, methods and techniques into a broad range of GI application domains. Young researchers are especially invited to contribute and discuss their research; together with…

  • Descartes Systems Group Acquires GeoMicro

    talk
    23 Jan 2012 | 7:38 pm
    Descartes Systems Group, a global leader in logistics technology, acquired GeoMicro, Inc., a leading California-based provider of advanced geographic information systems (GIS) and commercial turn-by-turn navigation. GeoMicro's cutting-edge GIS platform enables advanced routing, navigation, field service, and spatial data business intelligence solutions. It supports a full range of advanced GIS services, including high performance map display, geo-location, commercial vehicle route calculation, spatial data querying, and turn-by-turn navigation suitable for commercial and hazardous material…

  • 2011 is 9th Warmest Year on Record Says NASA

    talk
    20 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am
    The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated analysis that shows temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience warmer temperatures…

  • IDRISI Selva Software Unveiled

    talk
    17 Jan 2012 | 12:43 am
    Clark Labs is pleased to announce the upcoming release of the 17th version of the IDRISI geospatial software for monitoring and modeling the Earth system. The IDRISI Selva software incorporates major revisions to its Land Change Modeler and Earth Trends Modeler applications. It also includes a variety of new analytical techniques, optimizations to current modules and additional import/export options. IDRISI’s Land Change Modeler application for the modeling, prediction and impact assessment of land cover change now includes major modeling enhancements and special tools to support REDD…
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    The Geospatial Desktop

  • The Geospatial Desktop is Now Available

    admin
    23 Jan 2012 | 2:04 pm
    The Geospatial Desktop book is now available for order from Amazon. Published by Locate Press, it is a revision of the book originally entitled Desktop GIS. For information on what’s in the book, see About the Book and the Annotated Chapter List. Take a look at the Changes page to see what’s new/different in this [...]

  • The Proof is in Hand

    admin
    18 Jan 2012 | 2:50 pm
    The proof copy of The Geospatial Desktop has arrived and is being reviewed. It shouldn’t be long now before the book is available on Amazon. If you want to be notified when the book is available, use the Contact form to provide your email address. We’ll notify you when we have a firm date for [...]

  • Converting E00 Files

    admin
    23 Nov 2011 | 6:19 pm
    Although some GIS applications support using E00 files directly you will likely find it more efficient to convert them to another format. This can be easily done with ogr2ogr. Converting to a Shapefile ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -a_srs EPSG:4326 dnnet dnnet.e00 This will convert the dnnet.e00 file located in the current directory into a set [...]

  • Revised Version

    admin
    21 Nov 2011 | 10:14 am
    Desktop GIS published by Pragmatic Press is currently out of print. We are working on a new, revised version of the book titled The Geospatial Desktop to be published by Locate Press around the first of the year. If you want to be notified when the book is available, use the Contact form to provide [...]

  • The Volcano and the Buffer

    admin
    27 Apr 2009 | 11:36 am
    Here in Alaska we have over 130 volcanoes with more than 50 being active in about the last 250 years. Presently Mt. Redoubt is in an eruptive phase and has been since March 22. Ash from the volcano has fallen in a number of communities and areas throughout the state. A couple of weeks or [...]
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    GIS and Agent-Based Modelling

  • Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:48 pm
    Sample of geolocated tweets referringOccupy Wall Street.We have just finished a paper entitled 'Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence' for Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Global Security. For those interested below is the abstract:The emergence of social media has provided the public with an effective and irrepressible real-time mechanism to broadcast information. The great popularity of platforms such as twitter and YouTube, and the substantial amount of content that is communicated through them are making social media an essential component of open-source…

  • Agent-based Models and Geographical Systems at the AAG

    18 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am
    As Agent-based modeling (ABM) within geographical systems is starting to mature as a methodology in geography and across the social sciences. We (Alison Heppenstall, Mike Batty, Mark Birkin, Christopher Bone and Andrew Crooks) have organized several sessions under the topic of  "Agent-based Models and Geographical Systems"at the forthcoming AAG Annual meeting in NY. These start nice and early on Saturday the 25th of February and go until Sunday the 26th.The aim of the sessions is to bring together researchers utilizing agent-based models (and associated methodologies) to discuss topics…

  • Occupy Wall Street movement via Twitter

    16 Dec 2011 | 8:56 am
    Following on from our work on harvesting ambient geospatial information (AGI) from social media feeds we have started to explore the Occupy Wall Street movement. The movie below shows just one part of this work, specifically the movement of the protesters in New York during the Action Day (November 17) from Wall Street to Brooklyn Bridge. The red dots denote locations of the tweets. Selected tweets are displayed at the bottom of the screen. Active tweets are marked with a white star.More ananylsis to follow...

  • New GeoMason Models

    12 Dec 2011 | 12:20 pm
    We been working on adding more spatial agent based models examples to GeoMason, the GIS extension for MASON. These include a vegetation growth model utilizing raster data and a simple disease outbreak model utilizing vector data. See below for more details.Vegetation Growth Model: Eastern Africa has undergone sustained drought for over a decade placing a great strain on the local population. This demo introduces an agent-based model of grazing called Turkana South. The model makes use of NDVI data and monthly rainfall data to drive vegetation growth. After describing the model, the paper…

  • Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds

    6 Dec 2011 | 8:47 am
    A paper I  recently co-authored with Anthony Stefanidis and Jacek Radzikowski from George Mason University entitled "Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds" is now available in  GeoJournal.   The abstract for the paper reads as follows: "Social media generated from many individuals is playing a greater role in our daily lives and provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable insight on information flow and social networking within a society. Through data collection and analysis of its content, it supports a greater mapping and understanding of…
 
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    geoMusings

  • FOSS4G North America to Be Held In Washington, DC

    Bill Dollins
    23 Jan 2012 | 5:11 pm
    I’m quite happy to see (HT, Glenn Letham) that OSGEO is inaugurating an annual FOSS4G North America conference this year in Washington, DC on April 10-12, 2012. DC is an appropriate place for this event because of the presence or … Continue reading →

  • Check Out the NREL Renewable Energy Applications

    Bill Dollins
    16 Jan 2012 | 7:33 am
    Among the items in the category of “what I care about” are renewable energy and open-source geospatial tools. So I was happy to rediscover the various online tools by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Many of the … Continue reading →

  • Sharpening the Saw*

    Bill Dollins
    3 Jan 2012 | 10:28 am
    I have been laying low on my blog and in social media for a few weeks. I typically go into a little bit of a “hibernation” during December as the days get continually shorter heading for the solstice. Around the … Continue reading →

  • Anne Arundel County, Maryland Announces GIS Data Downloads

    Bill Dollins
    14 Dec 2011 | 8:27 am
    A while back, I posted about county-level GIS data available in the State of Maryland. I was very happy to see an announcement on LinkedIn that Anne Arundel County, Maryland has rolled out a new data download page that makes … Continue reading →

  • Great News About Atanas!

    Bill Dollins
    9 Dec 2011 | 8:23 am
    Atanas tweeted this last night: Out on day 65. Thank you all for everything. Details later on tenthcave.com. #freeatanas— atanas entchev (@atanas) December 09, 2011 This is the best news possible. I, like many others, will await details on his … Continue reading →
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    Strange Maps | Big Think

  • 550 - The City and the Kitty, and Other Urban Analogies

    Frank Jacobs
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:13 pm
    Surprise meeting with an old acquaintance in the Whitechapel Gallery - Grayson Perry’s Map of an Englishman (discussed in #241). “It’s the work that draws the most people, and gets the most laughs”, said the attendant. No wonder. Perry’s Map is a masterful blend of vaguely Tolkienish fantasy ...Read More

  • 549 - Missouri Pukes and Illinois Suckers: a 'Pignominious' Map of the States

    Frank Jacobs
    17 Jan 2012 | 2:50 pm
    Last April, this blog discussed a map, dating from 1875, that showed the lower 48 states of the US in the shape of a hog: [T]his must be the world’s finest - and possibly only - example of sustained porcineography. (see #511). How wrong, how fortunately, gloriously wrong! Here is another fine ...Read More

  • 548 - Wishful Mapping: a Half-baked Alaska, and the Passage That Wasn't There

    Frank Jacobs
    9 Jan 2012 | 7:59 pm
    What a strange concoction this late-18th-century French map is. Centred on the northwestern part of America, it is an eclectic mix of geographic fact and fiction. Some continental contours are instantly recognisable, for instance the Kamchatka peninsula of Russia’s Far East, and Canada’s Baffin and ...Read More

  • 547 - Too Soon? The Whisky Flavour Map

    Frank Jacobs
    2 Jan 2012 | 7:16 pm
    Happy 2012! By now, you’re probably still in the earnest stage of your New Year’s resolutions. If one of those is about your determination to cut back on drink, this might not be the best thing to read right now.   Maybe you should bookmark this post for that moment when you again feel like ...Read More

  • 546 - The Underwritten States of America

    Frank Jacobs
    26 Dec 2011 | 3:24 pm
    An apple a day keeps the doctor away. But eating that apple is not enough. Where you eat it matters almost as much.  At least it did in the mid-19th century, as demonstrated by these two maps.   They show the territory of the United States divided, for the purpose of medical insurance underwriting ...Read More
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    Mapping Center

  • Sun glints add realism to your map

    abuckley
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:30 pm
    Sun glints are a way to add a more realistic effect to your map by modulating the tone of water features.  We rarely see flat tones in nature, so using sun glints simulates the subtle tonal variations caused by the reflection of sunlight off a water surface. This method was first described in Top Patterson's article, "Getting Real: Reflecting on the New Look of National Park Service Maps" on his Shaded Relief web site. Although he describes how he achieved the effect using Photoshop, here we describe how you can use ArcMap to accomplish the same thing....(read more)

  • Combining colored and grayshade rasters with high fidelity

    rajnagi
    18 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Have you ever noticed when you display a colored raster, such as elevation tints, transparently over a grayscale raster, such as a hillshaded surface, that you lose the intensity of your colors and that it is harder to see the hillshade details? This is a problem common to all software in which colors and grayshades are combined. In the example described here, a layer tint with colors that relate to elevation values is overlain on a gray hillshade of the land surface. The resulting map looks washed out and relatively flat....(read more)

  • Making a Large-Scale 3D Map: Part 3

    kenfield
    12 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    In part 1 and part 2 of this blog entry, you learned about some of the design considerations for creating a large-scale 3D map, prepared your 2D building data in ArcMap, used ArcScene to create 3D representations of your building data, and transferred your data to Google SketchUp to render your models and then brought your models back into ArcScene. In this final part, you will use the models to create a 3D isometric map and add a range of additional symbols to create a rich large-scale 3D landscape for your static map....(read more)

  • Making a Large-Scale 3D Map: Part 2

    kenfield
    10 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    In part 1 of this blog entry, you learned about some of the design considerations for creating a large-scale 3D map and prepared your 2D building data in ArcMap. In part 2, you will use ArcScene to create 3D representations of your building data and also transfer your data to Google SketchUp for further model building. Part 3 will use the models to create a 3D map using an isometric projection and show you how to symbolize features....(read more)

  • Making a Large-Scale 3D Map: Part 1

    kenfield
    5 Jan 2012 | 3:51 pm
    With the release of Esri CityEngine, advanced tools now exist for creating rich 3D content for urban planning, architecture, entertainment, and GIS, but does 3D allow you to build useful static maps? Can we make 3D static maps with ArcGIS and what are the design considerations? This three-part blog entry explores the cartographic design for 3D static maps and shows you how to use ArcGIS to create your own detailed static 3D map. Part 1 provides some background to the design principles used to create these maps and how you can prepare your 2D data in ArcMap. Part 2 takes the 2D data into 3D…
 
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    Jonathan Crowe: Recent Map Posts

  • Four Map Stories

    Jonathan Crowe
    20 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am
    I have not forgotten my Maps in Science Fiction and Fantasy project, though it's lain fallow for a bit while I juggled other things. Here are a few short stories about maps that I've encountered over the past few months. "The Map" by Gene Wolfe (Endangered Species [New York: Tor, 1989], 20-36) belongs to the universe of The Book of the New Sun (one of my favourite works) and features one of its secondary characters. A former torturer named Eata now captains a boat along the river Gyoll. He is hired by a man with a map seeking treasure in the dead parts of the great city Nessus. The Book of…

  • A Map of Rising Global Temperatures

    Jonathan Crowe
    20 Jan 2012 | 5:42 am
    This animated map from NASA (Flash-only, sorry) illustrates global temperatures since 1880: "reds indicate temperatures higher than the average during a baseline period of 1951-1980, while blues indicate lower temperatures than the baseline average." News flash: the planet's getting warmer. More information here. Previously: Global Temperature Changes by Decade.

  • Personal Geographies

    Jonathan Crowe
    10 Dec 2011 | 7:24 am
    If you're interested in maps as art, you probably already have copies of books like You Are Here and The Map as Art, excellent collections of map art curated by Katharine Harmon (if you don't have these books and you're interested, now you know; off you go). If, on the other hand, you're a crafty sort and are interested in making art with maps -- whether as raw material or as theme -- then a new book by Jill K. Berry, Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking, may be worth your attention. Personal Geographies is a short guide to making maps about personal subjects using the…

  • Historical Atlas of Washington and Oregon

    Jonathan Crowe
    27 Nov 2011 | 3:03 pm
    Last week I received in the mail a review copy of Derek Hayes's latest book, the Historical Atlas of Washington and Oregon. Now, except for a day trip to Mount Baker in 1993, I haven't so much as visited either state, so my review is not as informed as a local's could be. What I can say is that this is the latest in a series of historical atlases by Hayes, whose previous works include historical atlases of North American railroads, California and the U.S. in general, among others. It's an attractive and reasonably priced hardcover, densely packed with contemporary maps. On that point: Hayes…

  • A New Lunar Topo Map

    Jonathan Crowe
    16 Nov 2011 | 6:29 pm
    A new topographic map of the Moon from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: "Today the LROC team releases Version 1 of the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) topographic map of the Moon. This amazing map shows you the ups and downs over nearly the entire Moon, at a scale of 100 meters across the surface, and 20 meters or better vertically." Late last year lunar topo maps were released that were based on laser altimeter data; presumably the WAC data, based on stereo observations, is better. Image credit: NASA/GSFC/DLR/Arizona State University.
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    Google Maps Mania

  • The Forgotten Poland on Google Maps

    Keir Clarke
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:56 am
    Forgotten.pl is a Polish website dedicated to abandoned buildings, rail-roads, underground tunnels, castles, military sites and any other locations that have long been neglected.The site has a huge database of user submitted abandoned locations. If you are keen to explore the abandoned Poland it is probably best to explore the site using the category filter. Each category (buildings, military, castles etc) has its own Google Map that allows users to search for individual entries by location.

  • Gerrymandering Shown with Google Maps

    Keir Clarke
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:03 am
    The New York World has produced an excellent Google Maps based visualisation of the Proposed New York Senate Districts.This visualisation of the proposed rezoning works brilliantly in map form, not only because of the obvious geographic nature of creating new senate districts but because the map perfectly illustrates the disparity in the population sizes between upstate and downstate proposed districts.The large red area to the north on the map shows that these proposed districts will each have a smaller population than the blue districts to the south of the map in New York City. In effect…

  • Ontario Election Results on Google Maps

    Keir Clarke
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:35 am
    Global News has created a series of Google Maps to visualise the 2011 Ontario election results. Ontario Election Maps shows the results of 24,094 polls in six maps: plurality winner by poll, voter turnout and the four parties' results looked at in isolation. Each map shows a heat map of the results and you can click on individual electoral wards to view the results at that location. The map can be searched by address or postal codes. A number of links, above the map, will take you to 14 regional views.

  • MetroCard Use Visualised on Google Maps

    Keir Clarke
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:33 am
    The Wall Street Journal created this great data visualisation to show how New Yorkers are using different kinds of MetroCards on the city's public transit network.Examining MetroCard Usage uses the Google Maps API to present how the 30-Day Unlimited, Pay Per-Ride and Senior Discount MetroCards are used throughout NYC. Heat maps are created for each card type and useful information windows point out specific locations and usage of the cards that the WSJ finds interesting.The visualisation also presents data taken after the 12/30/2010 fare increases to examine how usage of the different…

  • An Opacity Control Slider for Google Maps

    Keir Clarke
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:03 am
    Gavin Harris has released the code for an Opacity Control for Google Maps. The control is a slider button that can be used to adjust the opacity of map overlays used with the Google Maps API v3.The slider control can be seen in action on NZ Topo Map, where it is used to control the transparency of topographic map tiles. The code is available for download and use by Google Maps API v3 developers under a Creative Commons Licence.
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    Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog

  • switch2osm Make the switch to OpenStreetMap

    25 Jan 2012 | 9:37 am
    A nice clean website promoting Open Street Map. "switch2osm Make the switch to OpenStreetMap"       OpenStreetMap won’t charge you OpenStreetMap is... Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

  • Google Maps (UK) Finally Gets National Rail Info

    19 Jan 2012 | 9:27 am
    Google Maps (UK) Finally Gets National Rail Info for public transport directions Google Maps users in the United Kingdom can now finally get from one place to... Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

  • North Yorkshire County Council Maps

    17 Jan 2012 | 11:07 am
    North Yorkshire County Council Maps One of the best UK County Council Maps sites that gives you all the information you are looking for on one page linking childcare to "out and about" - even... Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

  • Low Emission Zone Map - London, UK

    4 Jan 2012 | 9:25 am
    Low Emission Zone Map - London, UK On 3rd January 2012 new legislation came into affect: " from 3 January 2012 it will also affect the owners of larger vans, campers and minibuses first... Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

  • OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2011

    3 Jan 2012 | 8:49 am
    OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2011 OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2011 from Derick Rethans on Vimeo. Open Street Map also had a target of $15,000 for a new server, this target was completed... Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
 
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  • bingmaps: RT @bing: Congrats to the Imagine Cup Grant Winners, esp. OaSys and LifeLens using @Bing maps! http://t.co/Fha9Cf0V

    Bing Maps
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:12 pm
    bingmaps: RT @bing: Congrats to the Imagine Cup Grant Winners, esp. OaSys and LifeLens using @Bing maps! http://t.co/Fha9Cf0V Link...

  • Store Distance Calculations

    krish
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:50 am
    Hello! I have a problem that is probably not unique: I have a list of about 100,000 customer addresses, and about 1000 store addresses, both all across USA. For each customer, I want a list of the closest 5 stores (based on drive time), with drive time information. I am open to any external add on software (to mappoint) which can make this task simpler. Finding the distance between each customer address and each store address has been discussed, but I am pretty sure that it would be too expensive and could be too time consuming (100 million distance calculations even at 100 per second would…

  • Modify maps

    bilbo69
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:55 am
    Hello, I've an atypical problem. In MapPoint 2010, desktop, is present a state called "western sahara", below Morocco. I need to hide this state, that must seem that belong to Morocco. My attempts have been: 1. open EUR_CD.MAD with an HEX editor (I think it's the file that contain this information) 2. find the text "western sahara" (in english and in the other languages) 3. replace it with ASCII 32 (space) But... opening MapPoint the writing "western sahara" is still on the map!! Any idea? Thank you Gianluca

  • Win7x64SP1 clobbers MapPoint 2010....

    booboobear0523
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:49 am
    All-- For a brief time (a matter of days) I was able to run a WPF application I had created that used the MapPoint 2010 *.ocx on my new Win7x64SP1 box (but only if I ran my custom app as Administrator). Now, without warning, my custom app no longer works. Not sure what is getting in the way but since I have heard that Win7SP1 is incompatible with MapPoint *2011*, I am inclined to think that this has something to do with the C++ redistributables that MapPoint 2010 relies on. (Not sure if they are 32-bit or 64-bit or C++ 2005, 2008 or 2010--guessing 32-bit 2005/2008.) Please feel free to…

  • bingmaps: RT @ChrisPendleton: New Bing Maps Features Help You Feel Spatial…

    Bing Maps
    25 Jan 2012 | 3:30 pm
    bingmaps: RT @ChrisPendleton: New Bing Maps Features Help You Feel Spatial…
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    GPSmagazine.com

  • Microsoft Patents 'Unsafe Neighborhood' GPS Avoidance Feature. Let's You Steer Clear of the Ghetto

    Fletch
    12 Jan 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Microsoft just got a patent approved for a avoiding unsafe neighborhoods when navigating via GPS. According to Microsoft, the feature is specifically aimed at pedestrian travelers, and factors conditions such as weather, terrain, and "security information" (read: crime statistics).... Read the whole entry

  • Garmin intros top of the line nuvi 3500 series

    Fletch
    9 Jan 2012 | 12:42 am
    Garmin announced today the release of the nuvi 3500 series - Garmin's newest flagship GPS. The nuvi 3500 will feature the same ultra-thin form factor of the previous nuvi 3400-series, but will sport a larger 5-inch display, and will... Read the whole entry

  • Amazon publishes its Black Friday GPS Deals

    Fletch
    20 Nov 2011 | 1:10 pm
    Black Friday is approaching, and from the looks of things there are already some great deals to be had. GPS navigation has gotten cheaper than ever, and you'll get more features per dollar this year than ever before. See... Read the whole entry

  • Yes, GPSmagazine is Still Alive!

    Fletch
    20 Nov 2011 | 12:28 pm
    I haven't had much time to work on GPSmagazine.com lately, but I'm getting back in the saddle and will be posting lots of new content soon. Thanks to all of you who sent concerned notes, and kept the faith... Read the whole entry

  • Magellan iPhone App Giveaway!

    Fletch
    16 May 2011 | 1:29 am
    That's right - 5 lucky readers will get fully licensed, fully functional copies of Magellan's iPhone navigation App (version 1.3.2 for the United States). Contest: We have 5 copies of the App to give away. Just leave a comment... Read the whole entry
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    Ogle Earth

  • Google conspiring for regime change in Syria through maps? Hardly.

    Stefan Geens
    8 Jan 2012 | 11:55 am
    For autocratic regimes, naming landmarks is both a perk and a tool — a cheap stab at immortality and a means to cement authority: In Syria, examples abound: The main highway through Damascus is named after the late despot Hafez al-Assad, father to the current one. In the coastal town of Latakia, a main street is called 8 Azar Avenue, named after the March 8, 1963 coup d’état that brought the Ba’ath Party to power, soon headed by the al-Assad clan. (March = Azar = آذار) Should the al-Assad dynasty fall in Syria, these names will certainly change. In the meantime, how do…

  • Iran missile base post-explosion imagery, now hi-res in Google Earth

    Stefan Geens
    30 Nov 2011 | 3:52 am
    On November 12, a powerful explosion ripped through an Iranian missile base on the outskirts of the town of Bīdgeneh, 40 km west of Tehran. As the Guardian reported soon after, among the dead at the base was the architect of Iran’s missile program, Major General Hassan Moghaddam. There has been heavy media speculation the explosion might have been the result of a covert operation by Israel’s Mossad. Post-explosion satellite imagery has now become available that shows the extent of the destruction. Commissioned by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), the…

  • In Slovenia, photography gets regulatory scrutiny

    Stefan Geens
    15 Nov 2011 | 6:43 pm
    Over at Dliberation, I’ve reported on a story with a geolocation twist likely of interest to Ogle Earth readers: In an unfortunate bout of regulatory innovation in Slovenia, the information commissioner there has decided that panoramic photography benefits from less legal protection than conventional photography because she reckons panoramas make it is easy to tell where the photograph was taken, and when, thus compromising the data rights of the people in the shot. She argues this, apparently unaware that all modern digital photography comes with EXIF time stamps which sites such as…

  • Announcing Dliberation.org

    Stefan Geens
    7 Nov 2011 | 12:04 pm
    In case you wonder what else I get up to, in terms of my interests: I’ve started Dliberation.org, a blog about the global social and political impact of digital networks. What Ogle Earth is to digital atlases, Dliberation is to digital networks — so yes, it is a lot less niched, but in line with how my interests have developed these past few years. Ogle Earth continues to be the place where I report on how Google Earth affects science and society; for a broader look at Internet regulation, censorship, surveillance, activism and cybercrime, visit Dliberation.org. Here’s the…

  • Hunting illegal mining in Goa

    Stefan Geens
    8 Oct 2011 | 7:53 pm
    There is a juicy scandal unfolding in India’s smallest and richest state, Goa, where the State Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has prepared a report indicting ruling Congress Party politicians for benefiting from illegal mining in the state. Illegal mining is estimated (by the Hindustan Times) to have cost Goa over USD 600 million over the past five years in lost tax revenues, turning this into a whopper of a story. Reporters are having a field day with the clumsy ways in which local Congress Party bigwigs have maneuvered to derail the report. Congress Party members on…
 
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    All Points Blog

  • Nokia Sells Off Media Advertising Business

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:21 am
    In another sign Nokia is reshaping itself comes its decision to get out of the advertising business. Finnish group Nokia has sold its media advertising business to a U.S. startup Matchbin as it focuses on core businesses, a company spokesman said on Friday without disclosing detail... Continue reading

  • Pretty Imagery in Google Earth and other Google Maps/Earth News

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:44 am
    Google Earth 6.2 had a "prettier" version of its imagery. No, it's not new data just a new smoothing algorithm. Today, we’re introducing a new way of rendering imagery that smooths out this quilt of images. The end result is a beautiful new Earth-viewing experience that preserves... Continue reading

  • LightSquared Update - Javad Letter: GPS Companies Can’t Handle the Truth - 1/27/12

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    In a letter to the FCC, Javad CEO Javad Ashjaee reitarates that the testing procedure used to explore the impact of LightSquared on GPS was political, not scientific. He concludes with a familiar quote as to why his filter-enhanced soutions were not tested: There can be only reason... Continue reading

  • NGA to Procure Less Imagery but More Capacity, FBI RFI for LBS Intelligence

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    The U.S. Defense Department intends to reduce planned purchases of commercial satellite imagery in 2013 as part of a broader initiative aimed at reducing U.S. military expenditures by $259 billion over the next five years, according to a Pentagon planning document released Jan.... Continue reading

  • Google Public Alerts and other LBS News

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    Google announced a Public Alerts page on Jan 25. The idea is to keep you informed of emergency alerts for floods, tornadoes, winter storms, and other dangers that may be headed your way. But, it's completely query driven, not location-based in this first attempt. Google is seeking... Continue reading
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    Google LatLong

  • Welcome customers into your business on Google

    Vanessa Schneider
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:18 pm
    (Cross-posted on the Small Business Blog.) When we initially announced the Business Photos pilot program, we wanted to give business owners an easy way to get customers in the door online using interactive, high-quality, 360-degree images of places on Google Maps and on Google Search results. With thousands of businesses under our belt — from salons to gift shops — we’ve been hearing the same question again and again from both business owners and photographers alike: How can I participate? Well, with the overwhelming success of the first pilot, we’ve decided to unveil a…

  • Google Earth 6.2: It’s a beautiful world

    Lat Long Blog
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:25 pm
    (Cross-posted on the Official Google and SketchUp blogs)We're taking bird's eye view to a whole new level with the latest version of Google Earth, released today. With Google Earth 6.2, we’re bringing you the most beautiful Google Earth yet, with more seamless imagery and a new search interface. Additionally, we’ve introduced a feature that enables you to share an image from within Google Earth, so you can now simply and easily share your virtual adventures with family and friends on Google+.A seamless globeThe Google Earth globe is made from a mosaic of satellite and aerial photographs…

  • New Biking Directions Legend

    Lat Long Blog
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:31 am
    If you’re looking for new ways to get around for fun or to work, or might be trying to live a greener lifestyle in 2012, why not try biking? In March 2010 we introduced biking directions and since then Google Maps has been sharing biking directions with cyclists across the U.S and Canada.Since no bike path is the same, many users have requested an easier way to differentiate the different types of bike routes that are available. Starting today, a new legend feature can help you understand what the different colors on the bike maps symbolize.Dark green is for dedicated trails and paths Light…

  • Public Alerts now on Google Maps

    Lat Long Blog
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:07 am
    (Cross posted from the Google.org Blog)Today marks the launch of a new Google Crisis Response project: Google Public Alerts, a platform designed to bring you relevant emergency alerts when and where you’re searching for them. If a major weather event is headed for your area, you might go online to search for the information you need: What’s happening? Where and when will it strike? How severe will it be? What resources are available to help? The Google Crisis Response team works on providing critical emergency information during crises. Our goal is to surface emergency information through…

  • Take a tour of South Korea using Street View

    Lat Long Blog
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:48 am
    Tourism to South Korea is on the rise, with neighbors from East Asia and beyond making trips to see the birthplace of Korean dramas and K-Pop, sample authentic kimchee, and find cutting-edge fashions in the capital’s Myeongdong shopping district. Today we’re introducing Street View imagery for the two biggest cities, Seoul and Busan, making it even easier for travelers to plan their next visit to South Korea using Google Maps.For example, you can preview your vacation in Seoul by starting right in Gwanghwamun square. Viewing the surroundings and statue of naval commander Yi Sun-sin…
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    Between the Poles

  • OGC Open GeoSMS Standard approved

    Geoff
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:51 pm
    The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard is an extended Short Message Service (SMS) encoding and interface for exchanging location content between devices or applications. The OGC has just announced that the OGC membership has voted to adopt Open GeoSMS as an OGC standard.  The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard is available publicly.

  • FOSS4G North America 2012 to be held April 10-12 in Washington DC

    Geoff
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:12 pm
    Following last year’s well-attended international FOSS4G conference in Denver Colorado, the North American community of free and open source geospatial software developers, users, and advocates are planning a regular annual event in North America. The first FOSS4G-NA conference is scheduled to take place April 10–12, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. FOSS4G-NA will bring together many public and private-sector stakeholders at the forefront of some of the world’s most innovative free and open source software to discuss and work on building tools to…

  • Obama says infrastructure needs investment

    Geoff
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:16 am
    President Obama in his State of the Union speech specifically called out infrastructure as requiring significant investment.  He said that "our infrastructure used to be the best", and mentioned countries such as Russia, China, South Korea, and several European countries that are ahead of the US in some sector of infrastructure.  He also referred to the American Society of Civil Engineers' Intrastructure Scorecard that assigned a grade of "D" to American infrastructure. He said that the Administration is proposiing to redouble the rebuilding efforts that were…

  • Department of Interior to require full disclosure of hydraulic fracturing fluids on federal lands

    Geoff
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:56 am
    The impact of hydraulic fracturing on water quality in the US is getting a lot of attention, most recently from the EPA nationally and specifically in Wyoming. Last year the Wilderness Society surveyed the fracturing fluids requirements in state statutes to see whether they require public disclosure of hydraulic fracturing chemicals. As part of the survey they called the oil and gas commissions in each state to confirm their findings.  The Wilderness Society found that of the 33 states where drilling occurs, only Wyoming requires full public disclosure of the chemicals in hydraulic…

  • Distributech: Demand response (DR) - a business opportunity for owners of commercial buildings

    Geoff
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:31 pm
    In the US historically electric power utilities have attempted to build enough capacity to meet peak load. For example, California uses 5% of its electric power generation capacity less than 50 hours a year.  But peakers, as the power plants are called that are only fired up to meet peak load - typically on a hot July or August afternoon, are expensive.  Power utilities can reduce their CAPEX and their OPEX, and customers' power bills, by shaving peak load.  Demand Response One of the ways that power companies in the US are increasingly turning to is demand response (DR).  DR is an…
 
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  • RIP Geomate.jr

    Rich Owings
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:37 am
    Sad news today for geocachers on a budget – the Geomate.jr will no longer be sold and the Update Zone service has been discontinued. Keep reading for all the gory details along with how to get a new pocket query into your Geomate… Dear Geomate.jr Community What can we say – this good thing has come to an end. We are no longer able to offer the Geomate.jr for sale or continue the Update Zone service. We do hope you’ve had as much fun geocaching as we’ve had working with everyone. To help keep the adventures happening however, we have made some software…

  • Garmin StreetPIlot onDemand goes social

    Rich Owings
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Garmin is rolling out several new features for its StreetPilot onDemand app for iOS, including Facebook and foursquare check-in, a Wikipedia layer, and the ability to add new voices and custom vehicle icons. Also new is an update to the Garmin Tracker iOS app for the GTU-10, allowing continuous tracking and the option to share a link so others can view the location as well. And in case the new features have piqued your interest, Garmin’s StreetPilot onDemand and Navigon apps will be on sale for $10 off during Macworld (January 26-28): Garmin StreetPilot Onboard USA: $39.99 instead of…

  • Handheld GPS 201: Mapping software

    Rich Owings
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:08 am
    With today’s topic, I’m starting a new series, a follow up to my Handheld GPS 101 posts. Are you ready to move on to the next class? Alright then. Today’s topic is mapping software — and I’m not talking about maps for your GPS here, but rather desktop or laptop software that will turn you into a power user. Why use desktop mapping software? First of all, the scale is much larger, giving you a better feel for the overall area you will be traveling through. And in general, planning a trip is much easier on your computer than on a GPS. A side benefit I’ve…
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  • It took less than 3 minutes to make my wife happy using GPS Insight

    rdonat
    17 Jan 2012 | 5:28 pm
    I was getting some work done today when my wife sent me this email at 3:35 PM: Request from my wife to fix an alert I bought a new car, so my old car (Rob 4000) doesn’t alert her like it used to when I set it up to text her automatically whenever I leave the office (blog article about that here). I have a new car and new device (Rob 3900) and sometimes drive another car (Rubicon) now so instead of a single car notifying her, I thought I would do the following: Make a group called “Robs Cars” Change the Landmark Alert from a single vehicle (Rob 4000) to a Group of vehicles…
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  • Hello world!

    alex
    24 Jan 2012 | 1:01 am
    Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
 
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  • The Arab Spring: One Year On

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Today, Friday the 27th of February is the first Friday after the one year anniversary of the start of Egypt's Revolution.  The Middle East is still on fire on Egyptians protest against the military junta while liberals slowly realize they lost the country to Islamists, Bahraini Shia begin to violently resist the minority Sunni's monarchy, and Syria continues to be in civil war as Syrians fight against the Arab national socialist Baath Party. All videos are from the past three days.EgyptBahrainSyria

  • Aloha Oe: The Geography of Oahu in Song

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The song "Aloha Oe" is a classic Hawaiian song frequently sung to express loneliness, homesickness, love, and even Hawaiianess.  The song was composed by then Princess, and future Queen, Liliuokalani in 1877 during a tour of the island of Oahu.  The most accepted story is the princess based the song off the love one of her officers had for a Hawaiian female…

  • Military Geography of the Strait of Hormuz and the Allied Coalition

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The British Daily Mail has a great infographic showing the Strait of Hormuz, the regional geography, the oil output of the various countries which use the strait (about 30% of the world's output though not all their oil goes through the strait), and the America-British-French naval coalition which is currently there to ensure Iran does not close the strait.Click to enlarge.  From Daily Mail.Of interesting note, the United States led an international alliance into the 1990-91 Gulf War to prevent Saddam Hussein from controlling less than seven percent of the world's oil when he annexed…

  • Upcoming Aurora Borealis at 1400 UT

    24 Jan 2012 | 6:11 am
    From Spaceweather.comINCOMING CME: Big sunspot 1402 erupted on Jan. 23rd, producing a strong M9-class solar flare and a fast-moving coronal mass ejection (CME). Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say the CME should reach Earth on Jan. 24th at 14:18 UT (+/- 7 hr) and Mars a little more than a day later. Strong geomagnetic storms are possible when the cloud reaches Earth. Our magnetic field is still reverberating from a CME impact on Jan. 22nd, so another blow could spark impressive auroras at high latitudes. Sky watchers in northern Europe, Canada, Alaska, and northern-tier US states…

  • Joshua Project: Christian Missionary GeoInfo for the World

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:27 am
    The Joshua Project is an Evangelical Protestant effort to preach the Gospels to communities that have very small (or no) Christian population.  The project details the many various ethnic and national groups of countries around the world.  The website is generally map driven.The bias in the project is that Catholic and various Orthodox faiths are considered good but not good enough.  For a population to be "fully reached" the website rates the group by number of Evangelicals.A related project is Unreached People of the Day.  This website sums up the information of the…
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  • Lesson 1: From Pole to Pole

    arrancat
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:33 am
    First of all I would like to show you a trailer from the BBC Planet Earth series, here it is: Hope you enjoyed that:) This is what Wikipedia says about the first episode of the BBC Planet Earth Series: “1. “From Pole to Pole” UK broadcast 5 March 2006, 9.41 million viewers (34% audience share);[25] US broadcast 25 March 2007 The first episode illustrates a ‘journey’ around the globe and reveals the effect of gradual climatic change and seasonal transitions en route. During Antarctica‘s winter, emperor penguins endure four months of darkness, with no food, in…

  • Live, Relax, Work (When Machines Go Silent)

    mjrainey
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:57 am
    This is a post from a few months back that I reworked and updated for the Nyx, A Noctournal website. A friend asked me if there had been any changes to the Whitworth Street development between the two postings. There hasn’t – in fact, the only change is that the unemployment figures have risen. Advertising slogans such as these become ironic to young people as unemployment rises Construction cranes once meant success. On a city skyline they were symbols of regeneration, redevelopment and investment. Then the recession hit. Many building projects went bust and some, like the Origin…

  • 2. Hike the Bible - Gospel Trail

    BibleScienceGuy
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:16 am
    Continuing the Hike the Bible series surveying major hiking trails in the Lands of the Bible… Israel opened a new 39-mile hiking trail from Nazareth to Capernaum called the Gospel Trail on Nov 29, 2011. Gospel Trail map from the Israel Ministry of Tourism It recreates possible routes that Jesus may have walked when He traveled from Nazareth to Capernaum near the beginning of His ministry (Luke 4:16-37). Jesus undoubtedly traversed all or parts of the trail during His sojourns in Galilee. The Gospel Trail The Israel Ministry of Tourism launched the new Gospel Trail for hikers last…

  • Kazbegi (ყაზბეგი)

    jesssead
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:24 am
    This picture shows the castle at the top of the mountain, as seen from the bottom of the mountain. This picture shows the hike up the mountain, through the snow. This picture shows the first view of the church, after coming over the top of the mountain. This picture shows a nice panorama of the top of the mountain.

  • The Middle East Internet Statistics 2010 [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Arjan de Raaf
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am
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  • Trollstigen (Troll’s path)

    Ian Brown
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:11 am
    In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s path) – a vertiginous road which affords remarkable views of the mountainous scenery. Lucky for us that a Street View car made the journey1 , allowing us to experience some incredible vistas. We’ll take a tour of Trollstigen2, starting at the bottom where we can see several sections of the road climbing the mountain side. With very narrow sections, eleven hairpin bends, and an average gradient of 9%, the road could fairly be described as challenging, and long…

  • Definitely a duck (maybe)

    Alex Turnbull
    18 Jan 2012 | 9:30 am
    Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we think looks definitely like a duck. We’re not too sure really, but we reckoned you might like it. So what made this duck-like pattern? Perhaps it was formed by toilet waste falling from a passing aircraft? Perhaps there’s a nearby duck-cave and this marks the entrance? Caves are the perfect place for ducks to hide before launching attacks on the local populace – you know, seeing as how their quacks don’t echo in caves. As you can see, there’s also a bit of water here…

  • Brayton Fire Training Field and Disaster City

    Ian Brown
    12 Jan 2012 | 5:45 am
    In the city of College Station in Texas (part-way between Dallas and Houston) there is a scene of apparent disaster, with many burnt-out industrial facilities, collapsed buildings and train cars strewn asunder. However, they are all just simulations found in a pair of the world’s biggest facilities for fire and disaster training – Brayton Fire Training Field and Disaster City. Operated by the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX – a part of Texas A&M University), these facilities host tens of thousands of emergency responders every year for cutting-edge training programs. At…

  • Ringing In 2012 Around the World

    Kyle Kusch
    9 Jan 2012 | 5:17 pm
    We’re well into 2012 now, but exactly when your new year began depends where on the globe you were at the time. Different places celebrated at very different times – in some cases more than a day apart! With that in mind, here’s your guide to the first – and the last – places on Earth that entered 2012. The first land on Earth that welcomed in the new year was this secluded tropical beach on uninhabited Caroline Island – sorry, Millennium Island, the easternmost outpost of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. Since Kiribati spans both sides of the 180° meridian, it has decided…

  • Google Sightseeing 2011 Wrap-up

    James Turnbull
    5 Jan 2012 | 3:12 am
    Happy New Year! The festive break is over, and we’re all back to work – but there’s still time to pause for a look back at Google Sightseeing in 2011. Over the course of the year we published 104 new articles, which takes us up to 1,984 total posts. This means we should hopefully pass 2,000 published posts before the site’s seventh anniversary in April of this year. But back to the highlights of 2011, a year which saw our sixth annual Volcano Week, where we even went off-planet to see the largest volcano in our solar system: Olympus Mons. We also held our fourth Desert Week, one…
 
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  • The End of Serendipity

    31 Dec 2011 | 9:00 pm
    For four years Darker View has run on a software package called Serendipity. No longer. I am switching to Wordpress. It will be painful, It will be ugly, but it will happen. As of midnight, the very end of 2011, it will be live. Bear with me as I fix all of the little issues. Those of you who use the old RSS feed will need to switch to the new feed. The old blog and the material in it will continue to be available. All new posts will be on the Wordpress platform. Welcome to 2012!

  • Postcard from the Reef - Yet Another

    30 Dec 2011 | 2:00 am
    Regular readers should be getting tired of seeing photos of these guys. More than a few of them have been posted here. But here I go again... I just could not help myself... He is so cute!! A young Whitemouth Moray (Gymnothorax meleagris) in the coral at O'oma

  • Pluto in M25

    29 Dec 2011 | 2:00 am
    I do not usually write about the dwarf planet Pluto, not only is is difficult to find, but even more difficult to confirm when you do have it in the eyepiece. It is usually a dim 14th magnitude star lost amongst many other dim stars. Confirming its identity is often a frustrating exercise with good charts of an area or waiting a few days to see it move. I have seen Pluto visually in the eyepiece... once. For the first few decades of the 21st century the exercise becomes even more difficult as the distant Pluto moves through the Milky Way where it is even more lost amongst the swarms of stars.

  • Postcard from the Universe - M46 and NGC2438

    28 Dec 2011 | 2:00 am
    The astrophoto rig is working well, with most of the little issues resolved. I have made myself a Bahtinov mask to aid in focusing the AT6RC. The only issue with shooting from Waikoloa with the higher magnification is seeing. The air is a bit unsteady down here leading to somewhat soft stars in the images. Going to have to take the rig up the mountain sometime to see what it can do in better seeing. The open cluster M46 and the planetary nebula NGC2438 in Puppis, 32 x 1min exposures with the AT6RC and Canon 20Da

  • Our Blue

    27 Dec 2011 | 2:00 am
    Just a fun video for the morning. Well... Mostly a fun video, there are some serious and somewhat disturbing shots. All for a good cause...
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  • Supreme Court Rules Police Need a Warrant for GPS Tracking

    Stan Shyshkin
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:51 pm
    On January 23rd, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that will serve as the foundation for future digital surveillance cases. In an unusual unanimous decision, the Court ruled (in U.S. v. Jones) that police must obtain a search warrant to place a GPS tracking device on a suspect’s vehicle. In this case, the FBI and the District of Columbia affixed a hidden GPS tracker to a vehicle operated by suspected drug dealer Antoine Jones in a public parking lot. The device recorded and transmitted the vehicle’s movements for 28 days. The Court ruled that affixing a GPS tracker to the outside of…

  • As Adults Wise Up, Hackers Target Children

    Stan Shyshkin
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:23 pm
    As more adults become web-savvy and learn how to spot suspicious websites, hackers are turning their attention to children. Impulsive and prone to falling for the hackers’ traps, kids make perfect malware targets, providing an easy gateway to their parent’s computers, and potentially, access to their personal and financial information. “Games like these require clicking, and children don’t think much about what they are clicking on,” said Ondrej Vlcek, CTO of Avast Software. “This makes them – or their parents’ computer – quite susceptible to malicious software.” To date,…

  • Crime-Fighting Spray Really Makes the Evidence Stick

    Stan Shyshkin
    17 Jan 2012 | 12:13 pm
    Photo courtesy of SelectaDNA. A new experimental anti-theft tool is forcing criminals to show their true colors.  As perps flee the scene of a crime, a technology called SelectDNA sprays them with an invisible substance that can be detected up to 6 months later under ultraviolet light. Think of it as a nightclub hand stamp for bad guys. It works like this: According to Selectamark, the UK-based company behind the technology, the SelectaDNA dispenser is installed over the exits of a store, restaurant or bank, for example. When a criminal flees, an alert employee or security guard needs to…

  • Courts Uphold Ruling Allowing Secret GPS Tracking of Employees

    Stan Shyshkin
    11 Jan 2012 | 8:27 am
    Though the case is headed to the Supreme Court in a few months, police currently have the legal right to place GPS tracking devices on the vehicles of suspected perps. But are employers able to do the same to their employees when they suspect foul play? According to the NY Appeals Court and Magistrate David Noce, a Missouri federal judge, the answer appears to be “yes.” In both the New York and Missouri court cases, defendants were fired from their positions for forging time and expense sheets after a GPS tracker was placed on their vehicles. In both cases, the axed workers argued that it…

  • Snow Job: Chicago Launches GPS-Powered Plow-Monitoring Website

    Stan Shyshkin
    5 Jan 2012 | 12:21 pm
    Snow plowing is serious business in Chicago, and local residents have expressed concern that  certain well-connected people and neighborhoods tend to get their streets cleared first when a storm hits.   Accusations of political favoritism are nothing new in the Windy City, but recently elected Mayor Rahm Emanuel has created a program to try to address the situation — at least as it relates to snow removal. Taking a cue from Maryland’s Montgomery and Howard Counties, the City of Chicago has granted residents access to ChicagoShovels.org, a website that lets residents monitor the…
 
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