Nashville just got hooked up with Street View imagery on Google Maps. Zoom in to Nashville, click on the Street View link. Imagery is available for any street with blue highlights. Move the little stick figure guy around and then click to view street level imagery of the area. The image window has 360 degree pan features. By clicking along the yellow line, you can move forward to the next frame.
ESRI released ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 yesterday. It is believed this will be the last service pack before ArcGIS 9.3 is released. I hear, the new version is scheduled to hit the streets around the second or third week of June. The beta version came in the mail last week and I am currently running tests and getting familar with the new functionality. I will report on what I find soon. Click here to download the service pack 5 for your desktops. You need this. If you want, Click Here to see the issues addressed with this release.
We got the GEO-Jobe booth setup. Stop by if you have a minute. Looks like a lot of people here this year. We’ll have some pictures up soon.
NETR Online has put together a nifty site to view several decades worth of aerial imagery across the US. The link was sent to me by our good friends at LizardTech to show the power of their Express Server which is used to deliver over 60 TB of data on this site.
On the left of the page you’ll see some points of interest links. Las Vegas has to be the coolest before and after imagery, albeit mostly black and white. You can also check out Manhattan and see before and after imagery of the World Trade Center buildings.
Representative Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee is co-sponsoring HB5532, referred to as the Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (FLAIR) Act. This bill creates a single, Federal multipurpose cadastre (a uniform Federal computer database), in accordance with standards recommended by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The bill also calls for an “inventory of inventories,” so that duplication can be identified and eliminated. The FLAIR Act will provide all agencies owning Federal real property an improved accounting for their land assets. Such an inventory will assist in improved Federal land management, resource conservation, environmental protection and utilization of real property.
In December 2006, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported the Federal government failed its audit for FY 2006. GAO has repeatedly (108th, 109th, 110th Congresses) designated Federal Real Property Asset Management one of the high-risk areas within the Federal government most prone to waste, fraud and abuse. One of the reasons cited by GAO is the fact that the government does not have a current, accurate inventory of the land it owns.
The National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) and the State of Tennessee, OIR GIS Services is supporting this legislation and has met with the Tennessee delegation to move this effort forward. The Senate will introduce a similar bill with Senator Corker as a possible co-sponsor.
Here is the latest Geocaching info for next week’s TNGIC event. You can download the PDF here.
Here’s the scoop:
- Date: Tuesday, March 25th
- Time: Noon – 3 pm
- Location: Chattanooga Convention Center
- Teams: should be 4-6 people
- Equipment Needed:
- GPS receiver (Bring your own. GEO-Jobe will provide up to 4 Trimble GPS Units)
- Good walking shoes
- Downloaded data/map files (see below)
More Details
Teams should arrive 30 to 45 minutes before the start of the event to receive the cache information, which includes the coordinates for each cache and a brief description of tasks required at each location. GEO-Jobe GIS will be emailing a TerraSync SSF file, ArcPad checked out map file, and a data sheet for recreational GPS receivers on Friday, March 21. These files will also be available via the TNGIC website on April 21st at http://www.geo-jobe.com/tngic/tngic-geocache.htm. The Trimble GPS units provided by GEO-Jobe GIS will have these files loaded and ready to go. So for those bringing units of your own, make sure you have these data files loaded. This will keep things fair.
Before you begin the event, enter the coordinates into your GPS receiver. Remember, this is a race and the more efficient you are, the better you will do. Teams will leave the Convention Center at noon to start the hunt. There will be several caches placed within a half-mile radius of the Convention Center. Teams must be back by 3:00 p.m. to turn in the information compiled during the hunt. Deadline to enter is Friday, March 21st at Noon.
Prizes:
Prizes will be awarded for first, second, and third place and are being donated
by GEO-Jobe GIS Consulting.
What is Geocaching?
Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for GPS users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to learn about the great features and capabilities of a GPS unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. For more information on geocaching please visit www.geocaching.com.
For more information, contact Richard or Cliff at GEO-Jobe GIS at 615-883-0085.
In an effort to update their online mapping experience and the technology that goes with it, the City of Decatur and Morgan County AL Revenue Commissioner, through a joint venture, have partnered with GEO-Jobe GIS to provide GEOpowered Interactive Mapping technology to their internal users and constituents.
We are really excited here at GEO-Jobe because this is our first Alabama GEOpowered client. But more importantly, we are thrilled to be serving the people of Decatur and Morgan County with a simple, easy to use, and super fast interactive mapping website.
The GEOpowered site, found at http://al.decatur.geopowered.com, has been running for a short time while we got the kinks out. Today marks the official launch with a press release in the city papers. We are planning to hold an open house in the near future with the folks at Decatur and Morgan County. But for now, enjoy the site. We look forward to serving you for a long time.
Vanderbilt University, a long time client of GEO-Jobe GIS, has recently upgraded its emergency alert system to a new system developed by Gallatin based W.A.R.N. (Wide Area Rapid Notification). The W.A.R.N. system provides multiple format rapid alerts to student and faculty in response to threats from tornados and other dangers via alerting mechanisms like email, text, SMS, phone, and signage on campus. GEO-Jobe is the GIS provider for W.A.R.N. and has developed several map-based interfaces including a GEOpowered W.A.R.N. interface as well as extensions within ArcGIS. These tools provide spatial interactivity to the response. GEO-Jobe has mapped the entire campus right down to each of the individual utility systems, pedestrian paths, dorm locations, and major buildings.
You can read the article and see a video from Channel 5′s coverage here.
W.A.R.N. also provides solutions for EMA, E911, and other agencies which require rapid response to threats. In addition, W.A.R.N. has developed coordinated and integrated solutions for creating Emergency Operations Plans, Passive Biometric ID Cards, Disaster Resource and Recovery applications, Secure Offsite Storage, Desktop Alerting and more.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press today released a nice article about McMinn’s new GEOpowered site. One of the interviewees in the article said it best.
Athens surveyor Christian Medders said the new site has made his job easier. “It’s one of the best in the state,” Mr. Medders said.
Are you GEOpowered? Call us at 615-883-0085 to learn how easy it is get your GIS data online.
So where does the time go that it’s almost TNGIC time again? It’s going to be a great event this year with some folks you are familiar with organizing it again – and doing a great job I might add. GEO-Jobe is heading up the Geo-cache event and Cliff is out capturing a few points on a Trimble GeoXH today in preparation for it. Be sure to sign up because it will be a really fun event. We’ll have a posting for it here and on the TNGIC website in the next few days.
GEO-Jobe will have an expanded booth this year as we show off some of the latest Trimble gear and some of our latest GEOpowered clients. We have a few surprises too so be sure to stop by.
I’ll be traveling around the exhibit hall and through some of the classes and roundtables doing interviews and taking notes to keep our blog up to date throughout the event. That way if you can’t make it, you can be there virtually to get a pretty good idea of what’s going on.
See you in Chattanooga…
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