I heard from an ESRI representative that the subscription for the imagery and base maps from VE will cost $200/person/year. Incredibly affordable! One catch is that for now it will only be available as streaming information so you’ll have to be connected online to use it for now. They are working on a hosted solution, [...]
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Coming soon to ArcGIS 9.3 as a subscription based service that will allow you to add the Microsoft Virtual Earth imagery and base maps. The real benefit of using this service is that it removes the responsibility of finding and sometimes purchasing the latest base mapping files. Also, it frees you to map beyond your [...]
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USGS has a new trick up its sleeve. Almost realtime satellite imagery from LandSat 5 & 7! Landsat 5 was launched in 1984 as a backup for Landsat 4 and scans the earth once every 16 days. Landsat 7 was launched in 1999 and circles the Earth at an altitude of 438 miles. These two [...]
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Yesterday, Kentucky Space successfully launched a space balloon, nearly into space, in Bowling Green, KY. The balloon brought back amazing pictures of the earth’s surface that look very similar to something you would see from a space shuttle. Congratulations to the Kentucky Space team for this accomplishment. Pictures of the Launch can be seen by [...]
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The Tour de France is on and so is street view for the course. This year you can see the course using Google’s Street View technology. This LINK connects you to the traditional Google Maps site showing where street view is available over the course. The tour website is HERE. And [...]
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The State of TN Office for Information Resources (OIR), GIS Services Division are now making statewide imagery available for purchase or download. Anyone can now purchase the raw .TIF digital orthophotos and digital terrain models (DTMs) developed from the Tennessee Basemapping Program on a per sheet basis. More details about the nature, format and cost of [...]
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This should be of interest to those of you that work with GeoExpress 7 in your applications. Just released free SDK from LizardTech for GeoExpress 7.
SEATTLE, Wash. - June 2, 2008 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today the [...]
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This is pretty cool stuff. Now get Google Earth inside your browser. There is a full API and SDK for developers.
Get the plugin here.
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from the MSNBC website http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24306434
These two satellite images made available by DigitalGlobe show a site in Syria that the U.S. claims was a nuclear plant before and after a Sept. 6 Israeli airstrike. The left image is from Aug. 5, and the image at right is from Oct. 24. U.S. intelligence officials [...]
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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 [...]
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