Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Joel Smith
14,000 GIS users converge on San Diego, California’s Convention Center. This event is massive! One Plenary Session today led by the president of ESRI, Jack Dangermond. The topic of today’s talks - GIS: Geography in Action. Jack began this morning with a welcome and proceeded with some yearly awards. Next, began the showcase of technical [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Joel Smith
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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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Joel Smith
Weather Underground has a map that shows the output of thousands of weather stations around the world. As well as NEXRAD radar of current precipitation! The weather stations report temperature, wind speed and direction. This site is a wonderful mashup of mapping all things weather. You can even track current hurricanes by clicking on the [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Joel Smith
After upgrading to ArcMap 9.3 and exploring its many new features, one is worth noting; 9.3 has enhanced the options when exporting a map to PDF. In order to utilize this new function go to File > Export (Alt + FE) and in the Save as type: select PDF. If it isn’t expanded by default [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Theron Hatch
On the left is a quick survey. How are you managing the high prices of gas? Here are a couple of handy links to help.
Gas Buddy
Gas Price Temperature Map
Gas Prices at Mapquest
Gas Price Watch
Department of Energy - Average Prices across the US
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Theron Hatch
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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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Theron Hatch
GEO-Jobe is now offering an instructor-led online course for Trimble GPS users. The GPS Mapping for GIS course includes the following:
Fundamentals of GPS
Satellite requirements
Working with base stations
Real-time vs. Post-processing
Overview of TerraSync
Importing and using a data dictionary
Importing background layers
Logging features
Logging attributes
Saving your work to transfer
Overview of Pathfinder Office
Transferring data from the Trimble unit
Post processing data
Exporting [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Theron Hatch
The GeoXH 2008 is one of most feature packed professional GPS units available today. We showed yesterday that it can provide accuracy down to decimeter level while using the Zephyr antenna kit. Here are some other things that are pretty nifty.
High resolution VGA screen
3.5 inch VGA (480 x 640 pixel) display
For crisp [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Theron Hatch
Picked up portions of this from All Points Blog today. Where 2.0 is a conference dedicated to “neographers”, that new breed of mappers that are using free and open source map technology to develop some fairly advanced and easy to use maps (for the most part). No longer a fringe group, neogeographers are [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Neill Jobe
From the Southeast Wathershed Forum Newsletter
This month the Southeast Watershed Forum launches a new and valuable resource for land and water protection. The Community Resource Mapper provides a free, user-friendly, on-line mapping service that will help communities integrate natural resource protection into their land use planning efforts.
Visitors to the site can create maps at [...]
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