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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If you’ve ever been stuck under a tree canopy or tried to capture a point which would require you to lose satellite reception, the LaserTech TruPulse 360B is a great solution for creating real-time offsets directly in your Trimble handheld. In our testing environment, we hooked up the 360B to a new GeoXH 2008 series [...]
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Where do you get your news from in the world of GIS? Let us know by answering the poll on the left.
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www.BatchGeocode.com provides a nifty little app online that will convert 500 addresses at one time. All free. Plus they have some pretty neat add-ons to convert to KML and the like. It’s fast and so far works like a charm. Thanks to one of my friends in the Health Dept at Jackson, TN who shared [...]
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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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I have been working with ArcMap for about 5 years now. I figured out how to create a circular data frame 2 weeks ago and the multicolored multi-layered labels last month. I’m always learning new things and would like to share some of the fun tricks I’ve learned with other GISers. I hope they help. [...]
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Earlier this year the Census Bureau released its TIGER/Line files in shapefile format for the first time. I was just taking a look at the TIGER website to see how the data would work as basemap for some simple projects we are working on. Keep in mind, I know there are other free [...]
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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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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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The Small Municipal and County Government Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) program now offers an option to add unlimited access to ArcPad and ArcPad Application Builder via the ArcPad add-on option.
This offer is available to customers who have entered into or are purchasing an ESRI® Small Municipal and County Government Enterprise License Agreement.
Add-on prices per population [...]
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