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‘Virtual Earth’ Archives
Nashville Flood
Recent infrared aerial photographs of the Nashville area flooding were taken by TN Department of Transportation. Generally TDOT charges for their imagery, however, according to folks at TDOT, these photos may soon become available to state and local governments for free. TDOT flew Monday, May 3rd - Saturday, May 7th over major flood [...]
10 Steps to Creating a Great Geocaching Event
Step 1 - - Check out www.geocaching.com to read about/sign up/ and find the geocaches currently in/near your geocaching event. You should also read "Cache Listing Requirements and Guidelines." Step 2 - - Using a GPS find the geocaches near the location of your geocaching event. You could use them in your event and/or make sure that you're [...]
Microsoft Virtual Earth coming to ArcGIS 9.3
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 normal "home territory", [...]
Weather Channel and weather.com potential sale
The Weather Channel and weather.com, owned by Landmark Communications, are officially up for sale. News of the sale is popping up on newswires around the country. Speculation is that one of the big media companies will grab it. Estimates are in the $5B. Weather.com is ranked high in the news category for most searched online sites. It [...]
Directions Mag poll on what you’d like to learn
If you didn't have to pay for it, that is. The poll asked: If you could take one course for free (and had time to study!) what type of course would you choose? Just under 300 responded to it. Programming tops the list? What does that tell you about the one-size-fits-all out of the box applications and the rise of the mashup? And when it comes to [...]
