Official Name Changes at ArcGIS 10.1 Moving Forward have been announced by Esri. If you happened to have seen the latest edition of ArcNews you may have noticed a note about Names, a comprehensive explanation of Esri’s product/application naming schemes moving ahead. Keeping tabs on names has always been a challenge over the years, particularly […]
Google Plus 1 or +1 button Helps Your Share Cool Things
Something interesting, maybe a little cool, perhaps a little late… Google rolls out their Plus 1 (+1) feature today, think Google equivalent of the fb Like feature
Stay Safe – imapWeather radio for iPhone – free today
Here’s an awesome deal for an awesome and useful app for iPhone users – iMapWeather Radio from Weather decision Technologies
Day 2 Google I/O livestream Moments of Interest, Chromebooks and Dev Tips #io2011
No doubt many of our readers are in San Fran this week enjoying GoogleI/O, Google’s annual developer event and I’m sure a few of you, like me, having been sitting back at the office watching the livestream – if not, fear not as Google will be making all the sessions and keynotes available for your […]
GeoThought Discovers Apple iPhone is NOT storing your accurate location, and NOT storing history
There’s been loads of hype and hooplah recently surrounding the discovery that Apple iPhone devices have been secretly recording location data of users, building a spatial index of location data where the user has been. Indeed a little unsettling, however, before users get unraveled and concerned that Big Brother is watching their every move the […]
Blog – from Where20, Google Earth Builder – Enterprise geospatial data in the Google cloud
Google Earth Builder Serving up data from businesses and government agencies to the World
Awesome Esri powered Flickr, Twitter Map Cloud by Alta4
Check out this very cool social media visualization service created by Alta4 powered by Esri map services. The app enables users to easily see tweets and flickr photos on a map.. very appealing! See labs.alta4gis.de/flickrcloud/ Notice the bookmarks on the right sidebar. Click on a place, like L.A. You’ll jump over to the Pacific coast […]
Virtual Earth mashup from SpatialPoint helps locate coverage of Super Bowl
Here’s another innovative and fun mashup – this one using Microsoft’s technology… Followthegame.com enables users to enter an address or zip code of your location and you’ll be presented with a list of local media that are providing coverage of the big game on Super Sunday… how cool!! Man this would be handy for College […]
Graphic – Cyclone Yasi, Australia, Compared to the USA
You may be aware that there’s currently a massive cyclone bearing down on Northern Queensland, Australia – just what they need on the heels of the massive flooding that’s affected the region recently! I’ve been following tweets from the region via the storm hashtag #Yasi and in doing so have come across some interesting graphics […]
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Supports OSM in Haiti
An interesting new, OSM initiative has been created to help support and grow the local OpenStreetMap Community in Haiti – Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] is a new initiative to apply the principles and activities of open source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development. From the organization, “COSMHA, or Comunite OpenStreetMap de […]