There’s snow in all the contiguous States except Florida – and in a good portion of Canada too! Via NOAA, Every state, with the exception of Florida, currently has snow on the ground. This includes Hawaii where about seven inches of snow is atop Mauna Kea. As of Jan. 11, 69.4 percent of the contiguous […]
Eclipse-Maps.com Maps the History of Eclipse Maps With ArcGIS
The recent lunar eclipse that took place on the Winter Solstice thrust the topic of solar/lunar eclipse into the spotlight once again. If eclipse spotting is your thing then take note of this resource eclipse-maps.com. The resource shows off and tells the story of how eclipse maps were developed during the 17th century along with […]
AOL Opens up Mapquest to the crowd via open.mapquest – the Living Map!
In case you missed this prior to all the pre-Christmas hype and hooplah, Mapquest quietly rolled out their US version of the OSM driven map service via Open.MapQuest.com. Built on the OpenStreetMap (OSM) base, the site enables all MapQuest users to play an active role in the development and growth of the mapping service. This […]
NAVTEQ Adds to Crowd Sourcing Portfolio with Trapster
Seems Navteq is beefing up its crowd-sourcing holdings with the reent acquisition of Trapster – recall, Trapster is an application for getting enforcement points and road hazards alerts on your Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm Pre, Garmin, or TomTom device. The popular application enables users from around the Globe to share traffic and […]
Prepare to Believe Again As NORAD Tracks Santa
I’m not too big into all the Commercial Christmas hooplah yadayada… but I am big into the Christmas tradition and traditional Christmas fun.
Play or Create a Geo Dart Game with uMapper
Here’s a fun resource from the cool uMapper team enabling anyone (with an account) to create their own Geo Dart game. Cool fun for a Geo contest, some blog fun, or even for GIS Day.
OpenStreetMap (OSM) founder Steve Coast Joins Microsoft
From the blog… Yes indeed, Steve Coast (@SetveC), founder of OpenStreetMap (OSM) has been hired to Microsoft according to this tweet from Steve – this in order to help the company to integrate OSM even tighter with Microsoft apps and services, most notably, Bing Maps I assume.
Tip – developer tools and resources for Geo Devs
Some Friday Developer tips… Here’s a tip received from Google Maps Tech evangelist, Mano Marks (via facebook) as his slides from a recent presentation at Google Developer Day 2010 in Moscow titled “New Features in Google Geo” are now available for viewing… enjoy! Speaking of Google, check out this video from New Orleans showing off […]
Google Maps Data API being deprecated (Jan 31/11) in favor of Fusion Tables Cloud Solution
This via the Google Geo Dev Blog (http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com) as the company announces to nix the Maps Data API after Jan 31, 2011.
A Guide To Effective Map Design – Colors For Maps from @PetersonGIS
Here’s a tip about a new, handy cartography resource from Gretchen Peterson (@PetersonGIS on Twitter) enter the e-book “GIS Cartography: A Guide To Effective Map Design”.