The bookshelf is chock-full of great stuff, many of the titles gathering dust… and so, I felt it was time to dust off something interesting and share with you a few details. Enter "Building a GIS System Architecture Design Strategies for Managers" by Dave Peters (ESRI Press 2008).
National Geographic Global Atlas (Beta) Connects People With The Planet
Just in time for Earth Day, National Geographic has released an impressive resource designed to connect users with the planet and provide users with the ability to search and track important conservation projects around the Globe.
USGS Awards $2.7 Million in Stimulus Funding to Improve the Detection of Changes in the Earth’s Crus
The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded $2.7 million in cooperative agreements under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the University of California, Berkeley; Central Washington University; University of California, San Diego; and UNAVCO, Inc., to improve networks that detect minute changes in the earth’s crust caused by faulting in earthquake-prone regions.
5 Twitter Tips for the Geo Business user
There’s many ways to use Twitter and perhaps most important, there’s many ways that a business can take advantage of Twitter to support marketing efforts, branding, customer support, and most important, to communicate with clients and would-be clients. The following are 5 ways that any GIS/Geo business can use Twitter to support their business.
The Take 10 Map – 2010 Census Participation Rates
This constantly updated WMS shows the National participation rate for the 2010 US Census
Amerisurv Feature – Pointed Journeys, Exploring Earth, One Degree at a Time
After driving until the road ends and then hiking for hours, you arrive at your goal. Are you atop a mountain peak, at a cave’s entrance, or at a rare fossil dig? No, you’re at a degree confluence point. There is no band, victory tape, not even a marker.
Social Location Experiment – How Do 11 Popular Social Checkin Apps Stack up?
Does foursquare know where you are? Can GoWalla identify what shop you are near? Can Yelp really position you inside or near your favorite bar?
Amerisurv Feature – QUADS USGS Quadrangles in Google Earth
QUADS (http://www.metzgerwillard.us/quads/) is a web-based service for visualizing USGS quadrangles in Google Earth that provides an easy-to-use framework for retrieving georeferenced PDF topo maps from the USGS Store. QUADS also includes USGS, or USGSderived, overlays for grayscale and color shaded relief maps, topographic-bathymetric maps, black-and-white orthophotos, and urban areas color orthoimagery.
GISuser Application Tip – MAPublisher LabelPro – Collision-free, rule-based text placement!
Here’s a tip about a useful application from Avenza Systems… MAPublisher® LabelPro™
What is the future for low-cost data?
From 2009 to 2018, emerging space programs are expected to launch 65 satellites, a four-fold increase over the previous decade10 years.