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New Digital Elevation Model Covers 99 Percent of the Earth

Rashid Faridi wrote 2 days ago: Dear readers,found this good news on map room recently and thought of sharing with the world.Click h … more →

Tags: map making

Steps for making the contour maps in GPSmapedit

nodisconnect wrote 3 days ago: Add all layers at once. Add to level 0. Properties add a map ID, add a map name, convert to meters … more →

Tags: cartography

GeoExt BaseLayerContainer and OverlayLayerContainer together

tim wrote 3 days ago: If you want to use  GeoExt widgets BaseLayerContainer and OverlayLayerContainer in the same tree, li … more →

Tags: Geo, Mapping, ext:, Ext JS, GeoExt, javascript

Dangerous Dogs

youngster05 wrote 3 days ago:   Here is an interesting story for dog-lovers and -haters alike. The cities of Minneapolis and St. … more →

Tags: Crime Mapping, community mapping, police, Crime, technology, Computers, Crime Prevention, Minnesota

NYC Subway Ridership Simplified

gisspar wrote 3 days ago: MTA Ridership through time (via feltron) This is excellent. It is exactly what it says it is—t … more →

Tags: Design, cartography, Subway, New York, web mapping

Seattle Interactive Music Map

youngster05 wrote 3 days ago:   I decided to try and find an article that showed a connection between GIS  and the history of musi … more →

Tags: History, Historical maps, digital history, Seattle

Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science

Matt Artz wrote 4 days ago: By Henk J. Scholten, Rob van de Velde, and Niels van Manen (Editors). “Globalisation has not l … more →

Tags: Books, social science

Farmers Need Not Worry When Rains are Tardy

Matt Artz wrote 4 days ago: …from Sindh Today… “India needn’t gamble or fret about the timing of the monsoon a … more →

Tags: Modeling, Science

Jack Dangermond: GIS Professionals Lead the GeoWeb Revolution

Matt Artz wrote 4 days ago: “The adage ‘The Web changes everything’ can be applied to many things, and GIS is … more →

Tags: ESRI

ESRI UC Q & A: What Is Being Added to ArcGIS to Support the Work of Science?

Matt Artz wrote 4 days ago: …from the 2009 ESRI UC Q & A… The principle that GI science underlies all our softwa … more →

Tags: ESRI, GIScience, Modeling, statistics

ESRI UC Q & A: Is User-Generated Content (UGC) Valuable to GIS?

Matt Artz wrote 4 days ago: …from the 2009 ESRI UC Q & A… Yes. We believe there is value in being able to access … more →

Tags: ESRI

ESRI UC Q & A: What are the Key Green Applications of ESRI’s GIS Software?

Matt Artz wrote 4 days ago: …from the 2009 ESRI UC Q & A… ESRI supports two application solution products, both … more →

Tags: ESRI, Green Technologies, Conferences

ESRI UC Q & A: What is the Concept Behind the User Conference Theme: GIS–Designing our Future?

Matt Artz wrote 4 days ago: …from the 2009 ESRI UC Q & A… Our world is increasingly influenced by human activiti … more →

Tags: ESRI, Environmental Science, Conferences, Design

Crimemapping Use in Transportation - Part 2

youngster05 wrote 4 days ago: The British Transport Police have an innovative site that will show you where crime is occurring on … more →

Tags: Crime Mapping, community mapping, police, Crime, anonymous tip, technology, Computers, College, Crime Prevention

NASA Maps 99% of Earth

crblogger wrote 5 days ago: Recently NASA publically released data for the most-comprehensive topographical map of the earth eve … more →

Tags: map, Mapping, Maps, NASA, technology

Atmospheric Data Model for ArcGIS

Matt Artz wrote 5 days ago: The Atmospheric data model initiative is establishing a working dialog between ESRI and the atmosphe … more →

Tags: climate change, Earth Systems Science, ESRI, Science

Concise Agendas Available for Natural Resources and Environment Tracks at 2009 ESRI User Confernece

Matt Artz wrote 5 days ago: The ESRI UC features many hundred of presentations and can be quite overwhelming. These concise agen … more →

Tags: climate change, Conferences, Environmental Science, ESRI, Science

5th gvSIG Conference Announced

Bill Dollins wrote 5 days ago: I got this announcement in my inbox today regarding gvSIG, an open-source GIS desktop currently in t … more →

Tags: Open-Source, gvSIG

GIS course organization

bradybeecham wrote 5 days ago: Mike Shambaugh-Miller and I met today to go over plans for the GIS and spatial analysis component of … more →

Tags: Organization