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Directions Magazine: PolyZoom: See Details of Map Along with Context

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:29:05 +0000

Users of maps and other visualizations of data want it all. They want both detail and context as they explore small scale (large area) graphics. Technologies to address this challenge have come and gone. The latest one is from researchers at Purdue. Their tool, dubbed PolyZoom, organizes simultaneous, magnified views from a single document, while maintaining their relationship to the whole.

More about: context, google, gps, polyzoom, purdue, visualization, zoom

AnyGeo: Exploring Foursquare and Discovering Specials with the Explore foursquare map

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:33:28 +0000

You may have checked in to a venue at some time in the past using foursquare, however, have you ever used the foursquare “explore” online map to explore venues in your area? You can use the service, powered by over 2,000,000 checkins - by logging into your foursquare account (you do have an account right?) [...]

'sproke: ARE2012 Keynote: Serendipity

noreply@blogger.com (sophia) — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:28:56 +0000

Slide 1:

Serendipity is another way to say good luck. It's a concept and belief that something fortuitous occurs from a confluence of factors

Slide 2:

Waldo Tobler's First Law of Geography states that things near you have more influence that things farther away. This idea has been applied in a number of situations.

Hecht, Brent and Emily Moxley. "Terabytes of Tobler: Evaluating the First Law in a
Massive, Domain-Neutral Representation of World Knowledge" COSIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Spatial information theory, 2009, pp 88-105.

Sui, D. "Tobler’s First Law of Geography: A Big Idea for a Small World?" Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(2), 2004, pp. 269–277.

Tobler, W. , "On the First Law of Geography: A Reply," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94, 2004, pp. 304-310.

Slide 3:

Will Wright recently gave a talk at O'Reilly's Whereconf titled "Gaming Reality." One of his points was related to Tobler's First Law of Geography, things that are closest are most likely to be of interest.

Shute, T. Ugotrade. Will Wright, “Gaming Reality,” Where 2012

Slide 4:

Proximity can be measured along many different dimensions: spatial, temporal, social network, and conceptual.

Slide 5:

Developers are building mobile applications based on these ideas. For example, GeoLoqi implements geofencing to notify users of events when inside a defined area. Forecast is another application which broadcasts when and where you will be to your friends, increasing the likelihood that you will meet. Other applications can notify of events and sales that occur as you pass through an area.

Brownlee, J. This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy. Cult of Mac, March 30, 2012.
Huffington, A. GPS for the Soul: A Killer App for Better Living. Huffington Post, 04/16/2012.

Slide 6:

Social media, such as Twitter, have been analyzed to determine states of emotion and mapped by Dan Zarella. This just one example of how data can be used to find a person's proximity to an emotion based on location and time.

Zarrella, D. Using Twitter Data to Map Emotions Geographically. The Social Media Scientist, May 7th 2012

Slide 7:

Connections between people in the form of social networks or social graphs provides a rich source of data for measuring conceptual phenomena. For example, Klout declares that it is a measure of influence, LinkedIn can be a measure of a person's professional sphere, Twitter can while Pintrest can reflect the material culture of a person or a group.

Stevenson, S. What Your Klout Score Really Means. Wired, April 24, 2012

Slide 8:

Will Wright postulated that there are at least 50 different dimensions where proximity creates a value gradient. The closer to a person, the greater the value along the value gradient. These gradients can be emotions, communities of interest, school affiliations, or any number of factors that can influence a person's behavior and choices. By bringing all these dimensions to bear on a person, it could be possible to build game dynamics that take advantage of physical world behaviors.

Slide 9:

Measurement of the value gradient is the first step in engineering serendipity. There are a number of ways of quantifying the value gradient, but proximity is often modeled on a network structure. Nodes in the network represent people and possible dimensions of interest and the connections (or links) between nodes can measure the gradient.

Slide 10:

Will Wright suggested that Central Place Theory as one model of understand the effects of proximity. It is a classic geographic model proposed by Walter Christaller for explaining the hierarchy of places. When applied to influencing serendipity, the concepts of threshold and range are key to using the model to measure the influence of proximity. Threshold is the minimum interaction of a dimension needed to influence a person, whereas range is the maximum distance a person will 'travel' to acquire something.

Dempsey, C. Distance Decay and Its Use in GIS. GIS Lounge, 3/15/12.

Slide 11:

There are a number of ways to measure the effects and or the importance of links. Google's page rank algorithm is perhaps the most famous. Page rank indicates the importance of a page based on number of incoming links. Another form of link analysis used by the intelligence community focuses on the transactions between people, organizations, places and time as exemplified by Palantir software.

Holden, C. Osama Bin Laden Letters Analyzed. Analysis Intelligence. May 4, 2012.

Holden, C. From the Bin Laden Letters: Mapping OBL’s Reach into Yemen. Analysis Intelligence. May 11, 2012.

Page, Lawrence and Brin, Sergey and Motwani, Rajeev and Winograd, Terry (1999) The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web. Technical Report. Stanford InfoLab.

Slide 12:

Ultimately, all these measures of proximity are attempting to answer this question, "If you friend Joey jumped off a bridge, would you jump?" I.e., would you jump off a bridge because everyone is doing it (social influence/contagion) or would you jump because you are similar to Joey (homophily). A recent paper, Homophily and Contagion are Generally Confounded in Observational Network Studies, posits both the subject and the answer in it's title.

Shalizi,C and A. Thomas. Homophily and Contagion are Generally Confounded in Observational Network Studies. Sociological Methods and Research, vol. 40 (2011), pp. 211-239.

Slide 13:

The comic XKCD manages to summarize the result in a single panel. We don't know.

Munroe, R. Cat Proximity, xkcd.

Slide 14:

The maxim, "Models are wrong, but are useful" has been a truism in research. The idea that models are not only wrong, but that research can be successful without them is starting to gain currency in the era of Big Data. Access to very large datasets and the capability to manipulate them inexpensively is changing how research is performed.

Allen, R. Data as seeds of content. O'Reilly Radar. April 5, 2012.

Anderson, C. The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Wired Magazine. June 23, 2008.

Slide 15:

With large numbers on our side, petabytes or even yottabytes of data can reveal patterns not possible with sampled data.

Shaw, A. Big Data, Gamification and Obama 2012. OWNI.EU. April 4, 2012.

Slide 16:

Flip Kromer of Infochimps illustrates how a preponderance of data leads us to determine the boundaries of places called Paris and which location is the one used in a particular context

Kromer, F. On Being Wrong In Paris: Finding Truth in Wrong Answers. The Infochimps Blog. Dec 1, 2011.

Slide 17:

Third party agents are continuously collecting information about people from social media, social networks, and ecommerce. This provides a wealth of data about people for a third party perspective. In addition, the quantified self is a concept where individuals document every aspect of their lives in order to optimize their day to day interactions.

However, Goodhart's law stipulates that any indicator used to influence a particular behavior will decrease the usefulness of that indicator. In other words, users will game the system and degrade the quality of the information in order to achieve the objective

Doctrow, C. Goodhart's Law: Once you measure something, it changes. boingboing.net. April 29, 2010

Sharwood, S. Social networks breeding spatial junk. The Register. March 6, 2012.

Slide 18:

There is an emerging an corollary concept of the quantified self. Rather than a continuous collection of data there is an alternate of source of data that reflects information selected and shared but not for the purposes of participating in social networks, i.e. a view to a person's internal life. For example, Amazon collects highlighted phrases from Kindle users as well collecting wish lists which represent material culture.

Carrigan, M. Mass observation, quantified self, and human nature. markcarrigan.net. April 19, 2012.

Currion, P. The Qualified Self. The Unforgiving Minute. November 30, 2011.

Slide 19:

To bring it back to serendipity, perhaps it's time to re-evaluate how we understand how multiple factors affect an individual's choices. Models based on physical properties such proximity may lack the nuance necessary to explain a behavior. Simply creating a confluence of events within many possible proximal dimensions may not be enough to explain or influence. However, a new alternative is possible through the use of big data and the tools of machine learning and algorithms to describe behavior. We should harness these tools to better understand the factors that affect serendipity and let go of Newtonian models that reduce the rich interplay of social factors.

Between the Poles: Canada's spatial data infrastructure (SDI): past, present and future

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:15:42 +0000

Prashant Shukle, Director General of the Mapping Information Branch (MIB), Natural Resources Canada, gave an overview of the Canadian experience in developing a national spatial data infrastructure (SDI). He echoed the Minister of Natural Resource's presentation the previous day in saying that mapping has been inextricably linked to Canada's nation building, which is perhaps not surprising given that Canada is the second largest country in the world in terms of surface area. I hadn't known that the Geological Survey of Canada was founded in 1842 (at that time in Upper Canada), that a legal survey was implemented in Canada in 1871, just a few years after Confederation, that the first atlas of Canada was produced in 1906, or that it was almost a hundred years after that that the atlas was put online. According to Prashant Canada was the first country in the world with an online national atlas. Together these initiatives provided the basis for the resource extraction industry, the parcel fabric (cadastre) and taxation, and the transportation network, pretty fundamental infrastructure for any country in the modern age. As I have mentioned seevral times, Canada developed the first geographic information system for the Canada Land Inventory.

GeoConnections, the formation of which as a Federal responsibility according to Prashant was suggested by the provinces and territories, was founded in 1999 with the objective of developing a standards-based Canadian geospatial data infrastructure (CGDI).

It is interesting that over the past few years, the Mapping Information Branch's budget has shrunk by 43%, reflecting an increasing role for the provinces, territories, and the private sector in mapping and geospatial as well as the impact of technology in dramatically increasing the productivity of MIB geomatics practitioners.

Future

There are even greater changes coming in the the next few years. In the area of governance, there is a new combined Federal Committee on Geomatics and Earth Observation, that combines the responsibilities of existing committees including the Canadian Geomatics Community Roundtable and the Canadian Council on Geomatics.

The government's focus on the citizen means that the open data initiative will continue to get attention. Prashant said that the government was even embracing volunteered geospatial data, also known as crowd-sourced, albeit in a cautious way that will ensure that it is trusted, verified and accurate.

The government will continue to encourage technology evolution through standards and interoperability. It plans to merge MIB and the Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing by 2014. A member of the audience in a comment/question after Prashant's presentation who was familiar with the U.S. experience in attempting to do this, suggested that the very different cultures mapping and earth observation are makes integrating the two organizations a challenge.

There will be a continued focus on technical and scientific excellence. Prashant mentioned radar imagery in particular, which I assumed referred to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) existing Radarsat-2 and the proposed Radarsat Constellation programs.

In the future, the areas that will get increasing focus are the North including the national and international Arctic, water, the development of a Federal geospatial platform, modelled on the U.S. Geospatial One-Stop site, and participating in international organizations, including the UN's GGIM initiative.

GeoServer Blog: Happy anniversary, GeoServer-BR!

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:59:09 +0000

Congratulations to the GeoServer community in Brazil for five years of activity! Since the first training conducted at ENUM III, the Lusophone community has grown to more than 500 mailing list subscribers and 3200 email threads from across several Portuguese-speaking countries. Most notable among their many achievements, however, is the establishment of GeoServer as the official map server of INDE, the Brazilian national spatial data infrastructure (SDI), in 2008 by then-President Lula. Parabéns!

got geoint?: Pew Research: 75 Percent of U.S. Adults Use Mobile Location-Based Apps

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:58:05 +0000

According to a new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, three-quarters of U.S. adults who own smartphones use those devices to get some kind of real-time location-based information — from maps and directions all the way to cutting-edge features like Yelp’s Monocle augmented-reality view.

That’s up considerably from last year’s figure of 55%. Still, mobile location-based services are clearly not for everyone.

The flip side of these Pew numbers means that one in four smartphone-owning U.S. adults do not use the maps, navigation or other location-related services these devices provide.

I was surprised by this. Who would invest in buying a smartphone (which usually costs considerably more than the simpler “feature phones” still used by more than half of U.S. adults) and not at least use the built-in maps and navigation? This seems to be one of the most basic and universally useful advantages these devices provide.

It sounds a bit like buying a computer and Internet access, but never searching with Google.

But apparently one in four smartphone owners doesn’t see the need, or doesn’t know how, to use mobile maps, navigation or location-related services.

Be sure to check out the full CNN post here.

LiDAR News: Autodesk Provides ASTM E57 Plug-in for AutoCAD

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:55:43 +0000

With 10 to 20 million+ users out there the point cloud data exchange standard just took a major step forward. Continue reading →

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OpenGeo: OpenGeo’s Hiring: If you’re reading this at work, it may be time to apply yourself

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:09:21 +0000

OpenGeo is looking for talented people to join our team. We offer interesting technical work, competitive salaries, great benefits, and a fantastic working environment. Most importantly we challenge our employees to build the best open source and interoperable tools for spatial data on the web.

A few of our openings:

UX Developer - Software that’s a joy to use gets more use. This is a critical role that will help the world move past the clunky desktop interfaces of the past. We’re looking for someone who can both design and implement intuitive, responsive interfaces for geospatial applications.

Software Developer - OpenGeo’s solutions and support arm is looking for talented developers to help our clients solve big problems, in fields ranging from disaster risk modeling to demography. You must be curious, communicative, and interested in contributing to our development process.

QA Engineer - Did you ever test how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop? Do you have a secret collection of “QC Passed” stickers? This may be the job for you. With your help, we’ll make sure that every release of the OpenGeo Suite is up to snuff: documented, tested, polished, and ready for action.

Here’s the full list. Please apply and/or spread the word!

Geospatial Science and Technology Blog: Congressional Hearing on: H.R. 2168, the “Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act”

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:00:48 +0000

Hearing on: H.R. 2168, the “Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act,” Thursday 5/17/2012 – 10:00 a.m. at 2141 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Details pending. Visit Hearing on: H.R. 2168, the “Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act” for more information. Related articles Various op-eds on the [...]

Google Earth Blog: New Google Earth Imagery - May 16

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:34:52 +0000

Less than two weeks after their previous update, it appears that Google has just pushed out some more fresh imagery to Google Earth. Thanks to 'Munden' for letting us know about it!

As is almost always the case, you can use Google Maps to determine for sure whether or not a specific area is fresh. This new imagery isn't in Google Maps yet, so you can compare Earth vs. Maps to see what's new; the fresh imagery is already in Google Earth, but the old imagery is still in Google Maps. If you compare the two side-by-side and they're not identical, that means that you've found a freshly updated area in Google Earth!

United States: Illinois (Neoga, Quincy), Michigan (Traverse City), Minnesota (Minneapolis, St. Paul), Ohio (Akron, Cleveland, Youngstown), Pennsylvania (State College)

If you find any other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!

Between the Poles: Successful test of natural gas extraction from methane hydrate reservoir in the Alaskan North Slope

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:26:21 +0000

Estimates of the amount of carbon sequestered in methane hydrates and found in Arctic permafrost and in ocean sediments along the world's continental shelfs range widely, but is believed to be large and has even been compared to the total known reserves of fossil fuels.

Beginning in February, 2012 The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) together with ConocoPhillips and the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation conducted a small scale test project in the North Slope of Alaska to extract natural gas from methane hydrate using a production technology, developed through collaboration between the University of Bergen, Norway, and ConocoPhillips. It involved injecting a mixture of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen into the methane hydrate formation to release methane gas (natural gas). DoE has announced that the test has been successful in extracting a steady flow of natural gas from methane hydrates. The technology involves in situ exchange of CO2 with CH4 molecules within the methane hydrate structure. Depressurization then leads to production of methane gas.

DoE says that based on the successful test it plans to conduct a long-term production test in the Arctic. It also plans to test technologies to identify and extract methane hydrates on a larger scale in the U.S. Gulf Coast.

This technology also has the potential to be used to sequester CO2, for example, from conventional fossil-fuel burning power plants. The DoE intends to analyze the data acquired as part of the test to determine how efficient CO2 sequestration in the methane hydrate reservoirs is.

Google Earth Blog: Gipuzkoa, Spain wins the 2012 Model Your Town Competition

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:25:49 +0000

We've talked about Pedro Domecq Aguirre, better known as "PeterG", quite a few times on here. Most recently we showed you his amazing 3D model of Saint Basil's Cathedral. He recently got some big news, and him and his teammate Josetxo Perez Fernandez were announced as the winners of Google's 2012 Model Your Town Competition!

Of the six finalists in the running, their models of Getaria, Gipuzkoa, Spain were voted as being the best. As you can see from the image below, they certainly did an awesome job:

Their awesome work will help to show the world how great Getaria is, and it also earned a $25,000 prize to a local school!

To see more about the work that they did, check out this short video flyover of the city:

To read more about the competition and their victory, check out the full blog entry over on the Google Lat Long Blog.

All Points Blog: Michigan’s Center for Geospatial Medicine Gets Diabetes Grant and other Health GIS News

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:31 +0000

The University of Michigan's Center for Geospatial Medicine will use a $9.8 million federal grant to study Type 2 diabetes in four under-served counties in North Carolina, Mississippi and West Virginia. It focuses on those enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health... Continue reading

All Points Blog: Matchmaking for Higher Ed GIS Students and other Education GIS News

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:04 +0000

EduContribution is a non-profit hoping to link up students with knowhow and non-profits with GIS needs (Directions Magazine coverage). The organization is looking for graduate students for a pilot project that will match them with a non-profit. The student will perform the work as part... Continue reading

JGrass Tech Tips: Geopaparazzi Web Map Tiles enhancements

noreply@blogger.com (andrea antonello) — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:28:48 +0000

Well, why should geopaparazzi hang behind uDig? :)

Ok, there are a number of reasons, but in this case, it doesn't have to be like that.

A small piece of history
Some of you might know that I am now part if the Italian TANTO geospatial (and not only) information/education blog.
In April I decided to go and visit the one guy that actually founded that blog in the most distant place in Italy from where I live: Andrea Borruso from Palermo.

We spent a couple of days daydreaming under the heavy effects of muffolette, cassatelle, cannoli and the grand finale of the sfince di San Giuseppe.

The recurring question was: how do we bring a custom raster into geopaparazzi? The potential is there, but we need to be able to load custom map!

Well, at the end we figured that the best thing would be to support local (as well as remote) TMS.
Andrea is black belt of TMS and was able to provide me with some tilesets.

So I started to implement the possibility to load the tiles on the phone and describe them with a small file, so that they would appear as tile sources.

We will throw out this new version as soon as the documentation is ready and some good tutorial on how to quickly handle data and stuff. as usual, if you wanna help, please contact us, we badly need support.

But in the meanwhile I really want to share some examples of the results we were able to achieve.

1) tiles of the ortofoto of sicily, zoomed on Palermo

2) an archeological area airbourne survey, done with drones. Imagery provided by the Consorzio TICONZERO. Interested how they are doing this? Have a look here.

3) technical map, overlayed with the results of a risk analysis (perfect for outdoor geologists and engineers)

Do you remember seeing this image somewhere already? Maybe loaded in uDig? :)

4) Last but not least, a scanned historical map (shiver down my spine)

Ok, need to stop here.
Basically soon it will be possible to load almost any kind of raster map into geopaparazzi, which is an amazing enhancement. Now all that's left, is to wait for the next release :)

This post is born as a parallel post (as in two different ways to tell the same story by the people that lived it) of this post.

geo.geek.nz: Better Map Tips Using ArcGIS Explorer Online

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:05:00 +0000

Better Map Tips Using ArcGIS Explorer Online: There has been a few questions around map tips and how...

geo.geek.nz: ArcGIS For Emergency Management

Tue, 15 May 2012 22:23:00 +0000

ArcGIS For Emergency Management: ArcGIS for Emergency Management is an openly available...

LiDAR News: URISA Offers LIDAR Webinar Series

Tue, 15 May 2012 21:25:32 +0000

The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association - URISA has announced that they will be offering a 3 part webinar series on the use of LiDAR. Continue reading →

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All Points Blog: Two Geographers Among National Geographics’ 15 Emerging Explorers

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:12:46 +0000

There are many innovative and interesting people in the list of 15 people in the 2012 class of Emerging Explorers (11 men, 4 women for those counting). Each receives a $10,000 grant from National Geographic. I was happy to recognize two names with which I've become very... Continue reading

Ed Parsons: Has the SDI community turned the corner ?

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:12:18 +0000

Yesterday I made a presentation at the 13th GSDI Conference in Quebec (thanks to Geoff for his commentary), it was only a flying visit but I left in a more positive frame of mind that I expected.

The high level message of my presentation was, we need to think more about the I in SDI e.g. infrastructure, that we already have a well adopted information infrastructure we can use called the World Wide Web, to use it Geo people just have to be better web citizens.

For too long the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure community has been dominated by the producers of geospatial data, the Mapping Agencies, Cadastres and the Technology companies that serve their perceived needs. As a result discussions of Spatial Data, quality, standards and policy dominated.

I was pleased to see this observation reflected in a number of the plenary presentations, and the obvious logical extension that more focus needs to be concentrated on the potential users of SDI’s and their needs. This point was made brilliantly clear by Gilberto Câmara director of Brazils National Space Research Institute, INPE.

He introduced four questions any SDI supporter should answer..

How much is your SDI being used to build a modern state ?
How much is your SDI being used to enforce the rule of law ?
How much is your SDI being used to support public accountability ?
Is data from your SDI reaching those that need it ?

Key to answering these questions positively is I think a recognition that the true beneficiaries of a successful SDI, are not other data producers, governments, or public sector bodies, but society as a whole.

Written and submitted from home (51.425N, 0.331W)

Sean Gillies Blog: Gearing up for LAWDI

sgillies@frii.com (Sean Gillies) — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:58:42 +0000

I'm beginning to work on my presentation for the upcoming Linked Ancient World Data Institute at ISAW. Here's what I'd like to accomplish in three bullets.

Engage attendees in thinking outside the database and thinking and talking about the architecture of the web.
Make a case for using HTTP URIs (aka URLs) whenever possible instead of other identifiers or addresses.
Talk about using links in data for doing work (using verbs) in contrast to using linked data for reasoning (with nouns).

How to turn expertly curated non-linked data (digital scholarly editions of texts, etc) into RDF is one linked data problem, the one we're most familiar with and most focused on. How to use semantic web architecture and links to initiate and curate "born-linked" data is another interesting and important set of problems – to me, at least, and I hope to be able to make it compelling to everyone else.

Pleiades remains the only classics project in the Linked Open Data cloud today (http://thedatahub.org/group/lodcloud?q=classics) and I'd also like to talk about how other projects can join it, but time may be too short for this.

AnyGeo: Coming this week, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Tablet

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:37:31 +0000

Coming soon to retailers, the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 – The Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 will be available for $399.99 SRP. Retailers carrying the devices include Amazon, Best Buy, hhgregg, Tiger Direct, WalMart, Office Depot and others. Some of the features and functionality available in this popular tablet include:

Control, Watch and Share Your [...]

Fuzzy Tolerance: Getting SublimeLinter Running on Windows

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:47:41 +0000

Sublime Text 2 has managed to wrest me away from Komodo Edit, my code buddy of choice for a long time. I like Sublime Text 2 so much that I dropped $60 (gasp!) on it, and I haven’t dropped money on an editor in ages. It’s a fast, beautiful editor, and the plugin ecosystem is very robust.

One of my must-have plugins is SublimeLinter, which highlights lines of code the linter deems to contain (potential) errors, highlights things like TODO lines, and other goodies. It relies on node.js for a number of the base linters (JavaScript and CSS in particular). This seems to just work under Linux, but it just doesn’t under Windows. To get it up and running:

Install node.js. Which, by the way, is pretty darn awesome in its own right.
Open up Sublime Text, and close all open files.
Head to Preferences->Package Settings->SublimeLinter->Settings – User (it will be empty if you haven’t messed with it before), and insert the following:

{

  "sublimelinter_executable_map":
    {
        "javascript":"C:/Program Files (x86)/nodejs/node.exe",
        "css":"C:/Program Files (x86)/nodejs/node.exe"
    }

}

This is also where you’d put paths to, say, php for linting. Make sure you get the path to node correct – this is the default location on a Windows 7 install. Save the file, close the file, and restart Sublime Text.
Marvel at how bad your code is.

You can tweak down the linting options in your settings file. The default CSS linting rules in particular are set to kill. The default JS linting rules aren’t so bad.

All Points Blog: Top Social Media Influencer in Europe? Claim your Zebra Imaging Hologram of a Ford B-Max

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:06:01 +0000

Over here in the U.S. the social media influence measuring "tool" is called Klout. In the UK there's a tool called PeerIndex. Here's the deal: If you have a high enough score in PeerIndex in influencing others in areas like cars, lifestyle, technology within Europe you can get a free... Continue reading

got geoint?: Next-Gen Human Geography: Experiencing Situations from a Different Cultural Perspective

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:05:10 +0000

The concept of human geography covers a wide spectrum of functions — from understanding tribal boundaries, political ideology, birth and death rates, populous places, proximity to health facilities, principal market commodities to fully grasping ethnicity and languages. But one of the most fundamental aspects of human geography is being able to truly understand another culture. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is embarking on a new program that aims to bring our ‘cultural understanding’ of other nations to the next level.

According to NextGov, IARPA is seeking ideas for how to develop simulation tools that would allow a person to “experience a situation or interaction as if they were someone from a different culture.” Currently, IARPA is seeking “theories, techniques, tools, and metrics that would aid in building and objectively measuring capabilities that enable someone to ‘suspend’ their own cultural perspective of a particular situation or event,” according to its solicitation.

IARPA is also looking for virtual reality tools that would allow an expert to “accurately grasp a native’s point of view on a particular situation.” Be sure to check out the full solicitation here.

JournaliasmGIS: How to use CartoDB tables with Tilemill

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:53:59 +0000

This screencast from Vizzuality shows you how you can import data from CartoDB into TileMill. This can be useful when you are doing some data analysis and transformation with CartoDB and you want later to integrate the results on TileMill to produce a static map. Because TileMill and CartoDB share the same styling language, Carto, you can copy and paste styles between them.

Google Earth Blog: Russian satellite brings us one step closer to real-time Google Earth

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:04:58 +0000

We often get questions from users wondering how to access the "real-time Google Earth imagery". As you probably know, that doesn't yet exist. In fact, if you understand how Google Earth imagery works, you'll realize that we're a long way from a real-time version of Google Earth.

However, we're a small step closer to that goal with the release of a 121-megapixel image from a Russian satellite, the highest-resolution non-stitched image of the earth that has ever been captured:

It seems likely that the only way to achieve a real-time Google Earth will be to have satellites capturing incredibly high-resolution images and transferring them back down to earth. While this image is certainly remarkable, it's roughly 1000 meters per pixel. Decent imagery in Google Earth is 1 meter per pixel (or better), so cameras will need to capture imagery at much higher resolution to make it work.

In addition to that, there's the issue of transferring the imagery to earth, properly aligning it, dealing with clouds, etc. We're still years away from a real-time Google Earth, but this has brought us one small step closer to it!

(via CNET)

All Points Blog: Summer Ushahidi Course and other Education GIS News

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:39:59 +0000

Ushahidi: Frameworks for Effective Platform Management is a four-week, online course from TechChange, running this summer from June 4th – 29th. What has us most excited about this course is our approach toward one the highest-profile and most utilized programs in the current... Continue reading

Between the Poles: Data creation is not information use

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:26:13 +0000

At the Global Geospatial Conference 2012 in Québec City, Ed Parsons of Google argued in favour of web access to micro data including geospatial.

Google's goal is to organize the world's information, of which geospatial is just one type and not really so special, as Jack Pellicci then of Oracle, has been advancing for many years. Ed emphasized the the importance of access to data by paraphrasing the well-known movie adage, if you build it, they will not necessarily come. In the case of spatial data infrastructure (SDI), a lot of this data has been available for a long time, but without access it has sat on shelves gathering dust. Data creation is not information use and the focus on data creation has obscured the importance of analysis and visualization, and above all access. Fortunately, the global information infrastructure already exists to enable this to happen in the form of the Web, which Google used to fundamentally change the way the world accesses spatial data.

Web access to micro data

He then gave an example of being able to access information about one if his favourite pubs in London by a single click, and said that we should be able to access information about individual items of infrastructure, whether a utility pole, power transformer, or water valve in the same way. Fundamentally this is the internet of things where everything has an internet address or URI. He gave another example, accessing information about a particular property parcel in Nanaimo, BC with a single click, which is also a good example of how the web allows you to visualize the same data in different ways.

He also made the case for adding more structure to the web, as a way of making the information you retrieve on the web more meaningful. Many sites are generated from structured data, typically stored in databases. When this data is formatted into HTML, it becomes very difficult to recover the original structured data, but many applications, especially search engines, can benefit greatly from direct access to this structured data. One way to do this is to use a standard set of html tags, defining schemas, that you can use to markup web pages in ways recognized by major search providers.

Directions Magazine: Podcast: The Value of Geospatial Companies

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:25:09 +0000

How do you put a value on geospatial technology? Does it just come down to revenue and profits? Or intrinsically is it more because critical information is held within the bounds of certain technology formats?

More about: acquisitions, digitalglobe, geoeye, google, hexagon, microsoft, navteq, nokia, tele atlas, valuation

Between the Poles: Canadian Minister of Natural Resources says geomatics is essential to economic development

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:20:35 +0000

At the Global Geospatial Conference 2012 in Québec City, the Minister of Natural Resources of Canada, said that geomatics is strategic for economic development in Canada. Geomatics annually contributes $2.8 billion to the Canadian economy, $540 million in export revenue, and employs 23 000 workers.

He said that historically mapping and geomatics have been criitical to Canada's economic development, from the early surveyors who defined national boundaries, the Canadian cadastre, and railway right of ways, through the world's first geographic information system, the Canadian Land Inventory, developed in 1963, to the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI), which made Canada’s geospatial data and information available based on industry standards on the Web. The Minister mentioned Canada's open data initiative, the Canadian data portal, which sees over 11 million downloads per year, 90% of which is geospatial.

Specifically in the area of natural resources, he said that geomatics is an essential tool for evaluating projects from an environmental, social impact, and economic growth perspective. The mining, oil and gas, and forestry sectors employ three quarters of a million people in Canada, and to ensure the continued development of these sectors the government has a pipeline of natural resource development projects wirth $500 billion over the next ten years. As an example, the Government of Canada is contributing to improved mapping of northern Quebec in support of Québec's $80 billion northern development initiative Plan Nord. The Minister siad that Canada intends to support responsible natural resource development for the benefit of the public including aboriginal peoples, but also protecting the environment. He said that the govenment has already announced its intention to streamline the review and approval process for major natural resource and infrastructure development projects.

The Minister Oliver announced the newest series of contribution agreements through GeoConnections, investments totalling $1.6 million over three years. This is the latest funding announement that are part of the $30 million five year Geoconnections program announced in 2010.

The Global Geospatial Conference is actually a combined event involving four geospatial organizations, the GSDI World Conference (GSDI 13), the 14th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, the 7th 3DGeoInfo Conference, and the Canadian Geomatics Conference 2012, and draws more than 700 geospatial professionals from around the world.

All Points Blog: Tell a MrSid Story for its 20th Anniversary and other GIS Competitions

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:00:43 +0000

LizardTech is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the MrSID imagery format: We'll be hosting events throughout the year to celebrate MrSID's 20th anniversary. In the meantime, we’re holding a contest, inviting people like you – in fact, you – to say a word or two about how MrSID has... Continue reading

Directions Magazine: Not the Game of Life, But a Map of Life

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:00:33 +0000

Unlike the board game, the Map of Life lives online and as its name suggests, maps out life on earth. To be more specific, it provides location information for a selection of living things on earth.

More about: atlas, biology, education, map of life, yale

OpenGeo: PostGIS Code Sprint à Paris

Tue, 15 May 2012 07:31:57 +0000

For the next two days in Paris, the PostGIS development team (sans Regina Obe, unfortunately) will be meeting to discuss the 2.1 development cycle, squash a few bugs (and release 2.0.1?), and look at future directions for PostGIS. (Paris? Yes, I said Paris. After jogging a lap around the Champs de Mars and having my croissant for breakfast this morning, I feel that this should be an annual event.)

The sprint wiki page lays out some of the topics on the agenda: routing, parallel processing, 3D, point clouds, performance, and of course the ever-present meta-topic, git. It seems likely that PostGIS will move to git in the near future unless one of the development team is strongly opposed. Being merely ambivalent, I won’t throw myself into the gears of “progress”.

My personal development priorities for 2.1 are performance, performance, performance: I have speed improvements in mind for geometry, geography and raster. The geometry and geography improvements are based on internal indexing, as I described almost three years ago! They were too radical to go into 1.5, which was nearing release at the time, and other things (re-writing the core serialization/parsers/emitters) distracted me during 2.0. So 2.1 is it! And for raster, someone might beat me to it, but the ST_Union(raster) function should be relatively easy to speed up with the same memory management approach that the vector aggregate functions use.

This evening the developers will be meeting with a local group of power users for a discussion about roadmap priorities and where they think our development effort would be best spent. I’m looking forward to hearing some more about how folks are using PostGIS in the wild.

À bientôt!

All Points Blog: Free Software for Polling Location Maps and other Government GIS News

Tue, 15 May 2012 07:30:48 +0000

This is interesting: the map of polling places in Hammond, Indiana is (1) made by the Hammond Sanitary District GIS Department and (2) built on free software (Google Maps), something worthy of note in the local paper. - The Times of Northwest Indiana ... Continue reading

AnyGeo: WhereCamp to Hit Berlin June 22-23

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:43:11 +0000

An unconference for you WhereCamp enthusiasts in germany this June – WhereCamp Berlin Some details from the organizers… For those passionate about geographical specialties, WhereCamp Berlin is gathering its attendees on the 22nd and 23rd of June. Everyone is free to present and share topics, news and trends. In this highly successful “unconference”, participants drive [...]

LiDAR News: Combined Terrestrial and Bathymetric Survey Webinar

Tue, 15 May 2012 03:22:51 +0000

This innovative firm has been using mobile laser scanning to provide volumetric measurement services to a number of aggregate companies in the Northeast U.S. Continue reading →

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geo.geek.nz: Esri Geoportal Server LiveDVD Demonstration

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:14:00 +0000

Here’s your chance to test out the Esri Geoportal Server running on your very own computer already...

Spatial Sustain: Trimble Breaks Ground and Solidifies Status of the Colorado Geospatial Corridor

Mon, 14 May 2012 21:31:02 +0000

Today, Trimble broke ground on a new operations center in Westminster, Colo., with Gov. John Hickenlooper one of many to turn a shovel. The event was presided over by Steven Berglund, president and CEO of the company, who asserted that while the company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif., most of their organic growth would [...]

MapDotNet Blog: Spatial data digitizing in HTML5

Mon, 14 May 2012 21:02:14 +0000

Check out this YouTube video of MapDotNet UX digitizing in HTML5. This demo shows the power of digitizing large geometries where the user needs to pan and zoom to various regions while continuing to edit. Our “ghost node” feature facili

All Points Blog: Esri’s ArcGIS Online for Organizations Getting Closer to Release

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:52:21 +0000

Esri's Director of Education, David DiBiase shared that Esri sales staff have been able to quote pricing for ArcGIS Online for Organizations (the product name is in flux) as of last Friday. The subscription offering allows organizations to skin the service, create and manage accounts and... Continue reading

Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog: Map of Life Demo Release

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:52:00 +0000

Map of Life The current release allows you to explore globally the geographic distributions for any terrestrial vertebrate species (as well as North American...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

AnyGeo: Video – 3D Urban Planning Visualization With CityEngine

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:20:51 +0000

An interesting video from Esri looks at potential uses for City Engine in an urban planning 3D scenario… Recall, CityEngine supports the use of geospatial data such as Esri Shapefile, File Geodatabase (GDB), KML, and OpenStreetMap (OSM), allowing users to work with existing GIS features – like parcels, building footprints and street center lines – [...]

Spatiallity: Citi Bike NYC: the first and last mile quantified

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:00:51 +0000

The NYC Department of Transportation revealed last week where they’d like to place 400 or so bike share stations in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens, as the next step in the city’s new bikeshare program starting this summer. (By next spring the city plans to locate a total of 600 bike share kiosks for [...]

The ENTCHEV GIS Blog: Hamburger Hill, New Jersey is the North-South Jersey checkpoint

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:54:20 +0000

For New Jerseyans this is no trivial matter. Where does “North Jersey” end and “South Jersey” begin? Is there such a thing as “Central Jersey”? Numerous tractates have been dedicated to this topic, not to mention blog posts (yours truly has contributed to the discussion) and at least one documentary film.

All heretofore existing North-South delineations have followed county boundaries, with a few “swing counties” always in contention. Is Mercer county North or South? How about Middlesex? Monmouth? The issue resembles a Gordian Knot, getting tighter with every argument.

Enter my friend Randall Solomon, who happens to be the Co-Director of Sustainable Jersey and the Sustainability Institute at The College of New Jersey. Randy submits that the county-by-county approach lacks the granularity needed to properly address the issue. Much like Alexander the Great, Randy slices Middlesex county in half, and voila! Everything falls into place, everything now makes sense.

Not content to merely identify the North-South Jersey checkpoint, Randy also names it – “Hamburger Hill”. Also known as “The South Brunswick water tower”, this is the elevated point on Route 1 and Sand Hills Road in South Brunswick with a McDonald’s and a Burger King on either side.

Click here for a Google Maps map of Hamburger Hill. Below is my own North-South Jersey map, based on Randy’s Hamburger Hill postulate.

All Points Blog: Update: LightSquared Update - Bankruptcy Could be Monday - 5/14/12

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:00:39 +0000

LightSquared officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Manhattan US Bankruptcy Court today. - endgadget ----original post 5/14/12 7 am EDT --- The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) is the source of comments by those in the know that it's unlikely that LightSquared and... Continue reading

eSpatial Blog: Monday Mentions!

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:25:46 +0000

14 May 2012

Rounding up our favourite tweets from last week:

We’re big on Software as a Service (in case you didn’t already know!) – but we’re even bigger on providing excellent service to our customers. Here’s how we do it!
We had great fun with this antipode map! Find out where your location’s opposite land is here!
Social networking is happening all around us – and mapping has come to the fore in it. Mapinterest is social media’s newest craze! See what it’s all about here!

If you’re not already following us on Twitter – catch us here: @espatial

Google Earth Blog: Viewing Fusion Table data on mobile devices

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:15:03 +0000

We've talked a bit about Google's Fusion Tables product before -- a great way to turn a table full of data (such as an Excel spreadsheet) into a fully functional map!

The maps can easily be shared through a Google Maps interface or even in Google Earth, but the mobile support for Fusion Table projects has been pretty weak. That's where the folks from Build-A-Map have stepped in, with a new product called My Fusion Tables.

My Fusion Tables a mobile application that allows you to browse, view, and map data from Google Fusion Tables on both mobile phones and tablets. You can find it in the iOS App Store or on Google Play.

Have you built any interesting applications with Fusion Tables? How well do they work in My Fusion Tables?

got geoint?: Monday Morning News Kick Off: GeoEye Disappointed by DigitalGlobe Rejection; China Launched New Spy Satellite; and Spy Moms Unite

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:47:25 +0000

Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? We hope you had a restful weekend and were able to spend some quality time with mom on Mother’s Day. Well, once again, it’s Monday and time to get back into the game. As always, we have been kind enough to provide you with all the actionable news you need to kick start the work week. So, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on. Happy Monday.

GeoEye Disappointed by DigitalGlobe, Inc.’s Rejection Of the Proposed Acquisition
GeoEye released this statement in response to the announcement by DigitalGlobe that its Board of Directors has rejected GeoEye’s acquisition proposal.

China Successfully Launches New Spy Satellite Into Orbit
China launched an optical military reconnaissance satellite (pictured) last Thursday.

Huge Satellite Envisat is Dead in Space
The European Space Agency declared the death of its massive Earth-observing satellite Envisat Wednesday after a month of mysterious silence from the school bus-size spacecraft.

U.S. Seeks Alternate Satellite Terminal Bids
The U.S. Air Force said on Friday it is still in talks with Boeing about revamping a multibillion-dollar program for next-generation satellite communications terminals, but has now formally invited other companies to submit alternate bids.

Keep Satellites in the Skies to Monitor Storms
New Orleans Times-Picayune editorial on why we need weather satellites.

Russian Satellite Presents the Earth from Top to Bottom (IMAGERY)
Check out these stunning images of the Earth from the Russians.

TerraGo Releases Publisher for ArcGIS v.6 to Empower Esri Users with Unprecedented Geospatial Collaboration Capabilities
TerraGo Technologies released its Publisher for ArcGIS v.6 software to enable Esri users to produce interactive, portable and intelligent TerraGo GeoPDF maps, imagery and geospatial applications.

Geospatial Data Management and Exploitation for the Utilities Industry
Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I, recently authored this GIS cafe post about how the utilities sector can better embrace geospatial solutions.

Spy Moms Unite
CNN ran a feature about women in the Intelligence Community. Check it out here.

Video: Is This What Apple’s New Maps Will Look Like?
After 5 years with Google’s maps, Apple is reportedly set to unveil its own.

My Georamblings...: You know you are a geo-nerd when…

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:18:52 +0000

…you not only geocache, but you own and maintain geocaches too.

The Map Guy(de): SQL Server 2012 FDO support

noreply@blogger.com (Jackie Ng) — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:10:12 +0000

Does the SQL Server FDO provider work with SQL Server 2012?

If you believe these screenshots ...

FDO Toolbox 1.0 (using 3.6 FDO provider)

SQL Server Management Studio 2012 (connected to SQL Server 2012 express)

... then the answer is yes

4253: Alternatives to relief shading

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:54:28 +0000

Michal M’s latest experiments on automated cartography brought back memories on some experiments I made myself in trying to replicate old map style cartography using modern (free and open-source) GIS packages. The idea is simple, I’m looking for alternative background styling for topographic features (like hills and mountains) that is different from the usual shaded [...]

geothought: Presentations from GeoAlberta 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Batty) — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:05:12 +0000

I spent last week up in Calgary for the GeoAlberta conference, which was celebrating its tenth anniversary. It was a good event and I attended a number of good presentations. Dale Lutz of Safe Software gave an interesting review of the history of geospatial data, and my vintage 1990 paper on Exploiting Relational Database Technology in GIS got a mention in the section about moving into databases.

Directions Magazine: An Open Letter to the CEOs of DigitalGlobe and GeoEye

Mon, 14 May 2012 08:09:13 +0000

What should the satellite companies DigitalGlobe and GeoEye do now that ongoing talks of mergers and acquisitions are a well-publicized fact? It’s a pretty fair bet that something has to happen soon since it looks increasingly like the government will cut spending for commercial remote sensing satellites. Editor in Chief Joe Francica writes an open letter to the CEOs of both companies with some "free" advice.

More about: digitalglobe, enhancedview, geoeye, geographic data, google earth, homeland security, location technology, location-based services, militarydefense, remote sensing, satellite image data

All Points Blog: Pew: 75% of Smartphone Users Get “Real Time” Location-based Information

Mon, 14 May 2012 08:00:55 +0000

Here's the overview of the report (html, questions): A new report finds that 74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to “check in” to certain locations or share their location with friends. Over the... Continue reading

eSpatial Blog: We’re presenting at the Location Intelligence & Oracle Spatial User Conferences

Mon, 14 May 2012 08:00:17 +0000

14 May 2012

We’re excited to announce that our Chief Executive Officer, Philip O’Doherty, our Chief Technical Officer, Eamon Walsh, and our US-based Senior Consultant, Paul Baynam, will be joining other geospatial leaders at the upcoming Location Intelligence/ Oracle Spatial User Conference in Washington DC.

The event, on 23-23 May, is hosted by Directions magazine, and will see technology leaders come together to explore “The Power of Place”, and the latest solutions and trends in the geospatial industry.

Philip will give a presentation at the Location Intelligence conference on day 1, and Eamon and Paul will co-present at the Oracle Spatial User conference on day 2:

10-11:00am, 22 May, Horizon Room B
Philip will present on “SaaS-based GIS adoption: Successes and lessons learned” as part of the GeoCloud Computing Strategies session.
3-4:30pm, 23 May, Horizon Room A
Eamon and Senior Consultant Paul Baynham will present “GIS Software as a Service Using Oracle Spatial in Amazon EC2 Cloud”.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Directions Magazine: OGC Market Report: Open Standards and INSPIRE

Mon, 14 May 2012 07:50:43 +0000

This market report was written and reviewed by members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to provide a simple guide to the EU INSPIRE Directive and Implementing Rules from an open standards perspective. Additionally, this report provides an overview of the role that OGC, CEN and ISO standards play in helping public sector bodies across Europe meet their obligations to implement the INSPIRE Directive and Implementing Rules.

More about: environmental

geo.geek.nz: ArcGIS 10.0 Service Pack 5 Coming Soon

Mon, 14 May 2012 02:28:00 +0000

ArcGIS 10.0 Service Pack 5 Coming Soon: This is an announcement that ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 5, is...

VerySpatial: A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 356

Mon, 14 May 2012 02:00:12 +0000

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 356
May 13, 2012

Main Topic: Our conversation on potential cuts to the US Census Bureau

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Music

This week’s podsafe music: “She Said She Said” by Arlen Roth

News

Map of lost Roanoke Colony now in the British Museum may hold new clues

Microsoft Research’s GeoLife GPS Trajectories data set available for researchers to dowload

European Space Agency’s Envisat may be dead

Cancel your 2012 Doomsday plans

Web Corner

Grand Map of London 2012

Main Topic

This week we feature our conversation on potential implications of the US House of Representatives passing a new budget bill that eliminates the US Census Bureau’s Economic Census and American Community Survey.

Tip of the Week

Zombies and Geospatial Analysis

Events Corner

3D GeoInfo Conference: 16-17 May, Quebec City, Quebec

Canadian Association of Geographers: 28 May-2June, Waterloo, Ontario

EUROGEO: 1-3 June, Dublin, Ireland

Esri Asia Pacific User Conference: 5-7 November, Auckland, NZ

This week, A VerySpatial Podcast is sponsored by Esri

The Survey Summit-ACSM Annual Conference will be held July 21-24 in San Diego, California. Attend the summit to learn about the latest trends and workflows in the surveying and geospatial industries. For more information and to register to attend, visit surveysummit.com.

Spatialytics.org: Learn more about @GeoKettle and @GeoMondrian at #GSDI13 Quebec City May 14-17!

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:54:11 +0000

The 13th GSDI World Conference by the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (www.gsdi.org) is held this year in Quebec City, Canada, May 14-17. This year’s theme is « Spatially Enabling Government, Industry and Citizens ». Meet Spatialytics in the exhibition hall and learn more about the Spatial ETL GeoKettle and the SOLAP Server GeoMondrian! Exhibition [...]