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Global GIS News
250m True Marble global dataset for free! Deb Ranjan Sinha writes that the "250m True Marble global dataset is available for free download from http://www.unearthedoutdoo CASAGRAS: Global RFID and Standardisation Vector One informs us about the CASAGRAS project which aimes at global RFID and standardisation. From V1: "‘The Internet o Apple Introduces Geotagging in iPhoto '09 Today at MacWorld's keynote (ongoing at time of writing), Apple announced the new version of iPhoto which includes geotagging su GeoWind: Open Source GIS Based on NASA World Wind The EiS blog provides recent coverage of NASA World Wind, including mentioning GeoWind and Capcode: "Capcode is a free software OpenLayers Case Studies and Integration with the ESRI RESTful API The OpenLayers blog announced the beginning of a list of OpenLayers case studies: "Currently, the number of case studies is smal Late December MS Virtual Earth and Google Earth Data Update Both Microsoft and Google offer new imagery since late December. From the Virtual Earth blog: "As a result, a small blog post to OpenStreetMap Edits in 2008 Visualization An anonymous voxel writes "An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. All edits are shown as white COPAN: Free COGO Tool for Land Surveyors Martin Feuchtwanger writes "Copan is a functional and easy-to-use, free-of-charge, geomatics engineering tool for computing and Mapping Planets and Moons In 3D With Stereophotoclinometry Currently in discussion on Slashdot : "Dr. [Robert] Gaskell, with software he developed over a quarter-century of trial and erro Smooth Open Street Maps For the iPhone There is currently a discussion on Slashdot right now discussing this : "A number of projects are working on bringing a smooth O NY Times Launches 'Represent' Mapping Tool Using Open Source Both clever elephant and Map Hawk discuss the new New York Times webmapping tool called "Represent" which tracks people represen Yahoo! Maps International Coverage and Fire Eagle Still Flying Three Yahoo! recent news: via TMR, there's Yahoo! Maps in 45 new countries: "We’ve added detailed coverage to 45 new count Africa: Free Geodata, AfricaMap and Ushahidi Here's a few recent Africa-related geostories: there's APB mentions a BBC article about Ushahidi, an open source crowdsourcing c Spatial Data Audits Directions Mag shared an article last week named Spatial Data Audits: Maximizing Value and Minimizing Risk Associated With Your Google Maps Gets YouTube Videos Several geoblogs mentioned that Google Maps now has YouTube videos directly in the 'More' menu: "The feature adds geotagged YouT GPS Game gets iPhone client with OpenStreetMaps jore writes "You had one or two stories about us, why not this one: We just released the (free) iPhone 3G client for our GPS gam iPhone GPS App and Stereoscopy There seems to be a continuous stream of iPhone stories on the geoblogs and the like. See our recent coverage and related storie Scientists Discover Forest with Google Earth om_henners writes "British scientists have ventured to the mountainous north of Mozambique after discovering a previously unknow Earthscape Releases 3D Santa Tracker Tom Churchill writes "For the last several months, Earthscape users have been adding photos of people and places they care about Virtual Earth and Photosynth Via Seadragon on the iPhone iPhone owners can use Virtual Earth on the iPhone. From the entry: " Perhaps you’ve heard that the Live Labs team launched NASA World Wind Gets a New Mission The Earth is Square shares a few NASA WorldWind news, including it's important change of mission: "World Wind therefore changed The State of OpenAerialMap Christopher Schmidt offers an informative post on the state of OpenAerialMap. First time we mentioned OpenAerialMap.org is in Au Indian GPS Cartographers Charged As Terrorists There is a currently a disccusion on Slashdot about this. Here is their summary : "Following on from the discussion about Apple ExtJS, GeoExt and HSLayers The Les-ejk blog provides nice short descriptions of OpenLayers, ExtJS, MapFish, GeoExt and HSLayers. Both GeoExt and HSLayers w MapServer Graduates OSGeo Incubation The OSGeo announced that MapServer graduated from OSGeo incubation. From the announcement: "MapServer is a web map server for bu
ESRI News
GIS Day 2008 in Review
November 19, 2008 marked another successful GIS Day celebration. For ten years, GIS users continue to uphold the vision of th GIS Used to Manage and Access the Largest Earthquake Drill in U.S. History
At 10:00 a.m. on November 13, 2008, millions of people throughout Southern California participated in Where Will Jack Dangermond be on GIS Day?
As part of the 10th anniversary GIS Day celebration, Dangermond will speak at the  
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