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 10^th anniversary GIS Day celebration, Dangermond will speak at the