June 2008 - Community Mashup

GeoServer

The last few months have been hectic, with a lot of proposal writing and other things flying around - and as I continue to redefine and revisit and look toward new types of approaches and ways to tackle problems in architecting geospatial solutions, I...

06-21-2008 9:16 AM from Surveying, Mapping and GIS

Filed under: Virtual Earth, ESRI, google earth, ArcGIS Server, postgis, postgresql, open source, Geospatial, AGS, FOSS4G, GeoWebCache, GeoServer

China Central Television partners with Virtual Earth

This brief mail came to me this AM from Vincent Tao who leads many of Microsoft's mapping and GIS initiatives in China - CCTV (China Central Television) is the largest Chinese Broadcasting Company who owns the exclusive Olympics broadcasting rights...

06-13-2008 10:27 AM from Virtual Earth / Live Maps

Loopt launches on iPhone with Virtual Earth Maps

Loopt co-founder Sam Altman was onstage yesterday at Apple's DevCon to launch the Loopt client app for iPhone. You can see it in action in this 2 minute video from ZDNet: Loopt helps you keep tabs on your friends whereabouts from your mobile. One...

06-10-2008 12:40 PM from Virtual Earth / Live Maps

UC Geoblogger Meetup: Venue Suggestions?

That time of year is fast approaching as the largest gathering of GIS folks happens. That means it’s time for the ESRI Users Conference Geoblogger Meet-up. Google has graciously offered to sponsor again this year. So, I have a few questions for...

06-09-2008 8:57 PM from FANTOM PLANET

Filed under: Google, ESRI, events, community, conferences, sharing, Geoblogger Meetup

FAIL! Now Has a Grading Scale

My classmates here at Redlands are big fans of the Fail! blogs. With a grading scale recently introduced to us in our cartography class we’ve been messing with the idea of a Fail! Scale. Read More...

06-06-2008 4:24 PM from FANTOM PLANET

Filed under: University of Redlands, humor, Jack's Pool House, School, WTF, Reference, Why?, cartography

Strange Stuff Revisited: ESRI + New PDF = Where Maps Go To Die?

See, the quake was the website update for Adobe Acrobat 9 Extended! …A friend once told me, “PDF is where data goes to die.” If that holds true, then geoPDF is where maps go to die… Word on the street is that ArcGIS 9.3 will natively...

06-02-2008 3:44 PM from FANTOM PLANET

Filed under: ESRI, gis, events, community, sharing, Maps, Collaborative Atlas, Map2PDF4JACK, media, I Told You So, drawing, ArcGIS Server, business, ArcReader

MFR: My iTunes Playlist for Redlands

There’s a blog called “MFR” from my hometown that reviews popular unpopular music. I recently made a playlist with songs that had related themes to the year I’ve spent here in Redlands. Some folks may get them, but then again,...

06-02-2008 3:19 PM from FANTOM PLANET

Filed under: Uncategorized, University of Redlands, humor, Jack's Pool House, WTF, radio

Omens and Strange Stuff

First there was the shooting star I saw last night. Then, Jack Dangermond for the first time while I was in a resturaunt in Redlands. Then a 3.2 quake a few minutes ago about a mile way and about two miles down. Something is going down… Soon. Read...

06-01-2008 11:43 PM from FANTOM PLANET

Filed under: events, Jack's Pool House, WTF, spooky

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