September 2008 - Community Mashup

MetaCarta Public Sector User Group Meeting

MetaCarta is holding a users group meeting next week, October 8th - from their site: MetaCarta Public Sector User Group Meeting How often can you hear key geospatial analysis findings from defense, intelligence, federal civilian, and industry analysts...

09-30-2008 6:59 PM from Surveying, Mapping and GIS

Filed under: gis, Geospatial, MetaCarta, geo-enabled

Farm Bill Prevents Sharing of Geospatial Data?

I just came across this bit of disturbing information - a colleague was seeking historic aerial photographs from USDA, and was greeted with the following response: "Please refer to Title 1, Subtitle F, Section 1619 titled "Information Gathering"...

09-28-2008 10:16 AM from Surveying, Mapping and GIS

Filed under: Data, geodata, collaboration, Geospatial, USDA, data sharing, federal, policy

Writing GeoJSON from SharpMap, Part 1

In between proposals, white papers and the like, I’ve been able to do a little coding to keep myself sane. Recently, I have been playing with SharpMap, GeoJSON and OpenLayers. But not necessarily in that order. Originally, I was looking over the GeoJSON...

09-25-2008 2:42 PM from GeoMusings

Filed under: postgis, sharpmap, geojson, c#, OpenLayers

In-car navigation with OpenStreetMap data

In-car, on-bike and on-foot navigation is the goal of a few different OpenStreetMap projects at the moment. By offering free downloads of routable data formats from our downloads site we’re aiming to support routing in OSM. The idea of the downloads...

09-20-2008 5:07 AM from CloudMade

Filed under: Uncategorized

Basic Networking

The following slides are part 2/unit 1 of the Introduction To Geospatial Web Technologies course I teach @ University of Colorado @ Denver, Master's of Engineering in GIS Program . Subscribe in a reader Read More...

09-13-2008 1:21 PM from GIS Hacks

Filed under: GIS Education, Masters in GIS, GIS Certification

History of Internet Mapping

The following slides are part one of unit 1 of the Introduction To Geospatial Web Technologies course I teach @ University of Colorado @ Denver, Master's of Engineering in GIS Program . Subscribe in a reader Read More...

09-13-2008 1:14 PM from GIS Hacks

Filed under: GIS Education, Masters in GIS, GIS Certification

Masters Degree in GIS -- MEng-GIS

As adjunct faculty at the University of Colorado @ Denver, I would like to give a plug for our Master's of Engineering in GIS program . This program is one of a kind and provides extensive flexibility for working professionals and those seeking distance...

09-13-2008 10:05 AM from GIS Hacks

Filed under: Geospatial Web Technologies, GIS Education, Masters in GIS, GIS Certification

Pentagon 9/11 Memorial

I was in Crystal City for some business yesterday, and afterward went over to the Pentagon. Adjoining the dedication area, a sea of flags... Each step in the wall, representing the age of one of the victims... Each bench, representing one of those 184...

09-12-2008 9:01 AM from Surveying, Mapping and GIS

The Lost Maps of Nagaland

The Times of India brings a story , speaking to the necessity of preserving maps and records dealing with boundaries - apparently the official maps depicting the boundary of the Indian state of Nagaland have gone completely missing. Nagaland is a hill...

09-10-2008 4:58 PM from Surveying, Mapping and GIS

Filed under: Maps, surveying, mapping, boundary, documents, archival, boundaries, map, borders, records

CloudMade’s Andy Allan wins Cartography Award

Great news from the British Cartographic Society, who have awarded CloudMade Tech Lead, Andy Allan an award for his work on the OpenCycleMap. OpenCycleMap.org was awarded a Commended Award in the Avenza Eelectronic Mapping category of the British Cartographic...

09-08-2008 10:48 AM from CloudMade