October 2008 - Community Mashup

Happy Halloween!

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10-31-2008 8:45 AM from Surveying, Mapping and GIS

Filed under: holiday, halloween

Yet another map data API released

Blom just announced the release of their BlomURBEX (Urban Explorer) SDK. It includes access to high resolution ortho and SEAMLESS birds eye imagery of over 1000 european cities. These are the same images as Microsoft uses on the Virtual Earth platform...

10-27-2008 6:55 PM from SharpGIS

How to Access and Download LPS 9.3 and other ERDAS Software

I've received a lot of questions from people asking about how they can access and download the new LPS 9.3 release . Since we've changed the methodology for software access, I've outlined the new procedure below. This example covers the download...

10-24-2008 4:04 AM from The Fiducial Mark

Filed under: ERDAS, LPS

First country to be fully mapped in 3D

My former employer just announced that they have mapped all of Denmark's buildings and terrain in 3D. Denmark is small, but it’s still an amazing feat, considering its roughly 2.5 million buildings! The modeling is mostly based on LIDAR data...

10-23-2008 6:53 PM from SharpGIS

Free Adobe Flex Training

I've been seeing a lot of chit chat lately about Adobe Flex so I figured I would point out their free online training class. Click here to access the FreeFlexTraining website. Also, please visit the Adobe Flex page for more information about what...

10-22-2008 1:20 PM from GeoPDF

Filed under: GeoPDF, Adobe Flex, Training

Map2PDF for IMAGINE

ERDAS announced today that the ability to export to GeoPDF is now standard in IMAGINE 9.3 . Now anyone with this version of IMAGINE can export to GeoPDF from any of its 135 formats as well as from the Map Series tool. With the Map Series tool, the author...

10-21-2008 6:42 AM from GeoPDF

Filed under: GeoPDF, ERDAS, Map2PDF

Fidicial Marks: An Explanation

I tend to get a lot of visitors finding their way to this blog by searching for information on fiducial marks. So, why not ouline what they are and why they are important? In the context of aerial photography, fiducial marks are small registration marks...

10-19-2008 11:27 PM from The Fiducial Mark

Filed under: Aerial Photography

WhereCampPDX Dark GeoWeb Recap

We had a great session on the possibilities and challenges related to dark geo-content on the internet. Amber Case at Hazelnut Tech Talk has a great summary of the session. You can also find the slides I used here. One of the take home messages that I...

10-19-2008 10:05 AM from Fiducial Marks

Filed under: conferences, GeoWeb, Dark Content, Portland, WhereCampPDX

WhereCampPDX

We’re headed to WhereCampPDX on Saturday. It is an event that everyone in the office has been looking forward to attending. This is exactly the type of event that prompted our move across country. We hope to lead a couple of sessions. The first is by...

10-16-2008 2:05 PM from Fiducial Marks

Filed under: conferences, WeoGeo, Portland

Multiplexing USB GPS Devices

We all know that the USGS has made its Topographic maps available for free download in the GeoPDF format. Folks out in the field use these maps for a wide variety of different applications and a lot of the time, GPS tracking is involved. The problem that...

10-15-2008 9:46 AM from GeoPDF

Filed under: gps, GeoPDF, Franson, GPSGate

Mobile for the People

TerraGo announces the release of its mobile application. Please see the blurb from the TerraGo website and then click on the link to access the white paper. TerraGo Mobile makes it easy to power-up your remote workers with geospatial information from...

10-14-2008 4:55 AM from GeoPDF

Filed under: mobile, TerraGo

Mapping Integration with BusinessObjects

I got to spend a little time in the last week or two examining integration of web mapping with BusinessObjects XI R2 Web Intelligence, for a little turbo proof-of-concept application - I hadn't seen many folks talking about integrating web mapping...

10-10-2008 9:08 AM from Surveying, Mapping and GIS

Filed under: google maps, Geospatial, choropleth mapping, BI, BO XI R2, business intelligence, integration, BO XI, BusinessObjects, GMaps

First GeoPDF from GeoEye-1

If you've been on Planet Geospatial lately, you have probably noticed that GeoEye-1 is now releasing data. I found a screen shot on Frank Taylor's Google Earth blog that I figured I could work with without getting arrested so I downloaded the...

10-09-2008 7:37 AM from GeoPDF

Filed under: GeoPDF, GeoEye-1

The New Face of TerraGo

TerraGo Technologies unleashed its new branding today in celebration of its recent additions to the executive team and release of its latest technology! Check out the updated website for more information on TerraGo's updated product line . Read More...

10-08-2008 6:47 AM from GeoPDF

Filed under: GeoPDF, TerraGo

Trust Jack

I am not sure how many people in our industry are paying attention to the meltdown of the global financial services industry, but I want to point out the following interview with Jack Dangermond: In it, Jack describes that growth of our industry as well...

10-07-2008 11:27 AM from Fiducial Marks

Filed under: ESRI, Geospatial