February 2009 - Community Mashup

Administrative Note for Google Earth Blog

On late Thursday (February 26) Google Earth Blog migrated successfully to a new server. Traffic seemed to shift normally within 1 hour. However, I've had reports of people not going to the right server. Turns out the problem is consistently with the...

02-28-2009 2:44 PM from Google Earth Blog

AVSP: Live! at the AAG 2009 in Las Vegas

In just three weeks Geographers from around the world will be descending on Las Vegas for the annual Association of American Geographers. We will be attending and presenting at the conference (on Wednesday) and we will also be recording an episode of...

02-28-2009 10:22 AM from VerySpatial

Filed under: events, avsp, archive

New Imagery Google Earth - 28-February-2009

[ UPDATED 0745 ] GEB Reader David S. was the first to report new imagery in Google Earth. He reported new imagery in Scotland, China, South Korea, and the US States of South Dakota and Wisconsin. I've also noticed strips of new GeoEye imagery in Niger...

02-28-2009 5:12 AM from Google Earth Blog

Filed under: Google Earth News

What’s New in ArcGIS Server 9.3.1

I just returned from the ESRI Petroleum User’s Group (PUG) conference in Texas. The buzz this year was a little lower than those of an anticipated major release. The featured release during this gathering was 9.3.1. As I mentioned in a previous post,...

02-27-2009 8:56 PM from GIS Hacks

Filed under: ArcGIS Server, PUG

ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API 1.3 Now Available

ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API 1.2 was released late year. Since then the team has been hard at work on the next version. ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API 1.3 is now available for immediate use. There are a bundle of new features. Some of these include: Support for...

02-27-2009 7:31 PM from mandown

Filed under: Development

One More Week Until The ESRI Developer Summit 2009 Code Challenges End!

The ESRI Developer Summit is fast approaching and entries have been coming in for the ESRI Developer Summit 2009 Code Challenges . So far there has been some great entries which users and developers will be able to vote for soon. The prizes include: ArcGIS...

02-27-2009 6:39 PM from mandown

Filed under: events

My 7 Cool Things Of The Day Schmap GeoTweeter, Sanoodi SMap, Gravity for Twitter, WHERE, Tweet of the day, Twellow, Indiana GIS Data

My 7 Cool Things Of The Day - Schmap GeoTweeter, Sanoodi SMap, Gravity for Twitter, WHERE, Tweet of the day, Twellow, Indiana GIS Data. Continuing on with the tradition, my new collection of 7 Cool... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website...

02-27-2009 3:38 PM from AnyGeo - A GISuser Blog

Filed under: twitter, 7 cool things

The One Main Problem with a Drilling Rush? Where Do You Send Emergency Services?

With drilling supposed to start sometime this simmer in the northern end of the county, there is one thing that the Emergency Management office want to know.. How do we know where to send Emergency Responders too? These companies that are coming in will...

02-27-2009 3:15 PM from The Earth Is Square

Filed under: gps, gis, Maps, government, Navigation, Locations, emergency, drilling, Emergency Service

VSLive09 - SQL Server 2008 for developers

Leonard Lobel is the presenter - He is a doing a good job showing demos and covering just the right amount of details in slides. Striking a good balance between new features and basic understanding. Talks a bit fast, so sometimes I fall behind. Got in...

02-27-2009 2:04 PM from Steve's Little world

Filed under: Web Development, Programming

Panoramio Look Around in Google Earth

Google has released yet another new feature for Google Maps Street View. It automatically shows you relevant Panoramio photos for a given location (assuming there are photos available for that location) while viewing Street View imagery. Read the post...

02-27-2009 12:50 PM from Google Earth Blog

Cultural Heritage

1. Ben Kacyra and Jerry Dimsdale invented the first commercial laser scanner. 2. Their company Cyrax was sold to Leica Geosystems, and Ben founded CyArk - the leading cultural heritage organization in the world. 3. Doug Pritchard is hosting Digital Documentation...

02-27-2009 10:22 AM from In The Scan

Filed under: conferences, Laser Scanning, Orgs, cultural heritage, Cyrax, CyArk Digital Documentation 2009, Ben Kacyra, LiDAR Mapping Conference

Tip - Convert Google Earth KML to Shape (SHP)

An interesting tool available online at http://www.zonums.com/online/kml2shp.php enables users to input a KML/KMZ file, set a few parameters (projection, Datum etc…) and output a SHP file. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website...

02-27-2009 9:11 AM from AnyGeo - A GISuser Blog

Filed under: google earth, KML

Friday’s Food for Thought: Rise of Goverati; Mapping the Entertainment World; Louis CK on Conan; and “Get Smart” on Fox in 1995?

Happy Friday to all. Welcome to our weekly "Friday's Food for Thought" post. This week we cover a number of items including the move to bring cybersecurity under the NSA's wing to a clip of the short lived 1995 remake of "Get Smart...

02-27-2009 8:10 AM from got geoint?

Filed under: General, Friday's Food for Thought, USGIF, NSA, Intelligence Community, Conan O'Brien, Goverati, Louis CK

Visualization Wiki

For all you visual learners out there, VisWiki is for you. I heard about VisWiki from VerySpatial and this wiki site is really rich with search capabilities. Here's what VisWiki has to say for itself: VisWiki is a visual, intuitive, and interactive...

02-27-2009 5:28 AM from gisatvassar