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James Fee / James Fee GIS Blog / Added now 2 days and 11 hoursFOSS4G North American 2012
Not much notice, but there will be a FOSS4G in North America this year. On the heels of last year’s successful and well-attended international FOSS4G event in Colorado, many of us in the community of free and open source
Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added now 2 days and 11 hoursNorth America Gets Their Own FOSS4G Conference in D.C, April 10-12, 2012
Yep that’s right, FOSS4G, North America is coming to D.C. this April 10-12, 2012 and I’m sure as a result, GeoGeeks all over North America are gonna be a bit giddy over this one! Recall last fall when FOSS4G was held in the
Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added now 5 days and 5 hoursThe 2012 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest
An interesting contest announced by the IEEE – an opportunity to get access to QuickBird, WorldView-2, TerraSAR-X, and LIDAR data and win up to $800 and an open access publication. The 2012 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest is
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Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added now 2 days and 11 hoursCourts Rule Against GPS Tracking
A step backwards today for law enforcement agencies who like going all “Jason Bourne” on suspects and tracking their movement with GPS as the courts have ruled that tracking suspects with GPS enabled devices without a warrant
Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added now 2 days and 11 hoursWork with JPEG2000 and MrSID on LizardTech GeoViewer for iPad
Recall, LizardTech recently announced their GeoViewer app for iPad (iOS), their solution for viewing massive imagery compressed as MrSID and JPEG 2000 formats on your iPad. Users can expect to have access to a fair amount of
Geoff Zeiss / Between the Polls / Added now 2 days and 12 hoursDistributech Utility University: Substation automation and enterprise data management
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Geoff Zeiss / Between the Polls / Added now 2 days and 12 hoursDistributech Utility University: Smart grid in North America - progress in developing standards
Geoff Zeiss / Between the Polls / Added now 5 days and 5 hoursEDIST: Mapping energy density for conservation and demand management
CADalyst / Added now 5 days and 5 hoursAutodesk Labs' Latest Preview Inspires Map 3D Users
A new software extension simplifies the process of searching spatial metadata on catalog servers.
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Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added now 5 days and 5 hoursVideo Maker Tip – Free convert to DIVX AVI MWV MP4 MPEG converter
Ever had a video format that you couldn’t easily work with? For example, most cell phones/smartphones will record in MP4, however, you’ll soon notice that many simple video editing app (like Windows video maker) don’t
Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added on December 10, 2011 3:43:11 AM GMTGeo Tech Webinar Tip – HTML5 and esri-based web mapping
Info about educational webinars just keep on coming in… just have a looksee at our webinar news archive for a quite look. Of particular interest to some of you will be a webinar on the topic of HTML5 coming up early in the New
Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added on December 3, 2011 10:12:36 PM GMTHack Tip – A Fast, Simple ArcGIS Map Mashup of Flickr Photos and Foursquare Checkins
With all the talk about Global hack day and our own local Hackday event taking place in my city this week-end, it got me thinking about doing a little hacking with open tools and open data of my own… heck, why not? As luck
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CADalyst / Added now 5 days and 5 hoursAutodesk, Pitney Bowes Software Partner to Support Infrastructure Professionals
Under the new strategic relationship, the pair will provide solutions combining GIS, analytics, BIM, and asset management.
Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added on January 17, 2012 4:35:00 AM GMTGrassroots Mapping Takes to the Air With Balloon Mapping KiskStarter
I haven’t Kick-started a project yet, but when I do I’ll definitely be turning to Kick Starter for help with the launch! Case in point, check out this Balloon Mapping Kit project – An Open Hardware project in Portland, OR
Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added on January 11, 2012 9:43:42 PM GMTTop on demand Geo Tech Videos From Safe Software
You may recall that I recently announced our own Top viewed GIS/Geo tech videos from 2011 – these being industry videos hosted on our website. Well, looks like the Top videos theme has continued, this time via B.C based Safe
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MVGIS / MVGIS / Added on January 17, 2012 4:45:16 AM GMTTest3
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
MVGIS / MVGIS / Added on January 17, 2012 4:45:06 AM GMTSnow app test video
Snowmobiling New York State phone app
MVGIS / MVGIS / Added on December 4, 2011 7:49:31 PM GMTNYSnowCon Mobile Device Conditions & Alerts Reporting
Snowmobile trail conditions and alerts reporting application for mobile device/smartphone users within NYSnowmobileWebmap.com interactive trail map
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cadlearning / CAD Learning / Added on January 17, 2012 4:37:59 AM GMTAutoCAD Map 3D 2012 Tutorial - Edit Feature Attributes
How to edit a feature attribute in AutoCAD Map 3D 2012
autodesk / AutoDesk YouTube Channel / Added on May 2, 2010 10:12:07 PM BSTA Day in the Life — Financial Reporting
This video showcases how the finance department is able to utlitize familiar tools to extract, access and analyse infrastructure data maintained in Autodesk Topobase software.
autodesk / AutoDesk YouTube Channel / Added on May 2, 2010 9:53:48 PM BSTA Day in the Life — Planned Maintenance
This video showcases how the network model in Autodesk Topobase software can be used for planning scenarios such as a capital improvement projects that require the upgrade of aging pipes.
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Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added on January 6, 2012 8:47:10 PM GMTFOSS4G-CEE Call for Papers
This announcement came to us via our LinkedIn group regarding FOSS4G. The first Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial in Central and Eastern Europe together with Geoinformatics FCE CTU (FOSS4G-CEE and Geoinformatics)
Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added on November 29, 2011 5:16:53 AM GMTWhite Paper – GISCI position on the GIS profession
The GIS Certification Institute (GISCI) has recently published a paper that looks at GIS as a professional in relation to other disciplines – the paper argues in favor of GISP certification rather than State regulation.
From
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CADalyst / Added on December 20, 2011 6:03:52 PM GMTU-Pointer
First Look Review: Slick system turns a projected image into an interactive surface for design review and annotation capture.
Geoff Zeiss / Between the Polls / Added on July 15, 2011 12:27:51 AM BSTMapGuide Maestro 3 API
I have been travelling a bit and got a bit behind on some of the things that I normally try to track. One of the most exciting things that has happened over the past few months is the release of...
Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added on July 7, 2011 4:17:40 PM BSTfacebook video chat – my first call and a first look
Yep, facebook has rolled out video chat using Skype technology, just what most of us guessed was coming. Here’s a quick look at the UI as seen by creating a chat session from https://www.facebook.com/videocalling.
Perhaps no
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Glenn Letham / AnyGeo / Added on November 6, 2011 7:47:24 PM GMTEsri DevMeetup CO – Rich Ruh Talks mobile Geo
Another fine Esri sponsored DevMeetup event in Fort Collins, Colorado as about 100 GeoGeeks met up at the Rio Agave Room to hear about html5, mobile app development and other goodies as key developer presenters and several
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Eric Pimpler / GeoChalkboard / Added on July 28, 2011 3:16:09 PM BSTGIS Salary Survey Results
We’re keeping the survey open through July 31st. If you haven’t already participated in the survey please take a few moments to do so and forward this to your colleagues. To date we have had 731 respondents. Here are some
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Autodesk / AutoDesk YouTube Channel / Added on October 5, 2010 10:46:48 PM BSTSubscription Advantage Pack Demo: FDO Provider for ArcGIS
Access more ESRI® data, including personal, file, and ArcSDE®-based geodatabases, with the new Autodesk® Feature Data Object (FDO) Provider for ArcGIS®. FDO Provider for ArcGIS is available in the Subscription Advantage Packs
autodesk / AutoDesk YouTube Channel / Added on May 2, 2010 11:07:17 PM BSTA Day in the Life — Ad Hoc Maintenance
This video showcases how utilities can respond to an outage reported in the field using a web based interface, and then generate customer notification letters.
autodesk / AutoDesk YouTube Channel / Added on May 2, 2010 11:06:46 PM BSTA Day in the Life — Field Updates
This video showcases how markups from the field can be merged into Autodesk Topobase software to improve data quality and accuracy.
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European Extremely Large Telescope to have 39 meter mirror
Since I am on my way to Chile, I thought it might be worthwhile posting about the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) the planned location for which is Cerro Armazones, a mountain at an altitude of 3060 metres in the... Remembering the Veterans, men’s health awareness, and a Movember Offer
A slightly more personal update here… I remind you that we will be remembering our veterans tomorrow here in Canada as we observe Remembrance Day and those of you in the US recognize Veteran’s Day – I’m sure many of you
Sharing Your Date of Birth + location can reveal your personal identity
Looks like Tim O’reilly has brought some awareness to an interesting privacy issue judging by the RT activity his post has received on Twitter. Tim cites the efforts of some recent research findings that has indicated that a
Operation Waypoint Provides GPS for troops
What a terrific story, Operation Waypoint (http://www.gpsfortroops.org), is a Minnesota-based, non-profit program that provides GPS handheld devices to soldiers deploying for active duty in the Middle East.
To date, Operation Using the Google Maps Elevation Service
The Google Elevation Service provides elevation data for points on the surface of the Earth as well as sampled elevation data along paths. The ElevationService object is used to communicate with the service. The process of Astronomers Stoked. Most Complete 3D View of Universe, 43,000 Galaxies.
Turns out this black void we live in is fairly large, and fairly 3D dimensional. Over a period of 10 years, astronomers led by the late, great John Huchra mapped the depths of the universe out to 380 million light years. Yeah, to Get updates by email, RSS, or Twitter for GIS or for others CAD & Design applications ? Subscribe to our newsletter, RSS feeds, Twitter channels or FaceBook page.
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