V1 Newsletter-Vol. 3, Issue 48

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Written by Vector1Media Tuesday, 08 December 2009 00:00

Volume 3 / Issue 48/ December 8, 2009

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PERSPECTIVES

So Dude — Does GIS Really Matter Anyhow — Why?

"You’ve heard people say over and over “everything is some place” and “you can organize your world” — all through using GIS. You wonder why some of your friends eyes glass over when they start talking about spatial information and GIS, thinking to yourself “what’s that all about?” So Dude — Does GIS Really Matter Anyhow — Why"
-- Jeff Thurston, editor EMEA and Russia

TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK

Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week

Geography New Zeland - NZ's best online geography resource
OBIS Seamap - is a spatially referenced online database, aggregating marine mammal, seabird and sea turtle data from across the globe.
Geoscience Resources - geoscience information and resources in Newfoundland.
Ocean Data View - is a software package for the interactive exploration, analysis and visualization of oceanographic and other geo-referenced profile or sequence data.
Cartography 2.0 - guide to animated and interactive maps.

Matt's Top Five Links of the Week

Cloud of Atlases - A map quiz that tests your geographic knowledge.
Historic Earth - This iPhone app lets you travel back in time virtually with historic maps.
CalAdapt - Google Earth climate adaptation visualization project.
IndieMapper - Make thematic maps with this online tool.
Spatial History Project - Creates dynamic, interactive digital visualizations for analyzing and representing change over space and time.

Reader´s Links of the Week

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CorridorDesign - Knowledge about designing wildlife corridors.
Lund University - Swedish education program in geographic information sciences.
Han-Teng Liao Blog - geolinguistic factors in Asia

COLUMN

Digital Cities, SDI and the GeoWeb

When a domain is relatively new, the terminology is often imprecise, and many different words many be coined and used by different organizations and individuals with none of them realizing that they are talking about essentially the same thing. This is substantially true for the use of Digital City and SDI as applied to urban environments.

EVENTS

AU 2009 Urges Model-Based Opportunity

Autodesk University 2009 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Dec. 1-3. This year's event attracted roughly 6,000 people to the live event, and 16,000 to a simultaneous online broadcast of the content. The event theme, "Learn. Connect. Explore," highlights some of the advantages of the in-person experience, but with the economic and environmental benefits, the online version is likely to grow in subsequent years. With economic pain widespread among the AEC community, the emphasis was placed on the benefits of innovation and for a revamped design/build process that moves us further toward integrated design.

Agri-Trend 2009 Farm Forum Event

The TCU Place conference hall in the center of Saskatoon, Canada was the location of the Agri-Trend 2009 Farm Forum Event held November 18 and 19. With about 1200 leading farm producers from across the Canadian prairies in attendance, this year's theme was 'Harvest A World of Ideas.'


INTERVIEW

Empowering Students Using GIS

michael_gould_esri_75 ESRI has always invested heavily into GIS education. That has included both the toolset as well as the study of geographic information as a science. The results have been impressive, not only in terms of financial growth for the company but the numerous research efforts, education events, books published and conference-workshops. Building GIS capacity and community is truly an ESRI goal. Dr. Michael Gould has recently been hired as Director of Education, Industry Solutions for ESRI. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston interviews him on a number of GIS education related topics.

From Photogrammetry to 3D Digital Earth

thumb_armin_gruen75 Photogrammetry continues to evolve and today the study of photogrammetry remains important. Armin Gruen has previously served as Head of the Chair of Photogrammetry at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zuerich, Switzerland. V1 Magazine editor Jeff Thurston interviewed him recently to learn about his life long passion of photogrammetry, the beginnings of what would become the CyberCity company and his work as one of the original members of the Board for Digital Earth.