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This morning the GIS in the Rockies event kicked off in Denver with a keynote titled, “Geospatial Now” by Dr. Jan Van Sickle, who has 40 years of experience in the geospatial industry. Van Sickle began by discussing the rapid pace of business change in the geospatial industry with a quote from Alice in Wonderland, [...]
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Historypin is a map-based web application for geotagging historical photos, and viewing them in the context of today using Google’s StreetView. The site got its start in the UK, and marked its global launch in the United States in early July with its latest release of the website that was accompanied by an Android mobile [...]
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The Esri International User Conference program is now available in PDF format as it will appear in print, with a “mobile optimized agenda” coming soon. I’ve been on the lookout for news on keynote speakers for the plenary session, and note that while there are several top-level speakers in the agenda, there’s not one identified [...]
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The Chinese State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping launched 10 online mapping sites today that mark revolutionary bases and historic sites in time for the July 1 celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. These “Red Map” applications contain three-dimensional maps of major revolutionary events, campaigns, revolutionary leaders [...]
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Philadelphia University is one of the latest universities to embrace project-based learning and transdisciplinary approaches with a new college dedicated to Design, Engineering and Commerce. The integrative education at the new school will open in the spring of 2013. From the press release: The College of Design, Engineering and Commerce offers an integrated curriculum that [...]
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As part of the Geography Collective’s outreach about place and the importance of geography, they have created URBAN EARTH as a means to document and visualize some of the word’s biggest urban areas. The project is a video documentary of an urban transect, with photos taken every eight steps across each city. To date the [...]
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At the culmination of Esri’s Forestry GIS Solutions Conference there was a field day that began with a tour of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This facility in Pasadena, Calif. employs more than 5,000 people with the primary mission of robotic exploration of space. The highlight of the event was certainly the chance to overlook the [...]
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Geophysicist David Sandwell, professor of geophysics at Scrips Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, was named to the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to the freshman seminar in the physics of surfing, Sandwell also teaches satellite remote sensing and geodynamics, and is a pioneer in seafloor mapping. “Sandwell’s research focuses on mapping large-scale topographic [...]
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