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Bernie Szukalski, product strategist and technical evangelist at Esri, spoke today at the GeoDesign Summit about ArcGIS Online initiatives and coming capabilities. Web mapping has morphed from sharing maps and geospatial information to a geospatial content management system that supports collaboration. The new iteration allows for the publication and sharing with others, as well as [...]
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GeoSur, the open access geospatial data sharing site for Latin America and the Caribbean, was discussed as a case model at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi last week. The site has proved a useful tool for GIS users in the region that want to perform spatial analysis, and it has also assisted [...]
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The workflows of capturing and extracting digital reality from point clouds has taken some leaps forward recently, given advancements in both computer hardware and software. The increased speed at which these large volumes of data are processed, and the automation of feature extraction, greatly improve the utility of the data. While, the workflow aims at [...]
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Today, National Geographic and Esri reveal a new multi-scale general reference map of the world for use by the public and for education purposes. The map uses the familiar cartographic styling that National Geographic developed over more than 100 years of map making, and offers multiple scales of viewing from global all the way down [...]
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The Eye on Earth Summit that took place in Abu Dhabi this week provided a forum for discussion of the importance of environmental information, and the need for better policy decisions. The event, sponsored by UAE president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, was pulled together to offer concrete recommendations for the next Earth Summit, [...]
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Pastmapper is a new online mapping interface that provides views of the past. Instead of trying to keep up with ever-increasing map updates, this site aims to answer “What was here?” The site is launching with a prototype that presents San Francisco circa 1853 overlayed onto a current Google Maps. The ability to visualize both [...]
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Autodesk has just launched an Excellence in Infrastructure competition with more than $25,000 in prizes. The contest aims to highlight the best usage of technology to plan, design, build or manage infrastructure projects. The contest is accepting entries now through May 31, 2012, with three winners to be highlighted at Autodesk University 2012. Project categories [...]
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The LAS 1.4 Specification was approved by the ASPRS Board on November 14, 2011. There was a good deal of back-and-forth regarding the process and specification, nicely summarized in this column that we published in V1 Magazine regarding some contentious issue with what was proposed. Martin Isenburg, the author of the column that we published, [...]
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