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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s City Planning Department has created a 3D city planning map which is now online. The 3D city map includes traffic routes and infrastructure systems, which will we be added to with help from the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency. To date there are 990 3D structures out of a total [...]
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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 U.S. Geological Survey has just released the Historical Topographic Map Collection that includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions as either georeferenced digital download or as a scanned prints available from the USGS Store. There are now more than 90,000 maps available of the 200,000+ created since the USGS founding more than [...]
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The University of Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) has been hard at work on an online repository of declassified Corona satellite images dating from 1968-1972 with grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. The resulting CORONA Atlas of the Middle East is now online [...]
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Today, GeoEye and Esri finalized a deal to put GeoEye’s high-resolution IKONOS imagery on ArcGIS.com. This global archive of imagery will be blended with Esri’s current imagery data from multiple sensors and offered as a static cache map layer, with a planned launch in early 2012. There is also indication in the press release that [...]
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The much-anticipated ArcGIS.com is now live in Beta. The site allows you to see a map gallery, to share with groups of like-minded map makers, and to make and publish maps online over the Web and to handheld devices. The site has a great deal of functionality that will be enhanced over time as ESRI’s [...]
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Autodesk’s cloud computing offering called Project Butterfly was launched as a public beta in early January, following the company’s purchase of the Israel-based start-up VisualTao. This new online CAD environment (think Google Docs for CAD) garnered a great deal of buzz at the 2009 AU event, and the site has been further validated by the [...]
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Today, on the 125th anniversary of John Wesley Powell’s announcement to begin a nationwide topographic mapping program as the first director of the U.S. Geological Survey, the USGS has unveiled two new online mapping portals. The new electronic digital topographic map named US Topo, which is the next step from the “Digital Map – Beta” [...]
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