MapBox has announced that it will be launching MapBox Satellite Live later this summer which aims to provide near real-time access to satellite imagery within six hours of any event anywhere in the world.
After a lengthy battle in the court system, California’s Supreme Court has finally ruled in favor of allowing public access to the government’s GIS data in Orange County. Back in 2007, the Sierra Club sued the county for the right to use its GIS data for environmental mapping projects. Orange County resisted, however, claiming that the digital maps did not fall under the Public Records Act.
The first GIS MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is set to start next week. Running for five weeks starting on July 17, 2013, the course is titled, “Maps and the Geospatial Revolution” and will be taught by Dr. Anthony Robinson.
The first GIS MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is set to start next week. Running for five weeks starting on July 17, 2013, the course is titled, “Maps and the Geospatial Revolution” and will be taught by Dr. Anthony Robinson.
NASA and NOAA have released a map of the earth’s vegetation. The map was created with NDVI data from VIIRS (Visible-Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite) sensor aboard the Suomi NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) satellite.
Twitter has release new maps to highlight just how prolific tweets are in London, San Francisco, and Istanbul. Building off of the Geography of Tweets project that mapped out billions of geotagged tweets since 2009 (when Twitter started to geolocate them), this new mapping project takes a topographic look at the density of all geolocated [...]
New York CIty is installing a network of pedestrian friendly maps in an effort called WalkNYC. The wayfinding maps will be “heads-up” so walker can easily orient themselves to the maps.
Mobile devices like the iPhone offer productivity benefits for GIS, especially in the field. We’ve summed up below five highly recommended GIS and mapping applications on the market for your iPhone.
This wins GIS image of the week in my book. Reddit user TransverseMercator posted this screenshot of the feature to polygon tool window under the title, “Just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out why my attribute table was disappearing…. Thanks ESRI.”
One of NASA’s latest missions involves the Landsat 8, an orbiting satellite whose purpose it is to map the earth and track changes as seen from space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been launching Landsat satellites into space since the early 1970s. The first Landsat satellite was launched in 1972. The Landsat archive, [...]
The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) recently released its report on the background work that went into bike-share station siting decisions. The first Citi Bike stations were installed earlier this month in New York City and eventually hundreds of stations will be built around the city. The first phase of the fee-based bike sharing calls [...]
MapBox has announced that it will be launching MapBox Satellite Live later this summer which aims to provide near real-time access to satellite imagery within six hours of any event anywhere in the world.
After a lengthy battle in the court system, California’s Supreme Court has finally ruled in favor of allowing public access to the government’s GIS data in Orange County. Back in 2007, the Sierra Club sued the county for the right to use its GIS data for environmental mapping projects. Orange County resisted, however, claiming that the digital maps did not fall under the Public Records Act.
GIS Interview with Edgardo David who started working in the GIS field twenty-five years ago, moving from the Philippines to work in Japan. David is now a Senior GIS Analyst with a local city in Southern California.
For those unable to attend the 2013 Esri International User Conference this year, the plenary videos from the first day’s session are now available online. The videos are divided into sections starting with the opening remarks from Jack Dangermond. As with every year, there are segments from the plenary showcasing upcoming changes with the suite [...]
The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design is a cartographic classic by Arthur H. Robinson originally published in 1952. The book was based on Robinson’s doctoral research “which investigated the relationship between science and art in cartography and the resultant refinement of graphic techniques in mapmaking to present dynamic geographic information.”
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