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Pedestrian Simulation for the Sustainability of the Built Environment
If sustainability means to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations, pedestrian simulation software can contribute to this aim in the field of building design and engineering. Simulation of human walking allows to identify planned or existing flaws regarding pedestrian comfort and...
Pedestrian Simulation for the Sustainability of the Built Environment
If sustainability means to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations, pedestrian simulation software can contribute to this aim in the field of building design and engineering. Simulation of human walking allows to identify planned or existing flaws regarding pedestrian comfort and...
Geomatics: Research of Novel Applications in Heritage Management
Geomatics for Heritage Management is strategic for sustainable development and cultural tourism, for economic development, cultural tourism, civil protection, for environmental monitoring and management of emergencies. The positive results of the work carried out convinced us to intensify the efforts and survey a wider area, aiming at covering European regions...
Geomatics: Research of Novel Applications in Heritage Management
Geomatics for Heritage Management is strategic for sustainable development and cultural tourism, for economic development, cultural tourism, civil protection, for environmental monitoring and management of emergencies. The positive results of the work carried out convinced us to intensify the efforts and survey a wider area, aiming at covering European regions...
It used to be that good design was signified by form following function, but as we’ve moved through the first decade of the 21st century, it’s clear that good design requires so much more. While function is still primary, there are many other factors inherent to good design. Factors like...
It used to be that good design was signified by form following function, but as we’ve moved through the first decade of the 21st century, it’s clear that good design requires so much more. While function is still primary, there are many other factors inherent to good design. Factors like...
All Points Blog
Update: Another Social Site Mapped: Chatroullette
The developer of Chatroullette is working to restrict sharing of location information. "There is a certain level of anonymity on the Chatroulette that Chatroulette Map takes away, but I plan to add something to my site to allow them to still hide the...Read more...
SimpleGeo Powers Vicarious.ly: Maps "all" the LBS Social Media Checkins
Vicarious.ly, built on SimpleGeo's development platform, collects "check ins" from BlockChalk, Brightkite, Bump Technologies, Flickr, Fwix, Foursquare, Gowalla, and Twitter and puts them on a Google Map. The dots are symbolized by the app they are f...Read more...
"No one told the GPS satellite about Honesdales new one-way traffic pattern." "Attempts to find someone in charge of GPS has not been successful." - Peter Becker noting how local officials in Honesdale, PA are not being successful in finding som...Read more...
The White House Blog touts the Federal Highway Administration's ARRA Map which locates and details 12,000 road projects funded by that program. I could not look at the map; it's Silverlight based and crashed Safari. - Whitehouse Blog via Gary Pric...Read more...
A Woman in GIS on PBS Kids Science Show
Mallory Peper is GIS specialist at Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Westwood Professional Services. Peper works with Westwood's energy team to provide mapping and analysis for wind, solar and transmission projects. She'll be on the PBS series "SciGirls" ...Read more...
There's a new feature on MapQuest to make it simple to share maps, directions and places to your Facebook friends; MapQuest Share to Facebook. - MapQuest Blog For developers: the new platform V6 will be shown off at SXSW. Quick hit of the "wid...Read more...
Mapping Center
Our Geoprocessing Team here at ESRI has some great tips on how you can set up your models and document them. Since I find myself repeating some of the steps each time I make a model, I thought it might be useful to create a template that I could start...
ArcGIS Online World Topographic Map -- Recent Updates
The Mapping Center Team is pleased to announce some recent updates that have been incorporated into the World Topographic Map available on ArcGIS Online. If you are not familiar with this online, multi-scale basemap, you might want to take a minute to read the Mapping Center blog post announcing it in...
Labeling an elevation tint legend
In a previous blog entry we told you how you can add a simple elevation tint legend to your map. Quite rightly, we got a comment (by "stuskier") about the lack of labels on the legend (aside from the endpoints). They are important to add to this legend because without them,...
Graphics from Map Use available for your use!
I am not sure why I didn’t think to write about this earlier, but there is a great resource sitting out there waiting for people to take advantage of, and many do not know about it! Last year, ESRI Press released the book, Map Use: Sixth Edition by Jon Kimerling, Aileen...
Share Your Maps with the GIS Community on wiki.GIS.com
Everyone loves maps; whether it's using them to get us to our destination, studying them to gather particular information about a region and its attractions or features, or just looking at them for their intrinsic beauty. Wouldn't it be great to have a place where the maps we create and...
We recently received this question on Ask a Cartographer: "I am using a bar chart with 2 data fields to display data on my map. In the legend, I have my 2 data fields displayed, and there is a random number (not sure if it is a mean or median...
ScienceDaily: Geographical News
Navy scientists support Haiti relief operations
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center are supporting Haiti relief operations. The Marine Geosciences Division's Geospatial Sciences and Technology branch is providing a specially configured version of its patented NRL Tile Server and Geospatial Information Database that will host maps, imagery and other geospatial information for...
Carbon emissions 'outsourced' to developing countries
Scientists report that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions associated with consumption of goods and services in many developed countries are actually emitted outside their borders. The study finds that, per person, about 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide are consumed in the US but produced somewhere else. For Europeans,...
Salt-seeking satellite shaken by quake, but not stirred
NASA's Aquarius instrument, and the Argentinian spacecraft that will carry it into space, the Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-D), successfully rode out one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history Feb. 27 with no problems....
Americans favor conservation, but few practice it
Most Americans like the idea of conservation, but few practice it in their everyday lives, according to the results of a national survey....
Dust in Earth system can affect oceans, carbon cycle, temperatures, and health
Dust is a powerful thing. Not the stuff that we wipe off the coffee table on a regular basis, but the tiny particles floating around in the Earth's atmosphere, which originate primarily from deserts in North Africa and the Middle East. It can affect the oceans, impact the carbon cycle...
New NASA Web Page Sheds Light on Science of Warming World
Climatologists have long known that human-produced greenhouse gases have been the dominant drivers of Earth's observed warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution. But other factors also affect our planet's temperature. Of these, the ocean plays a dominant role. Its effects helped nudge global temperatures slightly higher in 2009,...
Geographic Travels
Lent Geography: Map of Catholic Missionaries Killed in 2009
View Larger MapBeing a missionary is still a very dangerous occupation. In recent years Catholic missionaries have been held hostage, killed by Jihadist extremists, and murdered by land owning oligarchs, to name a few fates. Most murders of missionaries though are done by criminals who believe the missionaries...
New Blog: Geo-Mexico, An Actually Good Promotional Blog
Geo-Mexico is a promotional blog for a geography reference book on Mexico also entitled Geo-Mexico. Usually promotional blogs have one or two posts of moderate interest and then the blog is quickly abandoned. However, the minds behind Geo-Mexico have been blogging like mad since December 2009 with a...
Map of Drone Strikes in Pakistan
Coming Anarchy has linked to the New America Foundation's map of America military/CIA drone strikes in Pakistan.View U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan in a larger mapIn the map red pins represent strikes between 2004 to 2007, pink pins are 2008 attacks, dark blue pins are 2009 strikes, and light blue...
Map of Biotech Crop Production Around the World
Reason Magazine links to an International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications report on the worldwide production of biotech crops. The report is full of good news dealing with food production including As a result of consistent and substantial, crop productivity, economic, environmental and welfare benefits, a...
Earthquakes More Deadly Because of People
The news about earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Japan, and now Turkey have caused some in the public to wonder if earthquakes are happening more frequently. Unfortunately, there are those in the media, science, and religion who use these events to be noticed or spread their message.Luckily, the AP has...
The Geography of Saving Soldier X's Life
From Michael Yon. Click to Enlarge.In July 2009 a British soldier was accidentally shot in the in the abdomen and chest by his fellow countrymen. Losing blood, a lung, and on death's door, all seemed lost as the military bureaucracy of the Coalition forces was stuck and did...
Google LatLong
Along with many other Googlers, the Geo team is descending upon Austin for South by Southwest! You can find us in a few different places:At the Google booth, we’ll be doing demos of Google Maps, as well as plenty of other Google products.In the Google Teaching Theater, you can meet...
Today, Barcelona joins its Spanish neighbors Madrid and Valencia as 3D cities in Google Earth. If you’re a fan of architecture, Barcelona offers a visual feast. The mix of old and new is truly facinating. It contains architectural wonders that date back to medieval times, in addition to modern architecture...
Street View of the old and new
Hong Kong and Macau have now joined the list of places you can visit with Street View. If peering up at dense, towering skyscrapers is your thing, you won’t want to miss Hong Kong, home to more than 7,000 of them. Take a look at this view of the Hong...
Over on the Official Google Blog, you can read a very, very exciting announcement: Google Maps now offers biking directions! As my teammate Shannon mentions in that post, we've been constantly asked when this feature will be made available. But as an engineer working on the directions team, I'd often...
Edit places using Street View images
Last week we announced that you can edit details about a business listing directly through the Place Page. But sometimes you may find a place in Google Maps that isn't quite positioned where it should be. Let's say you know that your favorite pizzeria is near the corner but the...
We've just finished pushing out an imagery update for Google Earth and Google Maps, so check to see if any of your favorite places has gotten an update! You can view the updated areas highlighted in red below. Alternatively, you can download this KML, for viewing in Google Earth or...
The Map Room
USGS Satellite Maps of Post-Quake Port-au-Prince
The USGS released two satellite maps of the post-earthquake situation in Port-au-Prince last week: one in infrared, one in natural colour. Each is a 200-megabyte PDF. The maps are based on imagery we saw in raw form shortly after the quake; it’s since been “geo-corrected, mosaicked, and reproduced onto a...
In this map from Wikimedia Commons (reproduced here under its Creative Commons Licence), blue areas use daylight saving time, orange areas no longer use it, red areas never have. Daylight Saving Time first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on March 14, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe....
Shawcroft on Google's Bike Directions
An interview with Google engineer Scott Shawcroft about Google Maps’s new bike directions; the audio is about five minutes long. Shawcroft on Google’s Bike Directions first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on March 14, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence. ...
A large collection of official metro maps of cities around the world collected by Webdesigner Depot; it’s interesting to see which maps use a Beck-style diagram and which ones are more geographical. Via Jennifer. Buy Transit Maps of the World at Amazon.com Metro Map Designs first appeared on The Map Room: A...
Problems with Google's Bike Directions
The New York Post finds fault with Google Maps’s bike directions in New York City. The feature, the Post says, “is filled with potentially fatal flaws, including routes that cut across Central Park’s treacherous tranverse roads and steer cyclists to truck-riddled thoroughfares.” Google says they’re aware of the problems. There’s...
Don’t miss illustrator Christoph Niemann’s collection of whimsical map art, using the lines and symbols from a certain familiar online mapping service. Some illustrate the difficulty from getting from certain points A to certain points B, others create an image from map elements. Via All Points Blog; thanks also...
Dear Readers, This is my first post in this new year. Yet another milestone has been achived, yes my blog has entered into successful third year. Thanks for all your support and encouragement. GIS prog has crossed more than a lakh hits. In first year it was nearly 48,000+ hits and second...
Hi Folks, I wish all of you and your families a Happy New year and good times ahead. Cheers, Lakshmanan ...
Folks, One of the India top most MNC looking for GIS Professionals. Please find below details Experience : More than 3 years in GIS Application Development Technology Stack: ESRI ArcGIS Products, especially ArcGIS Server Application development experience is MUST Microsoft .NET Technologies (C#/VB.NET), ASP.NET and others Oracle or SQL Server database Experience in Oil and Gas Industry domain will...
Folks 100,000 hits today!!!!!! Vow!!!!…I’m extremely happy at this moment. My blog has just crossing 100,000 hits in less than 2 years. This is being really wonderful journey throughout from day one. I never imagined that I would write this much when I was started. Really proud and happy this moment. The...
Dear all, Yes. I’m relocating to new place. It may take some time to settle in new city. Hence you can expect delay in my response to your comments/email. From my previous relocation I have worked on several small-medium sized project entirely in ESRI Flex API. Now am moving to the...
One of friend have some doubts on ESRI Sliver Light API, here are below details. If you have answers or work arounds, please ping me. We are developing a GIS Web application using ESRI silver light APIs. For our application we are using Dynamic map layers and we also...
James Fee GIS Blog
So There Will Be an ESRI/Microsoft SIG at the DevSummit
It looks like the powers that be at the ESRI Developer Summit have decided a .NET ESRI/Microsoft SIG is a good idea after all. Fears (possibly all mine) that the DevSummit was changing and wouldn’t be able community anymore are tempered somewhat by this announcement. So if you...
GeoDesign Idea Lab at the ESRI Developer Summit
A late edition to the ESRI Developer Summit is the GeoDesign Idea Lab. This is going to be a set of lightning talks by developers showcasing how they’ve been using the concept of GeoDesign in their applications. I’ll be moderating the session with Eric Wittner of ESRI....
Google’s Public Data Explorer continues their push to integrate their simply awesome visualization APIs with searchable datasets. Think big though: If you’re a data provider interested in becoming a part of the Public Data Explorer, contact us....
Google Says Your Desktop GIS Apps Will Be Irrelevant
Oh S#*t! Why is it companies want to be so disruptive when all you want to do is make maps? Says John Herlihy of Google “In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant.” Bam, game over. We’ll be working our GIS magic on Androids and iPhones. I know, I know…...
Platial Moving Forward OK, so the news is grim. Platial is now essentially finished, at least how we knew it before. They’ve turned off their service and now everything is essentially a download link. This means if you’ve been using Platial (or at least used them in a previous life)...
Reflections on the 2010 ESRI FedUC
Cloud Ready Well I’m sure you’ve all heard the news. ESRI is now an Amazon Independent Software Vendor. This means of course that we’ll see some ArcGIS Server in the Amazon Cloud very soon. In fact if you are an ESRI ELA user, you can take advantage of this right...
About.com Geography
There are some who are claiming that Easter Island suffered from overpopulation, deforestation and exploitation of natural resources. Thus, they say, Easter Island can be seen as a symbol of the current state of our planet. Regardless, knowing about Easter Island and its moai statues is worthwhile so be sure...
On Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 1:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the March Equinox (also known as the Spring Equinox or Vernal Equinox) officially occurs. On March 20, all places on earth receive twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness. March 20 is traditionally known as...
Daylight Saving Time Begins This Sunday
Get ready for it! It's the biannual inconvenience known as Daylight Saving Time! This Sunday, March 14 at 2 a.m. we "spring forward" and lose an hour. Daylight Saving Time is that constant irritation that causes jet lag without ever leaving the comfort of your bed. It's that nebulous...
Concepcion, Chile Moved 10 Feet
Researchers have discovered that the city of Concepcion, Chile moved ten feet to the west following last month's magnitude 8.8. earthquake. Chile's capital city Santiago also moved about 11 inches and Buenos Aires moved one inch. Researchers used GPS to determine the new locations of places following the earthquake. Concepcion,...
How well do you know your world cities? Test your knowledge of the cities of the world with this latest fifteen-question multiple-choice geography quiz. I'm sorry to have to admit that it's pretty easy. World Cities Geography Quiz originally appeared on About.com Geography on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at...
The answer to the question, "What are continents?" is a challenging one because there is no clear-cut definition. Two great recent posts (one - Nonsense About Continents and two - How Many Continents Are There?) in the GeoCurrents blog attempt to address the silly situation that is the attempt...
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Symbian Foundation Builds Cloud Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Mobile open source foundation uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for cloud-based developer platform RALEI...
It’s been a pretty eventful weekend for Yr. Humble Chronicler. Long story short, on Saturday I...
Plymouth University e-Learning Conference 8-9th April
My old university is holding it’s 5th e-Learning Conference. This year they will examine the t...
Here’s my new postcard design of western terrain near Sedona, Arizona. The postcard is offered...
Here’s my new postcard design of western terrain near Sedona, Arizona. The postcard is offered...
Conference Re-Alignment, Part III: Gold On The Horizon In The Wild West?
For many Texas fans, as long as that “gold” isn’t referring to USC’s school colors, and more along t...
Between the Poles
I am quite amazed at how rapidly OSGEO continues to grow. The total number of projects is now over 20, eight of which are in incubation. Among the major project additions are PostGIS, GeoServer and MapFish. There are about two......
Second South Atlantic Tropical Storm in Recorded History Reported by NASA
NASA has detected the second tropical storm, called 90Q, in the South Atlantic in recorded history about 325 miles east of Puerto Alegre, Brazil. The first tropical cyclone ever seen in recorded history in the South Atlantic occurred in March,......
Canadian Water Consumption Rated "Excessive"
The Conference Board of Canada estimates that the global market for water and wastewater is in excess of $450 billion (2008), with annual growth of 8% to 15%. Water consumption in Canada is excessive because of the lack of widespread......
Kenneth Skovhede has announced the release of MapGuide Maestro 2.0 after over a year of development. Maestro is an open source MapGuide authoring tool. Jason Birch has been using the pre-release for several months and has identified his top 10......
State of US Infrastructure Summed Up
I have blogged on several occasions about the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) infrastructure Report Card which accesses 15 types of infrastructure. Since the last ASCE Report Card in 2005, the grades have not improved. US Infrastructure still gets......
National Broadband Plan to be Announced by FCC March 16
The FCC will announce its National Broadband Plan (NBP) next week. The objective of the NBP is to provide universal broadband access as well as encourage governments and industry to use broadband in health care, education and energy efficiency programs.......
GIS and Agent-Based Modelling
The AAG has released their preliminary program for its up and coming Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Part of which are several sessions entitled Perspectives on Geographic Complexity. These sessions where organized by Arika Ligmann-Zielinska, Andrew Crooks, Alison Heppenstall, Moira Zellner, Suzana Dragicevic, Debarchana Ghosh, Tom Evans and Seth...
I just been exploring culturalcomplexity.net, a website based on the research lab of Cultural Complexity at The University of Western Ontario, Canada.The lab is interested in understanding processes related "...to the creation, transmission, and representation of culture, and how these processes shape the human experience" combing different academic disciplines (e.g....
Advances in Spatial Analysis & e-Social Science
CASA at UCL are running a one day conference on 13th April which will feature the work of their group on projects associated with their research funded by various UK research councils. The conference is free but you have to register. It is also the day before the UK’s annual...
Slime Mold and rail links in Japan
Maybe a bit off topic but recently in the NY Times there was an interesting article that highlighted researchers in Japan have used slime mold (single-celled amoeboid organism) to grow networks which show high correspondence to the rail network in the area. around Tokyo. They did this by placing ...
Ph.D Program in Computational Social Sciences
This might be of interest to some readers of the blog. Its a Ph.D program offered by the Department of Computational Social Science at George Mason University.George Mason University - Ph.D Program in Computational Social SciencesThe core objective of the Ph.D. program in Computational Social Science is to train graduate...
Dynamic Modeling in a GIS Environment Seminars Online
Just a quick post to highlight that the presentations from the "Dynamic Modeling in a GIS Environment" Virtual Seminars from the Global GIS Academy are now availble online. For those interested in GIS and various aspects of modelling these seminars give a glimpse into some current research.Also if you like...
VerySpatial
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 243
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 243 March 14, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Brian Wienke of Accela Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes Music This week’s podsafe music: “The Road You Know” by Say It Twice News Google Geocoder Web Service and Google Maps new Bike Route...
For all you students out there whose maps are greeted with a “That’s bizarre…”, I’ve got the perfect map challenge for you! Our reader Keith M. sent us a heads up about the Bizarre Map Challenge, a map design competition open to high school, college, and university students (only here...
Apparently lots of people have been asking Google for biking directions and now they get their wish! The directions get added right along with the driving and walking directions we’ve all come to know and love. They’ve even added the ability to avoid hills (good luck with that in West...
This is a pretty cool example of a map that shows aspatial information – the Rock and Roll Metro Map. It looks like a metro map, showing the connections between various rock artists. You’ve gotta love the combination of two of my favorite things – maps and music. You can...
Wired news is reporting that modern GPS sensors have be able to determine the Chilean city of Concepcion has been moved 10 feet to the west from the recent earthquake. Apparently this area is prime area for seismic activity due to its location over a subduction zone. The hope by researchers is to quickly get...
Today at lunch we were kicking around some ideas on connecting various content with other content or to a location in a user friendly way and I couldn’t get past the thought of a touch interface. The problem is that we are still tied predominantly to a few things in...
Google Earth Blog
A big week for 3D buildings; Five new cities added
Google typically releases a city or two with each 3D buildings update, but this week they dropped five on us! The new 3D cities are: • Barcelona, Spain • Bloemfontein, South Africa • Port Elizabeth, South Africa • Pretoria, South Africa • Mulhouse, France Not only is this a larger number of cities, but the...
How Fredericton, Canada went 3D
Google has posted the story of Fredericton, Canada, and how they became a 3D city in Google Earth. By using the Cities in 3D program, the City of Fredericton was able to get more than 100 3D buildings added to Google Earth back in January. The building are very well-done...
New StreetView imagery - March 11
Google has just released what appears to be another substantial batch of StreetView imagery. Thanks to a few tips (thanks 'Duncan' and 'Munden'), we know about a lot of areas already. Updated areas include: [UPDATED 8:51am EST, 11-March] • Hong Kong and Macau: Details • Northern Ireland • Japan • Netherlands • UK: Leicester...
Use StreetView to make Points of Interest more precise
For a long time now, my biggest complaint about the points of interest (restaurants, car dealers, etc) in Google Earth and Google Maps was that they weren't accurate enough. They were close, but not precise. Google has already provided tools to help place markers more accurately, but now...
Since Google Earth was first released, a variety of people (including myself) have looked for ways to use it for gaming. While it will never be a true gaming platform, there are still some fun choices out there to play with. Here are a few of the best: •...
Models and Maps for NC State Centennial
We've talked about Concept3D on here a few times in the past. They've modeled Tiger Woods' home in Sweden and Boston University, and they have a variety of ways to work with you on your own project. Their latest is North Carolina State Centennial, and it's another spectacular piece of...
Google Sightseeing
This week Google launched an absolutely massive update to Street View in Hong Kong, Macau, and in particular, the UK. With an incredible 96% of British roads now visible, there were always going to be scandals about what was discovered. While some are making objections to the passing car in their...
NOW LIVE: Street View update covers 96% of UK roads
In an absolutely enormous update, Google have in the last few minutes launched brand new Street View images for the whole of the UK – bringing the total coverage to a reported 96% of all UK roads. The images cover roads from Land’s End to John o’ Groats, and actually extend...
The village of Hampi is a site of Hindu pilgrimage and the location of the former capital city of the Vijayanagara empire. Its temples and ruins are a World Heritage Site collectively known as The Group of Monuments at Hampi. The Monuments can generally be grouped into three sections; the Sacred...
The Street View Best Streets Awards
Forget the Oscars – these are the awards that count at Google Sightseeing! The guys at Google are planning to expand their Street View coverage of the UK in the near future, and to get us in the mood they asked the public to vote for their favourite British streets...
In 1859 a wealthy man bought a piece of land overlooking the River Clyde, on which he built a mansion. When the mansion was expanded in 1892, an access road over the Overtoun Burn was required, and so the Overtoun Bridge was built. 50 years later a bizarre series of suicides...
Once a year, streets all over the world transform into professional racing circuits to play host to some the greatest drivers and cars in the world. Parking lots are turned into paddocks, parks are remodelled with grandstands, and intersections on the road become high-speed overtaking points in battles for world...