I ran across this article on MSNBC and thought I’d pass it along.In a nutshell, people are using mapping mashups to “illustrate and advocate” issues that are important to them. Google has created a Google Earth Outreach
Guest Blogger: This entry is provided by Matt Crisp of Mecklenburg County GIS. If you are wondering why this blog post is of a higher quality than most of the drivel you read here, Matt is significantly smarter than I
A bit off-subject, but I thought this was too cool to pass up.Have you tried Google Docs & Spreadsheets? I’ve been toying with it from time to time, and there’s a whole lot to like. It has good word processing and
I did a number of posts on converting your GIS data to KML and sharing it with Google Earth, but I never looked at going in the opposite direction. Being in the GIS genre of geeks, I generally already have the data in a
Let me go on record as frowning upon the modern take on the Integrated Development Environment. My idea of a great IDE is having a text editor, file browser, and Firefox all open at the same time. The modern IDE has go
This story was on Digg so many times I figured I had to mention it, although I think there’s a certain “duh” factor about the whole thing. Analysts at Evans Data Corporation found 64% of developers in North America are w
When I started this Google Maps bit, I predicted I would in short order veer off track from my stated outline and start muttering gibberish. I looked back at my posts in this series and I find that assessment to be gene
Lately I’ve been seeing little bits of news on browsers that I think could be helpful, but I haven’t found anything so interesting as to fill out a whole blog post. So, here’s a bunch of miscellaneous stuff on browsers.
How does one best nudge one’s organization toward open source solutions? This article recently renewed my interest in this subject. From the article: The Department of the Navy has adopted a new policy which requires th
In the better-late-than-never category, Microsoft has announced SQL Server 2008 will support spatial data. Microsoft has been hedging their way in to the GIS marketplace for a while, beginning slowly with Terraserver, Ma