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Geonews Catch Up: Access to OSM Data, AutoCad to KML, ESRI's Plans for iPhone and more
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from the geonews-don't-take-summer-breaks dept.
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First round of catching up the geonews for my holidays.
There's a new service for accessing OpenStreetMap data from LinkedGeoData.org: "LinkedGeoData is derived from the OpenStreetMap database and includes over 350 million spatial RDF descriptions. This data is available as 'data dumps', linked data, a REST interface, and links to DBpedia.There is also a prototype user interface for data browsing and authoring."
To continue on yesterday's Google round-up, there are now more maps and geolocated photos for Google search results. APB also runs an entry on how Google Maps uses the W3C Geolocation API and Google Location Services. Here's how to do animations and dynamic updates with KML. There's also macros for converting data between AutoCad format to kml and the inverse.
Kurt links to a U.S. congressional report on GIS: Geospatial Information and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Current Issues and Future Challenges.
On a side note, Everyblock's code is now open source.
ExtMap gets a website: "ExtMap is a geo framework for web based applications."
James Fee, who is moving to WeoGeo, shares interesting bits about ESRI, including non-ESRI databases support, iPhone support for later this year and technical certification program from ESRI.
Ericsson are developping a web and mobile maps API.
As for recents maps, there's a greenhouse gas map for Kyoto parties, map of cancer rates vs. cancer risks in the U.S., an interesting BBC audio map of the world, the U.S. animated weather radar with OpenLayers and in kml is now available.
Here's freely available map symbols initially developed for disaster response.
Finally, there's a ongoing vote for who the most influential individual in geospatial!
See also related stories below.
Related Stories
Listening to Maps
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The Cartography blog as an interesting entry about sound maps for the visually impaired. From the blog: "There are multimedia maps that include sounds [...]. Then there are maps that rely on sound to convey the data, meant for use by the visually impaired." From one of the links provided: "A research project (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/audiomap) at the University of Maryland's Human Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) investigated interactive sonification (user-controlled data-driven non-speech sound) to present the geographical distribution pattern of statistical data. In addition to helping blind users, this will benefit low-vision and sighted users in visually overloaded situations. The immediate goal is improving access to geo-referenced data. In a larger context, this will improve citizen access to government statistics for queries, problem solving, and decision making."
Cancer and Tobacco Atlases
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The Cartography blog shares the publication of two atlases: The Cancer Atlas and the Tobacco Atlas, published by the American Cancer Society. From the blog: "Both are available for sale and online in pdf format. [...] The Cancer Atlas is broken into a number of sections, including risk factors, cancer economics and taking action. [...] The Tobacco Atlas is set up in a very similar manner, broken into sections covering such topics as prevalence, cost and the tobacco trade."
Technology: ArcGIS for AutoCAD 2008
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When ArcGIS for AutoCAD was released earlier this year, one important thing was missing, the new version now supports AutoCAD 2008. From the GIS CAD Interoperability blog: "The new version supports the accessing of map services with different coordinate systems. The new version also ships with a host of predefined coordinate system files (.PRJ’s) that can be loaded into the drawing. ArcGIS 9.2 sp3 will recognize these internally stored coordinate system definitions."
Industry: Amazon Web Services Challenge Features WeoGeo 1 comment
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All Points Blog offers coverage with Spatially Adjusted on WeoGeo, a geospatial startup which successfully accessed the finals of the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge. From the contest's website: "WeoGeo creates a one-stop marketplace for mapping using Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. WeoGeo supplies surveyors, engineers, cartographers, and scientists with the ability to conveniently store, search, and exchange high-resolution CAD and GIS mapping products. Mappers easily list their data for sale and researchers quickly find the data they need." APB also have a podcast with WeoGeo's Paul Bissett and a graphic tour of their product. It's the last day to vote on Amazon's website. Good luck to WeoGeo! Dan Dye, working for WeoGeo is also a contributor to Slashgeo.
Technology: Take Control of Your Maps 4 comments
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Stefano Costa writes "A List Apart has an interesting article by Paul Smith of EveryBlock about open source software for creating webmapping applications. From the article snapshot: "Rolling your own maps need not be an intimidating affair, provided you understand the problem and the tools to fix it."" I included below several related previous stories. Thanks Stefano for your submission.
New York State Legislates Cancer Map 1 comment
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hipifreq writes "The New York Times reports that the New York state legislature has recently passed a law calling for maps of cancer cases. The number of cases in each census bloc will be mapped along with "where industrial facilities like power plants and chemical factories are located".
Wonder how many ways that information can be misrepresented by real estate agents?"
Wonder how many ways that information can be misrepresented by real estate agents?"
Technology: ExtJS, GeoExt and HSLayers
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The Les-ejk blog provides nice short descriptions of OpenLayers, ExtJS, MapFish, GeoExt and HSLayers. Both GeoExt and HSLayers were never mentioned on Slashgeo, now they are. From the GeoExt website: "GeoExt is a JavaScript library providing the groundwork for creating web-mapping applications based on OpenLayers and Ext." Ok, but what is Ext? From the Ext wikipedia page: "Ext (pronounced "X'd"[1]) is a JavaScript library for building interactive web applications[2] using techniques such as AJAX, DHTML and DOM scripting."
See also some related stories below.
Industry: Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD Updated
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APB links to the update announcement of the Google Earth Extension for the AutoCAD 2010 family.
From the announcement: "The Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD is quite popular. It allows you to import a Google Earth image into AutoCAD, publish your 3D model to Google Earth, drape a Google Earth image onto a 3D mesh in AutoCAD, and attach time span information to your model."
More on AutoCAD with a search and related stories below.
Introduction to OpenStreetMap Webcast 1 comment
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We regularly mention OSM, but this might still be of interest to many: Between the Poles links to an 'Introduction to OpenStreetMap' 45-minutes webcast.
The intro: "This presentation will introduce you to the breadth and depth of OpenStreetMap and related projects. You will learn why you should care about maps, how OpenStreetMap is beating every other map, and see some of the amazing things that are being done with OpenStreetMap data and software. The presentation will bring those with little or no OSM experience up to speed quickly and show how to use OpenStreetMap to make the maps you need."
See also previous stories below.
Industry: Most Influential Geospatial Person and Other DM Articles
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Mentioned earlier this month, Directions Mag announced the winners of their "Most Influential Geospatial Person" poll.
From the entry: "The person receiving the most votes was Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI, closely followed by Steve Coast, founder of Cloudmade and OpenStreetMap, and the founders and current chief geospatial technologist from Google. Though some may question the use of polling to ascertain who is influencing our profession, it represents a snapshot of current impressions from the community. Of equal importance are the comments written by survey respondents, which provide an even deeper understanding and appreciation of the accomplishments of these individuals." Read the comments directly on the site, there's even a second round of comments.
Here's a few interesting DM articles I noted that have not been mentioned here so far. There are two articles on usability and the geoweb, an article named First Half of 2009: State of the Industry, another Geospatial Solutions in Challenging Economic Times, and Open Source Web Based Geospatial Processing with OMAR and a last one named OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit: Moving the Discussion Forward.
Here's a few interesting DM articles I noted that have not been mentioned here so far. There are two articles on usability and the geoweb, an article named First Half of 2009: State of the Industry, another Geospatial Solutions in Challenging Economic Times, and Open Source Web Based Geospatial Processing with OMAR and a last one named OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit: Moving the Discussion Forward.
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