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WAYLAND, Mass.-- The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change ...

Inaugural ESRI Remote Sensing and GIS Summit to Explore Integrated Management and Use of Vector, Ima...

On-Demand Business Intelligence Applications for Sales Teams Drive 2-10% Revenue Growth...

Olympia, WA – Marshall and Associates, Inc. (Marshall) announced that it has entered a strategic all...

Stefan over at Ogle Earth has just reminded me that I'm speaking at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo this March (Upcoming event here). Should be fun, I'm hoping for some tea and biscuits in the bar afterwards. Anyway here's the blurb about my bit that I didn't write while on medication ...

This is only tangentially related because of the Flickr angle. I've just finished reading Dan Heller's post "Pulling the Flickr sword out of the Yahoo stone" [via Thomas Hawk's blog] for the third time. It's finally clarified what I've been thinking about how you should approach reading blogs. To ...

... at least we can when it comes to graphics, videos and posters :) (obviously we need Open Street Map to actually find our way around many real places). This post was supposed to be all about Reverse Geocoding, but seeing as I seem to have writers block about that (cue long ...

... or at least reduce the risk of errors while creating things. Ah, KML, otherwise known as a Google Earth (Network) Layer thing, previously Keyhole Markup Language thing and now edging towards a useful format for transporting geodata around thing as the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) nudge KML ...

List Apart have a good article up for people looking to move beyond just-throwing-a-Google-Map-onto-a-webpage. The general gist is summed up well here ... "The result is Google Maps fatigue. We’ve all experienced it. It manifests not only when we yawn at YAGMM (Yet Another Google Maps Mashup ...

GISuser.com posted a photo: Locago, a free mobile map browser with an open interface to third party content and services. see more at www.lbszone.com/content/view/3629/2/ or locago.com

GISuser.com posted a photo: mobile location aware widgets from WHERE - see www.lbszone.com/content/view/3631/2/ - Camera phone upload powered by ShoZu

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The new ViaWindowsLive community site has launched and features not only a definitive set of resources on all Live Services from Microsoft but also a special section on Virtual Earth including a new site gallery for you to upload your sites, new articles on Version 6 , including getting started guid ...

It has been reported that the old url to access the Version5 javascript for Virtual Earth no longer works. This is effecting sites worldwide. The correct way to reference the Version 5 javascript is: If you have been effected a forum thread has been started here

With the launch of silverlight yesterday I was digging around and found this viewer for Virtual Earth by Greg Schechter. It does use the 1.1 alpha of silverlight. It gives some interesting ideas for where Virtual Earth could be headed. Certainly the demo of the performance of silverlight compared to ...

I subscribe to all the VE blogs and recently the posts about updated imagery has been more and more frequent. The latest is here and for myself downunder we saw three updates, Canberra, Newcastle and Uluru:

A big thank you to the efforts of Derek Chan who posted his third VE article today (he actually had it ready weeks ago but had to wait for Mr Bottleneck here at VVE ;) ) The 3 articles are all relivant to Version 5 of Virtual Earth and deal with the Mini Map, debugging javascript and now custom pins ...

Students with GIS experience can put their skills to use as a volunteer for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. GIS Intern, Barack Obama Campaign Office, Chicago (March 17, 2008) The Barack Obama campaign is looking for a few good GIS interns in our Chicago office. Campaigns are spatially based a ...

This year marks the tenth anniversary of GIS Day.  To commemorate this milestone, there will be a special display at the 2008 ESRI International User Conference.  The multi-panel display will include photos of GIS Day events worldwide, the history of GIS Day, and a few featured events from the last ...

"Well, we are now, because of her (State Chief Information Officer Teri Takai) help, we are moving full steam ahead. A perfect example is, for instance, GIS. GIS is a form of digital mapping technology, kind of like Google Earth but better. (Laughter) During last year's firestorm it allowed firefigh ...

The new GIS Day poster is an ideal educational tool for K-12 students. The front side is a colorful poster containing GIS Day photos from over the years. The inside provides a brief overview of GIS and encourages readers to explore GIS by hosting a GIS Day event, thinking about a future in GIS, or v ...

Situated in the Himalayas at around 10,500 feet, the Gangotri Glacier is the source of the holy River Ganges.  Its headwaters pour from an ice cave on the glacier and flow for more than 1,500 miles to the Bay of Bengal. Among more than 7,000 Himalayan glaciers, Gangotri is one of the largest, measur ...

Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.

Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.

Dr. Dobb's talks with Patrick Lenz, author of the book Simply Rails 2 about the improvements in the latest release of the Ruby on Rails framework and the challenge of finding a European-based Rails hosting service.

Dr. Dobb's interviews Paul Fremantle, CTO of WSO2 about the company's open source ESB announcement.

Dr. Dobb's talks to Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, about the Eclipse Ganymede release, a coordinated release of 23 different Eclipse project teams and represents over 18 million lines of code.