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I just returned from a meeting of the recently renamed "Rocky Mountain Geotechnology Cluster&qu...

London, UK (May. 15, 2008) -- Jane’s new Terrorism and Insurgency Centre Events Map goes live toda...

Just browsing the attendee list from Where2.0 and noticed some interesting job titles from attendees...

Plainsboro, NJ – May 19, 2008. MapText, Inc. will demonstrate its latest cartographic text placeme...

Just returned from Where2.0 and have some catching up to do and a ton of notes to go over - I had no...

According to the Google Earth Blog (via USA Today), there is a great new 3D version of Disney World coming to Google Earth.  It’s due to come out as soon as next Tuesday (May 20). It will include 3D models of items in Epcot Center, Animal Kingdom, Disney Hollywood Studios and 22 hotels and resort ...

One of the Geoweb highlights of the year, the Where 2.0 conference, is over. But the next event starts today: WhereCamp. WhereCamp is the unconference for geohackers and WhereCampWiki is where it all goes down. We will be using the wiki as the centralized place for communicating all of the final inf ...

During the GI2008 conference in Dresden, Germany this past week we had the opportunity to visit the Dresden Elbe Valley UNESCO World Heritage site. A new bridge (images below) is being built across the Elbe Valley, through the site. This has endangered the UNESCO status of the historical valley and ...

GeoTec 2008 will be happening in Ottawa Jun 2-5. This is always an interesting event with very forward looking sessions. A few highlights involving some of my colleagues include Mon June 2 9-12 Doug Eberhard Workshop on Building Digital Cities...

Sue and I talk about Wednesday at Where 2.0 2008. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format

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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 ...

Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, Essential Information is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. The organization's GIS Action for Economic and Social Justice Project addresses a range of crucial ...

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home-so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office wher ...

Do you know where the inspiration for GIS Day came from? During a GIS Day kickoff celebration at the National Geographic Society in 1999, Jack Dangermond, ESRI president, said GIS Day was inspired by Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and environmentalist, as a way to inform the public about the emergin ...

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home-so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office wher ...

ESRI has participated for many years in a number of conservation initiatives including those projects sponsored by the UNEP-WCMC and the highly successful Conservation Geoportal. The Conservation Geoportal is a collaborative effort by and for the conservation community to facilitate the discovery an ...

This Webcast will uncover some of the most common Makefile errors and provide specific, proven techniques for fixing them. If command or syntax errors have been a mystery for you, this is a discussion you won't want to miss. Event Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Amp up your continuous integration build process by increasing the frequency of your build loop. Learn from experts how to create a build that can quickly adapt to source code changes and drive down build times from hours to minutes. Event Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008

Processing power and display capabilities previously limited embedded system development. Now larger, full-color displays and powerful hardware running advanced operating systems are affordable. To take advantage of this new opportunity high level programming is required. Learn how with a complete s ...

In this session, we will discuss how you can use Qt together with WebKit to build and deploy web-enriched applications that combine online and offline content into a seamless user experience. Using WebKit, native application code can call web environment code - and vice versa - enabling new ways of ...

Dr. Dobb's talks with Tom Mornini, CTO of Engine Yard, a Ruby on Rails service provider. In the second installment of this two-partconversation with Mike Riley, Tom Mornini discusses Merb and Rubinius, Ruby-based open-source projects being developed in part by key Engine Yard staff.