LIDAR users will be interested in this announcement from QCoherent Software. They’ve announced the release of LP360 version 1.3, the LIDAR extension for ArcGIS. LP360 employs a specially designed ArcMap™ data layer to access and draw LIDAR points directly from LAS files You can check it out at www.QCoherent.com or jump to the announcement at http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/10006/
Archives for October 10, 2006
Navizon API: one for the Web and for Mobile devices
Mexens Technology today announced the availability of two new versions of its Navizon API: one for the Web and for Mobile devices. Starting today, businesses with an online presence can use the power of the Navizon positioning system in their own web based applications. By triangulating the signals from surrounding Wi-Fi access points, the Navizon Web API will identify the exact location of the end user in order to provide him or her with a targeted location based content. More details can be found on these new products at the following address where a live demo is also available: http://www.navizon.com/developers – or see the announcement at http://www.lbszone.com/content/view/1323/2/
GIS blog and news updates for Pocket PC users via Hubdog
Here’s a useful app for any content publishers and even you geobloggers out there… enter HubDog. Hubdog enables bloggers (and other content providers) to easily publish mobile RSS feeds. I’ve created a mobile feed for GISuser.com news updates – you can grab this and take your GIS industry news updates to go. Simply visit http://www.hubdog.com/c/36218/preview to get a preview. If you realy want to take this blog on the road with you HubDog are updates are also now available for this weblog (link). This free RSS reader from Hubdog lets you listen to Podcasts, watch vidcast and other web content directly on your smart phone or mobile device. For more about HubDog see http://www.hubdog.com/
USDA FSGeodata Clearinghouse
The FSGeodata Clearinghouse provides searching, viewing and downloading of geospatial datasets and metadata created and maintained by the USDA Forest Service over lands of the National Forest System. Access to datasets is provided through a user-driven geographic interface. Access various vector and raster data products as well as real-time and near real-time MODIS fire detection GIS data, MODIS fire detection maps, and MODIS imagery. CFF data available include: roads and trails, streams, water bodies, political and administrative boundaries, land ownership, and constructed features – all at 1:24k scale – See http://svinetfc4.fs.fed.us/
MyOutdoors.net mashup relaunches with new design
MyOutdoors.net has launched the new redesign this weekend with loads of new features, like as GPX upload/download, elevation display, and full text search, all in an effort at making the user experience as smooth as possible. There’s also a blog post about their experiences doing the redesign at http://myoutdoors.blogspot.com/2006/10/lessons-in-web-20-design-myoutdoorsnet.html – See MyOutdoors.net for more