Archives for March 2007
Google Maps pre-Katrina imagery misleads Google Map users, angers New Orleans residents
quote of the day from CTIA
CarbonArc Lite extends ArcGIS to use with OGC web services
CTIA party list for next week – Orlando MArch 27-29
5:00 PM- 10:00 PM: Quality One Wireless Party – Blues Disciplines Band, 1500 Tradeport Dr (Invite only)
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM: Yankee Group – Rosen Centre Hotel, Salon 10 (Invite only)
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: WIC Awards – Rosen Centre Hotel (Invite only)
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM: MobileFocus – Peabody (Invite only)
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Verizon – Hard Rock Café (Invite only)
9:00 PM: Mozes – Universal City Walk, Red Coconut Lounge (Invite only)
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM: Women’s Leadership Lunch – Peabody, Plaza C (Invite only)
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Kyocera Cocktail – Peabody Hotel, Banquet Room G (Invite only)
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Texas Instruments Cocktail – Peabody Hotel, Plaza C (Invite only)
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Showstoppers – Rosen Centre (Invite only)
8:00 PM: LG – Universal City Walk, Groove (Invite only)
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Air2Web – Universal City Walk, Red Coconut Club (Invite only)
9:00 PM: Motricity – Universal City Walk, Hard Rock (Invite only)
7:30 AM – 10:00 AM: IDC – GLO Lounge, 8967 International Dr. (Invite only)
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Strategy Analytics – Maggiano’s Little Italy, 9101 International Dr. (Invite only)
6:00 PM – 12:00 AM: Cellatel – Hard Rock (Invite only)
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Fierce Wireless – Destiny Nightclub, Universal Blvd & Carrier Rd.
9:00 PM – 12:00 AM: Sprint/Samsung – Hard Rock Hotel, Velvet Bar (Invite only)
Orange seeking LBS solution partners next month in Florida
City of Boston Enterprise Application Leverages Virtual Earth using .NET and ArcGIS technology
San Fran-based Farallon Geographics has completed an clever, online 2D / 3D mapping project for the City of Boston’s economic development agency – the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Farallon implemented a web application to integrate the City’s permitting system with an enterprise databases using GIS. Fast and simple access to 2D & 3D maps, City GIS data, and project specific redevelopment information, was developed using web services that dynamically overlay GIS results onto Virtual Earth. The result is a clever mashup that will no doubt make you think about Microsoft Virtual Earth. Here’s some specs about the application as provided in an official announcement released by Farallon… Farallon developed a web application that integrates BRA’s new SQL database with additional BRA and enterprise databases using GIS. Microsoft’s Virtual Earth web mapping platform is used as the foundation of the BRA’s Redevelopment Project Tracking portal. Geospatial analysis, such as the proximity of a project to City infrastructure, is accomplished using the BRA’s ArcSDE/SQL Server and ArcGIS Server 9.2 technologies. Farallon developed web services (using .NET and ArcGIS technology) to dynamically overlay these GIS results onto Virtual Earth. Check out images of the application at http://www.fargeo.com/case_studies/images/bra/
Nick Schiller – the Rebel Cartographer making headlines again!
Nice to see Nickolas in the headlines once again as The Washington Post have now featured a cool article about the rebel cartographer. Imagine, because the dude doesn’t use Google earth, but rather, he goes directly to the source and uses imagery obtained from the USGS he’s considered a rebel… I guess that’s the state of the industry now ever since the epicenter moved to San Jose/Mountainview. From the article… “Since Google Earth appeared a few years ago — and countless office hours were wasted as people mouse-clicked to their own back yards (“Lookee, there’s the deck!”) — the starting point of Schiller’s creations has been familiar. But he doesn’t use Google. He goes to the source, the bird’s-eye rendering of America placed in the public domain by the U.S. Geological Survey.” If your not familiar with Schiller’s work you should be… he takes imagery, mirrors the images, replicates scenes and creates snowflakelike patchwork scenes that make you site back, look at the image (remember staring at those pictures to try and make them appear in 3D), and wonder what inspired him. See http://www.nikolasschiller.com/ – of note, his work got a kick-start when he mapped President Busch’s inauguration (second) parade route. You can see the full article in the Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031301854.html – see also our first post about Nikolas at –Photos from Schiller’s North, South, East, Westminster cartographic excursion (phot credit www.nikolasschiller.com – Lady Liberty on a quilt of the Pearl River Delta – Images from USGS & NASA)