More cool features coming from Google… this time its Google docs and spreadsheets… use your Google account to upload, view, edit, and share your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and other important docs. Edit online, invite others to share your docs and publish to your weblog. Check it out at http://docs.google.com/
Archives for October 11, 2006
Montana Geographic Information Clearinghouse
Gerry from the Montana State Library provided us with an update about this fabulous free data resource for the State of Montana. Downloadable datasets include soils data, DEMs, topos, aerial photography, cadastral data and more. Features of the site include a simple but effective data list, a very cool data bundler, and the topo finder.. bookmark this one! http://nris.mt.gov/gis/
GISuser news roundup for Wednesday
I was just thinking that I often promote other people’s stuff on the blog but what about all the great stuff that we offer? Therefore, here’s my very own shameless plug for today’s edition of GISuser Today – the must have GIS industry newsletter. A simple reminder about our 3x a week GIS industry news roundup… just published this AM is our latest edition. Today I share with you some updates about our free GIS tools repository (Can you believe there’s more than 800 pointers in this mammoth directory!). A primer on Geocaching (this is a very basic primer i.e.. Geocaching 101) is discussed in our spotlight today. The industry news update features words from Idelix who’ve introduced the Idelix Labs (devzones are a think of the past, its now cool to have your own Lab!), Trimble is promoting a new GPS Survey system, how about a Lidar extension just for ArcGIS users?, speaking of LIDAR, we also have news from the organizers of the very cool ILMF event (I was at this year’s event in Denver and it was awesome!)… in addition to these updates you’ll also find a lead from our friends Chris at GlobExplorer who’s wanting us to spread the word about a cool job opportunity for a GIS professional in their Walnut Creek, California office, an event reminder is presented from Autodesk who are running yet another free webcast by “Pete” all about the advantages of using Autodesk Map 3D 2007. This edition of the newsletter is archived online at http://www.gisuser.com/newsletter/oct112006.html – check it out and register to receive it in your mailbox if you find something useful
iMapBC website honored by ESRI Canada
Congrats to the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands – Integrated Land Management Bureau (ILMB) who was recently presented with an Award of Excellence at ESRI Canada’s annual conference in Victoria BC, Canada. iMapBC is based on ESRI’s ArcIMS technology and the Internet Mapping Framework (IMF) developed by the BC government (in collaboration with Moxi Media Inc.). It includes functionality and access to data that goes far beyond a typical internet based mapping application. From the internet browser, users are provided with a base map and can select map layers to add to the map. For more information on the iMapBC website see ww.nric.ca
Google introduces Code Search for Programmers
Google is introducing a new search service — for computer programmers. See http://www.google.com/codesearch – The Web search giant said it is introducing Google Code Search, a site that simplifies how software developers search for programming code to improve existing software or create new programs. Google product manager Tom Stocky said the Mountain View, California-based company is set to help programmers sift through billions of lines of computer source code using its familiar search box to uncover snippets of reusable software.
testing Open Layers Map Viewer Service
Just messing around, watching the Tigers spank the A’s and testing this Open Layers app… see http://openlayers.org/ for more info. The map shown below is easily embedded within any webpage… simply copy and past the code provided. More info includinng a tutorial is available from the Open Layers website… NICE! FYI… OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a (still-developing) JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference — OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.
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