Myself being of Scottish ancestry and also a huge fan of voice recognition technology (or lack thereof), this video had me rolling on the ground… enjoy!
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Archives for July 2010
Heading To GIS in the Rockies?? IgniteSpatial NOCO Tickets (free) Go On Sale Monday
A reminder comes our way from the NOCO based IgniteSpatial NOCO team, Tickets to spatial enlightenment open up on Monday at 9am Mtn time – act fast as these tickets will go fast! Recall, about Ignite Spatial…
If you had five minutes in front of an audience of your peers and leaders in the geospatial industry, what would you say? How would you blow their minds? Well now is your chance!! Ignite Spatial NoCo is a night of enlightening presentations with a geo-spatial twist. Each presentation has 20 slides that automatically advance after 15 seconds which gives you 5 minutes to be a hero. Ignite is about ideas. Ideas can change the world. Take 5 minutes to add to the ‘Geo Spatial Global Consciousness’.
Get your tickets at http://ignitespatialnoco2.eventbrite.com/ follow the team on Twitter @ignitespatial – Download the event flyer HERE
Save the Date – Tuesday, September 14, 2010 from 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM (MT)
Video – Street Slide: Browsing Street Level Imagery – WOW!
Enjoy this video demo of Street Slide imagery as presented at this year’s SIGGRAPH 2010 event. Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable users to virtually visit cities by navigating between immersive 360panoramas, or bubbles. The discrete moves from bubble to bubble enabled in these systems do not provide a good visual sense of a larger aggregate such as a whole city block. Multi-perspective “strip” panoramas can provide a visual summary of a city street but lack the full realism of immersive panoramas.
Video – OSCON 2010: Tim O’Reilly, “The O’Reilly Radar”
Enjoy this video presentation by Tim O’reilly from OSCON 2010… enjoy Tim’s talk as he talks about the Internet, the future, the cloud, open source, technology and more… (See more videos from OSCON on the O’reilly YouTube Channel)
DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research Challenge
Here’s an interesting opportunity for Earth Imagine experts to win something very cool from DigitalGlobe – For the first-time ever, remote sensing and GIS researchers have access to high-resolution imagery with 8 spectral bands, including coastal blue, yellow, red-edge and NIR2. Do you have a valuable application to use this new data?Enter the 8-Band Challenge to get free imagery for your research and a chance to win $5,000 and present your findings at Geospatial World Forum in January! DigitalGlobe will make 8-band imagery available to qualifying researchers to study the impact of using this data for:
* Land Use/Land Cover Analysis
* Environmental Mapping and Monitoring
* Coastal Habitat Mapping
* Feature Extraction
* and more…
Earth Land Surface (ELS) 2000 Version 2 Available from Geosage
New from GeoSage, a Single Global Satellite Imagery Mosaic of 2.29 Terabytes. Earth Land Surface (ELS) 2000 Version 2, consists of (1) natural-color, near-global satellite imagery tiles at 15/30/60/90m resolutions, and (2) a unique, seamless, global satellite imagery mosaic at 30m-resolution with the file size of 2.29 Terabytes or 2,290 Gigabytes (image size: 1,296,000 by 648,000 pixel). With ELS2000 Version 2, GeoSage is also offering image mosaicking service aiming to produce 15/30/60/90m-resolution, seamless, high-quality imagery mosaics for any country or region of interest. See more at http://www.GeoSage.com/
Take Time To Encourage and Motivate your Team With Tech & a Healthy Lifestyle
Times are tough for everyone and just because business has maybe taken a hit that doesn’t mean it’s the end of the World. This is a great time to innovate and it may also be the perfect time to implement some new ideas into your business, most notably, ideas that support your greatest asset – your workforce. Here’s a few ideas that you might consider that may help your team during these tough times, best of all, you won’t have to break the bank implementing them!
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ObliqueMapper, a new tool for the collection of GIS data from oblique photography
This week we heard from Nova Scotia-based Gaiamatics Solutions who launched their new ObliqueMapper software tool – According to the company, this is Mapping from oblique photography made easy! Originally designed for flood mapping from aerial photography, ObliqueMapper has a wide range of applications including municipal, property and landscape mapping as well as environmental research. Based upon the principles of modern photogrammetry, ObliqueMapper allows users to easily and efficiently generate 2D and 3D vector data from features observable within photographs. More details in this announcement or see www.gaiamatics.com
Use Oblique Mapper to:
- Collect photographs & control points
- Create ObliqueMapper project
- Align photographs
- Georeference photographs
- Digitize features
- View features in 3D
- Export features to GIS/CAD
Coastal Angler Magazine’s New Fishing and Boating App
Another cool, GPS enabled mobile app is here for outdoor enthusiasts… this one for anglers and boaters from Coastal Angler’s Magazine. The GPS-driven, Marvel Mobi powered app, is available on Droid, BlackBerry and soon the iPhone. In addition to fishing forecasts, catch photos, fishing reports, information on conservation, towing, and fishing licenses, the app also contains a fish scale. The Coastal Angler Magazine smartphone FishOn application costs only $4.99 and can be downloaded from www.fishonapp.com.
Mac Tip – The Mac Manual, tips, tricks and free apps
Here’s a free resource for users and wanna be users of Mac computer products. This slick, sixty-odd paged monster is based on Snow Leopard – the latest release of the Mac OS X operating system – and tells you everything you need to know about Mac. With this free guide you will also receive daily updates on new cool websites and programs in your email for free courtesy of MakeUseOf. Request a free copy HERE
