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Archives for February 17, 2011

Atlas of New South Wales (Beta) Goes Online With ArcGIS Server 10

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The Land and Property Management Agency of the NSW Government has recently rolled out a new interactive Atlas – Enter the Atlas of New South Wales. Using the resource, users can quickly and easily secure information about NSW including some helpful summary statistics as well as social, economic, and physical geography resources and much more.  Simply start off at http://atlas.nsw.gov.au/ and select either the  Atlas Explorer to browse the state or select from a list of options that include details info about  the Economy, History, People, or the Environment. About the app… It contains articles written by experts across Government, industry and academia and is accompanied by a new mapping application.  Under the covers is ArcGIS Server 10 with the JavaScript API v2.1. Features you may be interested in include time-aware layers, feature layers and live legends.

Care To Leave Some Feedback or A Suggestion?

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A recent tweet that bashed a website that I run (Ok, it was the LBSzone.com) pointed out some design “issues”. No biggee, but after digesting the message it as actually really useful to get some honest feedback from a user (or potential user). I find that typically, most people are either too busy to take a moment and provide honest, useful feedback on a site or resource. Or, it seems that many people who do want to vent, elect to do so in a manner that really isn’t that useful… i.e. they elect to rant or curse or spout off without really getting to the point. A simple “you suck” really isn’t too useful to me and since I those people don’t usually sign their name, I can’t even run out and kick some butt or offer up an appropriate response ;0)

So, I’m throwing it out there… would you care to share a few words to either offer some critical advice, maybe a suggestion or simply mention what you’d like to see more of or less of from the Geo resources that I manage (like this blog and the geo websites). Feel free to provide your feedback below and don’t worry, you won’t hurt my feelings!



The Nokia N8 Video Producers – Prepare To Be Blown Away!

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So… by now many of you know that I frequently messa around with Nokia smartphones… you may also know that I really dig photography… so, there’s no surprise that when Nokia comes up with a really cool competition that mixes mobile technology with art (either photo or video) that I’m all ears! Nokia recently hosted the Nokia N8 Producers Competition, a challenge to mobile fanatics to produce something amazing using only the Nokia N8 smartphone and the awesome 12 megapixel camera that is sports.  Just recently Nokia lifted the lid off the winning submission – I’m sure this was no easy effort because I can attest that there’s a number of  incredible Nokia smartphone users and multi-media production geniouses around the World!

See all the Winning N8 Producers HERE and enjoy the movies, these are amazing! My favorite is shown below… WOW!

PS: Yours Truly is currently using a Nokia N8 for still photo testing… enjoy a few pics on this Flickr


A First Look at The New, National Broadband Map

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In a timely piece, GISuser expert contributor, Learon Dalby, has provided us with his first impressions of the new FCC Broadband Map service. Dalby likens his excitement over this product to that of when Google maps was first launched!  See more about the Map and Learon’s comments in this short piece.

The National Broadband Map — the first public, searchable nationwide map of broadband Internet availability – The National Broadband Map, available at www.broadbandmap.gov, is an unprecedented searchable database of information on high-speed Internet access.

FCC national broadband map
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