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Something in the GIS world caught my attention today and I think you GIS folks should hear this. It seems that some GIS professionals believe that CartoMobile is the best mobile GIS app for the iPad! The bold statement can be found in a press release recently released by CartoMobile to announce the launch...
Here’s a little good news for GIS developers. geOps has released the full source code of their cute little geospatial editor called OpenLayers Editor under the FreeBSD license! OpenLayers Editor is really cute and it comes with a toolbar that has some basic tools to help users edit and manipulate...
This is a quick post to mark the online availability of the Gough Map of Great Britain, the earliest surviving medieval map of Great Britain! According to the University of Oxford, the Gough Map of Great Britain was probably made somewhere back in 1375 by at least two scribes (map makers); the original...
I’m taking this opportunity to give VectorLock a quick mention on this blog. What is VectorLock? Well, VectorLock is an ArcGIS extension and the people behind it describes it as a the first security system for ESRI shapefiles. No doubt that this is something that should interest GIS professionals and if...
I’m taking this opportunity to write a post to mark the release of ArcMap MapSpeller 3.1 extension, finally giving ArcGIS 10 users the opportunity to spell check their maps, layouts and databases. Touted to be the world’s first GIS spellchecker, MapSpeller 3.1 is able to check and rectify spelling...
A new online mapping app has just been launched earlier today and I thought it would be great if I give it a quick mention on this blog. Come and take a quick look at Pinpoint, enabling you to map locations with unique custom URLs and I think it has the potential to offer something better than foursquare.
I’m taking this opportunity to show you people a nice interactive map of Maison de l’Emploi which is located in Marseille, France. The interactive map is developed by DBx GEOMATICS’s CartoVista, a cutting-edge mapping application. Marseille’s Maison de l’Emploi gets a nice CartoVista interactive...
A new online mapping service has just been launched earlier today and it caught my attention right away simply because it is different and clearly stands out from the rest! Let’s take a quick look at Bedmap, possibly one of the world’s most promising online hotel search service providers. Bedmap...
This is just a quick post to mark the release of some fine online crime maps or crime heatmaps for the City of Dallas, Texas. The Dallas crime maps that you’re about to see here today are just examples taken from an exciting, ambitious online mapping technology called Crime Maps that is just launched by...
This is just a quick post to mark the release of the Universal Geocoding Solution For The Entire World suite by NAC Geographic Products Inc. The Universal Geocoding Solution is part of the NAC Real-Time Geo-Services Suite and it is powered by Universal Address, enabling web apps to fetch location-based...
This is just a quick post to mark the release of 3D Web client XNavigator as an Open Source project licensed under the GNU Public License. It was a decision wisely made by the GIScience research team at the University of Heidelberg. If you have never heard of 3D Web client XNavigator before, just think of...
This is just a quick post to mark the release of before and after images of areas in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that were devastated by a huge tornado on April 27th 2011. Suffice to say that I’m pretty much speechless after seeing the extent of damage the tornado has inflicted to the poor city. Do you want to...
I’m taking this opportunity to feature a nice mapping technology that should interest politicians, campaign managers and their fanatical supporters anywhere in the world. So far, I haven’t seen such technology being used by politicians on my part of the world but the technology is already quite common...
This is just a quick post to mark the release of some of the most comprehensive postcode, administrative and topographic maps of all 56 African countries. The whole huge batch is called Africa Edition 2011 but don’t worry; you may purchase only the maps you need if you want to. Where to get them? Read on...
Here’s a touching, heart-warming story about one Japanese family who couldn’t get in touch with their daughter right after that huge 9.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan couple of weeks ago.They could not get in touch with their daughter on the phone since the Japanese cellular networks were so...
This is just a quick post to mark the availability of SPOTMaps basemap for Saudi Arabia, just released by Astrium GEO-Information Services (Spot Image). What are SPOTMaps basemaps? Where to get it? Read on to find out. SPOTMaps Saudi Arabia now available! SPOTMaps basemaps are some of the most common...
This is just another quick post to announce the release of GeoCalc 6.4.5 and the new version comes with some cool new features. What are those new features? What does the new version has to offer to GIS professionals? Read on to find out. GeoCalc 6.4.5 released! Now supports Time Stamped Coordinate...
This is just a quick post to let GIS professionals anywhere in the world know that the Open Geospatial Consortium is seeking your priceless comments to help improve the Open GeoSMS Standard which is almost ready. What is Open GeoSMS Standard? Read on to find out. OGC Open GeoSMS Standard almost ready! Seeks...
This is just a quick post to let the world know that GIS application gvSIG-EIEL has left beta and an improved version that has eliminated bugs found during its beta phase has been released by Cartolab. What is gvSIG-EIEL? Where to get it? Read on to find out. gvSIG-EIEL 1.0 RC1 released! Sweet Open Source...
A team of researchers at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) are currently in the process of producing high-resolution imagery maps in friendly PDF documents from satellite images of areas in Japan that were recently hit with a big 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. What can those hi-res maps tell us? Read on...
