The GeoUpdate

University of Michigan exploring the applications of Google Earth

Kate — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:34:00 +0000

The University of Michigan is continuing their recent advocacy efforts by hosting an event focused on science applications of Google Earth. The conference,which will take place on Wednesday, April 22nd (Earth Day!) in Ann Arbor, will feature a series ...

Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapse in Google Earth

Frank Taylor of Google Earth Blog — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:35:09 +0000

The news came out just a few days ago that the last remaining bridge of ice connecting two islands in Antarctica disintegrated and the Wilkins Ice Shelf is now just a pile of broken ice. Now, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has released a Google Earth time animation showing satellite photos of the break-up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf over the past few weeks, including the final bridge collapse. You can watch the time animation of the photos of the collapse here (17 Mbytes). After the file loads, just hit the play button in the time slider that appears in the upper left of Google Earth. This and other interesting Google Earth content is available at the NSIDC site.

via OgleEarth

Related: Arctic Ice Melting Animation

Newspaper Publishers Need to Learn to Think Like GIS Professionals

Satri — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:10:00 +0000

Vector One offers an article named Newspaper Publishers Need to Learn to Think Like GIS Professionals. From the article: "Most newspapers are sitting on a pile of extremely valuable, and useful information - their records. All the many years of professionally gathered and written material is a veritable gold mine. But for agencies who are attached to the here and now (i.e. N-e-w-s) then it is kind of like being unable to see the forest for the trees. Ask any map or GIS professional handling spatial data, cadastral, thematic, environmental or otherwise, and they will immediately point to the value of databases and records. This is how old and new information is analyzed and compared and used to build the future, be it land management, transport systems or crime behaviour. [...] When mentioning geographic information systems (GIS) I am thinking not only of maps for articles, but the actual spatial relationships of information news in a temporal way." Related stories copied below

More Free Mac GIS Programs

Leszek Pawlowicz — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:18:48 +0000

A final roundup of Macintosh GIS progams that I missed in my original post (they’ll be added to that main listing shortly) R - An open-source statistical analysis package. See this page for references on using it for geospatial analysis. JGrass - A Java implementation of GRASS with emphasis on hydrological and geomorphological analysis; uses uDIG as [...]

Webby “Best of Use of GPS” in Mobile Nominees

All Points Blog — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:15:45 +0000

Adidas Marathon Run Tracker CareerBuilder.com iPhone Application Nokia viNe Palringo Local Sony Ericsson 'Find It' Not the apps you might have thought? Vote here.

Tips & Tricks: Shedding Light on Layers

Kate — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:33:00 +0000

As your friendly tips guru, I try to keep pretty well-acquainted with all things Earth. But I recently found myself thrown for a loop when the lights got turned off on my virtual world. Google Earth seemed to be in a permanent state of nighttime -- and...

Speaker Series Podcast: Penobscot Bay Media Relies on ArcGIS for Enterprise Facilities Management Solutions

ESRI News Feed — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:03:33 +0000

Ken Casazza, Vice President, Corporate Development, Penobscot Bay (Penbay) Media, LLC, talks about data modeling standards and the logistics of enterprise GIS. Penbay builds enterprise facilities management solutions using ArcGIS software.

GIS Versus the Volcano: Indonesia

ESRI News Feed — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:52:33 +0000

Volcanologists can predict Mount Merapi's activity and plan responses.

Making Google Map Maker more accessible and useful

Kate — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Since launching Google Map Maker last June, we have heard a steady stream of users asking us to make the data created with it more available. We have recently pushed more Map Maker data on to Google Maps and Google Maps for mobile and now allow users t...

USS New Jersey Battleship in 3D

Frank Taylor of Google Earth Blog — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:11:38 +0000

The pace of growth in the technology of Google Earth has grown so fast this year, it is sometimes hard to take notice of the more "mundane" additions. It's been a while since I wrote about the addition of a 3D model in Google Earth. Thanks to a little tweet, I saw a new 3D model of the USS New Jersey Battleship which is located on the river in Camden, New Jersey - seen here with Philadelphia in the background. The model is viewable as part of the 3D Buildings layer (again, I think the layer needs to be re-named with all these non-building 3D objects). You can view it here .

The model was created by A R Baboon who has created many other models in the 3D Warehouse, six of which are in the Google Earth 3D Buildings layer.