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Category Archives: Google
Changing Landscapes: Brainstorming
Back in June, the New Jersey DEP Bureau of GIS released the 2007 Land Use/Land Cover data. The data was released in record time, just slightly over 3 years from the aerial photography date. We felt that we needed to … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Google Maps, In the News, Technology, Visualization, Web Mapping
Tagged Changing Landscapes, CRSSA, DEP, geolab, GIS, Google Earth, Google Maps, KML, LULC
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Release of “Changing Landscapes in the Garden State”
The last month has literally been a blur as we’ve worked to get the data for the report together and then into a series of interactive, animated web maps that show the progression of urban change over 21 years. Continue reading
Posted in Data, Google Maps, Planning, Visualization, Web Mapping
Tagged Animation, Land Use, visualization
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Google Latitude now with badge, basic API
Google Latitude has been updated to incorporate new features that make it easier to share your location data. A website badge has been created that shows your most recent position on a web page. You can see an example of … Continue reading
The Advent of All-knowing Point Maps
Using Google Maps isn’t what’s important. Making sure your map delivers its intended message is essential. Continue reading
Posted in Google Maps, In the News, Visualization, Web Mapping
Tagged Cartography, Google, Google Maps, New York Times, visualization, Web Mapping
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Google making Map Maker data available for download
OSM needs to spend more time fostering a community outside of the devoted submitters. What is going to prevent Google from offering up a GIS service akin to the Virtual Earth on ArcGIS platform currently being offered by ESRI and Microsoft? Continue reading
Posted in Data, ESRI, Google, Microsoft, Web Mapping
Tagged ArcGIS, Google Map Maker, Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Virtual Earth, Volunteered Information
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Using Sketchup to visualize $1 trillion
This page has a visualization of the sheer size $1 trillion dollars would occupy using $100 bills. The images are rendered using SketchUp, one of my favorite applications. I came across this link while browsing BoingBoing, and one of their … Continue reading
Fun with Google Latitude
Kate was tracking my progress home tonight, as I was going to pick up Thai food along the way. I manually set my location to “Thailand” and found when I got home, Kate was very confused as to where I … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Technology, Web Mapping
Tagged Google Latitude, Location-based Services, social networking
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Ogle Earth on redaction of images from Google
Today, Ogle Earth has posted an excellent article on images from Google Earth that have gone missing. The imagery is of an area in Pakistan. Apparently Dianne Feinstein commented that the US military has been using a base in Pakistan … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Google Earth, Government, In the News
Tagged Data, DigitalGlobe, Google Earth, Government, redaction, satellite
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Southwest Florida
Kate and I are down in Southwest Florida visiting her family. We drove down from New Jersey and used Google Latitude to share our location with her family and my parents. Kate and I also are taking some pictures using … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Technology
Tagged Flickr, Florida, geotagging, Google Latitude, Southwest Florida, Travel
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Google’s historic aerials have shuffled dates.
Before Google Earth 5 had come out, I had commented to a few people that the dates for the aerial photos (which used to be displayed in the bottom center of the screen) were way off for New Jersey. The … Continue reading
Posted in Aerial Photography, Data, Google, Google Earth, Web Mapping
Tagged Aerial Photography, Google Earth, Google Maps, new jersey, Oops, Technology
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