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Author Archives: John Reiser
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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Architecture, five cents.
What was initially a concept project has ballooned into a movement promoting an open, candid discussion about local architectural issues. Architecture 5¢ is an attempt to get the public talking about architecture. I think this is a great idea – … Continue reading
Posted in In the News, Planning
Tagged Architecture, Community Visioning, Outreach, Planning
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Web Mapping featured on Rowan’s homepage
Currently on Rowan’s homepage is an article on the Geography Department‘s work on bring GIS to the greater university community. The article focuses on our recent web mapping work; specifically the Land Use Change viewer and NJ State Atlas. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in In the News, New Jersey State Atlas, Updates, Visualization, Web Mapping
Tagged New Jersey State Atlas, Rowan University, Web Mapping
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Geography of Luck – NJ Lottery winners mapped
I recently requested from the NJ Lottery a list of all the big prize winners, from 1988 to 2008. The winner’s location information is reported by ZIP Code, so I now have a map of the winners plotted out across … Continue reading
Posted in Data, New Jersey State Atlas, Web Mapping
Tagged Lottery, Luck, Mapping, Web Mapping
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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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God help us.
GIS for Dummies has been released. Aren’t there already too many people abusing GIS? Doesn’t the advanced nature of GIS preclude a “Dummies” book? I can understand Google Earth for Dummies, as that software is geared more towards general use, … Continue reading
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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Apple rumored to include CoreLocation in 10.6
AppleInsider has a tip that the upcoming version of Mac OS X, dubbed “Snow Leopard” will incorporate the GPS and location-based services library from the iPhone into the laptop/desktop version of the operating service. They postulate that “CoreLocation will utilize … Continue reading
Posted in Mac OS X, Technology
Tagged Apple, gps, iPhone, Location-based Services, Mac OS X
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