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[VicoSystems LLC Blog] Cloud Computing and GIS: Cloud computing has been the hot topic in many GIS circle for the last year or so, largely for the same reason it is building steam more recently in most IT circles in general – datacenters and bandwidth speeds are nearing the point where the promise of mass cloud computing is feasible for corporate users (which is where the money is).

[GIS in XML] GIS in XML » Blog Archive » Neo vs Paleo Geography: As I’ve recently been in a gig hunting mode, I’ve been having quite a few in depth conversations about GIS stacks. As a small businessman outside the corporate halls of paleo geography, I’ve had few occasions to get an in depth education on the corporate pricing world.

[Thinking in GIS] PostGis WorkspaceFactory - Thinking in GIS: At this time zigGIS consists of 15 ArcObjects Geodatabase derived classes (plus other utilities classes), from which the most impourtant and maybe the only one exposed to a developer willing to make PostGIS customisation with ArcObjects is the PostGisWorkspaceFactory class, a concrete implementation for PostGIS of the WorkspaceFactory abstract class from Esri.

[Open Source Buzz] ISRO's GIS software: Indigenous but not Open Source - Open Source Buzz: Its software components - map explorer, image processing and GIS modules, geodata databases, map browser, and web application server - all standard fare are built with the old-fashioned assumption that IGIS can be yet another proprietary product that ISRO can somehow license and sell to others. But closed software models have rarely worked in the past for any kind of indigenous software.

[GIS in XML] GIS in XML » Blog Archive » Virtual Earth - DeepEarth - Deep Pockets: 8,000,000 annual tile renders sounds like a lot of tiles, but playing with the DeepEarth interface and watching tiles roam in and out of view made me wonder. If you put up a public site, for example, what would be an average transaction number per view?

[STAR-TIDES] Camp Roberts August 2009 Report | Sharing Sustainable Solutions: This method overlays a simplified grid coordinate system over a base map and enables anyone to add pen-on-paper annotations that can later be scanned back into the GIS application. Walking Papers allows users to download any part of a map into a printable file, which includes a bar-code that ties the paper map to its coordinates in the GIS application.

[GISDevelopment News] GIS News:Victoria Government, Australia launches NES: GT, one of Australia’s leading providers of location-based business intelligence solutions, information products and services, developed the Notification and Editing System (NES) which provides a web based distributed data maintenance application, using eSpatial’s latest iSMART pure web editing technology, integrated with 1Spatial’s Radius Studio technology for processing, analysis and compliance. The new application increases efficiency and accuracy of mapping data using pure web-enabled map-based systems connecting data originators with authoritative data.

[POB - Columns from our latest issue] Surveying GIS - Developing a new GIS, Part 3. - Columns from our ...: Network topology, though not identical to the mathematical term topology I have discussed in other previous columns, uses the terms topology and node essentially in the same fashion. The protocol defines a common set of rules and signals that computers on the network use to communicate.

[James Fee GIS Blog] James Fee GIS Blog » Blog Archive » Brian Flood demos Arc2Earth V2: Many issues to work out but a GIS client with good editing tools and bulk loading capabilities combined with a flexible, easy to use client like MyMaps seems very attractive. Multiple editors could then work on the data from both ArcMap clients and MyMaps browser clients and the entire feed would still be available to any other client to view (GE, VE, OpenLayers etc).

[GIS in XML] GIS in XML » Blog Archive » Google Earth 4.3: Now my refreshes only occur when zoomed in to a reasonable level of detail. The kml provides a layer of USGS topo tiles and associated attributes from my PostGIS table by taking advantage of the built in KML export feature of Geoserver’s WMS.

[Comments for James Fee GIS Blog] James Fee GIS Blog » Blog Archive » “Help me think of a good ...: The problem with many of these mashups in Google Maps (and others) is that they are stuck in your web browser. of that old fashioned Zoning Cases website.

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