February 19, 2014

The Usability of a Web Mapping Application with a Million Rows of Data

Manuel Timita write about Illustreets, a web mapping application built with Open Source software, open data, and emerging GIS technologies (i.e. CartoDB).  Read online.

Sunday Maptinee: Data for Decisions

In honor of Roger Tomlinson (1933-2014), who recently died, this edition of Sunday Maptinee features Data for Decisions, a video created in 1967 to highlight the emerging technology of geographic information systems (GIS).   Read online.

Tracking Whales with Satellite Imagery

Researchers with the British Antarctic Survey have developed a methodology to use unsupervised classification to remotely identify and count right whale populations near Golfo Nuevo, Península Valdés in Argentina using Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery.  Read online.

More From GIS Lounge 

• GIS Timeline
• Roger Tomlinson, Father of GIS, Has Died
• New Book About GIS in US Federal Government
• Scholarships for Women to Attend State of the Map US
• Automated Generalization: The Holy Grail for National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies?
• Shadows and Angles: Measuring Object Heights from Satellite Imagery
• Submarine Cable Map

GIS Jobs 

• GIS Application Engineer | Manchester, NH or Piscataway, NJ
• Lead GIS Analyst | Bakersfield, CA
• GIS Enterprise Architect | San Francisco, CA
• Information Systems Specialist II – GIS/Accela | Napa, CA

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Geospatial Book Pick

The GIS Guide for Elected Officials from Esri Press shows how geographic information system (GIS) technology helps government officials analyze and model location-based information to make better decisions on behalf of their constituents..

Geography from Geolounge.com

• Satellite Imagery Maps Out How Bad the California Drought Really Is
• Which Countries Have No Airport?
• Three Simple Ways to Realize You Do Know about Geography
• The Grand Canyon

» More Geography topics 

Upcoming GIS Events

• 18th Annual GIS/CAMA Technologies Conference 
  Date(s): February 24 - 27, 2014 
  Location: Jacksonville, FL

• AAG 2014 
  Date(s): April 8 to April 12, 2014 
  Location: Tampa, FL

• US OpenStreetMap Conference 
  Date(s): April 12 - 13, 2014 
  Location: Washington, D.C.

• 2014 CalGIS Conference 
  Date(s): April 14-16, 2014 
  Location: Monterey, CA

• Esri Petroleum GIS Conference 
  Date(s): April 23–25, 2014 
  Location: Houston, TX

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2014 AAG Annual Meeting

Attend the 2014 AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa Bay which will be held from April 8 to April 12, 2014. 

Register to Attend or Read the Call for Papers.

Geospatial Industry News  

• Supergeo Renews Partnership Agreement with Géo.RM in France
• Bluesky Announces Commercial Trials of Airborne Air Quality Mapper
• Esri Canada Honours the Life of Dr. Roger Tomlinson, the “Father of GIS”
• Bluesky Begins Night Time Aerial Photo Mapping Trials
• Land Parcel Editor in SuperGIS Desktop Allows to Manage Parcel Data with Ease

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