ESRI is at the forefront of GIS (Geographic Information System) development and technology. Be it modeling, analysis or development ESRI produces the best COTS (Commercial off-the-shelf) software for all GIS needs and having to keep up with the latest from this world leader is no simple task. With the evolution of Web 2.0 and syndication [...]
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Posted on June 14th, 2009 in Resources
DISTANCEFROMTO
Distancefromto is a simple and easy to use Google Maps application that measures distance between two locations on a map. Distance is measured on the fly in miles and kilometers by dynamically dragging markers to desired locations or typing in locations names for the from and to inputs. The application comes with an inbuilt geocoder, [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2009 in Resources
The Free and Open Source Software Learning Center (FOSSLC), which has its roots tied to the success of OSBOOTCAMP is a non-profit organization with a vision to improve lives with open source. It provides conference information, webcasts, videos and workshops that teach skills with open source software. Besides its mission to educate people who have [...]
Posted on March 16th, 2009 in Resources
GeoRSS is essentially a standard that enables RSS feeds to have location information encoded into them. Examples included news feeds, travel blogs and the well known real time earthquake feeds from USGS. Location information is of point type in most cases but can also include line, polygon and feature descriptions.Geoweb Guru has a concise technical [...]
Posted on February 27th, 2009 in Resources
Curious to know how common your surname is across the US?
Head over to Dynastree, search for your last name and get a geographical distribution of persons with the same surname sorted by states.
Just in case if you’re wondering what the source could be, its the phone book…
Did you know that Anderson is the most [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2009 in Resources
FreeRice
I am glad I stumbled upon this site today. The FreeRice site provides a great opportunity to learn geography and at the same time contribute to world hunger by donating 20 grains of rice for every right answer t0 the United Nations World Food Program.
There are two ways you could learn geography on this site [...]
