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GeoBase - No Cost Access To Geospatial Data!

posted by lxnyce on Monday February 08, @05:52PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the free-is-good dept.
Data Sharing
GeoBase User Support writes "What is GeoBase?

GeoBase is undertaken to ensure the provision of and access to a common, up-to-date and regularly maintained base of quality geospatial data for all of Canada. GeoBase is a federal, provincial and territorial government initiative that is overseen by the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG). Through the GeoBase portal, users with an interest in the field of geomatics have access to quality geospatial information at no cost and no restricted use. More on http://www.geobase.ca./

Users have to subscribe on GeoBase to download data. When subscribing, they can authorize GeoBase to inform them of latest developments (approximately 2 — 3 e-mails a year). Furthermore, a newsletter published twice a year is available on the Website.

For any questions or comments please contact:
Client Service
Natural Resources Canada
2144, King West Street, suite 010
Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1J 2E8
Canada
E-mail: SupportGeoBase@nrcan.gc.ca
Telephone: 819-564-4857 / 1-800-661-2638 (Canada and USA)"

GIS Cloud (beta) Has Been Launched

posted by lxnyce on Monday February 08, @05:34PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the looks-interesting dept.
Web Mapping
Found on the Geoweb Guru blog, here is a snippet of the article :"GIS Cloud has just entered its public beta phase. GIS Cloud is an online "GIS for the web". The 'cloud' in the name refers to it being SaaS (Software-as-a-Service). It is unclear if it is implemented in true 'cloud' fashion (eg. like Amazon EC2 or Microsoft's Azure). Unlike the vast bulk of the "geo-web" systems we cover, this is much more than a simple map viewer/annotator/query engine; but allows more GIS-like data operations. "
Make sure to check the blog for the rest.

Geocoding with Context

posted by Satri on Friday February 05, @01:56PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the context-with-geocoding dept.
Geocoding
An anonymous voxel writes "Geolenz has beta launched a new type of geocoding service, called intelligent contextual geocoding. Unlike traditional geocoding, this one understands the context of a location in both space and time, and provides a rich result of contextual details specific to the location and expressed within a language consistent with the domain. See hands-on demos here. Geolenz is looking to connect with geo-app developers (mobile and web) to explore opportunities for leveraging this type of informative data."

Copenhagen Wheel as a Geodata Gathering Device

posted by Satri on Friday February 05, @01:39PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the a-new-kind-of-location-based-services dept.
Data Sharing
fotoguzzi writes "The Copenhagen Wheel is more than an energy-gathering power-assist for tired legs; it also monitors environmental conditions. A slick video shows how the wheel can report to a smart phone which can then report to a community map. Enough Wheels and you have a good snapshot of sound and air quality in the city. I question the music and the unidentifiable accent of the video, but the ideal seems worth considering. Could the sensors be placed in the phone and leave the Wheel out of it?"

Industry: GeoServer-BR Reaches the Mark of 350 Members

posted by Satri on Friday February 05, @01:16PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the a-carnaval-of-members dept.
Web Mapping
Fernando Quadro writes "The GeoServer-BR Community reached 350 members, in less than 3 years of life. It is very gratifying to see how this community has grown in Brazil, is the now the second largest community GeoServer in the world. The numbers have surprised not only the brazilian community but also the GeoServer Core, only in the year 2009 were 166 new members, and 1068 messages." See previous GeoServer stories.

PostGIS 1.5 Released

posted by Satri on Friday February 05, @01:09PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the posting-nude-in-a-geospatial-database dept.
VLSDB
One of the best geospatial SQL databases out there just got better: the open source geospatial database PostGIS version 1.5 has been released. From the announcement: "This release adds a long-wished-for feature to the open source spatial database—direct support for “geodetic” coordinates. [...] With PostGIS 1.5, the new “geography” type is a 100% sphere-aware type, which can be indexed globally and returns answers in meters, using calculations on the spheroid for maximum correctness. It is built on top of a new disk storage and index format, which the existing “geometry” type will also transition to in version 2.0. [...] We expect that the geography type will make it easier for new users to store their data in PostGIS (without having to learn about projections and coordinate systems before starting) and also allow global data managers to store and query international data sets for effectively." See also related stories below.

Fine Art Mash-Up at GeocodedArt.com

posted by Satri on Tuesday February 02, @01:16PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the fine-resolution-of-fine-art dept.
Web Mapping
geocoded Art writes "GeocodedArt.com is a collection of world's greatest landscape, cityscape and seascape paintings, geocoded to Google or Bing Maps. The goal of geocodedArt is to use digital map technology to add context to fine art, and to use fine art to illuminate geography. The criteria for inclusion in this collection are that the image is a recognizable depiction of specific location; the image be in the public domain; and that the image be beautiful, and/or be of an interesting place."
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