James Fee GIS Blog

Gary Sherman has posted a couple documents on his blog that may be of interest to those trying to learn more about QGIS. First off he’s got his slides from his FOSS4G presentation as well as the workbook from the “Shuffling Quantum GIS into the Open Source Software Stack” workshop. Both are a [...]

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I’ve blogged about putting GIS applications on USB memory sticks in the past, but there seems to be some traction going on with this. Jo Cook presented at FOSS4G2007 a talk about Portable GIS. Jo has followed up with a blog post about the talk:
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at FOSS4G [...]

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I got word from the USGS this morning that they recently released a Google Gadget called USGS Earth As Art. The gadget shows random imagery from Landsat, ASTER and MODIS. You can put the gadget on your iGoogle page, or embed it on a web page.

USGS Earth As Art on iGoogle
see also GeoLounge

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Well I actually did have my SpaceNavigator in my laptop bag so I decided to download the beta driver and take it for a spin. So what do I think?
First off, ArcGlobe works exactly as you’d expect. If you’ve used the SpaceNavigator and Google Earth, you already have an idea how it works. [...]

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Well the day is finally here. ESRI and 3Dconnexion have announced support for the SpaceNavigator in ArcGIS. I don’t have my SpaceNavigator SE with me or I’d give it a shot right now. This is great news for ESRI ArcScene and ArcGlobe users who currently have to navigate the 3D environment with [...]

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I like that my hometown of Tempe, AZ is now included in the Virtual Earth 3D. My office looks great in 3D.

This is where the magic happens
If you rotate, you can even see Sun Devil Stadium (and home of the 23rd ranked Sun Devils) from my office.

4-0 baby! Stanford you are next.
Alas, my [...]

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I’ve been going through my inbox (physical, not email) this morning and caught something that made me laugh. I grabbed the latest issue of ESRI’s Federal GIS Connections and looked at the address.

We don’t need no stinkin’ departments!

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Tyler Mitchell (Editor in Chief, OSGeo Journal) has announced in the OSGeo Discuss email list that the OSGeo Journal Volume 2 is now available for reading/download. I really enjoyed reading Volume 1 and while I don’t have time right now to read Volume 2, I see that there is an article on MapWindow which [...]

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Peter Batty has decided to start up a company called Spatial Networking that will:
be focused on location related applications in the social networking space
I’m quite interested to see what he has up his sleeve here.

Even toddlers are getting into the social networking space
BTW, Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!

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We’ve all been speculating how this day would come. The EPA has licensed Virtual Earth for “mission critical” applications including customer applications on the internet as well as internal intranet applications. Many folks have been saying that it was only a matter of time before Google and Microsoft enter the domain of ESRI, [...]

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The Free Geography Tools blog has been posting about saving out Google Earth imagery and georectifying them in your GIS applications. When pressed on the post by a couple users and bloggers (here, here), he’s posted up a clarification of “Fair Use”.
I still don’t believe one can use Google Earth imagery the way he [...]

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I’m sure most of you got the news yesterday that MapServer 5.0.0 has been released. I love the look that folks are getting with the AGG graphics library which just makes the rendered maps look very impressive. The change log is available here for those who want to see what has been fixed/added [...]

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&Kevin Martin emailed me telling me that his great Export to KML has been updated:
WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 2.4:

implements KML version 2.2
attributes from the GIS database stored in the output KML as “schema” items
labels and information points can now be vertically offset

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Great news yesterday out of the GIS in the Rockies Conference. I was planning on going to the conference this year, but just got so busy I could tear myself away from work. Remember what Jack says about being successful at GIS:
“Now is the time to be the last one out of the [...]

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I guess why not, GIS news has been slow lately.

Angry Kirk reacts badly to the news that ESRI is dying
I haven’t seen any books canceled by ESRI and sales would appear strong as Roger Tomlinson’s “Thinking About GIS” is now in its third edition. I’m a DoD consultant and at least in my little [...]

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The news broke this week that Google has updated the Google Earth EULA to allow “internal use” for commercial users. Now what does this mean? I’m thinking that you can now use Google Earth at work for for personal and work related use as long as you aren’t reselling that work. For [...]

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I’ve had my head down working hard on some projects this week so I haven’t had an opportunity to really keep my eye out for important news, but Nate Irwin has caught my eye with news about MapDotNet Server 2007 6.1.2 being released by ISC. One new improvement that caught my eye:
Substantially improved rendering [...]

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I have to admit, I’m somewhat shocked by Pitney Bowes abandoning the MapInfo name and going with Pitney Bowes Software. Why anyone would dump one of the most recognized names in GIS for a company that at least for me has more to do with postage meters and fax machines seems idiotic. When [...]

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