Comment on How to Make People Management Software More Human by Gordon Ross

Well said Daniel. Geoffrey Moore at E2.0 in Santa Clara summed it up nicely by saying that we're not talking about systems of record, but rather systems of engagement. Nice expression that furthers the thought around social software.

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Friday Geonews: One-Click StreetView, Buffers in Lat-Long, Books, Location Privacy, Map of Global Debt, and much more

The Friday geonews in batch mode, including anything pertinent that we haven't shared yet.

On the Google front:

• Google announced single-click StreetView navigation
• Last March was announced that Google Mapplets were on their way out, their annihilation plan begun
• The GEB shares an entry on animated 3D models in Google Earth
• There will soon be bike directions for many Canadian cities in Google Maps

On the ESRI front:

• An entry on a mosaic image finder addin for ArcMap

In the miscellaneous category:

• MDA released a National Urban Change Indicator for the U.S.
• Here's an interesting entry (it must be since its involves Slartibartfast ;-) on removing complexities of complex polygons
• Here's an entry showing us what happens when you compute circular buffers in geographic coordinates
• If you're looking for geobooks to give at Christmas, The Map Room shares lists of geospatial-related books released this year
• There's also a new book named Preservation in Digital Cartography, co-authored by Tracey P. Lauriault, Peter L. Pulsifer and D.R. Fraser Taylor
• This entry explains why location privacy is different from privacy

In the maps category:

• From numerous sources, here's a one-minute video of the last 88 years of presidential election results in the U.S.
• The Map Room offers a long review the ninth edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World
• The Economist shares an informative and scary interactive map of the global public debt
• In the same vein, GeoCurrents shares an entry named the So-Called Happy Planet Index, which includes a map
• The Strange Maps blog shares a Map of the World's Countries Rearranged by Population

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Friday Geonews: One-Click StreetView, Buffers in Lat-Long, Books, Location Privacy, Map of Global Debt, and much more

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Slashgeo: Directions Magazine Articles: Opportunities of the GeoCloud, Geo vs Data Vizualization, The New Geospatial Jobs, and more

Here's a few Directions Magazine articles published in the past month that I found interesting:

• An article on GIS Computing in the cloud. The summary: "Author Philip O'Doherty believes our thinking may be too small when it comes to GIS computing in the cloud. One of the big problems with GIS today, writes O'Doherty, is that it is seen as a specialist tool, available only to a limited number of people in a limited number of organizations.

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Slashgeo: Directions Magazine Articles: Opportunities of the GeoCloud, Geo vs Data Vizualization, The New Geospatial Jobs, and more

Backlink: http://slashgeo.org/2010/11/22/Directions-Magazine-Articles-Opportunities-GeoCloud-Geo-vs-Data-Vizualization-New-Geospat

Friday Geonews: ESRI's Open Source Geoportal Server, Yahoo Local Offers, REST Explained Again, MapQuest My Maps, and much more

Here's the weekly batch of geonews, finally on a regular Friday.On the ESRI front:

• Recently, ESRI open sourced the ESRI Geoportal Server. Some twitter users were quick to mention that you still need ArcGIS Server software to use the Geoportal Server. To me, that's still a nice step. Their definition of a geoportal: "A geoportal is a gateway to Web-based geospatial resources, enabling users to discover, view and access geospatial information and services made available by their providing organizations. Likewise, data providers can use the geoportal to make their geospatial resources discoverable, viewable, and accessible to others."
• The popular blog SpatiallyAdjusted shares some elements that could be improved about the ArcGIS 10 user interface

On the open source front:

• O'Reilly discusses a new open source software called WEAVE (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment), which obviously include a mapping component
• If you're into FDO, you'll be happy to learn of the new SequentialProcess for batch mode processing
• QGIS gets new label tools
• Remember Polymaps? The open source mapping framework Polymaps is now integrated into GeoCommons

In the miscellaneous category:

• REST and RESTful was widely discussed in the past few years in the geospatial community, including within ESRI, the open source and OGC rings. Thanks to this entry named Richardson Maturity Model: steps toward the glory of REST, I think I finally correctly understand what REST is about! ;-) (sorry I don't remember how I ended up on that article)
• TMR informs us MapQuest launched My Maps last June, with the same name of the similar feature provided on Google Maps, basically allowing you to save and share user-created maps
• SS shares a long perspective entry named What forces are at play in the evolution of geospatial industry sectors?
• NAVTEQ acquires the 3D modeling company named PixelActive
• APB informs us Yahoo has launched a new service called Local Offers: "that it said will give users information about local merchants along with coupons and information on deals at stores in their neighborhoods."
• Kurt shares interesting thoughts on GIS, followed by What is GIS? A workflow definition

In the maps category:

• Here's the evolution of active Facebook users by region
• A nice entry on The Human Development Index in Africa and Across the World
• SS shares an entry named Mapping Opportunity in America
• While I was aware of it, we mentioned mentioned it yet. The GEB discusses the USGS "Earth as Art" beautiful collection of Landsat imagery

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Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/11/19/Friday-Geonews-ESRIs-Open-Source-Geoportal-Server-Yahoo-Local-Offers-REST-Explained-Again

Google Geonews: Directions UI Improved, Mapped Fusion Tables Examples, StreetView in Germany, and more

Here's recent Google-related geonews in batch mode.

From the official sources:

• Major improvements of the Google Maps directions user interface, worth a quick look at the provided screenshots or try it directly yourself
• Five Great Fusion Tables and Maps Examples
• Street View comes to 20 German cities
• New Japanese 3D cities available in Google Earth

From the GEB:

• There's new imagery in Google Earth since last Tuesday

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iTunes Connect Mobile App Update Adds ‘iPad, Multitasking, Retina’ and More Features Support

Apple has released an update to its iTunes Connect Mobile application which allows iOS developers to track and manage their App Store applications.

Slashgeo: Friday Geonews: ESRI's Open Source Geoportal Server, Yahoo Local Offers, REST Explained Again, MapQuest My Maps, and much more

Here's the weekly batch of geonews, finally on a regular Friday.On the ESRI front:

• Recently, ESRI open sourced the ESRI Geoportal Server. Some twitter users were quick to mention that you still need ArcGIS Server software to use the Geoportal Server. To me, that's still a nice step.

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Slashgeo: Google Geonews: Directions UI Improved, Mapped Fusion Tables Examples, StreetView in Germany, and more

Here's recent Google-related geonews in batch mode.

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Location Technology – More than just social check-in on Twitter (video)

In a recent presentation I delivered on mobile location technology I touched on a number of examples of how social media fanatics can checkin and share their location information on social media streams like Twitter and facebook… although, as we all know, location technology is about much more than just the social check in! I [...]

Post originale: http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=8095

WordPress.com Gets ‘Internal Linking, Sorting, Paging, Ajax Search, Improved IE9 Support’ and More Features Ahead of WordPress 3.1 Release

While WordPress.org team start putting the finishing touches on the version 3.1 of WordPress, in the meantime, the WordPress.com users are automatically included in the beta testing, with access to new features about a month before they're officially released:

BoxIt, CircleIt, and more scripts for Illustrator from van Willigen

Daniel van Willigen from Panoramic Designs in Holland has several great scripts for Adobe Illustrator that run in versions CS3 and above. He started off with BoxIt and CircleIt which create fields of 3d bars and cylinders. His latest include TotallyTwisted for making the type of fine lithography geometric patterns found in the background of currency, and TraceVectorToScript for recreating drawn artwork programmatically with JavaScript commands. Very helpful if you need to generate a company logo or some other artwork as part of an automated process.

Consumers in Emerging Economies Expect Companies to Be More Eco-Minded

by Timothy B. Hurst

Consumers in emerging economies are more sensitive to the social performance of brands and are more likely than Americans to purchase and promote brands that support good causes, according to new research from the public relations firm, Edelman. The 2010 Edelman goodpurpose Consumer Study (PDF) found that individuals in the emerging economies of Brazil, China, India and Mexico countries had higher expectations of brands to support good causes. Approximately 8 in 10 consumers in the emerging markets expect brands to do something to support a good cause, while only sixty-three percent of Americans agree. "Brazil, China, India and Mexico have reached a tipping point in terms of economic development and their consumers no longer need to make trade-offs," said Carol Cone, managing director, Brand & Corporate Citizenship, Edelman. While the Edelman study dealt with social causes broadly defined, "protecting the environment" ranked as the number one cause. "In emerging markets, the dramatic rise of 'the citizen consumer' has happened so quickly because battles over societal issues like natural resources and human rights have taken place right in their backyards. They understand purpose and want it to be at the center of their lives and their everyday interactions with brands," said Cone. The Edelman study is one of three new pieces of research indicating growing concern for the environment and climate change in less industrialized countries. Reprinted with permission from Earth & Industry

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More Photos From Brazil: Waterfall Area and Swimming in Front of Isle Esme Location

SPOILERS UNDER CUT DON'T CLICK IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOWA couple of days ago Rob and Kristen shot at a location with a waterfall. Today there are shots of that as well as a second day in front of the Isle Esme location



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Slashgeo: Tuesday Geonews: Google HotPot, ArcGIS 10 SP1, 3D Globe in QGIS, GAW 2010, and much more

I've been overly busy lately, the consequence is you're getting your geonews in batch mode a little later than usual. Here they are!

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Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/11/16/Tuesday-Geonews-Google-HotPot-ArcGIS-10-SP1-3D-Globe-QGIS-GAW-2010-and-much-more

BoxIt, CircleIt, and more script for Illustrator from van Willigen

Daniel van Willigen from Panoramic Designs in Holland has several great scripts for Adobe Illustrator that run in versions CS3 and above. He started off with BoxIt and CircleIt which create fields of 3d bars and cylinders. His latest include TotallyTwisted for making the type of fine lithography geometric patterns found in the background of currency, and TraceVectorToScript for recreating drawn artwork programmatically with JavaScript commands. Very helpful if you need to generate a company logo or some other artwork as part of an automated process.

Comment on Hulu Plus: More Devices, More of a Threat to Netflix? by Scott Easterday

Please do a search for open content on Google and do yourself a favor by researching it. The content provided by Hulu is Copyrighted by the media industry and they have every right to dictate where and when the content can be played. Just like I can't legally put a TV Show on Limewire to share with my friends, the same way the media can say no to what platform Hulu can play on. Just because you can doesn't mean you are allowed to. Open content would entail the Creative Commons license, where people can redistribute the material however they like.

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The More The Web Changes, The More It Stays The Same (With A Map)

There’s a saying in French which goes “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” which translates as the more things change, the more they stay the same. Maybe the same could be said to apply to today’s World Wide Web … “plus les changements web, plus le web reste le même”, the more the Web changes, the more the Web stays the same, with blame firmly put at Google Translate if this doesn’t translate properly.

More Maps of Martin's 'Song of Ice and Fire'

In this post (reprinted on io9), Adam Whitehead discusses the size of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms in George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. One map shows just how big Westeros is: "about 3,000 miles (or 1,000 leagues) from the Wall to the south coast...

Post originale: http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2010/11/more_maps_of_ma.php

Google’s Location Feature – Customise SERPs to Provide More Relevant Results

Google has been very busy lately. In Q2 and Q3 of this year we have seen a lot of activity from the search engine; rolling out many changes and testing various page layouts, with Google Instant and Google Places to name but a few. Today, we can see G

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Google Geonews: Google Using Their Basemaps for 10 More Countries, More on Costa Rica and Nicaragua Boundary, Spatial Queries in Fusion Tables, and much more

Here's recent Google-related geonews.

From the official sources:

• Google changed its basemap data for ten countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa and Switzerland. Google already switched to their own data for the U.S. and Canada in the not so distant past.
• Following a previous entry Costa Rica and Nicaragua boundary in Google Maps, Google Lat Long and Ogle Earth discuss the matter
• Google Maps tiles have been significantly updated for Japan
• There's contest for SketchUp 3D modelers
• You can now perform spatial queries in Fusion Tables

From other sources:

• An entry on using SketchUp to model interiors
• An excellent flight simulator for Google Earth
• Here's an entry on the state of the Berlin Wall, as seen using the Google Earth Plugin
• An online tool for Satellite Tracks And Visibility In Google Maps
• We mentioned BatchGeo a few times in the past, via APB I learned that BatchGeo was forced to disable extracting geocoded coordinates because it's a violation of Google's Terms of Service. We rarely saw similar enforcements as far as I can remember.

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Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/11/12/Google-Geonews-Google-Using-Their-Basemaps-10-More-Countries-More-Costa-Rica-and-Nicaragu