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
