Monthly Archives: June 2008
Agit 2008: Poster Presentation
Tomorrow the GIForum starts and the day after tomorrow AGIT 2008 begins. I will submit a poster presentation with the topic “Scenario Visualisation and Comparison for Spatial Decision Support” as coauthor. You can see the poster below. Click on the … Continue reading
Nokia Maps for Desktop?
Nokia is planning opening up Nokia Maps for the Desktop and synchronizing information between desktop and mobile phone. Therefore they are working on a browser frontend for their maps and navigation service Nokia Maps, which is optimized for the PC. … Continue reading
ArcGIS 9.3 available now!
Today the shipping of ArcGIS 9.3 starts. To find a list of all improvements ESRI is providing a pdf document with new features. Also a video is available shows some new function of ArcGIS 9.3. Visit following link to see … Continue reading
ESRI Videos at YouTube
About four days ago (21.06.2008) ESRI joined Youtube with a profile. At esritv they want to publish official ESRI company videos. Here you can see one video which gives an introduction about ArcGIS Server. You need to a flashplayer enabled … Continue reading
GeoGames 2008
Geogames is an event with the objective to apply Geoinformation playfully. The pupils should learn to use GIS to solve tasks of everyday’s life. Four different station with topics about Geography, GIS, etc. give an insight where these technologies are … Continue reading
Best Phones for Location Based Services
What are the best mobiles for LBS? To answer this questions I have taken four phones from different manufactures and compared them. In my opinion following issues are important if you want to use a mobile for LBS applications: buid-in … Continue reading
Thematic Mapping Engine for Google Earth
Thematic Mapping Engine (TME) enables you to visualise global statistics on Google Earth. The primary data source is UNdata. The engine returns a KMZ file that you can open in Google Earth or download to your computer. The goal of … Continue reading
Map interaction with Adobe Acrobat 9
Adobe will release their new version of the Acrobat family soon. One of the new features is the integration of spatial data and maps in PDF. Now it is possible to create and share PDF maps by importing geospatial files … Continue reading
The Best Firefox Yet
Now Firefox 3 is official available. You can download the browser now on the Mozilla website. There are a lot of great inprovements since version 2. One of these improvements is the “Smart Location Bar” as shown in the figure. … Continue reading
