Monthly Archives: February 2010

March 2010 Open GIS Jobs

Posted on February 27, 2010 by joesonic

I’ll introduce a new section on the “Geospatial Talk” blog called Jobs. Each month I’ll describe 5 GIS or Geo-related jobs around the world. This month selection includes: Senior GIS Programmer/Analyst (N/A, Anchorage, USA) Doctoral Research Assistent (University of Technology … Continue reading →

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Virtual journey on the Transiberian Railway

Posted on February 18, 2010 by joesonic

The combination between Google Maps and YouTube allows you to make a virtual travel from Moscow to Vladivostok. The video is georeferenced and synchronized with the map. This feature allows you to navigate on the map an see the corresponding section in … Continue reading →

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Scale of the to-date known and mapped Universe

Posted on February 17, 2010 by joesonic

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most … Continue reading →

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New Topographic Map-Resource in Google/Microsoft tiling schema

Posted on February 11, 2010 by joesonic

ArcGIS Online has migrated map tiling scheme of their map services to Google Maps and Microsoft Bing Maps well known tiling scheme. All ESRI Map resources can now overlayed and mashed-up with Google Map layers and Bing Map layers, because … Continue reading →

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Are ski slopes streets? Google says YES, they are.

Posted on February 9, 2010 by joesonic

We know Google mounts car with 360 degrees cameras and GPS to show us streets. We know Google also mounts bicycles with 360 degrees cameras and GPS to show us streets where cars are not allowed to drive. But now … Continue reading →

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Google Maps with Multi-touch available in the Market

Posted on February 5, 2010 by joesonic

Recently the new version of Google Maps show up in the Android Market and asks for an update. The current version is called 3.4 and includes Multi-touch as amazing new feature for Map navigation. Now it is really convenient to … Continue reading →

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