The All Points Blog tells us about some Google Map changes. Geospatial World has more updates in the ongoing spatial privacy war in the USA. Google Geo Developers has a post about five great chrome web store apps and maps. Google Maps Mania reports on social networking with Google Maps. Mibazaar has a tweet […]
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Geoscience Australia report ‘misleading’ say earth scientists
A government taskforce is relying on a “misleading” report by Geoscience Australia to develop mining tax policy, according to a group of earth scientists. The Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) say the Geoscience Australia report paints an overly rosy picture of Australia's mineral resource endowment, and the health of the industry. It has been […]
Geospatial privacy war underway in US
Efforts to protect consumers' privacy on the internet are likely to heavily impact companies that collect, use or distribute geo-location data, according to the Management Association for Professional Photogrammetric Surveyors. A number of initiatives in Washington, including a privacy protection bill, the "Best Practices Act of 2010," are looking to protect data about users, […]
Best of the Blogs 11th January
The All Points Blog discusses how location technologies can help firms put electric car charging stations in the right places. There is a new interactive map available of the cheapest holiday destinations around Australia, according to All Things Spatial. Geospatial World has an interesting post on Google Earth and national security. Google Maps Mania […]
Google Maps switches to Sensis in Oz
Google Maps now uses a database from Sensis to underpin its operations in Australia, according to the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA). Previously, Google used cadastral data from the Public Sector Mapping Authority (PMSA) to support its maps. Whereas the PMSA data originated from land registry entities, the Sensis data will be maintained […]
Google Earth releases new version
Users of Google Earth Pro 6 can now measure buildings, calculate line-of-sight and visualise viewsheds. Google Earth Pro allows users to view and style data in the same way as GIS files. Earlier this month the Google Earth Pro Team released Google Earth 6, an improved version of its virtual globe software. It includes thousands […]
DigitalGlobe enters Chinese market
DigitalGlobe is supplying imagery for navigation tools for three Chinese companies. The firm will supply China Mobile – the world’s largest mobile operator, with more than 500 million subscribers – high resolution, regularly refreshed imagery. The imagery from DigitalGlobe will be used in China Mobile’s turn-by-turn navigation service, GIS/fleet management service and […]
Best of the Blogs Christmas Edition
GIS User says Foursquare now has photo support. Geospatial world tells us about hyper-local media… …and that NASA is creating a topographical map of the moon. NASA has also created a map to tell you where to be to watch the lunar eclipse. And Off the map takes a look at some analytics tools. […]
2011 GITA Australia & New Zealand 16th Annual Geospatial Solutions Conference
Smarter Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future WHEN: 2011-08-01 to 2011-08-03WHERE: SydneySTATE: InternationalCOUNTRY: INT 2011 GITA Australia & New Zealand 16th Annual Geospatial Solutions Conference. More information here.
GEO-11
A World of Geomatics with GIS Innovations WHEN: 2011-04-06 to 2011-04-07WHERE: LondonSTATE: InternationalCOUNTRY: INT GEO-11 will be taking place at the Holiday Inn, London-Elstree (2 mins from M25, Jct 23).
