Google has removed the tag identifying the Persian Gulf from its popular mapping service, angering the Iranian government. Tehran says it will sue the search giant. ZDNet has the full story.   The All Points Blog alerts us that GITA (in the US) has cancelled the Oil and Gas Conference, and stating that “The […]

  irevolution has a good post examining the recent Google Map Maker and World Bank collaboration that is stated as “empowering citizen cartographers”. The devil, of course, is in the details. Read on for a great examination of exploitative crowdsourcing.   After the recent Lightsquared debacle beginning to draw to a close (Spoiler: GPS won), […]

  Vector One asks the question: is the gap between surveying and GIS contributing to lower precision farming uptake?   Map Butcher has a great post that talk about GIS on the web, specifically, how it’s changing, how it’s failing, and how it’s working.   Google Maps Mania point us to a map application that […]