Download the Harmonized World Soil Database at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IISA). The World Soil Database is described as follows :
The Land Use Change and Agriculture Program of IIASA (LUC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have developed a new comprehensive Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD).
» Read more: Download World Soil Database v 1.1
The new version of ArcGIS Explorer (Build 1200) is available for download since today. This version is essentially an update of the current version (Build 900), builds on its intuitive design, improving access to geoprocessing services and expanding available maps in the Basemap Gallery.
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The Geospatial Modelling Environment (GME) is the predecessor of the Hawths Tools extension for ArcGIS, but with some important improvements. It is designed to help to facilitate rigorous spatial analysis and modelling by linking ArcGIS to the statistical software package R. It has a greater range of analysis and modelling tools, supports batch processing, offers new graphing functionality, automatically records work-flows for future reference, supports geodatabases, and can be called programatically.
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ScribbleMaps is a useful Google Maps mashup, which easy to use web tool for annotating and sharing maps. It supports Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and CloudMade and a menu of tools we can customize our map by adding lines, points, text, shapes of different colors, in short, a complete online edition.
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New ESRI World Topographic Basemap is designed to be used as a basemap by GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone. The map includes administrative boundaries, cities, water features, physiographic features, parks, landmarks, highways, roads, railways, airports, and buildings overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery for added context.
Geosense is a free software driven location, applications that are able to determine where you are in the world are a powerful way to make information more relevant without requiring or the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7.
Terrain Bender applies progressive bending to digital terrain models for 3D mapping. It offers interactive tools to add a bent base to a digital terrain model.
Download for free ebook “The Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping” from www.MapTogether.org
» Read more: Download Free “The Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping”
Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator. It will generate a high-resolution, accurate representation of the Earth. The imagery is based on NASA’s Blue Marble Next and Earth’s City Lights.
Desktop Earth will generate a high-resolution (the imagery is calculated from high-resolution 2560×1280 textures!!) representation of the Earth combined with city lights data which will be used to generate the Wallpaper. The image also changes automatically to represent snow and foilage changes across the seasons.
GeoMerge is a utility that lets you merge two or more shapefiles or TAB files into a single shapefile.
Select two or more shapefiles or TAB files that are to be merged, and click the ‘Merge Files’ button. The files will be validated for a common schema. If all of the files selected have exactly the same column definitions in the .dbf file the records and shapes from each individual file will be concatenated into a new shapefile.
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» Read more: Merge Two or More Shapefiles or TAB Files into a Single Shapefile Using GeoMerge
Download for free ebook “GIS for Public Safety An annotated guide to ArcGIS tools & procedures” by Joel M. Caplan, Ph.D.
This book focuses on ESRI’s ArcGIS functionality and presents all of the tools and procedures that are commonly used by public safety researchers and practitioners. It gives simple steps for descriptive, exploratory, and explanatory mapping tasks and includes concise but meaningful discussions to let you critically assess and accurately apply the software to your own unique specialty. This provides a solid foundation for advanced spatial thinking and permits you to utilize GIS technology in your own innovative ways. This book is intended for an introductory audience, but GIS users at all skill levels will find value in it as a reference manual. “Introductory” does not mean limited content. Rather, it means that the focus of the book is on the technical aspect of GIS mapping.
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» Read more: Download Ebook : GIS for Public Safety An annotated guide to ArcGIS tools & procedures
This ArcView 3.x extension allows you to display multiple images that have been associated with a feature. Simply requires that you have the path and filename of the image stored in a field. Fields can contain multiple paths and names of other images. Orange diamond is added to the View toolbar. Click the tool and then select the function you want to see the pictures. The images will open in a new window display. You can resize, pan, zoom, etc.
» Read more: ArcView 3.x Extension : Multiple Images Hotlink
MXD packager will copy any layers in the ArcMap TOC to a single destination, and change the data source for the layers to point to the new datasets on disk. This script will also change the MXD to hold Relative Paths, making it easy to copy a complex MXD onto a CD or DVD with all datasets included.
Google LatLong Blog reports an imagery update for Google Earth and Google Maps; check to see if any of your favorite places has gotten an update! For Indonesia, Manado got new image!
» Read more: February 2010 Image Update for Google Earth & Google Maps
Picmeta PhotoTracker 1.1 is freeware utility to automatically geotags your photos based on the track data from GPS exchange files. It virtually connects any GPS receiver with your digital camera.
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How to use Picmeta PhotoTracker 1.1 : » Read more: Geotagging Photos With PhotoTracker
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