ikiMap (www.ikimap.com) is a free web service which allows you to create and share your maps. You can create your own maps (by uploading files to KML, GPX formats or directly, by creating on the map), add the vote for the maps used by others, comments, create groups of friends, and more specialized channels! You can label and the map is private and allow access to them only for certain people.
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» Read more: ikiMap : Free Web Service to Create and Share Your Maps
Download for free ArcGIS Explorer Build 1500. This latest version of ArcGIS Explorer comes packed with a bundle of updates and new features. ArcGIS Explorer is a free, downloadable GIS viewer that gives you an easy way to explore, visualize, and share GIS information.
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The Nakajima Lab at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo was developed the Wearable Personal Navigation System.
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The system equipped with a battery, LEDs, a microcomputer with GPS receiver, and a magnetic direction sensor. » Read more: GPS Navigation System in Glasses
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially announced Facebook Places feature. Places is a geolocation feature on Facebook that allows you to share your current geographic location or place with Facebook friends based on your GPS position.
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The project OpenStreetMap is one of the most interesting in recent times in the open source world, and seeks to provide an alternative developed by and for the user community that offers a series of maps that serve to map all kinds of scenarios, and between them, mapping services on the web.
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Jennifer Carrell of the Illinois State Geological Survey has written a handy tool for creating cross sections in ArcMap 9.3. This program called Create Geologic Cross Sections–eXacto Section v. 2.0.
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TatukGIS Free Coordinate Calculator is free application for Windows converts interactively the coordinates of a point between the coordinate systems. Version 2 has the same coordinate system support as the TatukGIS Developer Kernel (v.9) and TatukGIS desktop Editor (v.2) products, which means that nearly 3,000 pre-defined map coordinate are used worldwide (including all U.S. State Planes), with a simple selection from a drop down list. The settings for each of the U.S. State Planes can be found at: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/ManualNOSNGS5.pdf (refer to pages 63 – 72).
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Recently Michelle Ballinger has put together a short tutorial “Blueprint for Creating an Open Source Web Map” using GeoServer which includes a section using Open Source GIS Quantum GIS & uDig. The blueprint uses the final project for Pennsylvania State University’s Geography 585 Open Source Web Mapping Class as an example.
OpenSeaMap is project to create some free nautical map and geographic data such as lights and buoys with contributions both from official public data (with no copyright) and passionated individuals. OpenSeaMap is part of OpenStreetMap and has created a cool online editing interface that allows anyone to spend his experiences and contribute to the map.
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ESRI’s Applications Prototype Lab published a new version of the free GeoTagger Add-In for ArcGIS Desktop 10. This Add-In allows the user to geotag any text directly from ArcMap. Simply drop and drop any text into the dialog and click the button to submit it MetaCarta’s public geotagging web service.
GeoTagger Add-In for ArcGIS Desktop 10 uses MetaCarta’s public geotagging web service to extract geographic references from text. The service supports English, Russian, Spanish and Arabic. This contribution includes full source code.
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ESRI’s Applications Prototype Lab released a new version of the dynamic charting tool for ArcGIS Desktop 10. See previous version here.
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Esri has released a new free add-on ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap. Users of ESRI ArcGIS Desktop 10 can use ArcMap to edit OpenStreetMap directly.
The G4ng is a service for people who wants to keep his/her geospatial data organized and accessible from around the world with ability to share and collaborate with friends. It is mainly geared towards people who like traveling. User also can explore other users data and create communities with your friends and work on data as one team.
InstaMapper is a free service app that allows you to live tracking a GPS-enabled from your phone (compatible phone : Android, BlackBerry, Motorola iDEN, and iPhone) online in real time. Then share or embed your device tracking map and information with friends, family or maybe even your boss to keep everyone updated on your location.
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» Read more: Live Tracking a GPS-enabled Cell Phone Online in Real Time
Historypin is a very cool project turning Google Street View into a digital time machine by letting people attach their historic photographs to specific locations.
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It is a partnership with Google, uses Google Maps and Street View technology and hopes to become the largest user-generated archive of the world’s historical images and stories.
» Read more: Historypin Turns Google Street View into Digital Time Machine
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