Category Archives: GIS Software

A Virtual Evolution of College Touring, “Google’s Campus Street View”

Google’s done it again! Creativity combined with the accessibility of the world wide web have been utilized by the multi faceted search engine powerhouse to create a website enabling college students to simplify touring and familiarizing themselves with campuses around the world. Google’s Campus Street View gives the ability to its users to visit and [...]

Open Source GIS All the Way

Want to know about open source GIS? It’s possible it’s lying under your nose and is incorporated into your day-to-day use and yet you don’t realize it sometimes. GIS is essentially ‘geographic information system’, which is an information system designed to capture, integrate, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and display all forms of geographically referenced data. [...]

Hottest GPS Apps For iPhone

Hate to get stuck in a traffic jam when you are in a hurry? If you are an iPhone user who tries to find personal navigation apps, here are some hot GPS apps that can help you out.  Check them out! MobileNavigator is Navigon’s official GPS application for iPhone. It’s one of the leading GPS [...]

Augmented Reality Plugin for Google SketchUp

Inglobe Technologies released version 2 of their Augmented Reality Plugin for Google SketchUp with a lot of interesting features. The new version allows you to create Augmented Reality movies by using multiple targets at once. Here’s a video that shows off the new features in ARmedia Plugin 2.0.

Mosaic Image Finder For ArcMap

Over on the Sandpit blog, there is a post of a new add-in for ArcMap to explore imagery within a mosaic called Mosaic Image Finder For ArcMap. The add-in supports mosaics stored locally in a geodatabase (or SDE connection) and mosaics published to ArcGIS Server as image services. Mosaic Image Finder For ArcMap