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
Open Dragon software for aerial/satellite imagery analysis, is now freely available for non-commercial use, and the Java source code will be released as open source by early 2011. OpenDragon provides a robust suite of image processing operations, via an intuitive, responsive, multi-window graphical user interface.
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» Read more: OpenDragon: New Open-Source Imagery Analysis Program
Autodesk, Inc. announced AutoCAD for Mac software. Meanwhile a mobile version called AutoCAD WS will be available free on Apple’s App Store for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The free version is said to allow users to view, edit and share AutoCAD designs and make minor changes.
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» Read more: AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS App for iPad and iPhone
GPX2IMG allows users to imports standard GPX data files (tracks and waypoints) and lets you edit them. Then you can converts your track and waypoints to IMG Garmin map-compatible format by a few clicks of the mouse. You can installs the map file into MapSource or upload to your Garmin GPS unit
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» Read more: GPX2IMG : Convert GPX Files to Garmin Map Format
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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There are a lot of mapping applications for the iPhone, but real mobile GIS software is not common yet. Users want to step further and includes not only geolocation capabilities but also visualization of different map layers from different sources, which can be overlayed. iExtMap is the answer, a mobile GIS Viewer for IPhone, IPod Touch and IPad devices.
iExtMap is a free viewer for ArcGIS Server, WMS and KML/GeoRSS. Users can also see static map tiles with it.
If You need a Peta Mudik 2010 as a guiding your hometown, here you can get the print version of the map, map application for mobile phones or smartphones and GPS digital maps for GPS devices in cars such as the Garmin Nuvi. It is also available interactive maps that can be accessed online as provided by TempoInteraktif.com.
Download ATOM GPS its Free!! Atom GPS is a freeware to simply geotags your photos directly from your camera or your GPS track log. Easily connect your GPS Device to Atom GPS, and select your photos, you can add your geolocation with a single click. This action allows you to write the geolocation data to photos EXIFS (information stored about your pictures including date, time and other such information about your photos). This free GPS software supports all popular digital cameras and GPS devices and GPS log files! By geotagging your photos, you can be sorted by geographical location, easy to navigate, and also upload photos to Google Earth, Google Maps, Panoramio, locr, Flickr.
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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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Here is list 49 GPS Software for Linux, open source freeware available for free download.
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.
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