Posts Tagged ‘GIS Tools’

ikiMap : Free Web Service to Create and Share Your Maps

September 3rd, 2010

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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Download ArcGIS Explorer Build 1500

August 26th, 2010

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.

» Read more: Download ArcGIS Explorer Build 1500

GPS Navigation System in Glasses

August 23rd, 2010

The Nakajima Lab at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo was developed the Wearable Personal Navigation System.

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 Places – Geolocation Sharing Feature

August 20th, 2010

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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GIS Viewer for iPhone

August 19th, 2010

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.

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OpenStreetMap in Microsoft Bing

August 17th, 2010

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.

» Read more: OpenStreetMap in Microsoft Bing

Create Geologic Cross Sections in ArcMap

August 10th, 2010

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

August 5th, 2010

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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Blueprint for Creating an Open Source Web Map

July 24th, 2010

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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OpenSeaMap – Free Nautical Map

July 23rd, 2010

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.

» Read more: OpenSeaMap – Free Nautical Map

Free GeoTagger Add-In for ArcGIS Desktop 10

July 22nd, 2010

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.

To install:

  1. Download this contribution to your computer,
  2. Unzip the file,
  3. Double click on the .esriAddIn file.

To uninstall:

  1. In ArcMap, select Customize > AddIn Manager,
  2. Select “ESRI.PrototypeLab.GeoTagger”,
  3. Click “Delete this AddIn”.

How to use:

  1. Start ArcMap,
  2. Add any basemap,
  3. Display the geotagger toolbar (Customize > View > Geotagger),
  4. Click the only button on the toolbar to display the geotagger window,
  5. Drag and drop (or copy/paste) text from an email, web page or any other document,
  6. Click the Options button (3rd from right) and enter your metacarta username and password. This step is only required once. Visit the following web site to request a free 30 day trial.   http://accounts.metacarta.com
  7. Click the Search button (3th from right),
  8. Geotagged text will appear as hyperlinks. Hover over the links to view geotagging metadata or right click to interact (zoom/pan) with the tag.


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GeoTagger Add-In for ArcGIS Desktop 10

Coordinate Metadata Viewer in Photoshop CS5

July 15th, 2010

Adobe has released a free plug-in that adds GPS data panel as coordinate metadata viewer for its Creative Suite 5 software applications including Photoshop CS5, Bridge CS5, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator and InDesign.

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Dynamic Charting for ArcGIS Desktop 10

July 15th, 2010

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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ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap

July 11th, 2010

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.

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Store & Access Geospatial Data Easily

June 24th, 2010

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.

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