tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72702451078198470442026-08-19T21:49:07.683-07:00Opendata, Public domain GIS data and Free GIS data repositories and clearinghouses. Are you still paying commercial data resources for Free, public domain GIS data? If so STOP IT and WAKE UP!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7270245107819847044.post-84525755928962422852011-12-19T10:53:00.000-08:002011-12-19T10:53:22.165-08:00

A few open data resources of interest for those hacking and mashing up data in Canada... OpenDataBc - http://www.opendatabc.ca/ BC data http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/ Data BC Apps Page - http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/dbc/apps/index.page? BC Government eteam MapServer list of data services - http://maps.gov.bc.ca/arcserver/rest/services/eteam/eteam/MapServer Nanaimo BC Open data layers - http://

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A useful transofrmation tool from NOAA - vDatum. VDatum is a free software tool being developed jointly by NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS), and Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS). VDatum is designed to vertically transform geospatial data among a variety of tidal, orthometric and ellipsoidal vertical datums -

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A handy data visualization resource from Google - The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings. http://www.google.com/

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Learn how one security analyst from a Fortune 500 company, used a GRC tool to automate management of IT controls, verify compliance with policy, and document everything for auditors. This guide covers the steps and procedures to passing an IT GRC audit -- as told by an enterprise end-user who deployed QualysGuard Policy Compliance. The tool allowed the audit team to be more productive by

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Learn how organizations are successfully leveraging the momentum of social web services to increase loyalty, brand value, and revenue by implementing open source Drupal to build enterprise social communities. Innovations in consumer social web services create both opportunity and risk for your enterprise. Your customers and employees are increasingly gathering in online communities of

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This month the Government of B.C Canada and their newly created DataBC effort is planning a hackathon, the first ever from Data BC, the Government’s open data initiative.  The event invites anyone from the public who enjoys working with public data products to participate. Ideally, those who are web developers, programmers, writers and the like will get most benefit from the event

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Adobe and Sony are challenging developers, agencies, and content creators to build breakthrough apps for the upcoming “Sony Tablet” devices using the Adobe® Flash® Platform for a chance to win $200,000 in total cash prizes, premium promotion on Sony Tablet devices, conference passes and paid travel to the Adobe MAX developer conference in Los Angeles, and more prizes. Enter the challenge at

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The latest from ABI Research... Nokia’s 88.5 million handsets ‘sold-in’ during Q2 are 20 million units less than it sold in its previous quarter. It equates to 7.5 million fewer smartphones and 12.5 million fewer feature phones shipped for a crushing 18.4% sequential drop for the former leader of the mobile device industry. Nokia’s share of smartphone shipments into

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Additional geography layers that are matched to the highly accurate NAVTEQ® map at the street centerline include a new Congressional district layer as well as: State boundaries County boundaries Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) Minor Civil Division (MCD) See more info

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Azavea Releases Source Code for OpenDataPhilly।org To Enable Municipalities and Open Government Groups to Create Their Own Open Data - Written using Django, Python and PostgreSQL, Open Data Catalog is intended to display information and links to publicly available data in an easily searchable format। The code also includes options for data owners to submit datasets for consideration, for

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From Esri… For a $100 annual fee, the ArcGIS for Home Use 12-month term license includes: ArcViewArcGIS 3D AnalystArcGIS Geostatistical AnalystArcGIS Network AnalystArcGIS PublisherArcGIS SchematicsArcGIS Spatial AnalystArcGIS Tracking Analyst The ArcGIS for Home Use program is available worldwide. ArcGIS for Home Use makes GIS available to everyone. This offer is ideal for existing ArcGIS

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How about a Google tip... Essential Guide to Google Apps You're running your own business, have a website, and your own email address. It's great because it gives you that professional edge. Now you're getting lots of emails, and you need an efficient way to read them and manage them. You could use desktop clients like Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird or Apple Mail, but it's a pain to set

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Here's a handy tool for some coordination conversion routines... The State Plane Coordinate system provides coordinates on a flat grid for easy computation while maintaining a difference between geodetic and grid distance of one part in 10,000 or better. The utilities in this package provide methods for converting between Geodetic Positions and State Plane Coordinates - check it out at http://

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Here's a handy tip for you Ubuntu fans - The Ubuntu Karmic Koala Bible is a guide that's both great for Linux initiates, and invariably useful for Linux intermediates. With over fifty pages of copy-paste tutorials, this guide belongs in the virtual library of every Linux user! Makeuseof.com will walk you through the installation process, meanwhile shedding some extra light on the partitioning

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ERDAS is providing access to datasets that illustrate the devastation in Japan after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011. This data is being supplied free of charge as a community service. ERDAS will add new imagery, maps and vectors as they become available. To see the imagery, please visit http://erdas.com/Resources/DisasterRelief/JapanRelief.aspx

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Woolpert announced today it has been awarded a three-year, $4.6 million contract to provide 1-foot resolution orthophotography and elevation data for the entire state of Indiana. The imagery and elevation data will be used by numerous state agencies, and will be shared with county governments for use in applications such as tax assessment, property management, economic development and flood

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You probably use Google when you are looking for something on the Web. But do you know who founded the company and why it is unique? Here's the inside scoop. Authors David Vise and Mark Malseed tell the story of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in fast-moving, energetic prose, from start-up to triumph. The authors spend little time considering any of the possible negative aspects

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OSM is still growing at fast pace. With the availability of high resolution imagery from Bing Maps it became possible to trace also objects such as buildings for OSM. Now the number of buildings in OSM has reached 30 million. These buildings are for example used in projects such as http://www.OSM-3D.org where you can fly though a 3D scence generated from free and user generated data based on

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From the ArcGIS Online blog, Esri has announced that use of ArcGIS online basemap data is free… totally free, and that includes for commercial use as well! From Esri… “As of the end of January, ArcGIS Online basemaps published and hosted by Esri are now freely available to all users regardless of commercial, noncommercial, internal, or external use. This means that you no longer have to pay a

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This launch on Apple iOS means that the affordable and popular ViewRanger Open Maps edition is now globally available on all three of the most widely owned smartphone OS (Android , Symbian and Apple). It comes with access to a range of global Open Mapping layers from street, terrain to aerial photo and is now available for just US$0.99/AU$1.19/NZ$1.29/GB£0.59/€0.79 for an introductory period (

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The Raster Roam Search will display the requested NGA standard raster product over the area of interest. An area can be selected by clicking on the image map, providing a center point, or by defining the center point using the GEOnet Names Server http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/rast_roam.html

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North Dakota GIS Hub has many new web services including tiled base maps and the Esri REST interface.More information including an important notification for current users of the Hub’s Web Map Services (WMS), raster services, and feature services can be found at http://www.nd.gov/gis/news/201102.html .

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A Free White Paper Tip -Learn how Cloud Computing frees up budget for companies hand-cuffed by IT expenses. Instead of purchasing software licenses and hardware for new employees and locations, businesses simply add accounts to expand computing capacity. This paper surveys cloud computing today: What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it? What are its payoffs and pitfalls? This

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Via the Indiana Geographic Information Council... The Indiana NAIP 2010 imagery is available for viewing online through two Indiana Spatial Data Portal (ISDP) webmap services http://gis.iu.edu/viewdata.html Color IR: ISDP/IN_2010_orthos_cir_naip (MapServer) Natural Color: ISDP/IN_2010_orthos_naip (MapServer) The Natural Color service is also available to view online via the ISDP javascript

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Via the Australia Bureau of Meterology - The Bureau collects and uses data from satellites in the World Meteorological Organization's World Weather Watch system. This satellite information enables national weather services like the Bureau to monitor day to day weather conditions and longer term climate change over the entire globe. Several different types of satellite images are available and we

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