BlinkGeo

In an odd and serendipitous way, I managed to stumble across this article by Newsweek titled "Making the Ultimate Map: When Digital Geography Teams Up with Wireless Technology and the Web, the World Takes on Some New Dimensions." It showed up on this one RSS feed. It's dated June 7, 2004. This article is a great little find that gives some great perspective on just how quickly the geospatial...

Google has officially released Map Maker [via Google Lat Long], a collaborative set of tools that allow users to contribute data for use in countries/regions where Google Maps does not have very good data/coverage. This is taking the concept of crowd-sourcing even more mainstream than the Big G’s efforts in India. At present, the list of countries where Map Maker can be used is relatively...

So it's officially been three months since I joined the twittersphere and began to engage in what I hoped would be a 'micro-platform' for collaboration and information exchange. I figured it might be good to post some of my thoughts and observations about Twitter, and whether indeed it has served as a valuable tool. So here goes... I am using Twhirl as my default client for following and tweeting....

Here's an interesting use of Twitter by the State of Utah: http://twitter.com/UtahGov /statuses/838685656 Unfortunately, the link in the 'tweet' was cut off (and the word geospatial is misspelled), but I think this is a pretty cool use of Twitter by a state government. A good example of a government using an additional gateway for dissemination of updates and other relevant news to some of its...

Geospatial Reddit is up to 152 subscribers. Good deal. I encourage you to join in and post/vote (up or down)/comment on links/stories/posts that are relevant to the geospatial community. Not sure how Reddit works? No problem, just check out this help page, and you will be redditing in no time....

First, the good: I have released a new Feed Blend into the wild. The ESRI Spiced Feed Blend combines many of the ESRI blogs with one feed from Autodesk (Geoff Zeiss' "Between the Poles" blog). You can get the RSS feed here, and the OPML file here. I hope to incorporate other GIS software 'corporate' blogs into the blend in the future. I had originally blended a whole bunch of feeds, including...

Kudos to Andrew Turner for taking a non geospatially enabled data set of Green Buildings in California and quickly converting it to KML for easy geo-consumption and geo-distribution. (I'm inserting a pause here for all the KML haters to raise their eyebrows/roll their eyes).... .... .... ....(okay, on with it-and to all the KML-haters: remember, don't hate the player, hate the game). Anyway,...