It’s been a slow month for GIS news, so I’m going to bullet point this one: Just when people were starting to get used to the idea of HTML5, the W3C announced they're dropping the 5. That's right - the HTML spec is
The North Carolina GIS Conference is in Raleigh from February 16-18. We have an outstanding program lined up this year. It’s among the best GIS conferences you’ll find anywhere in the country, and with a registration fee
Via opensource.com, the US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundr, Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy Daniel Gordon, and US Imaginary Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel sent a brief m
Either it was a slow month or I was a slow witness the last 30 days. Here are a few things that managed to grab my toy-addled attention. Esri made some news this month with the widely expected announcement of a certifica
I just downloaded the 5.0 update for Google Maps for Android on my Droid 2 and, well, holy crap. 3D buildings with an intuitive touch interface, compass mode, offline caching (and offline routing for cached data), FAST (
Via Reddit, multigesture.net has mapped all of the Wikileaks mirrors and made them available as KML files, including as lines connecting the mirror locations to the original source, as well as points with and without lab
The international open data hackathon is happening on December 4th. What is this? It’s a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications using open public data to show support for and encourage the
If you’re a Silverlight developer, hold up your hand. Then put your face in it. After the Microsoft PDC event featured almost no talk of Silverlight whatsoever, Microsoft finally stated what Ars correctly surmised should
Mecklenburg County’s Public Service & Information department put together a great video on our GIS Day 2010 Expo.
Via canvasdemos, check out this cool 3D planet viewer. Planets include Earth, Mars, and the moon, with data coming from the NASA WorldWind dataset. The images are rendered on a sphere that allows for rotation, panning a