Andrew’s bloggage update: Created a video of some of the cool Wikimedia Atlas of European maps. Downloaded the images, rubber sheeted them and composited each map sheet in YouTube - if you squint you’ll see the four red dots I used as projection reference. This is a useful skill as crowd-sourcing emerges as a tool for good, be it for ...

While we quickly tweeted OpenStreetMap efforts regarding the crisis in Nepal, we haven’t posted on the blog yet, which we now do! There are numerous places where you’ll find info and status reports, but I suspect the best place to start is with the Nepal earthquake OpenStreetMap wiki page. From the page: “Our goal is to contribute to humanitarian ...

Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode. On the open source / open data front: Registration is open for the FOSS4G-Europe conference in Como, Italy, July 14-17 Anyone can now register to the FOSS4G in Seoul September 14-19 The OSGeo and the ISPRS signed a MoU You can sign the Open Letter of the Need for Open Standards ...

Maplim – The Easiest Way to Collaborate on a Map. GIS Cloud is happy to announce the release of the newest addition to their app family: Maplim - an application that delivers the fastest and most intuitive real-time collaboration on a map using any device. The Idea behind Maplim While Maplim is simple on the outside and super easy to ...

Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode. From the open source / open data front: Beautiful progress and maps, The first ten years of OpenStreetMap, nice progress map, and somewhat related, Mapping turn restrictions and speed limits with Mapillary (crowdsourced Street Level photos ) A new open source database, GeoWave aims at linking popular geospatial tools to “big data” ...

Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode. On the open source / open data front: That’s fast development, the open source Web GIS Turf 1.4.0 has been released with several new interesting features, if you don’t know Turf, look at it now, it’s part of our geofuture I learned about OpenChargeMap in this discussion named Japan Now Has More Car ...

Bloggage update: As I went solo in the new year, I collected my previous works also seen in the blog banner map gallery, and posted the Esri maps as a map story. I was inspired by the Smithsonian’s use of this vehicle, which Dawn Wright pointed out to me, after I published a feature on Map Stories in the Anthropocene Review. This follows ...

The first batch-mode edition of the geonews. On the open source / open data front: There’s a new free course Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS (from Feb 23 - Mar 29) which also has content on GitHub Beautiful and simple, How to: watercolor pastel style in QGIS Announced is the FOSS4G-Europe conference, this time in Como, Italy, ...

Frisco, TX — ThinkGeo has updated their Map Suite GIS Editor application, designed for Geographic Information System professionals. The upgrade includes a number of new features, bug fixes, and stability improvements. This is a major product update and the most significant update since the product was first released. The latest release includes the latest Map Suite World Map Kit Online base-map ...

In December we mentioned the now-successful crowdfunding initiative for The Book of OpenStreetMap, to be written by Steve Coast, the founder of OpenStreetMap. During the Holiday Break, Steve Coast participated to a live reddit “Ask Me Anything” session on OpenStreetMap, and there’s a lot of pretty interesting discussion in there. And Steve did answer my own question Here’s some snippets: ...