GIS and Spatial Statistics training - Italy

Looking for an excuse to go to Italy for a few days? Hands-on geostatistics "Merging GIS and Spatial Statistics" is an intensive 5-days training course with balanced combination of theoretical and practical training (29 Jan-3 Feb 2007, Naples, Italy) . The training course is limited to 30 participants so act fast. The deadline to register for the course is 10 December 2006. The final list of participants will be selected based on academic excellence, research topic and early registration. For more details see http://geostat.pedometrics.org

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop tops amazon in June

Something I wasn't aware of until recently... In January 2006 the popular title Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop (a book about ESRI’s software) was the number one selling technology title on Amazon.com illustrating the breadth of use of geographic information in organisations today. Source of information, ESRI UK. For more on GTKAG see http://store.esri.com/esri/

Giving thanks

Oops.. I almost forgot to wish you all a happy thanksgiving. I'm still north of the 49th but having spent several years in Florida I did get quite used to celebrating thanksgiving in November (rather than early October like they do here and I simply can't get used to). I hope all of you celebrating have enjoyed your day and are having a good time with family and friends. I'll use this as a chance to show off a couple of things (4 actually) that I'm thankful for (see image to the right - I'm also thankful for Jen too but she doesn't like being in pictures on the web ;). We're all preparing for our journey to Fort Collins which will start next week and I'm looking forward to meeting up with a few of you Colorado-based readers once I get there.. stay tuned and once again happy thanksgiving.

Census Survey of Manufactures: Geographic Area Statistics

Just released by the US Census bureau... 2005 Annual Survey of Manufactures: Geographic Area Statistics — State-level data for industry groups at the three-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) level. Includes statistics on employment, payroll, value added by manufacture, cost of materials consumed, value of shipments and total capital expenditures. See http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/am0531as1.pdf

Flickr Goes Mobile with m.flickr.com and cameraphone enhancements

An update from the crew at flickr was launched this week in the form of a new, mobile friendly resource. Enter m.flickr.com. also new this week is a "most popular" camera resource. From the flickr blog... We've updated our long-dormant and seemingly left-for-dead mobile site with a lot of new stuff. The highlights include recent activity, recent comments, support for Y! ID based login, search, and a new easier to type URL: http://m.flickr.com. As an example, see the GIsuser mobile flickr stream. Interested in knowing what kind of cameraphones people are using most for their moblogging via flickr? You can access this info via http://www.flickr.com/cameras/ A quick look shows us the following cameraphones are the most popular:
Sony Ericsson K750i Nokia N70 Nokia N73 Sony Ericsson K800i Sony Ericsson W800i - More details of these flickr updates can be found on Stuart Butterfield's flickr blog - See also the GISuser flickr blog

google maps updates... KML within gmaps, Google page creator, path and poly...

Some interesting updates from the gmaps crew recently hit the google maps API weblog. Imagine this... view KML files with google maps...

To view a KML or KMZ file on Maps, just go to Google Maps, and instead of searching for a geographical address like 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, 94043, search for a complete Web address (including the "http://" part) of your KMZ file, like http://kml.lover.googlepages.com/cropcircles.kmz. Also suggested... do you need your own web space to upload some files? Try Google Page Creator. http://pages.google.com/ View entire photo sets as self-contained KMZ files, as exported by Picasa. See more on how to do this via http://hikesandbikes.blogspot.com/2006/10/life-of-geolocated-blog-post.html Finally, path and polygon drawing tools are now in the free November 1 beta of Google Earth. More on the latest beta at http://earth.google.com/earth4-beta6.html - thanks to the gmaps API blog for these updates!

Where 2.0 2007

Where 2.0 2007 -- Add this one to your calendar and please note that the conference dates have been rescheduled to May 29-30. Its still a few months away but heavy into the planning stages already. If you want to catch THE event on creating value in your business from location and location enabling technologies then Where 2.0 is a must attend. Best of all, with the new date the event will not clash with the ESRI UC as previously thought... nice! See you in San Jose! http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2007/

GPS Holiday Shopping for techies

Here's one for you... GPShopper (www.gpshopper.com) according to the company is the first ever local mobile phone product search. With big name retailers and over 50 million products, GPShopper and its Slifter (www.slifter.com) technology allows consumers to receive up-to-the-minute product availability, location and pricing right on their cell phones... I'mnot much of a shopper but this sounds quite cool!

GPS data logger integration with Google Earth

Telespial Systems is providing government agencies from around the world the tools needed to help manage and deploy asset and geographical data during times of emergency. According to the company, the Trackstick line of products are rapidly becoming the standard GPS data collection tool for local and federal government agencies across the globe. The Trackstick Pro is an advanced GPS data logger capable of continuously recording its own location histories for extended periods of time and coolest of all it integrates with Google Earth for some interesting results and uses. The Trackstick Pro records Date, Time, Location, Speed, Direction, Altitude, Signal Strength and Temperature. All information can be instantly “dumped” via the included USB cable and software. For more on this see http://www.trackstickpro.com/googlefederal.htm