The GIS in Action Video Contest

Geography in Action is the theme for this year’s conference so, ESRI wants to see GIS in action via ESRI user submitted videos. Create an amateur video demonstrating GIS in action, tag it with "GIS in Action Video Contest" and upload it to your favorite video sharing site (youtube, Ovi, flickr, etc...) See more at http://www.esri.com/events/uc/submit_work/gis_in_action.html

Team Phoenix to compete as a finalist in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Competition with taxibuses

What a cool story out of Telogis. A group of four students from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, calling themselves Team Phoenix, have been selected as a finalist to compete in the Imagine Cup 2008 worldwide finals to take place in Paris July 3–8, 2008. This year the Microsoft competition is challenging young programmers around the world to “Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment.”

At the core of Team Phoenix’s Taxibus solution is GeoBase mapping software by Telogis. The software solution uses GeoBase to determine the routes for taxibuses to take and to give a powerful visualization of the simulation. See more about the app in the news

LightPole allows Movable Type bloggers to geo-tag their entries

LightPole, Inc., a mobile application service provider focused on the "Long Tail" publishing market, co-developed a Movable Type plug-in with SixApart that allows Movable Type bloggers to geo-tag their entries, add and manage related points of interest (POIs) and publish feeds that can be used to create LightPole channels – seamlessly delivering content to their readers' mobile phones.

Details... The GeoType Plug-In for Movable Type allows you to associate locations with blog entries. It creates locations for each blog entry, which are pushpin points that appear on a single map. Also, a map can be shown which displays all of the locations for the entire blog. Locations can be found using addresses or by scrolling the map, so you do not need to find or lookup the coordinates for your location like many other plug-ins force you to do. The plug-in also allows for these blog entries to be published to mobile devices using the LightPole Publishing System.

To download the plug-in point to your browser see http://plugins.movabletype.org/geotype/

For additional instruction, check out the documentation at http://blog.lightpole.net/plugins/docs/index.html

Google Maps API Blog gone, enter the Google Geo Dev blog

Yes, that's correct, Google is no longer supporting the Google Maps API blog - http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com - but, there's a new blog on the corner, The Google Geo Developers Blog.

URISA Rocky Mountain open standards meet reminder

If you plan on being in the denver area around July 22 then bookmark this one... When: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, from 9:00AM to 4:00PM. Lunch is included.

Where: USGS Building 810 Main Auditorium, Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, CO.
Web and reg. http://rm-urisa.org/eregistration.html

The following presenters will provide an in-depth background on how to use open data standards in a variety of apps.

The Timoney Group
ESRI
CH2M Hill
Data Transfer Solutions, LLC
Idea Integration

More jobs, jobs, jobs - Marketing Managers

A couple of interesting employment opps are now available.. one for a marketing Manager (cool as I know a few who like to change hats frequently!)... ANNOVA Tech is currently looking to fill the position of Marketing Manager with a self-motivated and energetic professional looking to make an impact on ANNOVA's newly started sales and marketing efforts. This job is in sunny San Diego!

Another cool opp exists in Vancouver , BC where WINBC is looking for a Marketing Coordinator - this a great team and has a bright future in my mind! see details [pdf]

and a shameless reminder, seekout and post your GIS related jobs for FREEEE at our GISuser Career center - good luck ya'll

Twitter Goes over capacity again and again

Here we go again... Twitter is once again over capacity due to too much volume. The company has been slammed a fair bit lately and the constant slow through put and messages like this aren't going to help much. I guess I'll go over to Jaiku (www.jaiku.com) for now! Obviously this is due to the growing number of users that seek to have 5000+ freinds and followers etc... this problem is also going to hit facebook as well.

ERDAS Free Webinar—Image to Map

A little online edu coming your way via the ERDAS Free Webinar—Image to Map: Turn up Your Stereo (Feature Collection) . Coming webinars include:

July 10 – Image to Map: Turn up Your Stereo Feature Collection (Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS)
July 16 – Rapidly Connect & Share Your World (ERDAS TITAN)
July 17 – ERDAS IMAGINE 9.3…IMAGINE What’s Next!

To register for Image to Map: Turn up Your Stereo (Feature Collection), or find out more about other upcoming webinars see www.erdas.com.

Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information Services fights wildfires

Local firefighters down-under have an innovative new tool to help plan for the fire season. Online mapping and document exchange facilities funded through the Natural Disaster Mitigation Program and constructed by Atherton Tablelands Geographic Information Services (ATGIS) are now available to help rural firefighters and other stakeholders in wildfire mitigation, share information, plan and prepare for response to wildfire threats to the Northern Queensland community. For access to the Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project, please refer to: http://wildfire.atgis.com.au

The Nokia Free Hands Challenge

Here's a fun challenge that might put a cool N82 in your pocket... Set your hands free – with a Bluetooth headset, perhaps – and you’re free to play, free to create, free to communicate.

Every week the most popular video will win:
Nokia N82
Nokia Bluetooth headset BH-902
Enter at www.nokia.com/freehandschallenge

Tip - Nokia Push Email for all of us

A tip on a great service (Beta) that enables you to receive any email account on your mobile (some devices supported) via this great new service from Nokia.

Simply select your device, specify the email account you wish to access, verify info, then install the app on your device if supported - currently I don't see a Nokia N95 8GB???

You can grab it at http://email.nokia.com/

Happy Canada Day

Just realized (courtesy of a txt from Dad) that today is Canada day... have a great one you Canucks! I'll see if I can locate a Kokanee or similar later today, otherwise I'll have to settle for a Molson CDN... cheers!

Trimble Utilities Field Solutions webinar

This out of Trimble as the company has a series of webinars scheduled to kick off next week - A very high level overview of the solutions provided by Trimble Utilities Field Solutions. The session will include customer case studies and ROI based on specific in-use examples. The Trimble Utilities Field Solutions was created by utilities pros for utilities. Register for the free webinar to learn how you can better manage your assets, your time, and your people.
Dates:
Tuesday, July 8, 1:30PM-2:00PM EDT and
Thursday, July 10, 11:30PM-12:00PM EDT
Register HERE

New Image Fusion and Pan-Sharpening Software on the block

From Down-under, Geosage has just today announced their latest Image Fusion and Pan-Sharpening Software - DOS-based HighView (Version 3.0). From the company... "This latest version is specifically designed to rapidly process a large volume of the recent generation of high-resolution satellite imagery (QuickBird and IKONOS) and the future GeoEye-1 and WorldView-2 imagery. "

Anyone with QuickBird and IKONOS imagery in GeoTIFF format directly from DigitalGlobe and GeoEye data vendors is invited to evaluate the whole range of image pan-sharpening methods and enhancement options included in the software. With this utility program users now are able to conveniently process full scenes of QuickBird and IKONOS imagery to explore superior fused results. A fully-functional trial version is available at http://www.geosage.com/highview/features.html see also more details here

QuincyFloodInfo providesd information for the Mid-West flood of 2008

This comes to me from Shane in the Mid-west... Mid-West GIS, Inc, out of Quincy, Illinois recently developed the website www.QuincyFloodInfo.com in order to gather information for the flood of 2008 on one website. The site hosts weather, river gauge, photos, maps, archives, webcams, and contact information for assistance. During the crucial periods of the flood, more than 1,000 hits per day were being logged. It became a successful tool for many local residents, business owners, and government entities that needed updated information on a daily basis. It is the plan of Mid-West GIS, Inc. to use this same technology in the future for other disaster and emergency management issues. For more information you may contact Shane McDermott at shane@mid-westgis.com or (217) 222-7793.