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"The devel­op­ment and release of 3D GIS is a major step for­ward into the future. It will undoubt­edly cause a stir, sev­eral peo­ple to scratch their heads and unleash a wave of new think­ing that we have not expe­ri­enced in the geo­com­mu­nity for quite some time. It will cross dis­ci­plines, open doors and stir the pot of con­tented indi­vid­u­als who thought we had gone as far as we could go. Visu­al­iza­tion is poised to sky rocket in terms of activ­ity due to new ways for inter­pret­ing prob­lems, under­stand­ing their nature and rep­re­sent­ing their inter­ac­tions. Is 3D GIS about to rev­o­lu­tion­ize visualization?"
-- Jeff Thurston, editor - Europe, Middle East & Africa

Jeff's Top 5 Links of the Week

1. SafeLand - Living with landslide risk in Europe: Assessment, effects of global change,
   and risk management strategies.
2. Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture
3. Digital Soil Mapping - IUSS working group on digital soil mapping.
4. Map Projections for Europe
5. Forests, landscapes and governance: multiple actors, multiple roles

Matt's Top 5 Links of the Week

1. AvantGame - Game design and game theory for real life.
2. DigitalNode - A business that specializes in training materials for Autodesk geospatial products.
3. Satellites Orbiting the Earth - An infographic on Flickr showing global makeup of satellite constellations.
4. The Secret Life of Things - Website with EcoDesign resources.
5. Wide Noise - Noise detection in realtime worldwide.

Reader's Top Links of the Week (Submit your links to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

• Geolenz - contextual geotagging
• Book: A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping

Paul Ramsey has been an open geospatial advocate for some time and is deeply involved in PostGIS and MapServer development and project consulting. Paul was the keynote speaker at last year’s Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSS4G), and teaches many workshops to help others develop solutions with this technology. He works for OpenGeo, a company that has just released the OpenGeo Suite, a productized stack of optimized open geospatial technologies. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Ramsey regarding this new suite of tools, and about the status of open geospatial tools in general.

1. imagina 2010: Dassault Systems Moving into the Digital City
2. imagina 2010: 3D Digital Towns and Cities
3. imagina Round Table : The Benefits of 3D fr Architecture, Sustainable City Mgt, Urban Design
4. Avatar Stereoscopy Imaging 3D at imagina
5. Korea Spatial Data Infrastructure - GIS

1. USGS Budget Cuts Hit Geospatial
2. Autodesk's Purchase of Dynamite Unlocks Civil3D Visualization Workflows
3. USGS Budget Justification Laments the Mapping Partnership Loss
4. Microsoft and ESRI Address Need for Fused Data
5. The Land Change Modeler from Clark Labs Gets Support from Google.org

Land administration plays a unique role in solving sustainability issues. It involves an integrated approach that includes several common factors that can be applied around the world, even though their actual implementation can differ from country to country. Our relationship to the land includes both physical and cognitive factors and these connect to wider topics related to law, regulation and legislation. The authors of this book provide a wealth of information for understanding land administration systems and how future spatial data infrastructure may incorporate new processes leading toward sustainability.

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