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Created on November 03, 2009
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Volume 3 / Issue 43/ November 3, 2009
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PERSPECTIVES

How does sustainable development relate to the business of geospatial technologies?
"The idea of long-term maintenance is an essential component of sustainability. Individually, thinking about every purchase is the way to combat our throw away culture, and to place fewer stresses on our planet. Wrapping your business plan around the concept of sustainable development means a long-term commitment to customers that delivers value and maximizes their efficiency."
-- Matt Ball, editor Americas/Asia Pacific, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
TOP STORIES
FEATURES

Quantifying and Analyzing Farm Sustainability
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have released the Illinois Farm Sustainability Calculator (IFSC), an open-source, spreadsheet-based model capable of quantifying and analyzing various measures of environmental sustainability for any farm in the state of Illinois.

 

As humans, we have an innate and natural tendency to establish patterns and associations in our environment. Consider for a moment, the capability of the human brain to “process millions of visual, acoustic, olfactory, tactile, and motor data, and…the astonishing ability to learn from experience, generalize from learned rules, recognize patterns, and make decisions”.
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TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK
Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week
  1. CO2Net - Carbon Dioxide Knowledge Sharing Network
  2. SINTEF Norway - is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia.
  3. FIG Paper - Spatial Planning and Climate Change Adaption in Coastal Regions: The Case of Vietnam
  4. GMES Library - global monitoring for environment and security
  5. Scottish Natural Heritage - all of nature for all of Scotland
Matt's Top Five Links of the Week
  1. The GIS Institute -- Connecting climate, conservation and geotechnology.
  2. FieldScope -- A site from National Geographic for collaborative mapping education.
  3. Cartography 2.0 -- A guide to animated and interactive online maps.
  4. Maps of the Peace Corps -- Personal maps from volunteers over five decades of service.
  5. The Top 100 Urban Thinkers - A list of creative and effective planners from Planetizen.
Reader´s Links of the Week

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  1. EOPORTAL - eoPortal aims to open the door to the world of Earth Observation resources
  2. Merlin Flight Simulation Group
  3. Healthy City

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REVIEW
Rethinking Maps
thumb-rethinking_maps75Today the discussion surrounding maps and cartography is growing. The Internet is allowing more people in different places to experience map use digitally through a wide variety of devices. This use is creating questions about maps, mapping and cartography. Editors Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins have gathered togather a collection of contributors, each writing about the changing nature of maps, cartography and their use. The book 'Rethinking Maps - New frontiers in cartographic theory' is not only about mapping today, it describes where mapping might be in the future and provides insightful considerations for thinking about the many changes happening in the pursuit of cartography.
EVENT COVERAGE

HP - From Print to Communication

hp75_thumbThe HP - Press Event 2009 was recently held in Barcelona, Spain. The two-day event included a tour of the Institute of Advanced Architecture (Iaac) in the center of the city accompanied by formal presentations from members of the HP Research Print facilities in nearby San Cugat together with a tour and presentations at those facilities. The event highlighted HP's move from being a print company to become a design communication company.

Be Inspired Event Highlights Top Bentley Practitioners

Bentley held its annual infrastructure best practices and awards ceremony in Charlotte, North Carolina from Oct. 12-14. This year’s invite-only Be Inspired seminar and awards event highlighted the best work of Bentley software customers from 6 continents and 21 countries in disciplines ranging from the design of bridges, buildings and plants to cadastre and land development, communications, transportation, mining and metals and water and wastewater.
INTERVIEWS
Open Land Data Ensures Transparency

Bruce JoffeThe non-profit California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) sued the county of Santa Clara, California in 2006 over the fees they charge for their GIS parcel basemap data. The long battle ended a few months ago, with the court ruling that the county has to end their high fees for data, and pay attorney fees of $500K. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Bruce Joffe, of GIS Consultants in Oakland, Calif., a key advisor to the Coalition.
HEADLINE NEWS
CALENDAR

Hydro9, Nov 10-12, Cape Town, South Africa

Agritechnica 09, Nov 10-14, Hanover, Germany

2009 ESRI Middle East and North Africa User Conference, Nov. 10-12, Manama, Bahrain

4th International Conference - Climate and Natural Resources, Nov. 10-11, Ismailia, Egypt

Farm Forum Event , Nov. 17-18, Saskatoon, Canada

National GIS in Transit Conference, Nov. 16-18, St. Petersburg, Florida

National GIS Conference in Denmark, Nov. 18-20, Kortdage, Denmark

Geospatial Data Cyber Infrastructure and Real-time Services, Nov. 25 -27, Hyderabad, India

Autodesk University, Dec. 1-3, Las Vegas

Map India, Jan. 19-21, Gurgaon, India
TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
VECTOR ONE SPATIAL SUSTAIN
  1. Landscapes of GIS Knowledge Maps
  2. EURO Super 95 Map
  3. Picking Wine Grapes By Satellite Images
  4. H1N1 India: Graphs and Maps
  5. Soil Maps of Canada
  1. Google's Map Missteps Point to Importance of Trusted Data
  2. China Maps Antarctica at Unprecendented Resolution
  3. Indian 'Iceman' Builds New Glaciers
  4. Google Adds Turn-By-Turn Navigation
  5. Is Google Developing a Navigation App?

Map India Conference
BOOKSTORE

The KML Handbook: Geographic Visualization for the Web (2008)

By Josie Sernecke

This book explores KML, which began as the file format for Google Earth. It has evolved into a full-fledged international standard for describing any geographic content—the “HTML of geography.”

Modeling Spatio-Temporal Databases: Approaches for Modeling and Indexing Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Databases (2009)

By Hatem Halaoui

The book presents a variety of approaches in the fields of spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal database modeling and indexing.
By Michael Siegel, Maxine Lurie, Peter O. Wacker
This interpretive atlas of the state traces changes in environment, land use patterns, demography, transportation, economy, and politics over the course of many centuries.

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