Friday, March 19, 2010

Out with Hawth's Tools, in with GME

Hi everyone;

I don't know how many of you previously used the Hawth's Tools extension in ArcGIS - for those of you who haven't, it was (is) a free extension with all kinds of really valuable analysis, conversion, and data management tools.

Unfortunately, many of the modules in Hawth's Tools stopped working in newer versions of ArcGIS.

Luckily though, Hawthorne has developed a replacement for Hawth's Tools, called GME. It's still free, though there is an option to make a donation to support the Tool's continued development.

I don't know how many of you are familiar with this extension and its capabilities, but I think it might be of general use/interest to many of you.

Have a great Friday and weekend,
greg

Example of GIS Data Consolidation

The City of Houston recently began the move to a more centralized system. Read the details here:

http://www.govtech.com/736224

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

New Openess Directive

The US Government has released a Directive that relates to data access.

FYI

http://www.govtech.com/734482

Friday, March 5, 2010

APPLIED GIS-RS LISTSERVE

Good Morning everyone;

As mentioned at the last Technical Committee Meeting, I am passing on a link to the Applied GIS and Remote Sensing Listserve, that might be of general/practical interest to many of you. Here is the link:

http://www.matox.com/agisrs/Applied_GIS_RS_Member_Map.html

To join the listserve, follow the instructions in the left, under the heading "How to Join" (duh....). When you send your email to join, the instructions that come back to you will be in french (the listserve is hosted from Laval University in QC, PQ) - so you will either have to ask Patricia to translate for you ;-) or just intuit the procedure - it's basically the same as any other list I've ever joined (send email, receive verification, verify, ...).

The subject matter discussed ranges broadly, from non-software-specific technical questions (e.g. how do I build my own DEM?) to new or existing data sets to conference and publication info. I've included a sample posting below, just because I think it's really cool!

Have a great weekend,
greg

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This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg ramming into the Mertz Glacier Tongue in Eastern Antarctica in early February. The collision caused a chunk of the glacier’s tongue to snap off, giving birth to another iceberg nearly as large as B-9B.

More at:

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMUD27K56G_index_0.html


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