Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Southern Alberta Ortho Project

Contents of this post are courtesy of Greg Chernoff of the Miistakis Institute

Just in case you didn't know about this A consortium of MD's in southern Alberta flew orthoimagery in 2012, and have made all the imagery freely available to the public. The link is  here. All you need to do is provide a valid email address, and you will be sent a link to access the data.

Data is in MrSID format, which is readable by most GIS software, or by a free application called GeoViewer.

Imagery was acquired in July 2012, and is 0.5m pixel resolution. They are true-colour (RGB) images, so good for identifying features and general land cover classification, but not likely so good for more detailed analysis.

Kudos to the MD's involved for opening this data up to the public, and to MD Willow Creek for organizing and hosting the data.

Monday, August 19, 2013

MapBox announces near real-time imagery coming soon

The world of imagery is changing...

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2013/07/mapbox-announces-near-real-time-imagery-coming-soon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleEarthBlog+%28Google+Earth+Blog%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

CBC Spark 199: Scouts, Apps, Maps

Have a listen to episode 199 of CBC spark.  It provides interesting insight into the future of collaborative digital mapping.  The episode covers the following topics:

Mapping the Canadian Arctic


A History of Maps


Digital Scout Troops


In Defense of the Paper Map


The Future of Maps


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Thursday, August 15, 2013

ArcGIS Online for your Local Government

Some of you may be interested in this...

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/07/24/arcgis-online-for-your-local-government/