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The long holiday weekend means that we are heading out to visit relatives in western Colorado. Seems like the perfect excuse to have an open thread. See you guys next week.

Denver-based Intermap Technologies has signed on a provider of geographic information system (GIS) software to its map data, the firm said this morning.... (more)

Finally, it’s finnished: My Master Thesis. Topic: Development of a distributed Service Framework for Location-based Decision Support Year: 2008 Abstract: Progresses in the field of mobile Internet and usability of mobile devices have lead to new opportunities for location-based services.

Urban Mapping has created a multi layer paper map called Panamap. Powered by their “MapAction Technology,” users can view different layers of the map in different angles. The map provides three images that “are interlaced by alternating horizontal strips from each.

We’ve just rolled out the latest update to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (GNOCDC) Repopulation Google Maps application.  Thanks to Matt Priour figuring out how to add the Street View imagery to our New Orleans Repopulation Map, you can now not only see where people are coming back to The Crescent City, but the rebuilding efforts from the street level.

Photo by Barbara Scott, Scott Summers, GIS Coordinator for the City of Brentwood. By MELISSA WEBB Correspondent courtesy of Brentwood Life (www.brentwoodlife.net) About two years ago, the City of Brentwood embarked on a huge project through its technology department to create a GIS - Geographic Information System - for the entire city.

Putting the new SINGER interface through its paces, I find that it can do something interesting that GRIN cannot. Or at least I can’t see a way of doing it, let me know if you can. Below is a screenshot from SINGER showing a Google Map of the distribution of all wild Arachis accessions that the database knows about which have geographic coordinates.

/India PRwire/ - EKA Designs (P) Limited has launched Field Ready GPS Camera in India. After successful sales in US, Europe and Far East, EKA Designs has launched the Field Ready GPS Camera in the Indian Market. The Field Ready GPS Camera is used in different environments to tag the locational coordinates onto the picture along with altitude and date/time.

Spatial Tools: Water = Economic Development The New Zealand Herald reports on a study into that country’s water supply (Gold rush for dwindling stocks of water looms, Aig 27, 2008).  All of the catchments will be allocated within 4 years.

Spatial Tools for the Emerging Renewable Energy Industry One of the world’s quietest large-scale energy transformation is underway in the United States. The emerging development of a mixed source energy sector which integrates both non-renewable and renewable energy sources is happening.