This is an unusually long edition of the geonews in batch mode, covering all of our Summer break.
On the Esri front:
- A nice summary, Twelve Things Worth Knowing from Esri User Conference Q&A
- More options is good, Introducing Esri’s World Elevation Services
- It’s not ‘beta’ anymore, ArcGIS Open Data production
- APB discuss the upcoming 64-bits friendly ArcGIS Pro in an entry named ArcGIS Pro: Not Ready for Education Yet
- Not the full platform but still nice, Now Available: Explorer for ArcGIS on Mac OS X
- Mostly weather layers and for ArcGIS Online Organizational subscribers, New Live Feeds added to the Earth Observation collection in ArcGIS Online
- And there’s new imagery too, SPOT, Pléiades and DigitalGlobe added to World Imagery map
On the remote sensing front:
- Lots of blogs mentioned the successful launch of the WorldView-3 satellite, up to 31cm imagery
- An upcoming webinar, August 27th, named Operating UAVs in U.S. Airspace - the Legal Implications
- It’s getting stunning, Mapbox GL video: Drone edition
- Related, here’s a WIRED article on Have a Drone? Check This Map Before You Fly It, or go to the source, Don’t fly drones here
- New satellite data source, First Images Released from SkySat-2
- There’s was also SPOT 7 launched
On the software front:
- WebGL again, Announcing Mapbox GL for the Web, “An open source JavaScript framework for client-side vector maps”, MapBox also has more data, Mapbox Satellite gets 48TB facelift
- India’s Google Earth competitor named Bhuvan has been significantly updated
Discussed over Slashdot:
- Faster than I expected, UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January
- Globalization at work, Online Tool Flagged Ebola Outbreak Before Formal WHO Announcement, and more on the topic, Animated Ebola Map, Addresses for Ebola, Esri and Ebola
- Crowdsourcing geocoding, ISS Earth at Night Photos Crowdsourced For Science, and the CitiesAtNight project
- Less positive, Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine
- Snooping your neighbourhood, Connected Collar Lets Your Cat Do the War-Diving
- We’ve seen this quite a few times, 2D To 3D Object Manipulation Software Lends Depth to Photographs
- Using GPS and 3D, New Display Technology Corrects For Vision Defects while driving cars
- Involving lots of geospatial technologies, “Magic Helmet” For F-35 Ready For Delivery
- Cell phone tracking incentive, Verizon’s Offer: Let Us Track You, Get Free Stuff and similarly, Shoppers: Don’t Track Me Unless…
- Helping crystal balls, New Map Fingers Future Hot Spots For U.S. Earthquakes
- Educated cities, Geographic Segregation By Education
- Crowdsourcing science, The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy
- Because we can, Mapping a Monster Volcano
- It’s never fun to be left aside, New Zealand ISP’s Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves
In the everything-else category:
- Interesting slides from Google’s Ed Parsons on where maps are today, SoC 50th Anniversary talk: Potential and propaganda
- Innovation never stops, 3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models
- You can fly, Virtual flight over 3D cities using Oculus Rift
- An upcoming OGC + IoT webinar, September 3rd, Making Location Work for Smart Cities: the Case for Location Standards
- Testing your data for compliance, Get OGC Certified for KML 2.2
- On sale, New Web Store for Satellite-Derived Water Quality and Bathymetric Data by EOMAP
- Why not, Apple Explores Auto-Adjusting Security and Other Settings Based on Device Location, but that won’t help, Key Maps Engineer Chris Blumenberg Leaving Apple for Uber
- Programming is unavoidable, Learning GIS programming: An overview
- A conference for May 25-29, in Lisbon, Time to get ready for the next Geospatial World Forum!
- Peter Morville who wrote ‘Ambient Findability’ several years ago released a new geospatial book Intertwingled, Finding Intertwingled
In the maps category:
- already? World Population Map
- Rankings, no maps, The Good Country Index, Ireland is first
- A map of $60 billions, Arms Sales By The US And Russia
- It’s real, Map Shows Western U.S. May Suffer Huge Reductions in Snow
- A US map of greenhouse gas emissions by state and per capita
- Nice map, A Beautifully Detailed New Geologic Map of Mars | Science | WIRED
- I admit this is remotely geospatial-related, here’s a bizarre 2-minutes video on 3D live face-tracking with projection mapping
- And your off-topic bonus for reading all of this entry is my invitation for you to try Monument Valley, a beautiful M.C. Escher-style 3D puzzle