Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives

This is pretty cool.  It’s been possible to view DWF files with IE for some time. Now you can view them with Firefox.  You can find how to on Beyond the Paper.

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The Australian parliament has passed a A$42 billion dollar stimulus package, the Nation Building and Jobs Plan , including A$28.8 billion on schools, housing and roads over four years, tax breaks for small businesses and […]

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The 2009 budget released by the Government of Canada includes an economic stimulus plan called Canada’s Economic Action Plan, which outlines almost C$12 billion in new infrastructure funding. It is intended to create or maintain […]

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According to ComputerWorld, state legislator Joel Anderson of the California Legislature has introduced a bill to limit the detail shown in imagery on web mapping applications such as Google Earth, and presumably, Yahoo Maps, and […]

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Every year Fastcompany chooses 50 companies that they consider to have been the most innovative over the past year.  This year as number one they chose Team Obama that “took a skinny kid with a […]

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Jason Birch’s latest blog introduces a pretty cool feature of the latest pre-release of MapGuide Maestro. MgCooker supports pre-seeding tile caches, and can be run from the command line or through the Maestro GUI.

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Called A Dashboard for the Economy, this is on Geocommons and is just too cool to miss. It tracks stimulus spending, job creation, foreclosures, and other economic factors at a very detailed level, by town […]

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President Obama and Transportation Secretary LaHood have just announced the release of $27 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the states to create upgrade transporation infrastructure including $17.7 billion geographically unrestricted $4.3 […]

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According to FederalComputerWeek toward the end of February the The US House of Representatives passed a $410 billion 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act, H.R.1105. The bill would fund $151.8 billion for labor, health and education $20.5 […]

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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has formed the Spatial Law and Policy Committee (SLPC). Increasingly, public and private sector users and data and technology vendors have to be prepared for a wide range of legal […]

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Monday, Harald Wolf, Senator for Economics, Technology and Women’s Issues and Mayor of Berlin presented a virtual 3D model of the entire city available on Google Earth , including some 890 km2 and 500,000 buildings.  […]

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The Guardian reports that the UK government has just evened the procurement field for open source software . This means that open source software companies are able to respond to RFPs from the UK Government […]

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A little while ago I blogged about a GPS-enabled inexpensive digital camera , a Nikon P6000, that I had just acquired.   Since then I have used it lot all over the world, and my conclusion […]

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In What is Web 2.0? Tim O’Reilly distinguishes Web 2.0 from the first generation of Web applications and to me the most important differentiator is participation. Web 2.0 technology enables all of us to participate […]

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The $787-billion economic stimulus bill, H.R.1 officially called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law by President Obama February 17.  According to the Architectural Record $130 billion of the bill is targetted […]

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According to my friend Gene Roe, the USGS will be allocated $140 million in funding from the Economic  Stimulus Package H.R. 1 to support LiDAR data acquisition. Apparently, it has been suggested that there is […]

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The recent announcement Grant County Public Utility District Selects Autodesk Utility Software reminded me of an important question utilities face when planning to address some of the the most common challenges utilities are facing. 1. […]

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According to MAPPS, an association of private firms in the remote sensing, spatial data and geographic information systems, the economic stimulus bill H.R. 1 signed into law last week by President Obama includes more than […]

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