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ScapeToad is software for making cartograms. André Ourednik, its development supervisor, writes: “ScapeToad is a cross-platform, open-source application written in Java, designed and using the ESRI Shapefile format for input and output. It also exports maps in SVG format and is provided with a user-friendly cartogram creation wizard which guides the user throughout the map creation process.”

Previously: The History of the Cartogram; Cartograms from Worldmapper; Question: Software for Cartograms?

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If you are a Google Earth user, you can view all kinds of fascinating free geo data available on the web. For example, this morning, I went exploring on the US Forest Service website and poked around the FSGeodata Clearinghouse. This collection offers interesting vector and raster-based mapping data for USFS lands in [...]

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Don’t take the title too seriously; I haven’t run off to trademark it (too late) or set up a series of conferences, but I do see some new technologies coming together with some old favorites to deliver a platform for web mapping and GIS like we haven’t seen in the past. Recent news [...]

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If you are a Google Earth user, you can view all kinds of fascinating free geo data available on the web. For example, this morning, I went exploring on the US Forest Service website and poked around the FSGeodata Clearinghouse. This collection offers interesting vector and raster-based mapping data for USFS lands in [...]

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Yesterday, several of us presented at the California Council of Land Trust conference in Sacramento. Member groups of this organization work on land conservation issues, which is a cause near and dear to my heart.
Land trust organizations often use GIS to plan projects and educate donors and the public about their work. Non [...]

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Two blogs in one…. “Nokia aiming to banish paper maps” & Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta (pre-release)

BBC News Technology
“Nokia expects to sell 35 million mobile phones equipped with GPS (Global Positioning System) in 2008″
Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta (pre-release)
What is new?

Pedestrian mode

Enhanced driving navigation mode

Satellite maps

Hybrid (satellite and important map features overlayed)

Vastly improved [...]

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Nokia Location Tagger
(georeferencing your phone camera photos)
“What is it all about? Nokia Location Tagger is a small application running on “selected” S60 3rd devices that allows you to tag pictures captured from Camera application with geographical coordinates from GPS. The tagging process itself is sometimes called geotagging or geocoding (see also this article [...]

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Nokia GPS Internal vs External
“The Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W is for you if you’re looking for a navigation solution to send you effortlessly on your way. The lightweight, slim design makes this technology a great travelling companion” (AND DON’T HAVE AN INTERNAL GPS BUILT TO YOUR MOBILE PHONE)

Nokia GPS Module - it’s [...]

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Happy New Year! We’re starting things off with a number of exciting updates.
With help from a team of USGS scientists, we reengineered the Earthquake layer to be more accurate and informative. And to top it all off, we gave it a fresh new look. This layer presents historic earthquake epicenters of magnitudes greater [...]

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MSN Map Search in China

Detailed Searching now available in China

Mapping at street level with local search terms
“MSN today launched its latest online map search in China. Based on Microsoft’s virtual earth platform, the new service will include detailed information on 114 cities in China, including information on the public transit system in 11 [...]

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Google Maps Iowa Caucus Results: Mapped results, YouTube videos, News and helpful reference links.
Iowa Democratic Party Results (Blue noting the Obama victory):

Republican Party of Iowa (Blue notes Huckabee victory):

For more background on this Google initiative and for more ways to follow the 2008 election, read Brittany Bohnet’s post on the Google Lat Long [...]

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(New to creating Google Maps mashups? Try My Maps!)
New Google Maps tools & software:

Make your own Google Maps wall calendar
Hack Google (Maps) URLs for Quick Searching - From LifeHacker
JumpToMap - Email-Friendly links to Google Maps
Reverse Geocoder - Pan/Zoom to anywhere in the world with Google Maps coverage. [By Nico via Mapperz]

Houdah Software Updates [...]

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GeoWizards 9.7 for ArcGIS
One of the best all round third party extensions you can get for ArcGIS - lots of functionality is *Free*
“A collection of powerful data manipulation, topology and surface functions for ArcGIS “

New functions are:
Map To Google Earth
Feature Class to Google Earth
Import from Google Earth
Polygon Characteristics
Perpendiculars from points to polylines
ESRI TIN [...]

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Online flight trackers are useful for knowing when to leave to meet guests at the airport and practical stuff like that. IFly is using the Virtual Earth map control as their visualization engine on their website which gives them traditional 2D views of where a flight is in realtime, but it also gives [...]

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Google has just announced a great new feature for Google Maps that will let users correct the on-map marker location for an address you search for:

This new feature will work for addresses in the U.S. Australia or New Zealand. Google’s Seth LaForge explains on this Google Lat-Long blog post that this can [...]

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