Archived GIS Snippets
Published in 2008
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National Geographic Book Publishing Group Chooses MAPublisher
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop announces that National Geographic Book Publishing Group in Washington, D.C. has chosen its MAPublisher software for the creation of maps for its newly released Atlas of China.
Multiple MAPublisher fixed and floating licenses have been purchased by the National Geographic Book Publishing Group, along with onsite MAPublisher training for its cartographic designers and technicians.
“MAPublisher played an integral role in the development of our China political map that we produced at 1:6,750,000 for our new Atlas of China. Avenza’s software is smart, powerful, and very effective in manipulating and organizing innumerable types of spatial data for a variety of thematic applications,” said Carl Mehler, Director of Maps for the Book Publishing Group. “The engineers and customer service group at Avenza continue to provide us topnotch support and innovative solutions for our cartographic pursuits. MAPublisher serves as the foundation to our desktop georeferencing applications and map production, and we utilize Avenza’s leading-edge program on a regular basis in our workflow,” he added.
first published week of: 04/21/2008
New Mashup Capabilities in ArcGIS 9.3 Previewed at Where 2.0
ESRI demonstrated the new mashup capabilities of ArcGIS 9.3 at the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, California, May 13 and 14, 2008. The JavaScript APIs included in ArcGIS 9.3 give end users the capability to combine geographic information system (GIS)-based Web services from ArcGIS Server with other Web content. This new capability makes it easier to deploy ArcGIS Server data and services in custom applications and deliver spatial analysis throughout the enterprise. ArcGIS 9.3 is the first GIS to provide mashup capability.
The ArcGIS JavaScript APIs reduce the learning curve and development time for distributing scalable and responsive GIS applications on the Web. End users can deploy map data and GIS processing tasks in lightweight, customized Web mapping applications, providing large numbers of customers with real decision-making tools.
The new ArcGIS JavaScript APIs are a simple way to integrate ArcGIS Server with Web mapping services provided through ArcGIS Online or with other Web mapping platforms such as those provided via Google Maps or Microsoft Virtual Earth.
Attendees of Where 2.0 can visit ESRI at booth #2 for more information on these mashup capabilities. You can also interact with online demonstrations of the JavaScript APIs by visiting www.esri.com/serverdemos
first published week of: 05/12/2008
NOAA Adopts OGC standards
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) program Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is implementing a number of OGC standards. IOOS is a multidisciplinary system that will provide data and information on the oceans and Great Lakes, at both local and national scales, for use by a wide variety of decision makers.
“NOAA is proud to lead this national effort to link ocean observations in an easy-to-use standard format that provides accurate and timely information so people can make informed business and recreational decisions,” said Zdenka Willis, director of the NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System Program. “NOAA and our partner organizations will use the integrated data to improve forecasts of severe weather and natural hazards, enhance pollution tracking models, and create a more complete picture of our ocean planet”
NOAA will begin the effort by establishing interoperable access to online databases maintained by the National Weather Service (NWS) National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), the National Ocean Service (NOS) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) and the National Environmental Satellite Data Information Service (NESDIS) CoastWatch Program. This will be accomplished using web service interface and encoding standards developed by the OGC.
first published week of: 05/12/2008
OGC Approves KML as Open Standard
The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced the approval of the OpenGIS® KML Encoding Standard (OGC KML), marking KML’s transition into an open standard which will be maintained by the OGC. Developers will now have a standard approach for using KML to code and share visual geographic content in existing or future web-based online maps and 3D geospatial browsers like Google Earth™.
“We are pleased to see the adoption of KML as an OGC standard,” said Ron Lake, chairman and chief executive officer of Galdos Systems Inc. “We believe that this is a major step forward for the OGC and for the entire geographic information community, as it provides the first broadly accepted standard for the visualization of geographic information.”
“Geographic data adds tremendous value to the online experience. More and more people are looking for ways to incorporate location information into their online content,” said Michael Weiss-Malik, KML product manager for Google. “The standardization of KML makes it possible for both novice and expert users alike to publish and share geographical information in an open format. It’s not unlike web browsers’ standardized support for HTML, which allows any web browser to read any web page.”
first published week of: 04/21/2008
OGC Requests Comments on CityGML Encoding Standard
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is requesting public comment on the candidate CityGML Encoding Standard. CityGML [www.citygml.org] is a Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) application schema for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models.
CityGML is a common information model for the representation of 3D urban objects. It defines the classes and relations for the most relevant topographic objects in cities and regional models with respect to their geometrical, topological, semantical and appearance properties. Included are generalization hierarchies between thematic classes, aggregations, relations between objects, and spatial properties. This thematic information goes beyond graphic exchange formats and allows users to employ virtual 3D city models for sophisticated analysis tasks in different application domains such as simulations, urban data mining, facility management, and thematic inquiries.
Activities that would benefit from the richness of CityGML data include city planning, real estate, insurance, architectural design, environmental simulation, mobile telecommunication, disaster management, homeland security, facilities management, vehicle and pedestrian navigation, training simulators and others. CityGML will play an important role in the use of Building Information Models (BIM) to improve interoperability among the information systems used in the many domains of activity that involve design, construction, ownership and operation of buildings and capital projects.
The RFC can be downloaded from www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/47. Comments are due by March 20, 2008.
first published week of: 02/18/2008
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