%HTMLlat1; ]> http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi Dr Mike J Smith: applied research and teaching in GIS en () Copyright {{{items}}} http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/logo.gif http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/ukmap_land_registry.html That's a horrible pun... /GIS 2010-03-062156 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/ESRIswip.html Well it had to come; funny none-the-less! /GIS 2010-02-242042 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/boneyard.html This was just too cool not to blog: The Boneyard... /remote_sensing 2010-02-232034 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/tallest_tree.html Nice story over at GIS Development on mapping the world's tallest eucalyptus tree using LiDAR... /GIS 2010-02-221629 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/Bing_maps_TED.html Great presentation by Blaise Agueray Arcas of Microsoft at TED recently... /GIS 2010-02-191314 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/srtm_10th_anniversary.html Yes, believe it or not, SRTM is celebrating it's 10th anniversary... /remote_sensing 2010-02-171114 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/map_use.html The Mapping Center blog points to supporting materials for the ESRI Press book "Map Use"... /GIS 2010-02-151104 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/where_you_live.html TED has recently released a talk by Bill Davenhall entitled "Your health depends on where you live"... /GIS 2010-02-010751 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/infrared_photography.html There's a nice summary article covering infrared photography over at the BBC... /remote_sensing 2010-01-301639 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/zoomable_map.html Check out the Zoomable Map which uses a clever set of folds to give the effect of zooming in from an overview map to a streetmap... /GIS 2010-01-231933 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/strife_with_OS_data.html I recently had a map submitted to the Journal of Maps that made good use of Mastermap data... /GIS 2010-01-211115 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/australia_is_big.html For antipodean colleagues, yes Australia is BIG... /fun 2010-01-171952 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/global_hawk.html A nice article over at Wired on the diversion of US military UAVs to Haiti to provide reconnaissance imagery for the relief effort... /remote_sensing 2010-01-162141 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/gentle_introduction_to_gis.html GIS Lounge have a good summary of a Gentle Introduction to GIS, a PDF manual and accompanying datasets for use with QGIS... /GIS 2010-01-151050 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/10_min_attention.html Students only have '10-minute attention span' - it's a great headline from the BBC and the first part of the copy reads: "University students have average attention spans of just 10 minutes and many miss lectures because of the need for part-time jobs, research suggests... /teaching 2010-01-141049 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/small-world.html A world map with a difference - this one is only 40 microns (that's about the same as the wavelength of thermal infra-red light) in in size... /fun 2010-01-131015 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/geography.html Nice article over at The Economist espousing the importance of Geography (with a big "g") and it's centrality to everything important that is going on in the world... /fun 2010-01-120958 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/uk_snow.html It's already been flagged up on the BBC, but a Terra MODIS image captured a nearly cloud free, almost totally snow covered, UK yesterday... /remote_sensing 2010-01-080908 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/publications/proceedings/2009_Geomorpholometry.html C... /publications/proceedings 2010-01-062213 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/mapOSMatic.html Great automated service for creating a town plan and index over at MapOSMatic using OpenStreetMap data... /GIS 2010-01-061249 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/publications/99_netbook.html Yes it looks to be true, a netbook that costs £99... /publications 2010-01-050845 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/publications/researchid_labs.html In a recent editorial at the Journal of Maps I touched upon citation listing of journals and the importance to authors in terms of citation metrics... /publications 2010-01-041057 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/usb_modes.html I'm the proud owner of a new Sandisk Sansa View, an mp4 player in the style of an Apple Nano, but without the Apple baggage that goes with it (and some might say, without the style)... /computing 2010-01-022214 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/winter_temp.html Nice example of environmental monitoring over at NASA, this time using MODIS Land Surface Temperature to compared temperatures in Europe this winter (11-18 December) with the 2000-2008 average... /remote_sensing 2009-12-271435 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/OS_consultation.html As reported by FoD and Mapperz, DCLG have begun the consultation concerning the release of OS data... /GIS 2009-12-232226 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/terra_ten.html NASAs Terra is now 10... /remote_sensing 2009-12-200855 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/rss_editor.html RSS Editor is a great extension for Firefox that adds functionality to allow you to edit (doh... /computing 2009-12-192315 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/open_topography.html As reported by lidar news, the Open Topography Portal is to be expanded following a grant from the NSF... /remote_sensing 2009-12-191310 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/lowcost_lidar.html Lidar news have a nice article on low cost 2D LiDAR... /remote_sensing 2009-12-181100 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/erdas_benchmarks.html Slashdot reported earlier this year on the FOSS4G web server benchmarking... /GIS 2009-12-171254 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/dmc_22.html Slashgeo report on the availability of 22m multispectral data from DMC via the UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 satellites... /remote_sensing 2009-12-161048 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/leo.html I recently came across LeoWorks an educational remote sensing package that is free for use in teaching... /remote_sensing 2009-12-150856 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/christmas_every_year.html I'm sure this is a result of "middle age grouch" syndrome hitting me, but the whole "Christmas thing" seems to get bigger, earlier and glitzier each year... /fun 2009-12-141237 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/graphics_OS.html I regularly end up doign all sorts of quick graphics edits... /computing 2009-12-140947 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/Practical_Guide_to_Geostatistical_Mapping.html Tomislav Hengl has just published an open-access book on geostatistical mapping... /GIS 2009-12-122134 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/uk_space_agency.html Great news this week with the announcement that the UK is set to have a space agency and hopefully begin to capitalise on its rapidly increasing expertise in this area... /remote_sensing 2009-12-122050 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/usb3.html PCPro have published some results of the first USB3 devices to hit the market... /computing 2009-12-112256 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/postcodes_to_be_released.html The BBC reports today that the government is planning to release postcode data early next year... /GIS 2009-12-090913 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/edu_review.html Mike Baker again has a nice reflective piece on the ONS report of education under Labour over the last 12 years (I can't find the right ONS report though)... /teaching 2009-12-080930 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/os_for_sale.html I suspect this is one of many rumours doing the rounds at the moment, but what with the government announcing that (much) OS data will be given away gratis and the recent murmurs about slashing public spending in the next budget as a result of Gordon's massive spending spree (including Robert Peston's rather humorous, if alarming, warning of an impending "stubble"), it should come as no surprise that there will be some slimming down ion government... /GIS 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