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"Part of the fascination with history is that lessons can be learned that have relevance to problems today and in the future. The means to convey our recollections has progressed from the story, to the photograph, to the movie, and is marching inevitably toward an immersive model. Geospatial technologies are contributing to our ability to capture our world digitally, and to playback reality in a way that can be explored in multiple dimensions."

-- Matt Ball, editor - Americas, Asia/Pacific

Jeff's Top 5 Links of the Week

1. Serving History - 49th Parallel North: Ordnance Survey Of Great Britain
2. thinkMOTION - project helps to make a significant improvement in the quantity and quality of digital content and establishes a new kind of digital library in Europeana with focus on technical knowledge.
3. Counter / Mapping QMary - group of students, staff and researchers at Queen Mary University have set out to map the ways in which migration, border technologies, surveillance and monetary flows intersect.
4. GeoNOVA - geographic gateway to Nova Scotia, Canada.
5. GeoVIZ Hamburg - excellent papers and presentations from the conference.

Matt's Top 5 Links of the Week

1. Elegant Figures - photo blog from NASA Earth Observatory
2. Journal of Spatial Information Science - spans the theoretical foundations of spatial and geographical information science
3. Video: The Importance of Fieldwork - message from G. Michael Purdy, director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
4. Landshare - connecting growers to people with land to share
5. Incident Map of the Earthquake in Canterbury, New Zealand

Reader's Top Links of the Week (Submit your links to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

• Common Alerting Protocol V. 1.2 - a simple but general format for exchanging all-hazard emergency alerts and public warnings over all kinds of networks
• LIDAR 101 - a presentation from Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne of the USDA Forest Service
• Interactive Net Mapping - creator of WebGIS systems
• IODE Standards - value of standards is clearly demonstrable; we need only look to the manufacturing sector to see their value.
• Ericcson Labs - latest version of the 3D Landscape API for Android
• A22 GeoBrowser - bringing to the development of a networked infrastructure capable to make a wide range of geo information available to the operators of a major Italian motorway.

Recently, a question was posed to a group of urban planning professionals. It was: “What metaphor do you imagine when you perform your job?” Some interesting responses included magazine editing and acupuncture, with the common theme that planners struggle to stay ahead of the rapidity of change. Much of the discussion described infrastructure planning as a repeatable process of incremental decisions and actions within vast, complex communities in which small changes can have broad, ongoing impact.

Conservatives,  let's talk about energy. And why so many conservatives are so wrong -- so liberal, even -- on wind and solar energy. Let's start with a recent editorial from the home of 'free markets and free people,"the Wall Street Journal." Photovoltaic solar energy, quoth the mavens, is a "speculative and immature technology that costs far more than ordinary power."

Intergraph Plans a Continued Solutions Push Under Hexagon

The acquisition of Intergraph by Hexagon in early July has made geospatial industry consolidation a hot topic throughout this Summer. V1 Editor Matt Ball speaks with R. Reid French Jr., executive vice president and chief operating officer, about the company’s approach and potential changes under the new ownership. Ball also speaks with Mark Doherty, vice president and chief technology officer of the Security, Government and Infrastructure division, about the company’s geospatial technology underpinnings and vision.

GeoEye continues to make inroads as the first commercial, high-resolution satellite imagery provider. The announcement this past week that the company has been awarded a $3.8 billion contract through the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) EnhancedView program means that the company has a strong foundation for another 10 years to come. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Mark Brender, vice president of Corporate Communications, about this latest award, the state of the commercial satellite imaging market, and about the company’s R&D priorities.

Intergraph 2010 Features Hexagon Involvement

R. Halsey Wise, chairman, president and CEO of Intergraph kicked off the company’s weather-delayed user conference last week in Las Vegas with an emphasis on turning their innovations into opportunities for economic success during challenging times. Wise drove home a presentation of customers “that see no limitations” to the audience of more than 2,000 people representing 50 countries around the world.

In Part 3 - Manual Reset, SmartGeometry 2010, Barcelona, Working Prototypes, architect Don Chong reports. "We have to think that design, is less about composition, and more about seeking and unearthing 'rules' or 'opportunities' that are naturally dynamic. And my suspicions would lead me to think that Sabin and Jones want to advance these prototypes to instigate a level of necessary morphologies and taxonomies both ready and resilient in a built environment that needs intelligent connections, and in a built environment that chooses to evolve and learn from itself as nature itself would."

SPATIAL SUSTAIN

1. Agent Based Modeling and Geospatial Integration
2. OpenPlant 3D - Bentley Opens the Door to Plant Design
3. Surveying the 49th Parallel
4. SaferMK - UK Based Crime Mapping
5. Farms with Sensors and Robots

1. Can Maps Turn Points of Light Into a Laser Beam
2. Research at the Carnegie Institution Results in a Carbon Mapping Breakthrough
3. Civic Commons Opens City Apps to All
4. Sony Launches an Open Planet Initiative
5. The Urban Metabolism of Singapore to be Studied

The GIS 20 Essential Skills

The GIS 20 Essential Skills is a guide that describes the most commonly used skills used by geographic information system (GIS) users. The book is the result of many years experience gathered through ArcGIS training and education programs by the author. As a result, the book is filled with powerful tips, information and approaches for working with GIS effectively.  This material will get new and experienced users up and running quickly and solves many basic problems and questions that arise when using GIS.

Map Scripting 101 (2010) By Adam DuVander The book delivers 73 immediately useful scripts that will show you how to create interactive maps and mashups. The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity (2006) By Martin Brückner Bruckner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject. Hack the Planet: Science's Best Hope (2010) By Jeff Goodell Goodell, while concerned about the dangers of geoengineering, presents it as perhaps the only possible solution to the global warming crisis.

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