October 4th, 2007
V1 Newsletter-Vol. 1, Issue 1

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Volume 1 / Issue 1 / Oct. 4, 2007

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

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PERSPECTIVES

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“Are we destined to have parallel digital Earths?”

Vector One Blog—“The alternative to parallel digital worlds is one digital world – no thanks. I don’t want Google, Microsoft, WorldWind, TITAN or any other single world becoming the dominate, stand alone, source for digital spatial content. In fact, I think each of these do their best work and will reach their highest potential through competition and interaction.“

Jeff Thurston, Editor, EMEA and Russia, [email protected]

Spatial Sustain Blog—”There’s currently ample opportunity for niche players in this space, but the gap between the leaders and others is rapidly expanding to the point that it will be a chasm where vast amounts of investment will be required to catch up.“

Matt Ball, Editor, Americas/Asia-Pacific, [email protected]

 

TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK

Jeff’s Top Five Links of the Week:
1) Remote Control Helicams: Now you can fly a helicopter and take images.
2) Book to consider: Arc Marine, GIS for a Blue Planet – Excellent book about marine data models
3) Check out what Air France is doing with ESA to make your trip more interesting
4) Interesting Blog: visualcomplexity.com
5) TextMap is a search engine for entities: the important (and not so important) people, places, and things in the news.

Matt’s Top Five Links of the Week:
1) Chicago Festival of Maps — A city-wide display of maps in 30 different institutions, including the “Top 100 Maps” at the Field Museum
2) Environmental Mapping and Monitoring – Australia’s efforts to map, analyze and manage their environment
3) Sustainable Albuquerque—View an interactive map that illustrates how this progressive city is tackling sustainability
4) Greenprint Denver—A detailed action plan for greening government
5) LJUrban—Building Eco-Urban Sacramento

Reader´s Top Five Links of the Week:
Submit suggested links to anything you would like to recommend that fellow readers do, see or read via e-mail to [email protected]

 

INTERVIEW

PLANNING TOOLS HAVE THEIR PLACE
The place that we live affects our access to jobs and public services, culture, shopping, education and our feeling of personal safety, security and health. Balancing access and limiting economic segregation is a daunting task for urban planners. Throw in the need to balance economic growth with environmental impacts, and the parameters grow exponentially.

V1 Magazine editor, Matt Ball, sat down with Ken Snyder, executive director of PlaceMatters, to delve into the decision support tools that are being applied in order to balance a variety of perspectives.

 

PRODUCT REVIEW

AUTODESK MAP 3D 2008
AutoCAD Map 3D 2008 is the latest version of the popular engineering GIS program available from Autodesk. This product has been continually refined over the year’s with new functionality added each version. This is no exception for 2008 with several new features added to the program that bridge CAD / GIS integration possibilities.

 

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