Either some people are just downright clever or have a lot of time on their hands. But there it was, a double-page spread advertisement for Lexus in this week’s Sports Illustrated magazine that utilized thumbnail-sized satellite imagery to spell the phrase "Further than they length of every paved road on the planet" to support how many miles Lexus hybrid automobiles have driven.
Each satellite image in the ad was cropped to show a road segment or other land feature depicting a letter of the alphabet. For example, using the image at right, you can see that it might be used for the letter "C" and so each word was spelled using a different satellite image.
The credits for the contributors to this ad read like a "who’s who" of the geospatial data sector including the usual suspects such as GeoEye, Tele Atlas, DigitalGlobe, the USGS, Aerodata International, Spot, Map Data Sciences, Europa Technologies, and several others. And given this plethora of contributors, it is quite obvious that the imagery has an international flavor as well. So, indeed, someone spent a lot of time searching for that perfect image that had just the right configuration of terrain and man-made objects to spell success.
by Joe Francica on 02/04 at 08:11 AM |
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The article by Allison Arieff is in the Opinionator blog and titled “Space: It’s Still a Frontier.” Several folks (besides me) noted that initially the Times had GIS expanded as “graphic information system.”
The comments are interesting and focus, apporpriately, not on the tools, but on what decisions are made. Perhaps this article is really about geodesign?
- New York Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/04 at 07:15 AM |
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Merced County, CA received a $30,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, that will found a new GIS to study traffic collisions. Among the goals is to locate collisions and analyze the traffic patterns in these areas to enhance safety measures.. In return, these studies will be the foundation for new traffic safety measures and improvements. In 2008, there were 14 reported fatal crashes and another 253 injury crashes, which occurred on county roadways.
- Turlock Journal
Things seem to be rolling along smoothly in team effort in Aukland to build a cooperative GIS. The project to create “an internet-based application for viewing geospatial data about every parcel of land in the region” involved eight local councils and has been running for a year. It “already has a growing community of commercial users and is also of value for ratepayers” and has saved councils $1M by flying the region in swoop. The councils have also made use of a single viewer application that’s been customized three different ways (so far).
- NZ Herald
Blythe Brown is the noxious and invasive plants coordinator with Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District in Alaska. She pulls together a group that inculdes the city, Kodiak Island Borough, Kodiak Wildlife Refuge and several tribal group to fight invasive species. Among the group’s tasks: mapping the species in a GIS and hiring a weed coordinator.
- Kodiak Mirror
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/04 at 06:00 AM |
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