In our weekly podcast covering the week’s news Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg at news from East View Cartographic, Mechdyne, Ordnance Survey and TDC Group. Also: discussion about geospatial in India, ESRI Second Developer Conference and how Google and Microsoft celebrated Australia Day with aerial and satellite imagery. The podcast is 10 minutes (< 4 Mb) and was recorded January 29, 2007.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/30 at 01:00 AM |
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/25 at 06:59 AM |
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In our weekly podcast covering the week’s news Adena Schutzberg and Nora Parker look at news about a small bank using GIS, new offerings from EPA and Acxiom, and explore updates from the National Weather Service in how it shares weather alerts, ligitation related to the Brooks Act and new sponsors for OSGEO. The podcast is 10 minutes (< 4 Mb) and was recorded January 22, 2007.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/23 at 01:00 AM |
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A lawsuit enters court in early February that may significantly impact federal contracting for mapping. It may put federal projects, including those that are not survying related, under the oversight of surveyors. We’ve done our best to lay out the facts for those in the industry at Directions Magazine‘s February’s Brooks Act Litigation: What Geospatial Practitioners Need to Know.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/19 at 09:05 AM |
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A tech Q&A column in the Star Tribune (Minneapolis/St. Paul) had Randy Salas respond to a question about finding corners of a property by going to Google Map Mania and suggesting, per Mike Pegg, that the queriers try ACME Mapper. While I’m sure this was all done in good faith, the message about the validity of such work didn’t seem to come through.
That’s where registered land surveyor Thomas Veenker, land survey coordinator for Aitkin County, Minn. chimed in. He notes that you can use Google’s database to find such coordinates, but finding them at home with a handheld GPS is innaccurate. The creator of ACME Mapper points out that lat/lon are not legally binding descriptions of corner locations (those are based of distance and direction from a survey monument).
This is a great teachable moment and I’m pleased (1) a land surveyor piped up, (2) how surveying is done was described and (3) Salas offers a lesson:
So, the lesson here is not to use online mapping tools as legally binding applications but as the helpful aids they are intended to be…
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/08 at 06:18 AM |
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