LaudonTech's GIS Blog

I recently put together a Google Maps based tool to map and edit employee information.  The tool simply allows an administrator to add an employee to an interactive office floor plan.  The administrator can then edit detailed employee information, upload a photo, delete an employee, or, move the employee to a new location in the [...]

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Gamers could be joining in a real televised sporting event from their homes early in 2010 via lidar and street view.
“The firm’s technology would map the circuit just before the race so the virtual track would match up to the one on TV.
The video recording of the track would then be manipulated by the gamer [...]

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Don’t say I told you so:
“Recognition and Modeling of Objects from Street View Scans of Cities”
Thomas Funkhouser, Princeton University
Professor Funkhouser aims to develop methods for automatic construction of semantically-labeled, detailed, and photorealistic 3D models of cities from Street View data. The main efforts will be towards the segmentation and recognition of small objects (e.g. mailboxes, [...]

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Looking for a specific conference room, or exhibitor while attending large conferences or trade shows?  I have found that when I am looking for a specific vendor exhibit booth or conference meeting room, the good old hard copy pdf just does not cut it.  First, I have to look up the vendor name in the conference [...]

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Geocortex has been furiously working on a new website showcasing their latest REST API work with ArcGIS Server. It looks great! Plenty of demos and code samples. Take a look.

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Google has been scanning our streets via Laser over the last couple of years.  Can’t wait until some of that data gets published!  Here are a couple of great videos on the real power of laser scanning:

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It would be great to see the progression of the Swine Flu in Google Earth, so, voila, I have posted an hourly updated KML file. Click here to download the latest Google Earth KML file of the Swine Flu Outbreak. Check back every hour (or so) to get an updated view of Swine [...]

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As you can read about here, here, and here, Google has just released an experimental open source 3D browser plugin.

What this means to a Google Street View fan like me, is, now we have a place to create Virtual Worlds (not Google Lively ones) using real data – images and 3d measurements captured by Google’s [...]

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With Google Maps Premier licensing costing $10000 a year, it was time to create an alternative. Using OpenLayers as the internet mapping framework was the natural solution. OpenLayers offers a robust set of tools to perform basically the same functions as found in the Google Maps Office Floor Plan Mapping Solution. The existing Google Map [...]

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Are there any Facilities Management Professionals out there willing to provide me with feedback on an  Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) Mapping software project?
I have developed a solution to the age old problem of locating facility assets in large companies. This solution provides a simple way to locate facility assets simply by entering part of [...]

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