LaudonTech's GIS Blog

I have just created another fun mashup that uses Google Maps API and the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API to dynamically calculate how much water you could capture from the rain on your rooftop.  Google Maps is used to draw a polygon, then the centroid is fed into ArcGIS Server to retrieve the mean annual rainfall [...]

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I have built a new funny Google Street View sightings website. Take a look!

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Check out the video:

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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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