A Cloud-powered GIS App Store

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Saml din egen GIS med sky på ...

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Go ahead, cloud my day ... GIS in the cloud mashed up and tailored your every need ...

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The Cloud... Empowering End-User Choice
We use cloud computing to provide GIS users with the power to easily provision GIS applications and ultimately help them avoid vendor lock-in. By providing production-ready environments in a pay-as-you-go model, customers have on-demand access to enterprise GIS applications from many different vendors. Done using it or it didn't work for you? Okay, shut it down and stop paying. Compare this model to the "traditional" sales cycle of large software vendors, where buyers must trust marketing claims, pay up-front licensing fees, and independently procure hardware before the implementation even begins; we believe people will almost unanimously find the cloud deployment model a more desirable and user-friendly approach to software implementation.

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Lucky You
So, what's the moral of the story? Things are getting much easier for end-users of GIS technology. The capabilities of cloud computing simplify the long, daunting tasks of installing and maintaining complex GIS solutions. Now end-users will be able to complete extensive tasks like procuring hardware, installing servers in a data center, configuring networks, installing operations systems and installing GIS applications in a matter of minutes, rather than months.

If you are a GIS professional stuck with an IT manager's burden... consider the cloud your ticket to freedom.

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Read more: http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3531

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Pin your history to the world

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I Odense har vi FynskeBilleder.dk ... StreetView integration ville være en naturlig forlængelse af den i forvejen fantastiske side ...

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In Odense we have FynskeBilleder.dk showing old photos from around the city. Now we have got Streetview an obvious next step would be to pin all the photos to the world ...

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Bicycles at Bank Station

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Read more: http://www.historypin.com/

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Europe in bloom: a living façade at the European Environment Agency

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Et levende kort ...

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Living map ...

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The Living Façade is one of EEA's main contributions to the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. The front of our building on Kongens Nytorv 6 is covered with about 5,000 annual plants showing a map of Europe and plant biodiversity. The façade will stay in place from 22 May to October 2010. Follow the project step by step, and learn more about the science behind it.

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Read more: http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/biodiversity/living-facade

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Local Globes

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Tilbage i '88 læste jeg Den lille prins - han ville have elsket disse små hjemmelavede kloder ...

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Made me think about The Little Prince ...

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Read more: http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2009/11/09/diy-local-globes/

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A Map of the US...Made of Slime Mold

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Ikke så få trafikanter er på samme niveau ...

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Many drivers aren't more than just that ...

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One-celled organisms could make our road network more efficient

Road Trip The mold began in New York and grew across the country, seeking out oat-cluster “cities” and building its own highway system. Andy Adamatzky and Jeff Jones

The “roads” on this agar-gel map of the U.S. may not quite mirror reality, but they could help scientists build more-robust networks in the future.

Physarum polycephalum, a type of slime mold, grows tendrils in search of food and withdraws extraneous arms to focus on the most efficient paths between sources. Although the American map is just an illustrative model made for Popular Science, researchers in the U.K. have used slime mold to create similar replicas of local roads and railways, backed up by computer models. Andy Adamatzky and Jeff Jones, specialists in unconventional computing at the University of the West of England in Bristol, found that, left to its own devices, the slime mold mimicked a good part of the country’s actual road systems. Because slime mold finds the paths that are most resilient to faults or damage, it could be used to make mobile-communication and transportation networks hardier. [...]

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Read more: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-05/slimeography

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Walk Instead by Oliver J Moss

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Desværre udsolgt ...

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Cool ... but sold out ...

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Read more: http://www.threadless.com/product/350/Walk_Instead#top

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What’s More Accurate Than GPS? Photographs

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The Matrix is forth coming ... Eller noget andet sludder i den retning ...

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A global point cloud? Google Street View and others have plenty of data to reverse engineer reality ... Using 'standard' positioning techniques as a first step you'll probably get a quick and functionel millimeter location accuracy ...

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Locations identified within the 10 or 20 meters possible by GPS today are far too inaccurate — we need to know where we are we are right down to the millimeter! That was the gauntlet thrown down by Michael Liebhold, distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future, speaking at aGigaOM Pro Bunker Session on locationat the GigaOM office this week. With millimeter accuracy, augmented reality — digital information overlaid on a real-time view of the world — will actually become possible. “Right now we have all this toy AR,” said Liebhold. “This is useless.” [...]

Intrigued as to how soon millimeter accuracy might happen and what it could enable? Here’s the video:

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Read more: http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/whats-more-accurate-than-gps-photographs/

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Lego Architecture

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Hvis det var Google som havde opfundet Lego så havde vi idag boet i huse lavet af legoklodser ...

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Lego Sketchup ... Had Google invented Lego we would today be living in houses made of Lego bricks ...

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With this golden set, LEGO® Architecture presents not only a piece of New York history, but a tribute to a building said to represent nothing less than “what we were capable of”. The Empire State Building has been voted one of the 7 wonders of the modern world and stands as a colorful giant in The Big Apple skyline.

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  Be inspired by what´s built, build to inspire.

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Read more: http://architecture.lego.com/en-us/e/default.aspx

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The Taj and Beer for Data Program

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Hvor meget kan man få for en six-pack?

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How much do I get for a pint?

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The Taj in Jalalabad, Afghanistan is indeed an oddity. Not only is it the only bar in eastern Afghanistan, it is also the location where an ingenious "Beer for Data" program began. Put simply, if visitors to the bar have useful data (gps plots, imagery, technology white papers...) they can trade this information for a beer. This is the best method for information sharing between NGOs I've ever heard of.

This video is part of a much longer interview of Smari McCarthy by Vinay Gupta. The complete video can be found here: http://blip.tv/file/1701435

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Read more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuayC90hvJk&feature=player_embedded

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Cut-out 3D model of Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Iceland

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Lad din indre Jørgen Clevin sprudle ...

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Rock-Paper-Scissors ...

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A simple schematic model of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano summit, crater and ash plume.

It is intended as simple guide to understanding how volcanoes such as Eyjafjallajökull are influenced by tectonic plate activity along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

It also shows the route of the floodwater from melted glacier ice to the sea.

The model is not to scale. The height of the volcano is highly exaggerated.

Download and assembly instructions

1. Download cut-out 3D model of Eyjafjallajökull 2MB pdf
2. Print the 2 pages of the pdf to an A4 printer — heavy weight paper or card works best
3. Cut around the 3 parts of the model — you may need to get an adult to help you
   1. Ash plume
   2. Base
   3. Summit and crater
4. Ash plume: fold and glue the two halves together
5. Base: cut out the hole in the middle of the base
6. Base: fold along the thick black lines and glue tabs to make-up the model like a box lid. Allow to dry.
7. Summit and crater: fold as per the images below
8. Glue the summit and crater to the base as per the image below. This is the tricky bit!
9. Glue the ash plume to the summit and crater

What you will need:
Making up the base and ash plume
Folding the summit and crater
Summit and crater assembled
Finished model

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Read more: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/highlights/iceland/3dVolcanicModel.html

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