ScienceDirect - Futures : Causal mapping and scenario building with multiple organisations
Thinking and planning for the future is critical in a competitive business world. Scenarios are a common technique for investigating the future, but can be time-consuming and challenging to develop, particularly when more than a single organisation is...

FreeMind - free mind mapping software
Tired of Outlines and Flowcharts? Try FreeMind.

3D mapping drone fires lasers from a mile away (video)
The MIT Technology Review has unearthed a new laser-based 3D mapping robot that can produce results similar to those obtained from $100,000 systems at about a fifth of the cost. Funded by the US Army, researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology...

Google Maps API v3 Now Includes Driving Directions
Google continues to expand its third version of the maps API to include features already in the second version. Most recently, they’ve added driving directions, which gives programmatic access to the routing data between two points. As with the rest of...

Google Maps API v3 Now Includes Driving Directions
Google continues to expand its third version of the maps API to include features already in the second version. Most recently, they’ve added driving directions, which gives programmatic access to the routing data between two points. As with the rest of...

Google Maps API v3 Now Includes Driving Directions
Google continues to expand its third version of the maps API to include features already in the second version. Most recently, they’ve added driving directions, which gives programmatic access to the routing data between two points. As with the rest of...

Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing for Peace Mapping
Lynda Gratton at the London Business School gave one of the best Keynote speeches that I’ve heard all year. Her talk was a tour de force on how to catalyze innovation and one of her core recommendations really hit home for me: “If you really want to...

Bob Dylan revisité : Serial Mapper
Vanity Fair a publié en mai 2008 cette magnifique mise en scène. Elle est maintenant disponible sur le web :Je ne vous fais pas l'article sur Bob...

‘What’s Happening?’: Twitter’s Geo-API ‘Huge’
Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo said this morning at the TechCrunch CrunchUp event that he felt the “geo opportunity” was “huge.”The location-stamping or geocoding of content and the release of that data to third parties (online and in mobile)...

SpatialKey — Location Intelligence for Decision Makers
SpatialKey: location intelligence for decision makers. No programming, no waiting, no specialists.

Is local the new social now? | Media | guardian.co.uk
Patch just switched to OpenStreetMap and appears to be busy with building its own map infrastructure, including designing, rendering and hosting its own tiles, according to zdnet. But that is not all. "Patch will go into stores, photograph...

Network Weaving
networks are built in many ways. First, by being in the same physical or virtual space, and second by active network weavers who make strategic introductions for the benefit of those they connect and for the benefit of the entire network. Networks are...

‘What’s Happening?’: Twitter’s Geo-API ‘Huge’
Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo said this morning at the TechCrunch CrunchUp event that he felt the “geo opportunity” was “huge.”The location-stamping or geocoding of content and the release of that data to third parties (online and in mobile)...

The Decline: The Geography of a Recession
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Google Earth's iPhone App Lets You Track and View Your Adventures
Google Earth for iPhone now offers users a chance to view their customized maps in the iPhone app. Rather than just offering standard maps, users save their pre-existing maps or favorites in the "My Maps" folder and the files are automatically...

The essential skills to succeed in a GIS career
I have been lucky enough to organize a GIS Day '09 career event at the university of Washington, joined by Harvey Arnone of city of Seattle, Marty Balikov of ESRI Olympia and Dane Springmeyer, freelance geospatial developer. The discussion was titled...

Augmented Reality: Not That Real Yet - BusinessWeek
Disillusionment after the hype: "As it exists today—mainly in the form of iPhone apps—the technology doesn't work all that well. And the cool stuff it can do today is often a step down from just using conventional mapping and search...

GeoAPI Home
"GeoAPI services include a reverse geocoder; deep data about 16 million businesses and tens of thousands of points of interest; a writable layer for developers to annotate the world and do complex geo-queries; and location-enabled media layers...

UMBEL :: Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer
Just saving 'cause it comes up A LOT on the W3C lists regarding linking open data.. Just happened to be shared yet again today so marking it this time while I've a Mind to.. If I don't just plum run out of Time first, I know I'm going...

How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools
There are about a million ways to make a choropleth map. You know, the maps that color regions by some metric. The problem is that a lot of solutions require expensive software or have a high learning curve...or both. What if you just want a simple map...