National Map Corps Volunteers Receive Recognition in National Map Gamification Effort - The USGS The National Map Corps launches a recognition program based on the number of points a volunteer contributes. Levels of recognition are displayed in the form of icons or badges of antique catalog drawings of sophisticated pieces of surveying equipment. As a volunteer attains each level, congratulations are sent and recognized via social media
GCS "Geospatial Big Data" Webinar Series - GCS has announced a new webinar series focused on developing solutions to the challenges of Geospatial Big Data by leveraging the fusion of location analytics, mobile platforms and cloud technologies. The first webinar (June 12, 2013) will feature Montana Site Selector, a cloud-based, web-enabled GIS application that GCS built for a consortium of economic development organizations.
Free Webinar! Rebuilding After Sandy: Surveying the Aftermath - Last October, the second-costliest hurricane in U.S. history put our mapping and forecasting systems to the test. As it turns out, the tragic truth is that the best means of determining the accuracy of risk predicted by the Flood Insurance Rate Maps is to have a flood. In this edition of the Amerisurv webinar series, we'll cover key areas of interest to land surveyors, planners, GIS and mapping professionals.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife Connect With Anglers via Colorado Fishing Atlas - Colorado Parks and Wildlife Connect With Anglers via Colorado Fishing Atlas and Social Media. Some fine civic engagement from the Parks and Wildlife service in Colorado as some new resources designed to connect with Anglers have been released to the public.
Top 10 Features in The New Google Maps - Google has reinforced that Maps are all about exploring and discovering, especially on mobile. The experience will only get better, for the developer and end user. We can all expect to enjoy new features and enhanced navigation experiences from gMaps in the near future.
AEC Firms Lose an Average 100K a Year - Architectural, engineering and environmental firms she works for easily lose $100,000 each year through inefficient and ineffective practices
Canada Post Suing Over the use of Postal Code - An interesting issue is unfolding in Canada and quite frankly its darned amazing! Imagine this, you have a website and offer some kind of product or service. You also use a map so users can search your product by Postal Code... uhoh, now you get a letter from Canada Post stating that they are suing you
Location, Location! 10 Map Services Your Business MUST Be Listed in - You have a business... perhaps a bar, a coffee shop, or maybe a consulting firm. Regardless of the business type, if you have a brick and mortar presence then you need to get your business listed in some of the popular online, location-based resources and search tools.
Editing OpenStreetMap (OSM) Just Got Easy, Really Easy! I'm sure that many (if not most) of you have often wanted to mess around with OSM and add/edit some features but were a little lazy - I'm guilty! But now we have no excuse thanks to the new OpenStreetMap in-browser map editing tools available from the iD Editor
Creative Cartography Meets Music in The Song Map - Oh yes, I love art. I also love music too, heck, who doesn't right? Well, I know you GeoGeeks and music lovers will really dig this one as we stumble onto yet another amazing cartographic product that quite simply will make you say WOW
Why is Landsat important and the Landsat Missions Timeline - Landsat has the optimal ground resolution and spectral bands to efficiently track land use and to document land change due to climate change, urbanization, drought, wildfire, biomass changes (carbon assessments), and a host of other natural and human-caused changes.
Mobile Market Trends show Apple users most loyal - Results from a recent survey indicate that Mobile Market Trendsreveal Apple users are most loyal, T-Mobile customers most likely to bail - are you still confident that your clients are loyal to your brand?
10 Must Have Gadgets and Technology for the Remote Office - Chances are good that if you happen to work in technology or you're a consultant, that you may be working remotely or from a home-based office at some time soon - or perhaps you already do
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With the arrival of the New Year comes the formal release of the MapMart Cloud from MapMart.
LONE TREE, COLORADO, January 9, 2012 – MapMart has long been the one-stop shop for traditional geospatial data and imagery acquisition and will remain so. The MapMart Cloud will complement MapMart by offering the same high quality and highly accurate data for consumption via high speed data stream. MapMart Cloud offers hundreds of web services of data sets including Bing Maps from OnTerra Systems, LLC.
“Going to the Cloud is the distinct and immovable trend in geospatial data usage,” said Mike Platt, President and CEO of MapMart. “GIS users have had to deal with downloading and storing ever-growing data sets for too long. We aim to eliminate that issue by housing and maintaining master repositories for all manner of data for on-demand access by anyone at anytime.”
Going forward, the location and usage of GIS data will be faster, cheaper and occur with fewer searching and storage issues. Many of the data sets that were traditionally downloaded locally are now available to stream into nearly any GIS software package.
The MapMart Cloud offers any user the ability to search a site, determine the web services available and begin using those services immediately either on a subscription or per-click basis. MapMart Cloud has also bundled several of the most frequently used data layers as a Core Bundle service at a further reduced rate. The web services include satellite and aerial imagery, topographic, vector and DEM data sets and can also accept nearly any other spatial data set users have to upload and store data within their personal Clouds.
MapMart offers a wide variety of U.S. and International geospatial data sets with additional data products coming online daily that can help paint a clearer picture of project areas. Some of the products currently available include:
Bing Maps Imagery and Street Data from Onterra Systems, LLC
GeoEye Satellite and Aerial Imagery via EyeQ
Astrium / SPOT Satellite Imagery
RapidEye Satellite Imagery
WhiteStar Data
Harris TerraColor, Globe15 and CONUS10 US Imagery
DeLorme World and North American Street Data
Lead Dog International Street Data
Genesys US Parcel Data
Intermap DEM Data
HIDEM worldwide DEM Data
About MapMart
Headquartered in Lone Tree (Southeast Denver), Colorado, MapMart is a division of IntraSearch Inc., a full-service mapping and imagery solutions provider. The MapMart Cloud, the MapMart online store, and the MapMart Cloud Viewer provide customers with immediate access to terabytes of archived and up-to-date geospatial data products including satellite and aerial photography, topographic and street maps, digital elevation models (DEMs), vector maps and census plus demographic databases. For more information, please visit www.MapMartCloud.com or www.MapMart.com. Also, follow us on Facebook for immediate updates to the available data.
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National Map Corps Volunteers Receive Recognition in National Map Gamification Effort
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