Links List 6.20.08
June 20th, 2008by Sean Gorman
Data Transfer Solutions (DTS) developed an application for the Texas Forest service called the Texas Wildfire Data Browser. The application provides viewing for wildfire threats, fuel hazards and fire locations.
In light of the Iowa flooding, MSNBC posted an interactive map allowing users to track flooding locations in the Midwest. The majority of the points on the map give the levels of historical rivers and the others even link to specified news areas.
Google Earth’s text gets a make-over with a new option to view KML texts on the map. Designed by Sergey Devytakov, the new tool, called Labels, allows the specification of font changes, shadows and outlines and choice of icon, etc.
Maps and texts combine through Kvisu.com. This unique search engine takes text based results and aligns them with a surface map using visualized keywords.
Zimbabwe gets on the map. Google Maps has been used to track the political campaign of Morgan Tsvangirai and the unfortunate terror occurring in the country.
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June 20th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Thanks for the link to the Texas Forest Service demo site!
Cheers,
Dave
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:42 am
Thanks for the link on the flooding. If you’d like to create your own maps, and not those that someone else thinks is relevant, check out the new service at AWhere.
http://www.awhere.com/LP/GreenReport.aspx
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hi Greg,
Please try to keep the comments from being spammish. We’ve made related data available for the Iowa floods through the blog in a variety of formats for different applications to harness. As best I can tell your link is for someone to buy your software or get a free trial. I even needed a user name and password to read the blog post, which I do not have. If I am missing something and there is a contribution to the conversation please let me know, otherwise I’d prefer to keep unsolicited sales pitches off the blog.
best,
sean