You know that neurotic data czar down the hall that’s always bragging about his GIS data organization skills… yah, get ready to blow his mind. Modern-day mapmakers and classic cartographers alike can now bring search 2.0 to their neo-spatial production workflows: introducing Voyager.
Voyager is a desktop crawler designed specifically for indexing a wide array of [...]

Out at the ESRI UC in San Diego all week, just set up a stream to pull together reactions from the GeoBlogger community. Make sure to check it out and participate at:
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/esri-uc-2008
 

What do Water, Sunshine, and stereos blasting music at Night have in common? Thanks to MIT, not just Spring Break in Florida anymore…

MIT released news today of a “Major Discovery” that could change the way solar energy is collected and stored, making solar energy available at night and splitting water molecules in the process. The idea takes a page out of old mother nature’s book, using a conceptual approach similar to how plants manage to store all that sunlight they convert to energy.

So what do Broadswords, evil temptresses, and GIS have in common? The Governator answers…
Sifting through the transcript of  governor Schwarzenegger’s May keynote address at the Conference on California’s Future:
“… we are moving full steam ahead. A perfect example is, for instance, GIS. GIS is a form of digital mapping technology, kind of like Google Earth [...]

The GIS old guard gave a collective shudder this morning, as Google inched one step closer towards traditional GIS capabilities: introducing Google Map Maker.  While some folks hardly looked up from their koolaid, i decided to set mine down and kick the tires a bit. As someone who’s run the gauntlet of clunky feature editing [...]