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Apr 25, 2012 • If you work in ArcGIS like me, you know it lacks in the cartographic style department. The ESRI Mapping Center has put together a collection of maps and tutorials on how to spruce up your maps and get away from the boring, out-of-the-box styles. Click on the map you like and get short tutorials on...
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Apr 25, 2012 • XML has become very popular in giving users the ability to parse large amounts of data between programs and databases. Many have adopted XML schema and developed variations of the it. HTML, KML and the popular GPX schema have a very similar look to XML. Using python and more specifically ArcPy, the ESRI blog user...
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Mar 28, 2012 • Two of my favorite twitter feeds come from Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg. They do an incredible job of visualizing data and collaborate a site called hint.fm. They have recently released an animated map that displays wind patterns based on the National Digital Forecast Database. Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/
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Mar 28, 2012 • I’m not a big fan of updating when ever a new version comes out, but the new Adobe has made their last two Photoshop versions (CS5 and CS6) very worth while. The new features in the Photoshop CS6 bring more RAW and Video editing tools to the package (Check out the top 6 videos). Check...
![Perpetual Ocean [HD Video]](http://www.dv-proj.com/data/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Perpetual_Ocean_24fps_960x540_web-290x180.png "Perpetual Ocean [HD Video]")
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Mar 27, 2012 • (Make sure to turn on the full screen!) This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007. This visualization was produced using NASA/JPL’s computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECCO2.. ECCO2 is high resolution model of the global...
![ArcGIS for the Android Platform [update]](http://www.dv-proj.com/data/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/arcgis_android-290x290.png "ArcGIS for the Android Platform [update]")
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Oct 27, 2011 • [update 3/28/2012] Now available in the Amazon Appstore The ArcGIS Android app has bee available as a beta version from the ESRI developers resource center for about a year, but there has been Iphone and Windows Mobile versions available for some time now. On Monday (Octobe 25, 2011) Android finally revived an official version. From my initial thoughts, it seems to...
One of the most known names in the tech, entertainment and fashion world has past at 56. Steve Paul Jobs died on October 5, 2011. http://www.wired.com/ http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/jobs/
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Aug 15, 2011 • The other day I need to convert multibeam and lidar data to and ASCII format for a colleague. I have a python script that acquired several years ago for doing this, but I needed a method that people unfamiliar with python could use. So here’s the method I came up with… Note: This method was...
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Aug 12, 2011 • There has been some very interesting experiments done using Nintendo’s WII and Microsoft’s Kinect (Kinectfusion), but this project with partners from Microsoft Research Cambridge, Imperial College London, Newcastle University, Lancaster University, and the University of Toronto has done some really impressive work. Using a Kinect, the team has created a way to quickly map an...
Ever wonder how small earth is compared to the biggest known star? Me neither until I saw this animation.
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Jun 30, 2011 • Taper Lets you have large section at the top and small section at the bottom or vice versa. FFD 2-2-2 to 4-4-4 (free form deformation) Put a mesh in a cage that can be push and full to deform the model very useful for deformity. It uses various control points in the cage. Bend As...
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Jun 14, 2011 • Ramachandran offers an interesting idea of how the connections we are share has shaped our civilization http://blog.ted.com/2010/01/04/the_neurons_tha/
