a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS)

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats.



QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost.

Twango’s New Google Earth Features

Twango, the feature-rich media sharing site, is integrating Google Earth into their user offerings.

With this new feature, you can now see Twango media and members on Google Earth. From a user’s channel page, you can choose the Subscribe link and click on the Google Earth icon. For Windows users, this will launch Google Earth, and for OS X, this will put an alias to the KML feed on your desktop. The feed ensures that the information from Google Earth is always updated. In order to utilize this feature, you must have Google Earth already installed. The feature currently only works on channels that have existing geocoded media. Twango hopes to have the geo location of media automatically inserted in the future.


The new Google Earth feature allows users a new way to explore
Twango and find new users. I’m sure Twango is hoping that the inclusion of this feature will encourage users to geotag more of their content as well. In related Twango news, they released their video webcam widget earlier this year.

GeoCommons is a place to explore, create and share intelligent maps and geographic data.

GeoCommons is a place to explore, create and share intelligent maps and geographic data.On GeoCommons you can:

* Explore an open geodata repository with over 2 billion location attributes, 35,000 variables & 1,500 data sets (and counting!).
* Create intelligent maps to answer questions, gain insight and make decisions.
* Share maps and data to tell stories, collaborate and influence.

GeoCommons includes a wide range of data in areas such as, population, environment, recreation, schools, crime, employment, traffic, politics, shark attacks and whatever wacky or edifying information the community contributes.

* Search for demographic data like age, income, occupation and ethnicity to determine the location of your target market or future customer base.

* Find neighborhood information on crime rates, school spending, the number of school-age kids, and traffic congestion in order to choose the best place to buy or rent a home.

* Educate both yourself and others about critical issues as you easily visualize and share environmental
data on toxic dumping and water contamination.

You can help build the data bounty on GeoCommons, by uploading and contributing your own data. The value of geographic information multiplies the more of it you have covering different topics, places and time periods.

LINK: http://www.geocommons.com/

Place you can discover your everyday world, your way.

EveryScape is the only place you can discover your everyday world, your way. Today, you can check out Union Square, San Francisco as the first city to be scaped. You can check out restaurants, hotels, go shopping, drive by homes. You can see what other people are saying and share your comments as you stroll down the street. Click on the link to the right to vote for the next CityScape — it could be yours.


LINK : http://www.everyscape.com/

3D virtual cityscape, providing users a way to explore cities.

UpNext is in closed beta, but it sounds like it could be very cool. According to Mashable, it provides “a 3D virtual cityscape, providing users a way to explore cities. UpNext will offer ways to search visually online to find out what’s going on in their city, or cities, on a local level.” Very cool, very metaversal, very 3pointD.

If you have any questions please contact them at general@upnext.com.

LINK: http://upnext.com

Olde World Map of Online Communities

WhiteAfrican reports a fun look at the present world of online communities. It’s heavily skewed to the US market, but many of the sites are global.

SOURCE: http://whiteafrican.com

Mashup.com combines content data from more than one source to create a new user experience.

Mashup.com - Your Source for Character Combinations, Web 2.0, Hybrid Application, Map Area, Map Physical, API, RSS Feed Mashup.mashup.com combines content data from more than one source to create a new user experience.The name "mashup" comes from the pop music term, which refers to two or more songs combined into a new song
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Adhoc Geo-Targeted Virtual Computing Alliance .

The GeoElastic Alliance of regional hosting centers enables members to offer collective hosting services that can withstand the crush of daily requests for rich, dynamic, and interactive content, transactions, and applications specifically targeting the regions requiring the most demand. When delivering on these requests, GeoElastic intellegently detects and avoids regional Internet problem spots and vulnerabilities, to ensure web based applications perform optimally, media and software download flawlessly, and applications perform reliably.

Publish image or video file (or other multimedia content) with its geo-coordinates on the internet.

GeoCast is an image or video file (or other multimedia content) registered and published with its geo-coordinates on the internet.

A GeoCast must always show something of geographical relevance, such as a street, a special building, a local store, local persons or similar pieces of lokal or geographical relevance.

Thereafter a GeoCast can be categorized to better sort and search through the Database of websites like GeoCaster.com

Property Seach Engine.

Properazzi is a website with lots of property listings.Here you'll find all kinds of property, in all price ranges, from all over Europe.

Properazzi collect listings from thousands of websites and try their best to present them to you in a simple, uniform way. Use their service to browse listings. When you click on a listing, their take you to the website that published it.
What's the catch?

Properazzi is free to use, and there's no requirement to give up any personal information.their are not an agency. Or a broker. Nor are they a publisher. they're a website that gathers and organises property ads, and then helps people find the websites that publish those ads.
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Locate bars, clubs, and liquor stores with Google Maps, tags, and user reviews.

partyGPS makes it easier to locate bars, clubs, and liquor stores throughout the U.S. with Google Maps, tags, and user reviews. This will hopefully help you and your friends plan your night out quicker without the hassle.

While doing this, please remember to drink responsibly. partyGPS hope the information found on their site is helpful, but it is up to you to stay safe while partying. Designated driver is not included.

Make your Maps Smarter.

GeoIQ is a dynamic geospatial analysis and heat mapping technology that delivers high resolution raster analysis through a web browser.



Developers can use GeoIQ to add geographic data visualization and analysis tools to their web mapping applications. So instead of just seeing search results as sets of points or colored polygons, users can ask the map questions like:
"How does location A compare to location B, in terms of the parameters I have chosen?"
"Which places have the most or least of the things I'm interested in?"
"Where can I find the greatest overlap between all of the things I'm looking for?"

GeoIQ delivers the answer in seconds, on colorful, easy to read maps that users can pan around and zoom into, and their results will be refreshed immediately, refactored for the new geographic range and scale.

Map Up and share your favourite feeds.

MappedUp is an application that tracks a large number of RSS news sources and displays their latest items on a world map, geographically and in real-time.

Easy way to find out what people think about the street they live in.

StreetAdvisor is the easy way to find out what people REALLY think about the street they live in. It’s a place where people can finally voice their opinions about where they live, have lived or simply visited!

* "If only I knew what my street was like before I bought the house!"
* "I wish there was a way to ask my neighbors a question, but I'm just too busy to see them."
* "I like my house, but my street is so noisy!"

StreetAdvisor was created to solve these and many other problems people have when living in streets or when buying and selling real estate.
The definitive guide to finding the right street.

Through detailed reviews and guidebooks , combined with patent-pending scoring technologies, StreetAdvisor helps bridge the gap that exists about the relevant information at the street level, from neighborly attitudes to noise levels to traffic problems.

Imagine how much easier it would be if you could find out about the street – before you moved in.Everyone's got something to say... and share!

Search Real Estate using Google Earth.

AgentEarth lets you fly around the country in search of your dream home. Real Estate search has never been easier. View properties from a bird's eye perspective right from the comfort of your chair.

To Begin: Enter in where you would like to seach, and the radius. You can be as specific as an address or as broad as a city. A downloadable Google Earth file will be generated which will allow you to fly to your next home!

Viewing: Properties are broken into categories based on type and then price. Click on the property type/price to display all matching properties. If there are many properties in a category, it may take a moment to load.

A tool which makes searching local area auction listings easy.

BidNearBy.com is a tool which makes searching local area auction listings easy. You don't have to hassle with complicated advanced searching features and numerous fields to fill out. Just type in what you're looking for and your zip code, and we do the rest of the work for you.



Now you can easily find local items when you don't feel like paying high shipping rates, or you can find items which you can look at in person first before committing to a bid, such as cars or other high-profile items.

A collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. 366 maps and PDF posters will be finished by February 2007. Use the menu above or click on a thumbnail image below to view a map.

The maps and data files cover 200 territories, mainly United Nation Member States plus a few others to include at least 99.95% of the world's population. For a map identifying them see the labelled territory map, and for a cartogram giving them all equal prominence see Appendix A (Areas Included). Further details about their names are given in Technical Notes for Land Area. Also shown on the maps are 62 other areas, mostly small islands, which do not have unique data but are assigned to and included in the data of the 200. For details see Appendix B (Islands Assigned to Territories).

A complete resource for or audio tours and GPS audio points of interest.

OGGtours is a complete resource for those looking for audio tours and GPS audio points of interest. Many of these tours are open source making it possible for anybody to modify or remix content.Hundreds of tours to destinations around the world can be downloaded from OGGtours with many more being created and added daily.

an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data

GeoTools is an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data, for example to implement Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The GeoTools library implements Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed, in close collaboration with the GeoAPI and GeoWidgets projects. The capabilities of Geotools are presented in the feature list.






Geotools is used by a number of projects including Web Feature Servers, Web Map Servers, and desktop applications,

OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) is an international industry consortium of 339 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

OpenGIS® is a Registered Trademark of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) and is the brand name associated with the Specifications and documents produced by the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC). OpenGIS specifications are developed in a unique consensus process supported by OGC industry, government and academic members to enable geoprocessing technologies to interoperate, or "plug and play".



1.Specification Program

In the OGC Specification Program the Technical Committee and Planning Committee work in a formal consensus process to arrive at approved (or "adopted") OpenGIS® Specifications.

2.Interoperability Program

The OGC Interoperability Program is a series of hands-on engineering initiatives to accelerate the development and acceptance of OpenGIS® Specifications.