October 23, 2009

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TOP STORIES

Making a Case for Design SkillsMaking a Case for Design Skills

Gretchen Peterson's book, GIS Cartography: A Guide to Effective Map Design, brings cartographic design techniques to GIS users who don't have training in map design. In this article, she highlights some of those techniques - which apply regardless of whether you're using sophisticated GIS software or pen and ink to make your map.


Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Carl ReedPodcast: A Hallway Conversation with Carl Reed

Adena Schutzberg interviewed the Open Geospatial Consortium's Carl Reed about the status of KML, OGC's new role in enabling discipline focused efforts, why GeoRSS seems so hidden, INTERGEO and why the U.S. is behind in using standards. This is the first in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.



OFF THE BEATEN PATH

The London Heat Map is a part of the London Development Agency's Decentralized Energy and Energy Masterplanning (DEMaP) project. According to the site: "The Heat Map provides spatial intelligence on factors relevant to the identification and development of DE [decentralized energy] opportunities: major energy consumers, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, energy supply plants, community heating networks, heat density, etc." Used with permission. Copyright Point X. All rights reserved. License number 10034829. Copyright Crown copyright. All rights reserved (LA100032379) (2009). Maps created by the Center for Sustainable Energy, 2009. Click for larger view.

London Heat Map



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