Journalism in GIS is often biased and company-driven. That's why I don't feel like I'm spamming the group with this announcement. In fact, I won't even copy ...
I've asked ArcMap 8.3 to draw 2,000-foot buffers around a group of geocoded points, but I'm wondering whether they really are 2,000-foot buffers. Using ...
Roberts, Jeff
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Dec 14, 2005 10:23 pm
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Jeff, Check your projections. ... From: JAGIS-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:JAGIS-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Roberts, Jeff Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005...
The projections for the buffer and point layers appear to be the same. Coordinate System: Lambert_Conformal_Conic False_Easting: 3000000.000316 False_Northing:...
Roberts, Jeff
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Dec 14, 2005 10:32 pm
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Now I think my map is OK, after comparing the distances on an old-fashioned paper map. Mapquest's driving distance is very different than the as-the-crow-flies...
Roberts, Jeff
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Dec 15, 2005 12:41 am
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Jeff, Where I work, we use some pseudo gis tools and I have found that distance confusions arise around these areas: Differences in map projections being...
From "Cartography," the Canadian Cartography Association's most excellent blog at http://ccablog.blogspot.com/ "The self-declared goal of the Map Projections...
Welcome to MAPS-L -- Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum MAPS-L History Viewing and Searching the MAPS-L Archives Subscribing Help Posting World Map of MAPS-L...
Griff Palmer, of the San Jose (California) Mercury-News offers the following post (originally posted to NICAR-L): "Happy New Year, all. I've come across a...
"Since I gave it such enthusiastic notices yesterday, I feel obligated to point out that it looks like this software isn't really terribly useful without the ...
Remember the first time you saw keyhole on TV and you were amazed? Just to let this group to be the very first to know that Pictometry has received a signed a...
Imagemapper 9.2 users, I'd like to include a legend in the web map I'm creating, but the result I'm getting is unusable. The font is way too big. Does anyone...
Roberts, Jeff
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Mar 13, 2006 6:43 pm
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Long-time JAGIS-L friend George Dailey, ESRI's K-12 Education Program manager, contributes a fine, basic article to the current issue of ArcUser on how to...
Subject: Invitation: Opening Reception of the "Places & Spaces: Mapping Science" exhibit at NYPL on 4/3/06 You are invited to join the Opening Reception of the...
Build Your Own Web-Based GPS Tracking System http://www.geoplace.com/uploads/OnlineExclusives/tracking.asp By Martin Flynn Having your own Web-based mobile...
All -- This article connects nicely with analytic journalism and some of the GIS content that came up at Ver 1.0. It is not in the lede, so you wýll have to ...
Perhaps helpful international data. -tj ... From: IPUMS Project <ipums@...> Date: Jun 3, 2006 12:16 AM Subject: 47 Censuses from 13 Countries To: IPUMS...
Fran: I don't know about IRE/NICAR, but ESRI has a rather rich offering of online mapping tutorials and podcasts at http://www.esri.com/index.html and ...
Listers: Actually, the JAGIS board of directors is the most informal thing possible: the "board" is composed of anyone who happens to show up for drinks and ...
Friends: My apologies for the cross-posts, but.... For an upcoming presentation, I'm putting together a list of the 25 basic statistics every journalist should...
--distance (in miles/km and time) from your city to provincial/national capital and principal cities of the world -- average number of calories consumed per...
From the Scout Report comes this interesting item: Mapping History http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/maphist/mappinghistory.html Queen's tantrums? Children's...
All: A few days ago, I asked friends and colleagues on listservs to suggest 25 relatively generic numbers journalists should know in order to be responsible,...
An interesting piece in the NYTimes on Sunday, "Finding Tax Revenue Through Aerial Imaging" highlights yet another industry and example of how public...
If any journalist/graphics editor/presentation editors would like to check out Pictometry (which is detailed oblique imagery referred to in the article below),...
If any journalist/graphics editor/presentation editors would like to check out Pictometry (which is detailed oblique imagery referred to in the article below),...