Posts from ‘January, 2007’

The practical impact of the BitPass announcement is that we will not be able to sell maps online anymore unless another similar payment system can be found. This news is certainly a surprise. Apologies to anyone who is inconvenienced.

Received this from BitPass today: “We want to thank you for your past business, however due to circumstances beyond our control, we are discontinuing our operations. We have partnered with Digital River to provide operational support during the period prior to shut down. As of today, January 19, 2007, all Bitpass Buyers with US dollar [...]

I hadn’t heard that there was a special version of Canvas with GIS capabilities (or that Canvas is no longer a Deneba product): http://www.acdamerica.com/arcnews/default.html Does anyone know if this software allows you to import a set of vectors from Illustrator CS2 and geo-reference them? Then convert to another projection? Then export back to Illustrator? The [...]

USGS to Release TerraLook: “The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced today the upcoming release of the TerraLook data product. TerraLook consists of a collection of JPEG images created from ASTER images from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center and Landsat Orthorectified images from the USGS Center [...]

Hardly anyone has used the octant map/projection since 1514 or so. At least it is hard to find examples. So I put it to use in the Art of Geography logo. Many people have commented on the logo… I thought it would be interesting to delve into this unusual projection/map. The following article explains more [...]

Garmin FINALLY Supports OS X: “ Garmin announced nearly a year ago that they would be supporting OS X for their Forerunner and Edge line of GPS devices designed for running and biking. Windows users have long been able to upload tracking information for use with the Garmin Training Center. Now Macworld is reporting that [...]