Camera Raw 3.7 for Photoshop CS2 now available: “Adobe has released Camera Raw 3.7, a free update of the RAW file plug-in for Photoshop CS2. The new version adds support for RAW files from the Nikon D40 and Pentax K10D, plus ‘unofficial’ support for various Phase One backs and the Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro. Also new in v3.7 is cross-application compatibility between Lightroom 1.0 and Photoshop CS2 RAW processing settings.”

(Via Rob Galbraith DPI.)

Flash Earth is an interesting variation on Google Maps and Google Earth. You can flip between eight different aerial photography and satellite views of the earth with the click of a button. Some of the views are not that different; two of them are Microsoft Virtual Earth, one with labels on, one with labels off. Even some of the competing services don’t look that different for some locales; perhaps they both acquire the photos from the same data source.

Flood Map Modernization Elevations Inadequate; New Map Using Lidar Proposed: “

The Flood Map Modernization program currently being undertaken by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has inadequate elevation information to map the shape of the land surface in three dimensions, a committee of the National Research Council reported. Such information is critical in determining the likely direction, velocity, and depth of flood flows. The committee found that most of the publicly available elevation data for the U.S. is more than 35 years old.

The committee called for a new elevation mapping program, which it named Elevation for the Nation. This new mapping program should employ light detection and ranging (Lidar) to acquire elevation data it was recommended.

Photo courtesy FEMA.


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(Via GeoCarta.)

Robotic device promises to simplify panorama photography: “The Gigapan robotic platform, a device developed by Carnegie Mellon University and the NASA Ames Intelligent Robot Group to automate the shooting of multi-image panoramas with a digital camera, is slated for release in March 2007 for under US$200 along with stitching software, says a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. UPDATE, FEBRUARY 6, 2007: We’ve added more information on the PanoMachine, an alternative to the Gigapan.”

(Via Rob Galbraith DPI.)

VRlog.com has been redirected to be a sub-weblog of the Art of Geography weblog. It’s easier to manage that way. The reader will not have to do anything–vrlog.com will still work. VR articles of interest will continue to be posted here. The older material from VRlog continues to be available, but from http://old.vrlog.com

There may be some propagation delay in the subdomains working.

Photoshop Color Management Policies in Detail: “Photoshop’s color management support is very complete, but because of this it can sometimes also seem very complicated and perhaps a bit confusing. Central to all of this are the color management policy settings and how they interact with any profiles that may be embedded in images that you open to work on….”

(Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.)

What is the Sense of Place? Not just a placename, a GPS waypoint, a snapshot, or a logo on a wall.