About the Geografia products: These products are paper crafts that combine geometric beauty in two or three dimensions and geographical beauty of a world map or a globe. When you look at them from a distance, you will enjoy their geometric beauty, and when you look at them closely, you also can enjoy geographic details […]
I love reading about maps in the news, especially printed maps. So, I was pleased to see this article in the Star Tribune about Tom Hedberg: Who needs GPS and Google? Minneapolis map publisher is ‘master of cartography’. Richard Chin‘s article starts out with a great example of Tom Hedberg’s creative and useful maps. Sure, […]
The ALEX Corporation is very glad to join the IMIA as a new member. ALEX Corporation was founded in 2010 by Koichiro Tsujino, the former president of Google Japan. ALEX is quickly introducing and exporting various highly-qualified products from Japan via their cross-border shopping site named ALEXCIOUS. ALEX is also running a crowdfunding site named COUNTDOWN for those who want […]
Avenza Maps is capable of importing and displaying georeferenced maps in several different formats. The app processes a map by rasterizing and tiling it on import. The speed and result of processing will vary depending on the type of file used and the size and dimensions. We’ll discuss the types […]
Maps are now Mine Remember the good old days when mappers ruled the world, and every map that any mortal saw was sourced, designed, built, edited, and published by pick your favourite map company? The world has changed since then, and the consensus view from many in and out of the industry is that there […]
Brian Fox is currently the Systems Development Branch Chief for USGS’s National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC) where he oversees development activity in support of The National Map. While at NGTOC, he’s had the opportunity to lead the adoption of Agile software development and management methods. This has been successfully accomplished through facilitating training events, […]
