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High R esolution Vertical Aerial photography for England has been released as Open Data from the Environment Agency. High Resolutions range from 50cm to 10cm (Orthorectified) Downloaded SU46NE.zip (Newbury) Image showing Vodafone HQ at 20cm Resolution "Vertical aerial photography is an airborne mapping technique, which measures reflected light in the red, green, blue and near infra-red spectrum. …

Geologic Map of Alaska "A new digital geologic map of Alaska released January 5th provides land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use " More than 750 references were used in creating the map, some as old as 1908 and others as new as 2015 source: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=4430#.Vow6pvkrKUk Link to map (pdf) http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/334…

Environment Agency Lidar Opendata Released Formats/Resolutions available: LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model at 1m spatial resolution LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model at 2m spatial resolution LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model at 50cm spatial resolution LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model at 1m spatial resolution LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model at 2m spatial resolution LIDAR Co…

Noise Map (High Speed 2 Rail Impact) A nice visualization of the impact of potential Noise traveling around the new High Speed Link (known as HS2) The project to create a faster link from London to Birmingham by rail then expanding to the north of England and to Scotland at later dates. Noise contours — The contours are based on computer modelling of the equivalent continuous sound level (LpAeq,T…

New Ordnance Survey OpenMap (Open Data) Released OpenRoads "OS Open Roads is a connected road network for Great Britain. It contains all classified roads (such as motorways and A & B roads) as well as officially named unclassified roads" http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-roads.html Scale 1:15 000 to 1:30 000 OpenRivers OS Open Rivers is a generalised open wa…

QGIS on Raspberry Pi 2 Asking what is a raspberry pi? then go to http://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/ (This is work in progress) Current QGIS 2.2 but working on updating to  QGIS 2.8.1 Call this testing... Hardware: Raspberry Pi MicroSD Class 10 (16GB) Operating System raspuntu arm7 compiled from [direct link] http://lucario.info/archive/raspuntu-tjc-2015-02-16.zip This was…

Google Earth Pro now Free 30th January 2015 "Starting today, even more people will be able to access Google Earth Pro: we're making it available for free" Google Earth Pro builds on the amazing functionality of Google Earth with even more powerful tools. Some of the most compelling features of Earth Pro include: Advanced Measurements : Measure parking lots and land developments with polygon area …

The Check My Flood Risk map from ShootHill is designed to increase awareness among the public of the likelihood of flooding from rivers or the sea, and to encourage people living and working in these areas to find out more and take appropriate action. The map shows the Environment Agency's assessment of the likelihood of flooding from rivers and the sea across England. The information is based on…

Explore a collection of historical maps of Bath Maps ranging from 1572 to 1942 in a nice interactive way http://nadnerb.co.uk/HistoryMap/ source :http://blog.nadnerb.co.uk/?page_id=115 Mapperz Mapping News Blog

Ordnance Survey Minecraft map of Great Britain Video by Leigh Dodds Ordnance Survey Minecraft data is available from http://download.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/minecraft/OSGB.zip (1GB File!) OS have created GB Minecraft 2, a Minecraft® world made with digital map products – freely available as OS OpenData™ Some Locations to start from Southampton Water --- X = 17900 Y = 100 Z = 47800 London -----------…

An Online Easy Translator for GIS Data The Easy Translator is available as a free web service, for immediately translating data into your required format and coordinate system. All  these formats for source and output are supported: AutoCAD (DWG/DXF) CSV GeoJSON GML GPX DGN (v7) MapInfo (TAB) KML ESRI (Shapefile) Output Coordinates: WGS84 WGS84 (GeoCentric) Mercator Projection Robinson Projection…

GIS Stack Exchange 2014 Community Moderator Election update 18th August 2014. Phase 2 - Election is now in Finished... The 2014 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase - 6 candiates Election phase - Finished 27th August 2014 Results are http://meta.gis.stackexchange.com/questions/3742/2014-community-moderator-election-results…

Wind Animation Map ESRI JS API Clean visualisation of Wind Currents across the world http://esri.github.io/wind-js/ data source:[ US National Weather Service - NCEP(WMC] http://esri.github.io/wind-js/gfs.json Mapperz Mapping News Blog

QGIS Ordnance Survey Opendata Styles Ordnance Survey have released Style Sheets for their #opendata including ESRI (ArcGIS) and Quantum GIS (QGIS) style sheets. Most strikingly for the Vector Map District Product that is one of the best full Great Britain datasets everyone can download from https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ opendatadownload/products.html Nice looking vector data in QGIS using Vec…

The FIFA World Cup of Football 1930-2014. A great map showing The FIFA World Cup of Football since 1930-2014. "The national teams of 31 countries advanced through qualification competitions to join host nation Brazil. A total of 64 matches are to be played in 12 cities across Brazil. The first round, or group stage, is thirty-two teams divided into eight groups of four teams. Each group will comp…

Reprint those World Maps All Maps are out of date, whether it is by minutes or years.... "India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh has formally split in two, with its northern area carved out to create a new state called Telangana." On 2 June 2014, Telangana became the 29th state of India Source of image BBC NEWS So if your looking for a World Map on your wall check that Telangana for a visual gu…

Public Transport - Google Maps Update Today, Google Maps is helping you get around on public transit even more easily with these additions: every single transit route in Great Britain to Google Maps—making it easier to get anywhere from Land’s End to John O’Groats. On the other side of the globe, Vancouverites looking for sun can now get real-time updates on whether a bus to Kits is faster than o…

Time traveling in StreetView now available Hoverboards due in November 2015.... Mapperz Mapping News Blog

UK Air Pollution Forecast Map New National Mapping Website showing air pollution: More Detailed Local Pollution Monitoring Map http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/forecasting/ Mapperz Mapping News Blog

USGS Topo Maps in Google Maps Gallery Over 193,000 Topo  Maps georeferenced in a seamless USGS Layer with a transparency control on the left. See the Maps http://maps.google.com/gallery/details?id=z4f-ZuCLmiKg.kUOos96GzVzs&hl=en source: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/03/us-geological-survey-and-google-maps.html Mapperz Mapping News Blog