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Video - Google Earth Hurricane Response 2010 and Google earth Portable
A recent Twitter post from Google Geo Evangelist @manomarks pointed me to an interesting blog post (http://geosquan.blogspot.com/2010/09/preparing-for-hurricane-earl-with.html) about Google Earth...
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GIS Lounge: Hurricane Earl and Google Earth Enterprise Portable
Google Earth Enterprise Portable is designed to allow organizations the ability to use Google Earth offline. This comes in handy in emergency management situations where first responders may be in the field without Internet access. Sean Wohltman, a... Continue reading →
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Hurricane Earl and Google Earth Enterprise Portable
Google Earth Enterprise Portable is designed to allow organizations the ability to use Google Earth offline. This comes in handy in emergency management situations where first responders may be in the field without Internet access. Sean Wohltman, a geospatial engineer with Google, has step-by-step instructions on how to prep and download data based on a [...]
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NASA Hurricane Researchers Eye Earl's Eye
Hurricane Earl, currently a Category Two storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale with maximum sustained winds of 100 knots (115 miles...
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AnyGeo - GIS, LBS, Geo Mashups, Mobile & Social Location Technologies: Mississippi’s Geospatial Cluster Transitions to Private Sector
I’ve always been very impressed with the Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions (EIGS), indeed its been a true Geo industry success story & Geo Tech cluster role model out of the South. I was interested today to recei... Continue reading →
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Hurricane Earl from Space [Flickr]
GISuser.com GIS and Social, Mobile Tech Images posted a photo: 
Photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station, this is an oblique view of the eye (just above center frame) of Hurricane Earl (at this time a category 4), centered just north of the Virgin Islands near 19.3 north latitude and 64.7 west longitude packing 115-kilometer winds. The photo was taken with a digital still camera using a 35mm lens.
Credit: NASA MSFC 
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@Taliesn hey I'm with ya... My special stash Imported from noco! [Flickr]
GISuser.com GIS and Social, Mobile Tech Images posted a photo: 
Posted by twitter.com/gletham 
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The Map Room: The Times-Picayune’s Interactive Oil Spill Map
With the wellhead capped this is rapidly approaching old news, but it's still worth admiring the cartographic virtues of the Times-Picayune's interactive map of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, with a timeline from April 20 to July 28. Via Andrew Matra... Continue reading →
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The Map Room: Navteq Unveils Landmark-Based Navigation
At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin today, Navteq announced a new form of voice navigation called Natural Guidance: NAVTEQ Natural Guidance leapfrogs today's linear navigation instructions -- e.g. "turn right in 50 meters on Kurfürstendamm"... Continue reading →
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The Map Room: Hodder Wants Your Map ‘Doodles’
Hodder Geography is running a map doodle competition: they want entrants to draw "your own map of your world, real or imagined," scan it and send it in. Via Thierry Gregorius. Not the first hand-drawn map competition, not by a long shot -- I may have t... Continue reading →
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