Tag Archives: GIS

Archaeogeomancy

Geomantic Housechart

Geomantic Housechart

As I now tend to write about all sorts of random stuff on here, I’ve set up a new blog called Archaeogeomancy which focuses solely on my research and work interests. The name is a bit of fun, a play on words if you will, based on archaeological geomatics ;-) After all, archaeological geomatics and geomancy can be seen to be closely related in a number of ways, the modern day GIS practitioner and the geomancer both interpret the spatial arrangement of patterns on the earth…

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New directions in GIS

The world of the geoweb is advancing apace with cloud based data storage, mobile platforms and web based applications/geoprocessing coming to the fore. Esri have boosted their presence with the release of ArcGIS 10, its updated desktop, web and mobile components and associated resources. Continue reading

KML comes of age

Tis true, KML (Keyhole Markup Language, as developed by Google for use with their Google Earth app) has been adopted as an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standard, as reported on the Google blog and the OGC news page. Being a simple markup language like HTML, KML is a fantastically easy way to represent spatial information and is being used by an increasing number of apps not only to publish to Google Earth but to transfer data between systems and serve information on demand. OGC standardisation of the format is the icing on the cake for what has turned out to be a really useful format. Well done Google!