Here's the Friday geonews in batch mode.
From the open source / open data front:
- A third entry in the series of the Free Shapefiles of Countries of the World, focusing this time on small countries
- Mapperz mentions FacilMap.org Beta, that aims to group together layers of various OpenStreetMap projects
- An entry on OpenPisteMap, for mountain sports
- Via Kurt, here's NOAA's new bathymetry data viewer
- There's a new offline editing plugin for QGIS
- GeoNetwork opensource v2.6.2 released
- Shapely 1.2.8 has been released
From the ESRI front:
- SS summarizes Jack Dangermond's opening talk at the GeoDesign Summitand shares a second entry named Exploring the Esri Approach to GeoDesign
- James praises for Python in ArcGIS
In the miscellaneous category:
- There has been quite a few entries on the Australian flood maps, the best one I found is from VerySpatial
- Here's the Top 10 Spatial Law and Policy Stories of 2010
- Via APB, here's DigitalGlobe's Top Ten Imagery Related Events of the Decade
- APB mentions that a Japanese Company Achieves 3 cm Accuracy for GPS
- GLONASS-enabled phones are coming in March
- Here's Cédric's seven 2011 geo predictions
- Kurt mentions the Earth Observer iOS app
- SS mentions Satellite Monitoring Employed to Prevent Civil War in Sudan, supported by actor George Clooney
- Slashdot ran a story named 'French Use Space Tech To Find Parking Spots'
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