Zoom » GIS http://www.lizardtech.com/blog A starting point for geospatial insight Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:48:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Mile High Road Trip 2011 http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2011/mile-high-road-trip-2011/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2011/mile-high-road-trip-2011/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:42:55 +0000 Genie Hays http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2011/mile-high-road-trip-2011/ I recently had the privilege of spending a week in the Denver Metro area visiting LizardTech customers and business associates.  I have been to the beautiful city of Denver many times, and I look forward to each and every visit, especially the part where I get to leave my umbrella at home and bust out [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2010/not-walking-mapping/feed/ 0 LiDAR…it’s right up our alley http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/lidarits-right-up-our-alley/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/lidarits-right-up-our-alley/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:07:34 +0000 Matt Fleagle http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/lidarits-right-up-our-alley/ No really, I mean literally, in the alley behind our building. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) was scanning buildings in Post Alley between Madison and Spring this morning, creating LiDAR point clouds. I ran into these guys a few months ago on my way to work, where the alley between First and Second meets [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/lidarits-right-up-our-alley/feed/ 4 Reminiscences of Spring Break at the ESRI Dev Summit http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/reminiscences-of-spring-break-at-the-esri-dev-summit/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/reminiscences-of-spring-break-at-the-esri-dev-summit/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 17:13:02 +0000 Mike Rosen http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/reminiscences-of-spring-break-at-the-esri-dev-summit/ Glen Thompson and I were fortunate to attend the ESRI Developer’s Summit in Palm Springs last month. In addition to being a great excuse to get out of the rain here in Seattle, the Dev Summit provides a great opportunity to catch up with our friends from Redlands and see what’s new with ArcGIS. Those [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/reminiscences-of-spring-break-at-the-esri-dev-summit/feed/ 0 Bonfire of the urbanities: GeoWeb wants YOU http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/bonfire-of-the-urbanities-geoweb-wants-you/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/bonfire-of-the-urbanities-geoweb-wants-you/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:23:31 +0000 admin http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/bonfire-of-the-urbanities-geoweb-wants-you/ The “Call for Presentations and Workshops” for GeoWeb 2009 has just been announced. The theme of this year’s conference is “Cityscapes”: the geography of urban environments, BIM-CAD-GIS convergence, 3D modeling. LizardTech has been fortunate to be involved with this conference for a number of years now, and so we’re once again looking forward to July [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/bonfire-of-the-urbanities-geoweb-wants-you/feed/ 0 Express Server serves up New Jersey http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/express-server-serves-up-new-jersey/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/express-server-serves-up-new-jersey/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:04:53 +0000 Matt Fleagle http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/express-server-serves-up-new-jersey/ The State of New Jersey’s 2007 orthoimagery is now available for download from the New Jersey Geographic Information Network’s newly-designed NJ Information Warehouse, which uses LizardTech’s Express Server to serve all compressed orthoimagery layers. The imagery is available in both MrSID format (compressed 8-bit, 3-band, RGB natural color, 5000′ by 5000′ tiles) and JPEG 2000 [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2009/express-server-serves-up-new-jersey/feed/ 3 GIS and Geography Week http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/gis-and-geography-week/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/gis-and-geography-week/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:00:39 +0000 Walter Wittel http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2008/gis-and-geography-week/ As part of National Geography Week we at LizardTech have been asking ourselves what GIS and geography mean to us personally. What usually comes to mind for me (aside from work) is images from space on Google Maps. I like to scout places before I go, and perhaps show where I’ve been afterwards via GPS tracks like [...]

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