tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59984767340837372322023-11-15T22:28:59.270-08:00Surveying ArchaeologyBen Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-29573528342208735652012-04-01T09:41:00.000-07:002012-04-01T09:41:47.188-07:00OS + Satellite + Historic Mapping Web Service<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm" target="_blank">Interactive Mapping Website</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"> This online page lets you hover over any area on an OS map and see the equivalent location on a number of different sources including satellite imagery, OSMs and historic mapping. Routes can also be calculated along with a very handy footer showing coordinates in Long Lat and OSGB. Photos from Panoramio and info popups for places from wikipedia can also be shown at the click of a button.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"> I like it :)</div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-53008338699347516752012-03-13T08:42:00.000-07:002012-03-13T08:42:46.091-07:00Merge, Split, Lock or unlock PDFs online<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://foxyutils.com/blog/archive/" target="_blank">Foxy Utilities</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNpEOiuSeUfLtE6h2eyly7wgOuWY1J7GnWWmTS80tfi6Q_ER7NjQfbH6xYodsYNRsG4BTe49-Y3xoPFTPwzkcXr6PxTha64J9pNsrMp9412S0RwXJHPBqcTlilqWefo26CoaFk109nn2R/s1600/Foxypdf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNpEOiuSeUfLtE6h2eyly7wgOuWY1J7GnWWmTS80tfi6Q_ER7NjQfbH6xYodsYNRsG4BTe49-Y3xoPFTPwzkcXr6PxTha64J9pNsrMp9412S0RwXJHPBqcTlilqWefo26CoaFk109nn2R/s320/Foxypdf.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Follow the link and click on relevant icon to either merge, split, lock or unlock a .pdf file online</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://foxyutils.com/blog/archive/">http://foxyutils.com/blog/archive/</a> </div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-32885541290156715652012-03-13T08:13:00.000-07:002012-03-13T08:13:29.660-07:00Uncompress almost any packaged file online, including .tar .7z .rar .fat<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://wobzip.org/" target="_blank">WOBZIP</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">A handy online way of uncompressing the following file extensions;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">7z,XZ,BZIP2,GZ,TAR,ZIP,WIM,ARJ,CAB,CHM,CPIO,CramFS,DEB,DMG,FAT,HFS,ISO,LZH,LZMA,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">MBR,MSI,NSIS,NTFS,RAR,RPM,SquashFS,UDF,VHD,WIM,XAR</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Great if you don't have admin rights on a computer that doesn't have software installed.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://wobzip.org/">http://wobzip.org/</a> </div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-91773662844936098562012-02-19T11:34:00.000-08:002012-02-19T11:37:32.520-08:00Forget Photoshop - Use free online Pixlr Editor<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://pixlr.com/editor/" target="_blank">Pixlr Editor</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3PTvHv6NScBICmNYSA7CUddH-22pd-hPM1QUTKawexGz6HElEdGCjdKvmCZa8PyG5s7_ZMTh5w42odUQxx3h5d93wll5rL8t39wv0iyiVdskfsdOI_wj8ptwImlhbheOgy9Pj4SFkYkX/s1600/Pixlr.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3PTvHv6NScBICmNYSA7CUddH-22pd-hPM1QUTKawexGz6HElEdGCjdKvmCZa8PyG5s7_ZMTh5w42odUQxx3h5d93wll5rL8t39wv0iyiVdskfsdOI_wj8ptwImlhbheOgy9Pj4SFkYkX/s320/Pixlr.bmp" width="317" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Pixlr is an online editor for graphics and photos and uses a very similar interface to Adobe Photoshop, with the benefit that it's free to use and works online. So if you're fed up of waiting for Photoshop to load up or are on a university computer which doesn't have Photoshop then use this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I have photoshop on my machines but I still choose to go online and use this instead.....Try it out!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now all we need is an Illustrator version online!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-20076161378851654092012-01-30T08:34:00.000-08:002012-01-30T08:34:57.148-08:00An excellent co-ordinate converter for Great Britain<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fieldenmaps.info/cconv/cconv_gb.html" target="_blank">Co-ordinate Converter for Great Britain</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">An excellent website for converting co-ordinates from various projections and datums.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fieldenmaps.info/cconv/cconv_gb.html">http://www.fieldenmaps.info/cconv/cconv_gb.html</a> </div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-90034452455969194432012-01-23T08:34:00.000-08:002012-01-23T08:34:54.796-08:00List of FREE GIS Datasets<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/" target="_blank">FREE GIS Datasets</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Robin Wilson, a PhD student working in Remote Sensing and GIS has produced a series of lists of free GIS datasets. All the data is free for academic and non-profit work whilst some is also available free to the commercial sector. Three major categories cover Physical Geography, Human Geography and Individual Country/Area Datasets.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/">http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/</a> </div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-9581714307187022932011-12-20T04:44:00.000-08:002011-12-20T04:44:24.660-08:00Masters in GIS & Archaeology (MSc) to start at Edinburgh University<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rds.mvm.ed.ac.uk/GraphicsRDS/Logo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://www.rds.mvm.ed.ac.uk/GraphicsRDS/Logo.gif" /></a></div><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/geosciences/postgraduate/masters-programme/taught-masters/gis-archaeology" target="_blank">Masters in GIS & Archaeology (MSc) to start at Edinburgh University</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"> From September 2012 the University of Edinburgh will be launching a new masters programme - GIS & Archaeology. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #25476c; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #25476c; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;">The GIS & Archaeology programme at Edinburgh is unique. It builds on our reputation as a centre of excellence in Geographical Information Science (GIS), with a pedigree in archaeological teaching and research which extends back into the 19th Century. It is designed to combine GIS and archaeology into a programme with a distinctive Scottish flavour, while being outward-looking and encompassing international perspectives."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #25476c; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"> This is a masters I can thoroughly recommend, with a programme of courses that will be both challenging and rewarding. An understanding and firm technical grasp of the use of GIS in archaeology will set students up for the commercial workspace as well giving them a much needed edge over recent archaeology graduates at a time when employment can be hard to come by.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://yourhiddenpotential.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Edinburgh-University-297x300.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div></div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-45845060129581502542011-10-05T06:23:00.000-07:002011-10-05T06:23:35.141-07:00New Background Maps in ArcGIS<a href="http://blogs.esri.com/Support/blogs/mappingcenter/archive/2011/09/29/Esri-Canvas-Maps-Part-I_3A00_-Author-Beautiful-Web-Maps-With-Our-New-Artisan-Basemap-Sandwich.aspx"><br />
</a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8b3d38c0819547faa83f7b7aca80bd76">Canvas Maps - Light Gray</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhus2XMoriJ4tE_xTyAINq5K6gcNYacmaQ3012Q5i69D1zmeFvyp9CD2cMRz5mR7BKs3pYxEOu6WYjg37A6fVHOtoWSOAHrlQyG_dWnrfuYUT_FlYUJcgVqqS0mqlAkN1na6R02HGAdUPsq/s1600/canvas1_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhus2XMoriJ4tE_xTyAINq5K6gcNYacmaQ3012Q5i69D1zmeFvyp9CD2cMRz5mR7BKs3pYxEOu6WYjg37A6fVHOtoWSOAHrlQyG_dWnrfuYUT_FlYUJcgVqqS0mqlAkN1na6R02HGAdUPsq/s320/canvas1_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Esri has launched a series of new background 'canvas' maps. These can be loaded into the newer versions of ArcGIS and provide a less cluttered mapping option. Check out the link below to visit the ESRI Mapping Center and a discussion on the new features;</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blogs.esri.com/Support/blogs/mappingcenter/archive/2011/09/29/Esri-Canvas-Maps-Part-I_3A00_-Author-Beautiful-Web-Maps-With-Our-New-Artisan-Basemap-Sandwich.aspx">Esri Canvas Maps Part I: Author Beautiful Web Maps With Our New Artisan Basemap Sandwich</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8b3d38c0819547faa83f7b7aca80bd76">Canvas Maps - Light Gray</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-85827677941690394122011-10-04T07:35:00.000-07:002011-10-05T06:32:56.441-07:00The Mannahatta Project - GIS and 3D landscapes<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eric_sanderson_pictures_new_york_before_the_city.html">Mannahatta Project</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4usaYhtsxTyYzriMXnasHUeetZ_2HNwyydcMRg3kOKmxph5PGFvcC4D9ZybTni4TuSm7lymELzu9XoJG0Y7pcovyM4mrs7WPEHEvziCADAMyPcyGp07m-HD7kB1pawNu-UhJZqhoJlIdp/s1600/Manhatta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4usaYhtsxTyYzriMXnasHUeetZ_2HNwyydcMRg3kOKmxph5PGFvcC4D9ZybTni4TuSm7lymELzu9XoJG0Y7pcovyM4mrs7WPEHEvziCADAMyPcyGp07m-HD7kB1pawNu-UhJZqhoJlIdp/s1600/Manhatta.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"> TED talks are amazing!! The fact I can watch them on my huge TV via my Apple TV or Wii makes the experience even better (not to mention the excellent iPhone app). This talks looks at the use of GIS and 3D modelling to genertate the historic landscape of Manhattan prior to the settlement we are used to.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"> "400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery."</div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-17393954414314045092011-09-21T09:14:00.000-07:002011-09-21T09:14:09.628-07:00GIS Cloud Starts HTML5 Mapping Revolution!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><strong> One of the biggest benefits of vector mapping is interactivity. The map is not just a flat raster anymore, it’s a fully interactive surface. Each object can be clicked and styled dynamically, and gives hover feedback!</strong></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><strong> </strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">HTML5 is great for mapping not only because it can render maps very quickly, but also because it is a standard.<strong> It works on the desktop, on the web, on smartphones and on tablets which means your GIS can work on those devices as well!</strong> No need to build native apps for each of those platforms, with HTML5 you get high performance right from the browser.</span>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-67216167194249170852011-09-15T05:02:00.000-07:002011-09-15T05:02:50.721-07:00Are the Ice Sheets shrinking??<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/875483-new-times-atlas-reveals-changes-to-earth">Metro article</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">According to the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">Times Comprehensive Atlas Of The World t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">he Greenland ice sheet and Aral Sea are shrinking. But is this just an error on their part by misinterpreting ice sheet data. There's already much debate amongst glaciologists I know.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
Read more: <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/875483-new-times-atlas-reveals-changes-to-earth#ixzz1Y1PS4G5a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #003399; cursor: pointer; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/875483-new-times-atlas-reveals-changes-to-earth#ixzz1Y1PS4G5a</a></span></span></div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-23904782716052426382011-07-18T03:49:00.000-07:002011-07-18T03:49:58.205-07:00Revolver Maps<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.revolvermaps.com/">Revolver Maps</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> A very cool display of hits to your website. I'll be adding it soon. You can even click on the globe and revolve it!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-71487659909286225872011-07-14T03:02:00.000-07:002011-07-14T03:02:55.713-07:00Swinglet - The easy to use flying camera<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sensefly.com/products/swinglet/">Swinglet CAM - Sensefly - Aerial Photography</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">This is awesome!!! I really want one. How cool would it be to have one of these flying over our archaeological sites. Watch the video on the page to see how it works!</div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-5375012547209137062011-07-02T07:38:00.000-07:002011-07-02T07:38:46.963-07:00ArcGIS for home use available for only $100 for a 12 month licence<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.esri.com/arcgis-for-home/index.html">ArcGIS for home use</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.esri.com/graphics/bluebullet.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 21px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">ArcGIS Spatial Analyst</li>
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</ul><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The ArcGIS for Home Use program is available worldwide. Customers in the United States can order it online. Customers outside the United States should contact their <a href="http://www.esri.com/about-esri/contact.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2a7433; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">local distributor</a>.</div></div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-50723176943522539352011-06-22T09:26:00.000-07:002011-06-22T09:27:20.686-07:00Globally available 30m Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://demex.cr.usgs.gov/DEMEX/">Globally available 30m Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)</a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;">How to select a desired area;</span> </span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Step 1</b> </span>: Define the area of interest by specifying location name, selecting <img src="http://demex.cr.usgs.gov/DEMEX/images/toolbar/worldmap.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /> or <img src="http://demex.cr.usgs.gov/DEMEX/images/toolbar/usamap.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /> , click and drag a rectangle <img src="http://demex.cr.usgs.gov/DEMEX/images/toolbar/draw_rect_off.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" />or polygon <img src="http://demex.cr.usgs.gov/DEMEX/images/toolbar/draw_polygon_off.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /> , or input coordinates by selecting <img src="http://demex.cr.usgs.gov/DEMEX/images/toolbar/inputxy.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /> .</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Step 2</b> </span>: Click Log In and sign on using your WIST/ECHO account.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Step 3</b> </span>: Click <img alt="Download" src="http://demex.cr.usgs.gov/DEMEX/images/toolbar/download.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /> , specify data name, projection, format and other output setting, then submit the request.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Step 4</b> </span>: Preview and download <img alt="Save" src="http://demex.cr.usgs.gov/DEMEX/images/save.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /> the output data.</div></div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-22486153493994741072011-05-29T13:28:00.000-07:002011-05-29T13:28:27.610-07:00Intrasis for Archaeological excavations<div align="center"><a href="http://www.intrasis.com/engelska/index_eng.htm">Intrasis - A GIS system suitable for all kinds of archaeological documentation, at a site level</a></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="left">Intrasis is an acronym for Intra-site Information System and is a GIS system suitable for all kinds of archaeological documentation, at the site as well as for post excavation work. The system includes two software products, Intrasis Explorer and Intrasis Analysis.<br />
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Intrasis Explorer is the core of the system and is used for import of measurement files from different kind of measurement instruments e.g. total station or GPS. All registration of information is done in Intrasis Explorer. It features functions for creating, administer and communicate with the site database, which is stored in MS SQL Server.<br />
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</div><div align="left">I'm just about to install ArcGIS 10 onto my laptop and am gonna give this a whirl!!! </div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div align="center">Maybe an overhaul of colour schemes used by cartographers can enable the likes of Ian Hill to read a map properly :) </div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-69805873520636892942011-05-24T04:15:00.000-07:002011-05-24T06:39:49.209-07:00Nottingham Caves Surveyed in 3D<div align="center"><a href="http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/05/2011/nottingham-caves-surveyed-in-3d">Nottingham Caves Surveyed in 3D</a></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center"> The Nottingham Caves Survey is using 3D laser scanners to map nearly 500 man-made caves under the city centre.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-22184770482968280572011-05-21T12:14:00.000-07:002011-05-21T12:15:56.610-07:00Magellan Toughcase for the iPhone<div align="center"><a href="http://www.magellangps.com/lp/toughcase/index.html">Magellan Toughcase for the iPhone</a></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="left"> Magellan Toughcase for the iPhone. I've just purchased one of these. It provides an accuracy of 3-5 metres to any app within the iPhone. There are several excellent GIS applications for the iPhone;</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"> <a href="http://www.surveyingarchaeology.co.uk/LinksIphone.html">http://www.surveyingarchaeology.co.uk/LinksIphone.html </a> - GIS iPhone apps</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="left">The archaeological blogosphere is strangely beautiful. The Electric Archaeologist has generated this by scraping over 8000 pages from a Google Search of ‘Blogging Archaeology’. </div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-31294657826990652772011-05-15T16:23:00.000-07:002011-05-15T16:23:28.708-07:00Archaeological survey and recording made easy<div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="left">Four videos showcasing different archaeological surveying and recording techniques were launched online on 11 April, 2011, and are available to view and download from the Scotlands Rural Past website, YouTube and Vimeo. </div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-85515483668805184032011-05-15T15:49:00.000-07:002011-05-15T15:49:41.177-07:00A digital archive for Cyprus’ antiquities<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg99asumXp8VljuRZDYq-X3LQZySyIF_BWE2bn7IvDpqiXn586iAPGi9gTDQZAHn6H3JPvzI6tYwrJOSKKB2sbL9xR1NF0aEG8LcpunDxIHrF3Gg43g2YHnbXUPqHsiXdhhkTXdqo6P2yfS/s1600/Freddy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg99asumXp8VljuRZDYq-X3LQZySyIF_BWE2bn7IvDpqiXn586iAPGi9gTDQZAHn6H3JPvzI6tYwrJOSKKB2sbL9xR1NF0aEG8LcpunDxIHrF3Gg43g2YHnbXUPqHsiXdhhkTXdqo6P2yfS/s320/Freddy.jpg" width="263" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cyprus-mail.com/archaeology/digital-archive-cyprus-antiquities/20110428">A digital archive for Cyprus' antiquities</a> </div><br />
The Cyprus Archaeological Digitisation Programme (CADiP) was started in order to manage thousands antiquities scattered all over Cyprus “and serve the needs of the Antiquities department as well as those of researchers and the public,” Curator of Antiquities Despo Pilides said yesterday at a news conference.<br />
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A Geographic Information System, in essence a digital map of antiquities, will interface with all existing information on the catalogued antiquities making access and research much easier.Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998476734083737232.post-58174997024546727282011-05-15T15:33:00.000-07:002011-05-15T15:33:53.024-07:00Ipads Help Archaeologists<div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtDfVliLK1yrx3r2TCxTOi_tb1DZ0Q_NhWLBnlf3EpUSGpZlrSYqb6aWjpH3BsjZx2-RTFbZdppGqfR4um9JoUberoNeNBfAp1sp9Zt65i7bzkfvpjAZMbAUeJk5jFYdpHXD-0gXbP3XhH/s1600/110407101625-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtDfVliLK1yrx3r2TCxTOi_tb1DZ0Q_NhWLBnlf3EpUSGpZlrSYqb6aWjpH3BsjZx2-RTFbZdppGqfR4um9JoUberoNeNBfAp1sp9Zt65i7bzkfvpjAZMbAUeJk5jFYdpHXD-0gXbP3XhH/s320/110407101625-large.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110407101625.htm">iPads Help Archaeologists</a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Excavators at Pompeii are using iPads to assist in the recording of features.</div>Ben Blakemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723666494455479391noreply@blogger.com0