[talk-au] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

2010-05-26 Thread John Smith
The United States is about to give the now nearly ubiquitous Global Positioning System an $8 billion overhaul. The improvements, which involve replacing each of the 24 aging GPS satellites, are estimated to take over a decade to complete, and will see the triangulation margin of error decrease

[talk-au] ESRI online tool has OSM basemap

2010-05-26 Thread Chris Barham
This seems interesting, ESRI have launched ArcGIS.com http://www.arcgis.com/home/ which has an online mapping toolset (Microsoft Silverlight plugin required) that allows you to use OpenStreetMap basemaps - I thought this was interesting as it is from a company that until the OSM Haiti remote

Re: [talk-au] ESRI online tool has OSM basemap

2010-05-26 Thread Grant Slater
On 26 May 2010 12:05, Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote: This seems interesting, ESRI have launched ArcGIS.com http://www.arcgis.com/home/ which has an online mapping toolset (Microsoft Silverlight plugin required) that allows you to use OpenStreetMap basemaps - I thought this was