http://madmappers.com/news African GIS data accessible to all Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:29:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quite embarassing! Old News! I must have been the last one to find out.  Still there might be someone around who is more out of touch than I am and might be interested in this. OziExplorer now supports (experimentally) a number of internet maps including Google Maps (streets only), OSM - Open Street Map and Virtual Earth ... http://madmappers.com/news/?p=69 Sorry guys,  for the moment South African raster maps are not available for download. Maps are kindly hosted on a server of a sponsor which has been experiencing dns problems. Please be patient: hopefully in a couple of days the issue will be resolved http://madmappers.com/news/?p=68 MadMappers website has just been temporarily moved onto the Free Earth Foundation  servers so that MadMappers server storage capacity can be upgraded.  This move may result in weird thing happening due to broken links: please report faults by mailing us the page url in question. For some years now the Free Earth Foundation  have unconditionally supported the MadMappers ... http://madmappers.com/news/?p=67 Ooops, we missed it! It was 5 days ago :( That's terrible ... to miss our own birthday! We have been much too busy ... still that is as unforgivable as forgetting your girlfriend, wife or daughter birthday ... :( I missed cake and candles ... and the chance for reminiscing about the past. I am not too ... http://madmappers.com/news/?p=66 Global Mapper has added in version 10,02 the ability to easily create strike-and-dip (geology) points by right-clicking in the Digitizer Tool. You can now place your strike-and-dip points and specify the dip value, azimuth angle, and symbol to use and get the appropriate symbology displayed on the map. In addition ... http://madmappers.com/news/?p=65   Tuesday September 30 - Slot 1 Title: NASA WorldWind: Evolution from .net application to Java SDK First slot, first demo of FOSS4G2008. Someone had hinted "so to set the standard!". Well, the standard was below sufficiency. :( Strangely enough for once I had prepared well and even rehearsed the demo to be sure I could ... http://madmappers.com/news/?p=64 Cape Town is currently hosting the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference,  an annual gathering of developers and users of open source geospatial software from around the world to discuss new directions,  implementations and growing business opportunities in the field of open source geospatial software. Conference Theme for 2008 ... http://madmappers.com/news/?p=61 I am no good at this blogging thingy ... for a number of months I had lost my blog password and I could neither reset the password or log in :( Well, I discover now that the problem was the incorect username rather than the password :D So now I am back in action ... it's going to ... http://madmappers.com/news/?p=62 On 01 Feb 2005 MadMappers website went public . So we are 3 years old ... only 3? We feel so much older! :( Lots to reminiscence about, lots of people to thank. Too many. Now and then guys ask to know more about us. It is time consuming. It has been difficult to keep everyone updated ... http://madmappers.com/news/?p=60 .. and Chad has become the hero of the Google Earth Community with it’s latest Google Earth: Mogadishu Refugee Migration Version 2.0 . http://madmappers.com/news/?p=59