Archive for March, 2012
ESRI’s brilliant marketing move and what Open Source GIS can learn from it
Posted by Pano Voudouris in ESRI, Open Source GIS on March 3, 2012
ESRI has announced “ESRI Maps for Office”, an Excel add-in which will be available in public beta the first half of 2012. So imagine: You have all your Excel data, all the power of Excel for analysis and now, you can also display this data on a map WITHIN Excel to explore and analyze it […]
Free map services for environmental data in Europe
Posted by Pano Voudouris in ESRI, online maps, Web Mapping on March 1, 2012
This is just a note for a little gem I just discovered. The European Environmental Agency (EEA) has made available a set of map services for environmental data. Coming under the interesting name of Discomap (??) this free service is described as: The EEA provides geographic information system (GIS) application programming interfaces (APIs) to obtain […]
