We have been working on some code to determine whether or not a placemark lies inside or outside a polygon. We thought a nice use for that code would be to determine what country a placemark is in.

At Caltrans District 7 in Los Angeles, we use the onboard GPS capability of smartphones to navigate in real time to the locations of proposed aerial targets and National Geodetic Survey (NGS) control ...

Well, this is mostly a Google Maps story, but important nonetheless. It’s also more geared to developers than users. Google has added support in Google Maps for another standard file format called ...

Toss out that MySQL book. The only thing you need to store location data is Google Maps. My Maps is a feature that lets you create your own mashup on a map. Once a map is created, it can be shared ...

Last month I shared one of my favorite recipes on tracking local search data with Google Analytics for wordpress. This month I figured that one of the most uncovered and “uncooked” areas in local ...

Google Earth displays aerial views of Earth geography, annotated with markers denoting locations. It enables you to locate customer or vendor addresses, identify competitors' locations, map out and ...

Following is a submission to our “$100 for 300 Well-Chosen Surveyor Words” contest. To submit your own surveyor’s story, send 300 (or more) words to [email protected]. By Jay Satalich, P.L.S. At ...