Esri brings its flagship ArcGIS platform to Kubernetes

Esri, the geographic information system (GIS), mapping and spatial analytics company, is hosting its (virtual) developer summit today. Unsurprisingly, it is making a couple of major announcements at the event that range from a new design system and improved JavaScript APIs to support for running ArcGIS Enterprise in containers on Kubernetes. The Kubernetes project was […] Continue reading Esri brings its flagship ArcGIS platform to Kubernetes

Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Data Insanity Spawns Enormous Buildings and Anomalies from OpenStreetMap

The OpenStreetMap project is an excellent example of how powerful crowdsourced data can be, but that’s not to say the system is perfect. Invalid data, added intentionally or otherwise, can sometimes slip through the cracks and lead to some interesting problems. A fact that developers Asobo Studio are becoming keenly …read more

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Map It. Zap It. Covid-19 and Rural America #GoodCovidDomains

This post may seem off-topic for my regular cybercrime and cyber security readers, but these are unusual times. Regular readers know that part of what my team at the UAB Computer Forensics Research Lab has been working on is looking for scams and fraud… Continue reading Map It. Zap It. Covid-19 and Rural America #GoodCovidDomains

The Geomagnetic Jerk

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Superb explanatory post – via Julien Aubert from l’Institut de physique du globe de Paris (CNRS/IPGP/IGN/Université de Paris), and writing at CNRS – focusing on the phenom of geomagnetic jerks. Today’s Must Read… Continue reading The Geomagnetic Jerk

Behold, The Quantum Compass

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via an Impact Lab post, in which the astounding science of Imperial College London and Glasgow, Scotland, UK based M Squared, we may soon possess the capability to arrive at our desired waypoints and caches throug… Continue reading Behold, The Quantum Compass