Another year has passed, with health, happiness, joy, sorrow, delight, sadness, gains and losses. Although the coming of the new year brings new hopes with it, the end of a whole year is just as bittersweet. I hope that when we look back, the useful things we gained outweigh the time we lost. Wishing everyone the very best in this new year, Happy New Year to all.
As is well known, Microsoft has developed its Windows Mobile operating system technology and has finally released Windows Phone 7. Reportedly, Microsoft has spent a great deal on promoting the Kinect and WP 7 technologies. Although there are no WP 7-compatible smartphones in Turkey yet, worldwide interest in this operating system is great. With WP 7, which offers developers great opportunities, you can easily develop new applications. With this in mind, both as a trial and as a first step into WP 7, I redesigned for WP 7 my Kocaman program, which I had developed earlier for Windows operating systems. With Kocaman WP 7, just as with Kocaman, you can calculate the distance differences between two points with known coordinates and the bearing angles in grads, degrees and radians. I also prepared the program in English so that it can be used internationally. Considering how easy it is to use, I don’t think the program being in English will be a problem for anyone.
I believe that in the near future smartphones will be of much more benefit to us surveyors than they are now. In this context, I have decided to direct my work somewhat towards this concept and to make our work as surveyors a little easier by developing mobile applications. Over time, as I develop new WP 7-compatible programs, I will try to publish them. For now, we cannot install apps directly on WP 7, so I first need to publish the apps I have prepared through the Microsoft Marketplace. Once I overcome this problem, I will start preparing new ideas and applications.
Thanks to the Kinect device Microsoft designed for the Xbox, it is now possible to play games that respond to our movements and to control the Xbox from where we sit using only our voice and movements, without a controller. With this creative innovation from Microsoft, which I consider the technology of the future and also greatly admire, the management of both games and media content gains a new dimension, and competition in the sector looks set to heat up even more. If you want more detailed information on the subject, to see exactly what I am talking about and to feel the amazement and excitement that comes with it, don’t wait: click here.
[vimeo 15988220]
This video walks through exercise assignment 1, carried out in ArcGIS 9.3 as part of the 2010 GIS course of the KTÜ Department of Surveying Engineering. The exercise aims to teach how to use ArcGIS 9.3 and to reinforce what has been learned.
The exercise covers the following:
1- Creating a Personal Geodatabase, Feature Dataset and Feature Class.
2- Importing data from a .dxf file into the database.
3- Creating a topology and making edits by defining topological rules.
4- Producing polygons from line features.
5- Adding data to layers using the Editor toolbar.
6- Applying Buffer and Overlay analysis.
7- Creating a Model Builder model.
To download the exercise files, click here.
I hope you find this content useful…
Note dated 06.08.2011: Because of the behaviour of many users acting solely in their own interests, the video tutorials have been placed under password protection. Perhaps this way the fact of how valuable knowledge is will regain its importance.
[vimeo 16130496]
24 October 2010, KTÜ Trabzon
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