From the monthly archives: November 2006

I just saw an article from last weekend’s Financial Times that lauds the use of Google Earth as a tool helping to “speed the march towards a more egalitarian society” in Bahrain.

I know it sounds a bit, well, pollyannaish, but apparently Bahrain is facing an acute housing shortage [...]

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We have previously mentioned here our ongoing work in launching a public geodata warehouse, which will allow anyone to share their geodata with the world, and to use the data that exists in it on their own, whether it’s in GeoIQ or another application.

Without launching into a full blown rant on the various [...]

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Since Sean announced our first public release of the GeoIQ javascript APIs last week, we’ve had a very good response so far, and it would appear that interest is still growing.  So first and foremost, thank you to everyone who has given us feedback and checked out GeoIQ and our example mashups.

But [...]

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After more work than we anticipated, the API and mashup release is ready for Prime Time. The GeoIQ API is now officially available for consumption and you can get all the good information about it at:

http://www.GeoIQ.com

Our GeoIQ Mashups

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Whither SOAP?

On November 9, 2006 By admin

As we’ve been working dilligently on our public API release and the rest of the GeoIQ platform technology components, one of the design goals we’re constantly keeping in mind is that everything we do should eventually be accessible through some sort of service architecture.  Maybe I’m a little old-fashioned, but when I hear “Service [...]

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Just got back from Barcelona yesterday where we were demoing our technology to folks from British Petroleum. They have developed a very robust and cool mashup with MS Virtual Earth. Definitely a mashup on steroids with all sorts of goodies rolled in ranging from video to IP based coms. It is great to see an [...]

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