We made the cross country hop out to Santa Clara to attend Location Intelligence today. The weather is awesome and we just finished the morning workshops. I sat in on Lior Ron and David Minogue’s talk on “Searching the GeoWeb“.
The talk produced many interesting insights on Google’s approach to searching geodata, but one [...]
Continue Reading →All Points Blog shares an article from Federal Times that looks at how government agencies are using Google and Microsoft for mapping applications.
Crowd-sourced data and seismology are discussed on Geomantic.
Privacy and GIS data are reviewed by GISLounge, which displays the public concern over privacy in imagery and information. [...]
Continue Reading →As we’ve been putting GeoCommons through its paces I’ve been testing KML files we generate in different applications. The most interesting comparison by far has been between Virtual Earth and Google MyMaps. I did a high level comparison of the two plus Yahoo! MapMixer a few blog posts back, but after testing several KML [...]
Continue Reading →Moxie designed a demonstration to show how integrated geo spatial service, RIA technology, location based service and digital mapa can make life easier. From that, a geo spatial service was developed that enabled Flex Yahoo AS3 map application.
Virtual Earth has been updated to include new imagery, new [...]
Continue Reading →We got a bit of good news this week making the cut as a Red Herring Top 100 finalist. Considering there were over 800 companies in the running maybe this is not so bad. The folks in marketing are earning their ducats for sure. All the details can be found here.
In the bigger [...]
Continue Reading →I got an email from the geowanking mailing list this morning that Mike Liebhold had posted about a talk at UC Berkeley on “Digital Neighborhood Mapping”. The talk is to be given by Factle Maps on their 15 step approach to creating neighborhood boundaries. I did a little digging into Factle Maps and [...]
Continue Reading →Bret Taylor had a great blog post today on the need for a Wikipedia for data. In short Bret feels like the difficulty in accessing data for web development project seriously hinders innovation. Lots of people resonated with the blog post and it is already up to 51 comments and has spawned several related [...]
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