Links List 4.18.08

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 3D buildings, direct support for MapCruncher, movie capture, export to KML and GPX files, and more.

Geomantic shares some coverage of geospatial topics in the Washington Post the past week including a story on Yahoo! Maps Live and a mashup from the Center for Neighborhood Technologies.

GISLounge and the Daily ACK announced that KML is now an Open Geospatial Consortium Standard. This means that Google will no longer be responsible for maintaining the KML file format which, instead, will be handled by OGC. KML (Keyhole Markup Language) is a file format that uses XML-based language to manage geographic information.

Flowing Data provides a list of data visualization blogs you may not know about, including Strange Maps, Well-formed Data, Random Etc, Serial Consign, and AnyGeo.