The GeoWeb has long been emerging; linked geospatial data, web maps, locative media. However, it has been primarily limited to small datasets of geolocated news items, blog posts or photos. What has been occuring within the last year is the move for larger, more capable GIS, geographic information systems, to [...]
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The widely known evolving crisis of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is threatening to tremendously damage the wildlife and ecology of the coastline. The situation is unclear as reports of the continued spewing of 5,000 or up to 20,000 barrels a day are continuing to enter into the water through three exposed leaks. [...]
Continue Reading →Arguably the largest positive externality to the Web ecosystem that geospatial technologies can provide is creating more linked geo-enabled data. The beauty is the externalities work both ways. Not only does the Web get more useful content we also create more reasons for the public to use geospatial tools and software. Without the ability to [...]
Continue Reading →Time to Switch over to Digital TV from the old analog system. This has been coming for a long time and its finally here. From the official DTV goverment website, “The switch from analog to digital broadcast television is referred to as the digital TV (DTV) transition. In 1996, the U.S. Congress authorized the [...]
Continue Reading →India wants to ban Google Earth and Wikimapia. The aftermath of the Mumbai attacks created a petition to remove all imagery of India on Google Earth and similar sites like Wikimapia. Mumbai-based lawyer Amit Karkhanis filed the petition saying, “The petition is filed against the backdrop of terror attacks in Mumbai. [...]
Continue Reading →All Points Blog shared the results of last month’s poll on the “single factor besides pure functionality that influences people’s selection of a geospatial software application.” Out of the eight options, which included data format support, speed, and extensibility, the ease of use/interface received a staggering 62%. To participate in the next poll, [...]
Continue Reading →The Google GEO APIs team developed a KML Interactive Sampler page. Now people, who want to learn KML, can learn by examples. The Sampler page uses the Google Earth Plugin to demonstrate various features while displaying KML code.
Next week, George Mason University and the University of Virginia are celebrating GIS [...]
Continue Reading →James Fee joins in and shares his insight on supporting ESRI’s Geodatabase format and how a File Geodatabase can be shared efficiently. He agrees that the more file formats supported by a GeoData application, the more likely people will use it.
The election rallied much excitement, perhaps due in part to several [...]
Continue Reading →There has been an interesting discussion going over on James Fee’s blog on the merits of ESRI’s new javascript API and Flex API. James has thrown his lot in with the JavaScript API, and a host of Flex/Flash developers have been exposing their technology’s merits. While we don’t use either of ESRI’s APIs internally [...]
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