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TECH 101 – Mashups For Planning Mobile Webinar Related:  5 comments  Database, Education, GIS, GISBlog, Geography, IMS, LBS, Mashup, OSGeo, Planning, Programming, Service, Social, Technology, Virtual Globe, Web  add, api, cowley, create, data, demo, earth, edu, Education, esri, evans, geo, georeference, GIS, gisblog.org, google, harsh, howto, image, javascript, jennifer, kml, map, marker, mash-up, Mashup, microsoft, opensource, osu, placemark, Planning, prakash, program, Service, Social, spatial, spreadsheet, Technology, Web, web2, webinar, wms, yahoo This GCN article titled ‘Geospatial and the elite: Old-school geographic information systems still dig deep on mapping and analyses’ points to a tortuous debate within the traditional GIS industry, and the new industry push to remodel itself as solely an “enterprise class” industry while it continues to loose ground to an increasing domestication or democratization of . . . → Read More: Elite Systems Research Institute, Inc. [ESRI] et al Following on the heels of E2, Google recently consolidated GE’s usergroups through some interesting collaborations with Wikipedia and Panoramio. These follow earlier deals with UNEP, NASA, USGS, ESA, Discovery, National Geographic et al. These steps slowly push one other software- ESRI’s ArcGlobe, part of the ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension, further away from all that is important. ArcGlobe . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: ESRI Ketchup! After months of wild speculations and foot-dragging, ESRI finally released ArcGIS Explorer- twice as big as Google Earth and a shade shy. Here is why: Google Earth [googleearth.exe] ESRI ArcGIS Explorer [E2.exe] Both show comparable spatial data displays . . . → Read More: ESRI Ketchup! Yet more evidence of acceptance of Google Maps and through it, of spatial relevance, by established publications: A Guide to Commuting and Readers’ Stories In a related development, Microsoft continues to play catch-up with Google by acquiring GeoTango. However, with its “3D Internet Visualization- a truly open and web services-oriented solution”, . . . → Read More: Follow Up [4]: Graphic Software This week Yahoo released its own take on online mapping. Its new service includes both Flash and AJAX APIs coupled with the ability to geocode. If you think about it, sooner or later this had to happen- developers finally mustering the courage to embrace arty Macromedia Flash for distributing spatial information in a big way, like Geocentric. . . . → Read More: Follow Up [3]: Graphic Software Website Two companies whose product GUI I enjoy interfacing with- Adobe and Macromedia, announced their merger earlier this month. Both their flagship products have become industry-standards in exchanging documents and creating experience-rich applications across platforms. The largely unused spatial potential within Macromedia Flash combined with the increasingly widespread use of Adobe PDF/SVG maps and the sprouting of some . . . → Read More: Follow Up [2]: Graphic Software A quick note on the happenings at Google: Yesterday, Google added satellite imagery to its mapping. For speedy displays, 256px*256px JPEG image-tiles scanned at different zoom-levels and each weighing around 30 KB, coupled with some nifty AJAX come handy. Such a drag-and-drool tiling paradigm, although practised for some time now by website developers to load large images, . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Map Viewer and Google It is good to know that some professionals concur with the views expressed in my earlier post on the potential for graphic software, like Macromedia Flash. One comment links to an impressive demonstration of this largely . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Graphic Software The discussion “So …How About That Election Coverage?” at Directions Magazine makes you think about graphic software, like Macromedia Flash, that cater to small-time spatial needs. Such graphic software, minus the topology and advanced query benefits, function well as basic spatial tools and comfortably serve data over the web with a “fair” amount of interactivity. Does this make . . . → Read More: Graphic Software Interesting web-based map viewer- very snazzy. Now only if the download was quicker. In related news, Google acquires Keyhole: a company promising a similar 3D interface. Right now, if you google an address, Google provides links to its 2D maps from Yahoo!Maps and MapQuest. Google also provides possible address matches and map links if you type in . . . → Read More: Map Viewer and Google |
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