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Its been a month of March madness for VE imagery crew- The 40+ TB publish of Virtual Earth Maps brings Birds Eye coverage to a lot of new regions, some nice High res ortho imagery, and a couple of hidden surprises that will be turned on in a couple of weeks. The state [...]
New Birds Eye Imagery for March Featuring Ireland and Mississippi
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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Marriott GoBoard - Giant Touchscreen Concierge coming to Courtyards
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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Marriott is rolling out touch screen kiosks in their Courtyard hotels in the coming months. The interactive vertical mount screens feature local weather, travel information, maps, directions, and Business Listing information. Check out this video on their site to see one in use. Chris has some more details and screenshots on his blog.
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A couple of early stage demos…
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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Via PlanetGeo I came upon a couple of early stage demos today worth a moment of your time if you’re a developer interested in some near future technologies that will have big impact on the geospatial industry.
First is from Dave Bouwman whose blog on .NET GIS development has been at the top of [...]
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GIS 3.0 - Coming 2009
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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Don’t take the title too seriously; I haven’t run off to trademark it (too late) or set up a series of conferences, but I do see some new technologies coming together with some old favorites to deliver a platform for web mapping and GIS like we haven’t seen in the past. Recent news [...]
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World Wide Telescope - In depth with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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FastCompany.tv has launched and the World Wide Telescope is featured in one of their first episodes. Robert Scoble gets a first hand tour of WWT from co-creators Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay who have more time to go into far more detail than the 6 minute presentation from TED conference last week including [...]
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SunDials from Google Earth KML in Birds Eye View
April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Earth, KML, Maps
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Over the weekend I saw this impressive Collection of Sundials featured on The Google Earth Blog. After checking out a few I wondered how many of these locations would be covered by Virtual Earth’s Birds eye imagery? Since the Collection of Sundials was represented as a KML file, it was pretty easy to [...]
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New blogs and links in Faves
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
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Some Favorites housekeeping this weekend. I’ve added a folder for SQL 2008 since there’s now more than 1 link , added some dev blogs, and updated some links that have changed (like Arnaud’s primarily French blog) If you aren’t seeing the Favorites Folders in the right sidebar you are probably on a [...]
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