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 my feed pile the last few months. This proof of concept application queries SQL 2008 for points along a route that are keyed to streetside images.
Next up is a pretty neat experiment with Silverlight 2.0’s Deep Zoom feature on the GIS in XML blog. Deep zoom is a technology from Live labs based on Seadragon that you may have seen demo’d at last year’s TED Conference. [if you haven't seen this, i total recommend you stop right here and invest 3 minutes!! its amazing.] What you will see in Randy’s Silverlight application is a 144 megapixel image with completely fluid navigation thanks to Deep Zoom. Also of interest in his post is the story and steps to piece the image together from Terraserver’s USGS Urban Area imagery.
Technorati tags: Silverlight, Deep Zoom, SQL 2008
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