VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 05
August 21, 2005

Main Topic:
A discussion of the webmap API wars.
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News:

Geography Education Bill

NRCS WebSoilSurvey

ESRI Press Book Spatial Portals

Amazon’s Maps

GIS Podcast

National Geographic Genographic Project

Featured Sites:

NASA Mission Geography

National Geographic Education

ESRI Campus

Geospatial21

BBC Education

Main topic:

Webmap API Wars:
Microsoft is now trying to cajole web developers to begin to work with their Virtual Earth API. Jesse argues that Google has too much of a head start while Sue suggests that Microsoft has the sheer power to pull in developers.

Via Virtual Earth

Google Maps API

Email:

Encouraging words from Mark and Edward, and a list of bootable OpenSource GISs

Events:

North American Cartographic Information Society, Salt Lake City, October 12-15

MapsAsia, Jakarta, August 22-25

Central Appalachian Geo-Spatial Conference, Pittsburgh, August 26

X Iberoamerican Conference on Geographic Information Systems, San Juan, September 6-9

2005 Carolina URISA/GITA Conference, Charlotte, September 7-9

ESRI Homeland Security GIS Summit, Denver, September 12-14