Monday marked the launch of the MapServer Foundation, a “nonprofit legal entity established to support the needs of the open source web mapping community.” Included among the 11 people who created the MapServer Foundation are Steve Lime, the creator and lead developer of MapServer, and Tyler Mitchell, geographer and author of Web Mapping Illustrated. The [...]
Harris Corporation announced on Monday that Microsoft will be using their 15-meter Global Dataset imagery for their Windows Live Local Powered by Virtual Earth. I couldn’t find a definite release date for it, but a demo application was previewed in San Francisco on November 1st, which you can read about here. Windows Live Local will [...]
As things move forward in the Gulf Coast region the city of New Orleans plans to provide WiFi in portions of the city for residents and businesses in an attempt to support economic growth until the city is back on its feet. New Orleans to get free city-wide WiFi – Engadget – www.engadget.com
A Geoplace feature article by John Herring, who works at Oracle and is editor of GeoInformatica, briefly discusses the issue of DRM (Digital Rights Management) in the geospatial community). An interesting point he brings up is that the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has a GeoDRM working group to develop DRM standards for geospatial services.
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StrataVarious, the company that has developed the Boston HyperMap Atlas, has just released 2 new demos, one using MSN Virtual Earth and one using Yahoo Maps. They have also prepared comparison charts for all 3 of their demo versions, Google Maps, MSN Virtual Earth, and Yahoo Maps. To check out the demos, and the comparison [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 19 November 27, 2005 Main Topic: Comparing GIS analysis and web mapping Click to directly download Episode 19 Click for the detailed shownotes
Main Topic: Comparing GIS analysis and web mapping. News: Lunar World Wind, Froogle with Google Maps.
the VerySpatial Podcast GIS Day 2005 episode is highlighted on the GISDay.com Success Stories webpage! Thanks again to Frank and to Rick Lawson of ESRI for joining us on the episode, and thanks to all of you who downloaded the episode and helped us celebrate GIS Day 2005.
Although MapQuest has been largely left out of a lot of the discussion on the recent explosion of web mapping, they are still out there and are retaining a significant market share for now. An article posted today at the San Jose, CA MercuryNews.com has an interesting discussion of how MapQuest was a pioneer in [...]
