Microsoft has awarded over $1.1 million in grants to winners in their Virtual Earth and SensorMap grant competitions. The SensorMap project include work on Harvard’s CitySense project, which will utilize a network of 100 sensors aroudn Cambridge, Mass. that record various types of data related to local conditions, such as current weather and traffic levels. [...]
The March 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine in now online, and Duncan Lawler’s column features a short writeup on the development of Virtual Earth 3D. Duncan is Development Manager for the Virtual Earth 3D team, and it’s interesting to get an insider’s perspective on the development process, especially on the 3D buildings’ development. I have [...]
We have been consumed the last couple of days with a couple of web mapping apps we are trying to get finished, but I saw this news article and had to mention that a partnership between Google Earth, NASA, the Pennsylvania Tourism Office and the National Civil War Museum have received a $285,000 grant to [...]
One of our listeners, Steve, sent a link to this great article about how Amazon Indians are using GPS, GIS, and Google Earth to help map their homeland in the Amazon. It’s also been linked from the Google Earth Blog and I’m sure others as well, but if you haven’t checked it yet, you definitely [...]
If you want to test your knowledge of Africa, this year’s Geography Awareness Week theme, head over to My Wonderful World and check out their Google Earth quiz. There are also lots of other cool activities and resources, and you can even enter to win a Galapagos Islands getaway.
I have been waiting for Photosynth to come out ever since I blogged it back in the summer. On Thursday, the Photosynth Technology Preview was finally made available for download. It is not a beta, since you can’t yet work with your own collections, but you can play with the functionality of the viewing environment [...]
Like many of you, I have been trying out Virtual Earth 3D, and there are some things I actually really like about it, and some not so much. I have had good luck in terms of performance speed, but the machine I have it installed on is the one we use for heavy-duty applications, so [...]
Ed Sullivan emailed us to point out Globe 4D, a cool project by students at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Globe 4D is a 3D sphere mounted in a moveable ring. The sphere has data images projected onto it and can be directly manipulated by the user. The ring controls the temporal aspect of the [...]
One of our readers, Yann, emailed me with some additional information about Geoportail, the French web mapping application, and included a link to a video of a French blogger’s interview with Patrick LeBoeuf, of the French National Geographic Institute, doing a demo of Geoportail’s 3D functionality on a laptop. The video is about 11 minutes [...]
While there is already some GE 3D city data for London, 3pointD posted a news release from Cities Revealed that suggests they will be making portions of their building data available for some 568 cities in the UK. Not sure if all of this data is going to be available for free, but seems pretty [...]
