WebMapping
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Yahoo!Maps now includes satellite imagery
SiliconBeat has a short summary of what happened at last night’s SDForum panel. The main outcome discussed was the announcement by Jeremy Kreitler that Yahoo! Maps now finally offers global […]
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Call for participation for OGC Web Services Phase 4 testbed
If you are into open source geospatial development, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has just issued a Call for Participation for the OGC Web Services Phase-4 (OWS-4) Interoperability Initiative, which […]
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MapOFF! panel at SDForum
This month’s SDForum Search SIG, taking place at Yahoo! Headquarters in California on April 11th, is called MapOFF! and will feature panelists Jeremy Kreitler from Yahoo!Maps. Thai Tran from Google […]
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general, VirtualWorlds, WebMapping
Discovery now offering video content in Google Earth
Discovery Communications announced today that they are now offering video content within Google Earth, starting with 10 American National Parks, including Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone. When users zoom in to […]
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general, Physical Geography, VirtualWorlds, WebMapping
USGS releasing Google Earth Virtual Tour of 1906 San FranciscoEarthquake
According to a USGS press release from yesterday, a Google Earth-based virtual tour of the devastating 1902 San Francisco will be announced during a press conference which was scheduled to […]
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Google Earth’s April Fool’s joke
Over on Kevin Jarnot’s blog, I saw a post about an April Fool’s little visitor on Google Earth. Sure enough, I checked it out and Area 51 in New Mexico […]
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Mapping the North American Internet backbone
Ben Worthen, a writer for CIO.com and Bill Cheswick, a chief scientist at Lumeta, collaborated on this map(PDF), which shows who owns all of the routers that handle North American […]
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Platial featured on Wired.com
A while back we blogged about Platial, the Google maps mashup site co-created by Di-Ann Eisnor (who will be a featured speaker at Where 2.0), and it seems the site […]
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General, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), WebMapping
Google Mars!
Way cool for space nuts out there like me…. Google Mars! It’s just like Google Local, except with data from Mars. There’s a nice elevation dataset and some interesting visible […]
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Virtual Globes session at AAG
Probably the best session I’ve attended here at AAG in Chicago was yesterday afternoon’s “Geography v2.0: Internet-based Virtual Globes”. The presenters included Dave Maguire, head developer at ESRI, and Tim […]
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