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posted by jeppedy on Tuesday May 13, @01:02PM

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from the if-you-have-nothing-better-to-do dept.

If you would like to tap into the Where 2.0 information flow, it's being Twittered (just follow Where2008) and a backchat is on IRC at freenode.net on #where2008. Also, at least one blogger is blogging live. Here's a few of the keynotes: http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2008/05/13/where-20-michael-howard-nokia/, http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2008/05/13/where-20-geocommons/. Sure, the information isn't all that valuable, but if you didn't flip for the cost of the airfare, it's better than nothing!

Industry: China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing

posted by Satri on Tuesday May 13, @11:19AM

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from the when-maps-are-uninvited dept.

Slashdot discuss a story named China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing. We discussed the censure of maps in China on many occasions, see related stories below. Ogle Earth provides an AFP article on the new China efforts to bring down illegal maps. Spatial Sustain links to a China Popular Computer Week article translation. The Slashdot summary: "After text, pictures, and videos, China starts regulating Internet map publishing (here is the google translation.) The government believes that Internet maps can represent the state's sovereignty and its political and diplomatic positions in the international community — and consequently, inaccurate maps could harm national interests and dignity, produce bad political influences, reveal national secrete and harm national security, in addition to harming consumer interests. So from now on, publishing maps would require approval and (yet another) license from the state survey bureau. That means Google, Yahoo, etc., need to remove China from the map; or maybe they just pay up some officials and their agents to acquire yet another license. And our newest 80Gbps DPI monsters need to be upgraded to identify maps together with porn."

Industry: StreetView Face Blurring

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday May 13, @08:11AM

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from the you-can't-see-me dept.

The What is special about geospatial blog reports about this new Google endeavor. From their summary : Google has recently updated their StreetView data in Manhatten. Biside some improvemetns in image quality, Google has implemented some automatic face-blurring technology. Form the screenshot you can see that it does work really nice. It blurs the faces, but doesn’t detract too much from the imagery.

For a more detailed explanation of why this is occurring, please visit the blog link above.

Industry: WorldWide Telescope Released

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday May 13, @08:03AM

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from the true-rumors dept.

As the Digital Earth Blog and Ogle Earth blog is reporting this morning, a beta version of WorldWide telescope has been released. You can grab the download directly from the MicroSoft site http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/. For more information and preliminary reviews, please visit the blog links above.

Technology: Cosmo-Skymed & TerraSAR-X in response to Myanmar

posted by gignacnic on Monday May 12, @12:55PM

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from the Help-Map-Human dept.

To follow up on the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar there are two organisations that have published Earth Observation data on their web site: ITHACA and DLR.

Industry: WorldWind JavaOne Roundup

posted by lxnyce on Monday May 12, @11:03AM

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from the i-love-summaries dept.

A lot of World Wind news came out of the JavaOne conference last week, so I am going to summarize those here for one quick and easy source.

JavaOne WorldWind Java Presentation Slides
If you want to see what was presented at the NASA World Wind Java SDK 3D Earth in your Applications and Web Pages session, you can now view the power point file and see what was covered The power point also has several diagrams that explain some of the core features about WWJava.
First Known Commercial Use of WWJava
LandPrint.com is an interesting commercial enterprise, they are creating 3D models of the earth and make use of WWJava as the way the user selects what they want to have created.
NASA World Wind Java Demo Applications and Applets
List of live examples of WW usage
NASA Presents Knowledge Planet at JavaOne Conference
At this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco, NASA developers showed that virtual globes are not only suited to explore geographic maps, but can also serve as rendering engines for other types of imagery.

Rumor : WorldWide Telescope This Month

posted by lxnyce on Monday May 12, @10:46AM

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from the rumors-that-no-one-wants-to-claim dept.

From the Map Room blog : "Digital Earth Blog notes reports that Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope may be released by the end of this month — or at least Bill Gates has been quoted saying that it will. I’ll be very interested to know the system requirements."

In case you are not familiar with World Wide Telescope, please check out this relevant story article.

Industry: Autodesk Launches Digital Cities

posted by lxnyce on Monday May 12, @10:41AM

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from the gaining-traction-int-he-GIS-realm dept.

The Spatial Sustain blog reports about AutoDesk's new initiative. From their summary : "Autodesk is hard at work to define a new technology vision for digital cities. An outline of this vision can be found online at www.autodesk.com/digitalcities. The initiative is being led by Doug Eberhard, senior director and industry evangelist. Eberhard was previously with Parsons Brinkerhoff and has led many visualization innovations.

For some more information, please visit the Spatial Sustain blog.

Industry: Augmented Reality And Mobile GIS

posted by lxnyce on Monday May 12, @10:37AM

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from the kind-of-weird dept.

The What Is Special About Geospatial blog has an article and videos about using augmented reality with GIS. From their summary : "The application fields of augmented reality for spatial problems are very broad. The contain navigation, enviromental planning, etc. Object recognition is here also an issue. Currently many GI researchers are dealing with the topic of augmented maps."

Not quite sure what the article is trying to relay, but I will leave that up to those interested in this topic. Head on over to their blog for more information and the video.

Application Domains: WWJava on Multi-Touch Wall

posted by lxnyce on Friday May 09, @01:29PM

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from the upcoming-technology dept.

The Earth Is Square blog has a nice summary and movie showing off WorldWind Java running on a multi touch surface. There isn't much of a summary, as the video speaks for itself, so head on over there to check out the video. The concept itself isn't really new, as it was presented here in February 06 using WW. Check out the related stories for posts we've done in the past relating to multi touch.

Application Domains: National Geographic Unveils Greendex

posted by lxnyce on Friday May 09, @01:20PM

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from the making-the-web-greener dept.

Here is an excerpt of the announcement via the Spatial Sustain blog : "The National Geographic Society has teamed with the international polling firm GlobeScan to conduct a survey that measures and monitors consumer consumption patterns by country. The Greendex is aimed at giving consumers a better understanding of how people across the globe are adapting their consumption habits to make the world a more environmentally sustainable place."

For more information, please visit the Spatial Sustain blog.

Industry: Microsoft Sued Over Terraserver

posted by lxnyce on Thursday May 08, @03:51PM

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from the trademarks-will-get-you dept.

All Points Blog reports that Microsoft is currently being sued by TerraServer.com over the use of the Terraserver name. From their summary : "Microsoft's TerraServer-USA satellite imagery project has been slapped with a trademark lawsuit from a small North Carolina company with a confusingly similar name.

Terraserver.com filed the suit on Friday in North Carolina federal court, seeking monetary damages and asking that Microsoft be stopped from using the TerraServer name."

For more information, please visit the All Points Blog.

Industry: FAA Aeronautical Charts In WorldWind Coming Soon

posted by lxnyce on Thursday May 08, @03:46PM

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from the mapping-the-skies dept.

The Earth Is Square blog brings us news about this new WorldWind layer. From their summary : "WorldWind forum member nlneilson and FEF are working to bring the FAA Aeronautical Charts to the masses. It is getting closer to becoming live, the data just needs to be processed and put online. Here is a sample of how it will look in WorldWind (screen shots are from WWJava)."

For more information and a better preview, please visit the Earth Is Square blog.

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