Google mapping spec now an industry standard | CNET News.com 04/14/2008
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Google mapping spec now an industry standard | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
“”What OGC brings to the table is…everyone has confidence we won’t take advantage of the format or change it in a way that will harm anyone,” said Michael Weiss-Malik, Google’s KML product manager. “The goal is to prevent market fragmentation,” in which different technology uses different standards. “
Now Playing: YouTube videos in Google Earth 10/11/2007
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Google LatLong: Now Playing: YouTube videos in Google Earth
Another great way to use Google Earth for fun and games. Use your imagination and consider the business potential for this type of geo-coding and mashup application where you work, as it continues to mature and go mainstream:
“I love watching videos on YouTube. Every once in a while I’ll see something so good that it makes me stop and wonder where it was recorded or how I can find more videos from that particular location. For instance, just the other day I stumbled upon a video of a man playing a guitar with his feet. The person who uploaded the video to YouTube geotagged it, so I was able to track the guitarist back to Balboa Park in San Diego, California. Now you can find YouTube videos connected to specific locations right in Google Earth. Our new browseable layer of geotagged videos works a lot like our Google Book Search layer, only it shows you the locations referenced in specific videos instead of books. Let’s say you’re jetting off to Paris. Before you go, you can watch the sunset filmed from the top floor of the Eiffel Tower, among other clips of popular spots in the City of Lights.
Google LatLong: YouTube-style Embeddable Maps 08/21/2007
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Google LatLong: YouTube-style Embeddable Maps
This is a very nice tweak of the venerable Google Maps site:
“Today we’re excited to announce a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML. And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps you know and love; it’s clickable, draggable, and zoomable.”
Google Earth’s updates, and Dell’s eye-catching usage 07/27/2007
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The Utility Belt: Google Earth’s updates, and Dell’s eye-catching usage
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Google (GOOG) on Thursday announced upgrades to Google Earth, its 3D mapping tool. The improvements include land and buildings in every inhabited continent. Below is a list of Google’s hints about what’s changed – a clever way to get people to open up the app and fly around.
- Two states known for their majestic peaks have gotten an upgrade.
- I can now see where my favorite maple syrup is made.
- Certain Florida beaches (and 1 mountain) are looking much improved.
- Try counting the warthogs in the Boneyard.
- Peek inside the home of the Brew Crew.
- You can read the Skin’s logo painted on their field.
- An historic state capitol building is now in high res.
- This city was named after the Native American name of a nearby mountain, “Tacobet.”
- A “far away” city that played a key role in trans-Saharan trade can now be seen close up.
- The town where Jane Austen spent her final years is much clearer.
- The topic of Vincent van Gogh’s Cafe Terrace at Night is now bright as day.
- Take a look at “la ville noir,” where Cointreau was invented.
- Only a third of this country’s land is arable, but you can now view the entire country in high res.
- From 1880 to 1884 this German city was home to the world’s tallest building.
- Rockets may be used to disrupt rain clouds over this city next summer.
- This country received an impressive terrain update, you might call it Lord of the Terrain.
What caught my eye, though, was a related announcement about upgrades to Google Earth Enterprise. Google Earth Enterprise is a version of the software that large corporations can use to plan their operations and analyze data. Think of it as one of those big, push-pin war-room maps, only digital and in three dimensions. Businesses can layer their own data on top of a 3D map of the world, and visualize where customers are, where sales are happening in real-time – whatever they want.”
Great experiment in modeling based on mobile data … 07/26/2005
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Great experiment in modeling based on mobile data collection:
MIT Media Lab | Reality Mining: “The original Reality Mining experiment is one of the largest mobile phone projects attempted in academia. Our research agenda takes advantage of the increasingly widespread use of mobile phones to provide insight into the dynamics of both individual and group behavior. By leveraging recent advances in machine learning we are building generative models that can be used to predict what a single user will do next, as well as model behavior of large organizations.”
Commentary 4Mobility: "…talking about location-based services…” 07/03/2005
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Commentary 4Mobility: “Over the past few years, the wireless industry and those close to it have been talking a lot about location-based services. LBS has been coming Real Soon Now (RSN) for a fairly long time, but recent announcements indicate that we will see some real LBS applications and services this year.
Yes, Nextel, Sprint and others have been offering LBS for corporate accounts but not for general public use. This is about to change.”
Google mapping enters the third di… 06/29/2005
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Google mapping enters the third dimension | CNET News.com: “‘Google Earth utilizes broadband streaming technology and 3D graphics, much like a videogame, enabling users to interactively explore the world–either their own neighborhood or the far corners of the globe,’ John Hanke, Keyhole at Google general manager, said in a statement.”
Acoustic Radar.: "Acoustic location was used from … 04/18/2005
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Acoustic Radar.: “Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines. It was rendered obsolete before and during WW2 by the introduction of radar, which was far more effective.”
Abracadabra… ��� Map it!��� 01/05/2005
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Abracadabra… ��� Map it!���: “at memory from this basic and survival point of view, we quickly realise that memory is not just a matter of recalling shopping lists and information for exams – it is literally a matter of life and death. It is for this reason that all cultures throughout history have devoted large amounts of their time and energy to making sure that there �memory systems� were both excellent and improving.
From simple color-codings and marks on rocks, to rhymes that helped people remember the location of things that were important, the memory systems of planet Earth grew.”
NASA World Wind 09/27/2004
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“World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.”
Wired News | The War Room: "For decades, the enter… 08/21/2004
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Wired News | The War Room: “For decades, the entertainment industry and the military were advancing the science of simulation on widely divergent tracks. The Pentagon focused on developing high-end proprietary systems like the Close Combat Tactical Trainer – a networked tank simulator that costs about 241 million – while game developers loaded 2449 first-person shooters with enough pixelated firepower to convey the dynamics of skeletal trauma and the physics of explosions in ever-closer-to-real time.
Those tracks converged at a 1996 workshop hosted by Michael Zyda, now the head of the simulation lab at the Naval Postgraduate School. Former Disney Imagineer Danny Hillis and Pixar cofounder Ed Catmull brainstormed about ‘experiential’ computing and electronic storytelling with representatives from Darpa, Intel and Industrial Light & Magic as well as the future head of ICT– a Paramount TV exec named Richard Lindheim. The papers from that workshop persuaded the Army to launch the Institute for Creative Technologies in 1999.”
Sony debuts Linux-based in-car nav | infotainment … 06/11/2004
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Sony debuts Linux-based in-car nav | infotainment line in Japan: “The 3D mapping interface shows actual buildings, and knows street addresses, enabling it to identify destination addresses. In the picture at right, it has identified a gas station belonging to a promotional partner. Advertising for many other businesses, such as fast food outlets, appears to be built into the maps”
Location services for cell phones set to take off | CNET News 05/27/2004
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Location services for cell phones set to take off | CNET News.com: “‘People had terrible experiences three or four years ago,’ said Rick Smith of M-Spatial, a company that makes mapping and route-finding software for wireless devices, at the annual Mobile Location Services conference this week.
These days, maps and directions are tailored to a handset’s small screen, which is now in color. The maps are designed to meet specific demands, such as to help pedestrians who need landmarks to simplify their orientation when they come out of an underground train station. “
Keyhole 3D software: it’s really that good | GISCWeekly 03/23/2004
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Keyhole 3D software: it’s really that good
GISCafe Weekly Magazine – February 23, 2004:
“Welcome to GISWeekly! When we talk about making GIS accessible to a lot of people, Keyhole is the type of product that really does it. It can revolutionize the way we think about geography; how we visualize the globe and our place on it. Read about the recently signed agreement between DigitalGlobe and Keyhole, and about the Keyhole product and service, in this week’s Industry News”
MetaCarta, Inc. | Geographical Text Searching 03/16/2004
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MetaCarta, Inc. – Geographical Text Searching – Editorials:
“MetaCarta, a company based in Boston, uses a text search algorithm that retrieves content based on geographic keywords. Its flagship product, the Geographic Text Search (GTS), has the ability to confine searches by geography and retrieve information that it detects using the keywords, and then displays this information geographically on a map interface.”
