Submitted by admin on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 19:03
Here's the recent geonews in batch mode.
From the open source / open data front:
- This interesting entry by Paul Ramsey on the challenges of polygon intersections when the polygons are huge and involve multiple cartographic projections, a case study in PostGIS
- Via Geonames, I found out that SRTM-DEM CGIAR-CSI is now at version 4.1, but I failed to find what's changed since version 4
- Geopaparazzi 2.6.0 has been released
- APB shares a few interesting OpenStreetMap news, including raising $800k to build maps for pedestrians
From the Google front:
- Here's an entry on the jQuery UI module for the Google Maps API
- In Google Maps, links to directions have been added to the saved locations in My Places
- There's the first Map your University competition with Google Map Maker
- Here's realistic SketchUp renderings using Maxwell
- And there was new Google Earth imagery released last Friday
In the everything-else category:
- Here's a pertinent O'Reilly article on the NoSQL movement
- mattwynn shared an entry named Why ESRI (as is) can’t be part of the open government movement
- The OGC mentions the Geospatial World Forum 2012 to be held in Amsterdam in April
- Here's a link to an article on the need of location standards for business intelligence, there's an OGC GeoBI DWG too
- Directions Mag offers an article named Safe Software Execs Address the State of GIS and FME 2012 and another one named Business models for LBS shift to freemium and advertising
- Slashdot reports that LightSquared will try using lawyers to save their plan to mess with the GPS spectrum
- Via O'Reilly Where, I found this infographic on the local and location-based advertisement ecosystem
- Are you ready? China’s Geographic Information Industry Takes the Lead Globally
- Here's a 5-minutes video on Microsoft Layerscape, I wasn't impressed - should I be? Spatial Sustain has an entry about it
- APB shared an entry named Pitney Bowes Software CEO O’Hara Discusses Autodesk Relationship and Software Strategy
- Slashdot shared a story named Scientists Print Cheap RFID Tags On Paper
- And another one from the same source named Australian Police Spying On Web, Phone Usage [including location data] With No Warrants
In the maps category:
- SS mentions the NASA release of a New Global Forest Height Map
- Slashdot ran a story named FCC Maps the 3G Wasteland Of the Western US
- APB shares a crowdsourced map of Iranian nuclear sites
