Here's your weekly dose of geonews in batch mode. Please allow the less frequent posts lately, I'm quite busy at the moment. I'll also be away next week, so we rely on your contributions and other editors. Thank you for your comprehension.
On the FOSS4G front, the open source GIS uDig 1.2 reached milestone M9.
TMR links to a Washington Post article on OpenStreetMap.
Plenty of geoblogs/lists pointed to the interesting O'Reilly Radar entry named Rethinking Open Data: "[...] it costs money to make existing data open."
In the Apple front, more from CNET on the iPad and maps (via TMR). APB links to instructions to access Google StreetView on the iPhone (yes you can!). Here's details on a 'GIS app' for the iPhone.
Here's an entry comparing free maps and navigation apps.
In other news, several geoblogs mentioned the excellent article on geolocation in html5.
It seems the USGS budget cuts hit geospatial as well.
NAVTEQ is shutting down Nav4All, used by 27 million users, that uses NAVTEQ data, due to license agreements.
Here's an interesting short entry named How KML Succeeds and Fails as a Web Format.
Here's another interesting entry named How Coordinates are Referenced in Databases.
Here's an interesting graph of artificial satellites by nations, including the functional and non-functional ones.
In the maps category, here's a series of maps on the U.S. State of the Union. Here's various Bing Maps maps of Vancouver, in time for the Olympics. Here's a "Tube Map" of the Milky Way. There's new bedrock maps for the U.K.
Read more of this story at Slashgeo.
