Monthly Archives: February 2008
Microsoft’s Birds Eye view in Austria
Recently a 35.13 terabyte data update in Virtual Earth happend. Some Austrian Cities like: Innsbruck Klagenfurt Linz Salzburg St. Pölten Villach Wels were also affected. They can be seen now in high resolution. With the “Bird’s Eye View” these Austrian … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, Internet
Tagged austrian cities, eye view, high resolution, klagenfurt, linz, Microsoft, salzburg, Villach, virtual earth, wels
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Concept Phones and Locational Services
From time to time new concept phones like this Nokia 888 are presented to give a preview into the future of mobile devices. Most of them were never realized but the interesting thing is that most of these presentations include … Continue reading
Posted in LBS
Tagged decisions, location based service, master thesis, mobile devices, nokia 888
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5 of 100 pictures in the web are geotagged?
According to flickr about 5 percent of all pictures on the web are geotagged. I personally belief this estimation is too high. I think maybe 5 % of all flickr pictures are geotagged, because they provide a relatively convientent way … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, Web
Tagged digital camera, estimation, geotag, geotagging, gps chip, photographs, photos
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Microsoft’s answer to the iPhone and gPhone: the oPhone
Microsoft’s crazy design for a new mobile phone, one that is sure to knock Apple’s iPhone out of the water. You know its a joke, right? Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
WPS – A new standard for processing georelated tasks
The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved version 1.0 of the OpenGIS® Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard. The WPS standard defines an interface that facilitates the publishing of geospatial processes and makes it easier to … Continue reading
Is Google Maps a GIS?
There are some interesting discussions about the topic if Google Maps or related Products like Yahoo! Maps, Live Maps, virtual Earth or Google Earth can be defined as Geographic Information Systems (GIS). By definition Geographic Information Systems are: Burrough, P.A., … Continue reading
Posted in GIS
Tagged definition, discussion, geographic information systems, Google Maps, virtual earth, yahoo maps
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Yahoo Pipes – creating Mash-ups easily
Mashups are very popular right now. But what does the word Mashup really mean? Mashups allows the user to compose imformation from different data sources and represent this combined information in a way he or she defines. Google promoted this … Continue reading
Posted in Internet
Tagged application fields, Blog, flickr, Google Maps, local search, Map, maplets, mashups, pipe application, yahoo, yahoo pipes
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User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS
I’m currently looking for some interesting open source or freeware GIS desktop software. To answer the question about an alternative for ArcGIS, Intergraph Geomedia or MapInfo I will introduce some alternative freeware GIS tools. The first application I found on … Continue reading
Posted in GIS
Tagged Desktop, desktop software, Eclipse, Freeware, Geoinformation, GIS, Internet, Java, open source, udig
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