Monthly Archives: March 2008

SensorWeb the new trend word

Posted on March 31, 2008 by joesonic

Everyone is talking about the SensorWeb, but what is this all about and where is the relation to Geoinformatics? Wikipedia defines the sensorweb as follows: The Sensor Web is a type of sensor network or geographic information system (GIS) that … Continue reading →

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GITA Keynote adresses Americas Aging Infrastructure

Posted on March 29, 2008 by joesonic

Between the Poles the Bolg of Geoff Zeiss the director of Technology gives a review on GITA 31 and the keynode by Tom Murphy. GITA 31 just kicked off this afternoon with a fascinating keynote by Tom  Murphy, former Mayor … Continue reading →

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Examples of GeoRIA based on Flex

Posted on March 28, 2008 by joesonic

Following examples should show what is possible with Flex, and how do Geoweb applications in Flex look like. Homelocator (http://www.asfusion.com/apps/homelocator/) Home Locator is an intuitive real estate searching application. It lets users search by area by clicking on a US … Continue reading →

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I’m a fan of simplicity

Posted on March 27, 2008 by joesonic

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. (the law of simplicity by John Maeden) Does this look familiar to you while working with your company (GIS) applications? Can we focus more on usability for GIS applications? Simplicity … Continue reading →

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SVG – is there a future in the Geoweb?

Posted on March 26, 2008 by joesonic

SVG (scalable vector graphics) is a recommendation of the W3C and used for rendering vector graphics. It was predicted that SVG is the future in the visualisation of geospatial vector data over the internet. Adobe announced that with Jannuary 2009 … Continue reading →

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Jack Dangermond at 2008 ESRI Federal User Conference Plenary

Posted on March 25, 2008 by joesonic

An Excerpt: The world has currently a lots of porblems to solve. Therefore GIS Specialists have a lot to do. Some examples are: growing population global warming and related consequences loss of biodiversity in social conflicts resource shortages aging infrastructure … Continue reading →

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Map Chart

Posted on March 23, 2008 by admin

Recently Google Updated their Google Charts API. Now there are some new chart types available. These new chart types and the new unlimited API calls for the Chart API makes this API even more useful. Interesting is the new chart … Continue reading →

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Real Time Trains in Google Maps

Posted on March 22, 2008 by admin

The portal swisstrains.ch is trying to provide real time train poistions on the internet. It is planned to record the locations of the trains via GPS and visualize the location on Google Maps. Currently the site is in ALPHA-phase, we … Continue reading →

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Is it a little or a lot? A lot and a little!

Posted on March 21, 2008 by admin

Spatial applications arise from a strong tradition of of the importance of spatial information and techniques to represent our place or other phenomena in our world. Maps are the basic concept to achive this. Maps are informative. Maps are directive. … Continue reading →

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Awareness Test

Posted on March 20, 2008 by admin

Spend 30 seconds for this clip and test your awareness; You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video [via seth godin's blog] Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.

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