Searching the own home place with Google Earth or Google Maps is definitively one of the most popular activities for many users. “Geoimage-Austria” has provided Google with new imagery for Burgenland, Upper Austria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Salzburg. All data is older than one year, but it should be possible to recognize an object with the size of an football.
Until 2009 a new, updated image is planned, which covers whole Austria.
Sample: Villach (this is older data, but also high resolution)
[via derStandard]
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Google is planning a german edition of “StreetView”. For “StreetView” pictures from street scenes of all major cities are taken. One major issue for StreetView in Europe is privacy. The European version will definitifely include blurring mechnaisms for faces and code plate, as it was introduced in the USA.
The german newspaper Focus has interviewed Peter Fleisch from Google. He said that, they are en route around Europe and want to come to Germany. Furthermore the magaize reported that Deutsche Post is working on a simmilar project. This was accredited by Deutsche Post, and they are working on a picture database for german cities.
“Die Post möchte die Bilder unter anderem für ihre Adressdatenbank statistisch auswerten und einen virtuellen Stadtbesuch anbieten”, teilte eine Sprecherin der Datenschutzbeauftragten Nordrhein-Westfalens mit.
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I’ve found this great video on Google Earth Blog. The application was developed with Apple’s iPhone SDK.
Is this the way we will interact with geospatial data in near future?
[via Google Earth Blog]
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ESRI has announced enhancements for ArcGIS Server in version 9.3. I will shortly summurize the most improtant ones of the new release:
- REST and JavaScript APIs
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Services Support
- PostgreSQL Support
- Collaborative Design Activity (COLLADA) File Support
- Improved Performance
- Better Diagnostics
- Enhanced Security
- More Documentation
ArcGIS 9.3 is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2008.
Interesting for Developers:
ArcGIS 9.3 will support Visual Studio 2008 in ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, and ArcGIS Server for customization and development. In addition, ArcGIS 9.3 will continue to support Visual Studio 2005. ArcGIS 9.3 will still have the Visual Basic (VB) 6 Software Developer Kit (SDK) for ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Desktop, but it will be the last release that will support VB 6. ArcGIS Server 9.3 will support .NET 3.5.
ArcGIS 9.3 will not support Visual C++ 6.0. In fact, ArcGIS 9.1 was the last release that supported it. However, if you want to do COM Visual C++ development at ArcGIS 9.2 and 9.3, ESRI will support that language via Visual Studio 2005 (not Visual Studio 6).
ArcGIS Server 9.3 will support the following operating systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 Update 2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC)
- Sun Solaris 9 (SPARC)
- Windows 2000 SP4 Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter
- Windows 2003 SP2 Server Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter
- Windows 2003 SP2 (64-bit) Server Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter
- Windows Vista SP1 Ultimate, Enterprise, and Business
- Windows XP SP2 Professional Edition
[via ESRI.com]
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