Monthly Archives: September 2008
Location Based Decision Services
Tomorrow I will do my thesis defense. The topic is the “Development of a distributed Service Framework for Location-based Decision Support“. Here you can see the slides to this presentation. They are not the final version but almost. There were … Continue reading
Posted in LBS
Tagged LBDS, LBS, location based decision support, location based service, master, Presentation, SDSS, spatail decision support, thesis
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Google’s G1 vs. Apple’s Iphone – Decide on features not on design
The first Andoid phone was officially announced by Google, HTC and T-mobile. There was not really a “WOW” effect during the presentation. The design is well known from the first Android presentations and the features could have been expected. Here … Continue reading
Google switched completely to TeleAtlas
Google switched their underlying map data to TeleAtlas for their whole branch of products. Now Google Earth, Google Maps, Local Search and Google’s mobile solution using Teleatlas for their underlying data. Many see this as logical step after the acquisition … Continue reading
Open Street Maps as Shapefile for your GIS
The German company Geofabrik is specialized to neogeography and open geospatial data. Now they provide the download of OpenStreetMaps as daily updated shapefiles. The data on their server are regional hierarchical structured. All shapefiles are based on OpenStreetmap-raw data. This … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, GeoWeb, Internet
Tagged data, ESRI, free data, Geodata, geospatial data, geoweb, neogeography, open street map, openstreetmap, osm, shapefile
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Nokia Mapster’s Game
Nokia tries to promote their Nokia Maps with a geographical game. It a flash based game where you have to guess the location of different cities around the globe. At the end you can send them their high score and … Continue reading
Online Interactive Tourist Maps
OnionMap is a website with interactive and detailed tourist maps of popular cities across the globe. The maps are embedded in flash and provide rich functionality like zoom, pan but also measurement, add attractions to the map and get attributive … Continue reading
Sites I like 001: Earth from Above
I will introduce a new series of post on my webblog. It is called “Sites I like”. Once a week I’ll introduce interesting sites I visit frequently. Now the first episode. 001: http://www.yannarthusbertrand2.org The website is called the Earth from … Continue reading
“Google Satellite” Successfully Launched Into Space
I’ve already posted that Google together with GeoEye will launch a new Satellite for Google Earth and Google Maps images. The so called “GeoEye-1” satellite will take photos with a resolution of 0.41 cm / pixel. In the following pictures … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Google
Tagged areal, Geodata, geoeye, Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, image, orthophoto, photo, resolution, satellite
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SiliconAlps.tv presents Carinthian High Tech Start-Ups
Georg Holzer has started his newest project called SiliconAlps.tv. It is a web based video channel, which introduces Carinthian start up companies. Many companies, which were shown so far are coming from the Lakeside Park Klagenfurt, a habitat for small … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Research, Software
Tagged Carinthia, company, high-tech, SiliconAlps, Software, start up, TV, Video channel
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Picasa 3.0 – New Version available
Today Google has not only released a new Browser (Google Chrome), they also introduced a new version of Picasa Web Albums and their Picasa software. Picasa Web Albums looks a little bit fresher. Some news includes different tabs to explore … Continue reading
Posted in Software
Tagged album map, Chrome, face recognition, Google, photo management, Picasa
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