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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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New Aerial Photos for Austria

Posted on March 19, 2008 by admin

Biside high resolution aerial photos of the provinicial capitals of Austria Herold.at provides enhanced photos for Wiener Neustadt, Wels, Villach, Kitzbühel, Steyr, Hartberg, Linz-Umgebung, Leoben und Kufstein. This was communicated by the Herold company on Tuesday. They assert that their … Continue reading →

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Sciences Maps

Posted on March 18, 2008 by admin

The first map (Figure 1) shows the amount of research done in different fields. Medicine and Molecular & Cell Biology is very present in this map. But also the Geosciences area is not so small. Computer Science and Geosciences together … Continue reading →

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Google Announces 2008 Developer Events

Posted on March 17, 2008 by admin

Two-Day Google I/O Event in San Francisco Will Focus on Building Great Web Apps and Advancing the Web as a Platform Google announced a new developer event for 2008: Google I/O™, a two-day, in-depth gathering for developers to share knowledge … Continue reading →

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Vexcel Imaging

Posted on March 17, 2008 by admin

The ORF (Austrian Broadcasting) has recently shown an documentation about Vexcel Imaging Graz, and their technology to make areal photographs and calculate altitude for designing 3D city models. Vexcel was aquired by Microsoft and their technology is used by Microsoft’s … Continue reading →

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Google Earth COM API

Posted on March 16, 2008 by admin

Nearly everyone knows about Google Maps API but less people know that there is also a Google Earth COM API. The Google Earth COM API allows third party applications to query information from and send commands to Google Earth. Through … Continue reading →

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Today is 3/14

Posted on March 14, 2008 by admin

What is so special about today. Maybe you know this year (2008) we have the year of Mathematics. Today (3/14, ah… 3,14…) is the PI day! Geosciences are strngly related with Mathematics – therefore Happy PI Day. [via Pixdaus] Written … Continue reading →

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