Category Archives: GeoWeb
New Version of Google Earth for Android available
Today Google has released version 1.1 of Google Earth for Android. The app has a size of 5.39 MB and is only available for phones running Android 2.1+. Now one feature known from the PC version of Google Earth version … Continue reading
Posted in Android, GeoWeb
Tagged 1.1, app, Google Earth, Google Ocean, Market, motion sensor
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Google Streetview without People
Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have set themselves the goal to remove people on street view images. The system, introduced by the team led by Serge Belognie and Arturo Flores have developed a precedure which automatically … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb
Tagged google copyright, identification, privacy, remove faces, remove people, Streetview
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Test: Map provides or route planners and their actual (or outdated) map material
LandkartenBlog.de has tested 23 different map providers in case of accuracy and actuality. The results surprises in both directions – positive (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps) and negative (Falk, Bing and Yahoo). Actual map data is a weak point of many Internet route … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Geodata
Tagged 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, bing maps, falk, Geodata, herold, herold.at, highway, Map, map23, material, navteq, new map, new roads, route palnner, street segments, TeleAtlas, update, viamichelin, yahoo maps
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Your own Map Server with custom styled OSM tiles
In comparison to most commercial map services like Google Maps and Bing Maps street data from the OpenStreeMap (OSM) project can be downloaded and used via GIS tool or cartographic renderer offline. The software Kosmos by Igor Brejc allows to … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Geodata
Tagged cached, download map data, kosmos, local, Map, mapserver, ms, offline data, open street map, osm, tiles
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Cloud computing the new GIS trend: Online version of ArcGIS coming soon
The online version of ArcGIS will be available at http://www.arcgis.com very soon. It can be assumed that more details will follow tomorrow, when ESRI’s developer conference starts in Palm Springs. ESRI strategy to create a could based GIS system will … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, GeoWeb
Tagged amazon, arcgis, ArcGIS Online, arcgis.com, cloud computing, force, force.com, google app engine, saap, saas, windows azure
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Twitter and the Map
The microblogging site Twitter has emerged from a nice service to one to the biggest players for social networks. With only 140 employees and an estimated revenue of $400,000 in Q3 2009 the Californian company is on rank 12 of … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb
Tagged API, ESRI, fluttr, Google Maps, Location, location API, mapplet, mashup, trendmaps, tweets, twitter
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Map Mashups can tell a story
ESRI recently announched the 2010map mashup challenge and invites developers to present a map mashup and tell the story behind their mashup. One interesting and creative example is the mapshup by Dave Bouwman – Visualizing Executive Compensation. The story behind … Continue reading
Posted in ESRI, GeoWeb, Geodata
Tagged chellange, dave bouwman, ESRI, Flex, manager, map mashup, pay the top, top salary, USA
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Video integration in driving direction of route planners (Google has StreetView, Microsoft videos)
Google integrates StreetView in their driving directions to give the user an impression about the calculated route. Microsoft tries now tries to integrate videos in their driving directions and synchronize them with the map. According to the official research paper … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Geodata
Tagged direction interpretation, driving directions, geospatial research, googe streetview, google driving direction, graz, klagenfurt, microsoft driving direction, microsoft graz, microsoft research, ms research, route planning, route recognition, route visualisation, routing
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