The forum of mobile communication in Austria has launched a cadastral map for Austria which locate radio- and cellular radio transmitters in Austria. This service is supported by the Austrian federal agency of traffic, innovation and technology (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie) and the telecommunication regulation authority with the objective to give citizen an overview about the positions and information of transmitters. A web map service inform users about this. The map was developed by WIGeoGIS and uses TeleAtlas data.
Link: http://www.senderkataster.at
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You can watch the keynote talks from the Geoweb 2008 conference on Youtube. I have listed the video also here.
Full podcast will be available for download at www.geowebconference.org.
Alex Miller is founder and President of ESRI Canada Limited, a privately held Canadian owned company specializing in the design and implementation of geographic information systems. Mr. Miller is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton with a Bachelor of Science in Surveying Engineering. Mr. Miller has over 35 years experience in surveying, mapping, engineering, information systems design and management consulting. He is past Chair of the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada, Co-Chair of the GeoConnections Policy Advisory Committee, Chair of the Geomatics Canada Advisory Committee and a member of the Federal Department of Natural Resources Minister’s National Advisory Board on Earth Sciences.
Full podcast will be available for download at www.geowebconference.org.
Michael T. Jones is Google’s Chief Technology Advocate, charged with advancing the technology to organize the world’’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. He was formerly Chief Technologist of Google Maps, Earth, and Local Search - the teams responsible for providing location intelligence and information in global context to users worldwide. Before its acquisition by Google, Michael was CTO of Keyhole Corporation, the company that developed the technology used today in Google Earth. Previously he was CEO of Intrinsic Graphics and Director of Advanced Graphics at Silicon Graphics. A computer programmer since 4th grade, he is a prolific inventor, developer of notable scientific and computer graphics software, an engineering and business executive, and an avid traveler and photographer using a home-built 4 gigapixel camera made with parts from the U2/SR71.
Full podcast will be available for download at www.geowebconference.org.
Dr. Michael Kay is best known for his work on XML. Based in the UK, he is the editor of the XSLT specification and author of the definitive book on the language, and is also active on the standards group for XQuery and XML Schema. He is also the developer of the popular open-source Saxon software which implements these specifications. He gained a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1975 for work on database technology, and has retained links with the academic world, currently holding the position of Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading.
Full podcast will be available for download at www.geowebconference.org.
Kimon G. Onuma, FAIA, is recognized as a leader in building industry technologies and has a unique perspective that spans architecture, planning, programming and software development. Onuma was one of the first to use BIM on large scale US government facilities in 1994. His US Coast Guard (USCG) work for the Sector Planning System streamlined the design process of 35 sector Command Centers to six months and integrated data from various command centers and received a 2006 CETI award in the Small Scale Implementation category. In December 2006 he proved at an international Open Geospatial Consortium event that web feature services can link BIM and GIS.
Full podcast will be available for download at www.geowebconference.org.
Dr. William B. Gail is Director of Strategic Development within Virtual Earth at Microsoft Corporation, with responsibility for expanding the capabilities of Virtual Earth and its use throughout the community. He was previously Vice President of the Mapping and Photogrammetric Solutions division at Vexcel Corporation (acquired in 2006 by Microsoft), where he directed a global organization responsible for a range of Earth information systems and services. Dr. Gail is on the Board of Directors of Peak Weather Resources, Inc., is a member of the editorial boards for Imaging Notes magazine and the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, and is the Director of Industry Relations for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. In 2007, he received awards from GITA for best conference speaker and AGU for excellence in scientific journal review.
Full podcast will be available for download at www.geowebconference.org.
Dr. Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of spatial@ucsb. His published books include Accuracy of Spatial Databases; Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications; Environmental Modeling with GIS; Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS; Interoperating Geographic Information Systems; Geographic Information Systems and Science; Uncertainty in Geographical Information; Foundations of Geographic Information Science; Spatially Integrated Social Science; GIS, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling; and Geospatial Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Principles, Techniques and Software Tools.
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I have tried to compare the big three search engines, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live in their functionality and usability for finding address locations. Address Geocoding is an important field of the GeoWeb and should be not problem for these three companies, but during the test I identified enormous deficits or a complete lack of these functionality.
Test address was: Europastrasse 4, 9500 Villach, Austria. This information should be more than enough to visualize the exact location on the map.
Lets Start with Microsoft Live Search. In my test this service completely fails. First of all if you try to enter the address in the search box of the ordinary Web Search you get some results which may be related to the address but it was not checked that the entered string represents an address (complete lack of semantics). Therefore, I changed to maps.live.com, to see if I can locate my address here. First of all you have to change the mode from the default (businesses) to locations. Then I entered the address to search. The results displays the map near Villach but far away from the correct location. Live maps do not have address geocoding for Austria. Hence, it cannot be recommended to search for Austria addresses.
The next service I tested was Yahoo Local Maps. Similar like Live Search it was not possible to visualize the address from the normal web search. In the Yahoo Local Maps mode it is possible to enter the address in the search field. The result does not perfectly fit but it is close. Additional you get a hint that the exact address cannot be found but the nearest address is visualised. In this case much better than Microsoft Live Search.
At least I tested the market leader Google. And it is the test winner of my small experiment. By entering the address as search string the first result is a small map, which visualizes the exact location of the address. From this small view you can directly change to Google Maps. Of course also Google Maps locate the address without any problems through the search box.
So try it for yourself and tell me your Experiences.
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Google introduced Walking routes!
Try it for yourself at http://maps.google.com
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EarthBrowser is a platform for viewing and creating geographically based information. It is based on Adobe AIR and can handle KML. There is a talk from Matt Giger on Youtube. Matt Giger is the founder of Lunar Software and creator of EarthBrowser. He received a B.A in Physics from Reed College, B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from CalTech and a M.S. in Computer Science from The University of Oregon.
Youtube Abstract: KML is the default language of virtual globes, however it only delivers static data with pre-set rules of behavior. Using EarthBrowser as an example, new ideas for creating, presenting and controlling earth based information will be explored.
Links:
http://www.earthbrowser.com/
http://www.jskml.org/
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