Category Archives: Internet
Firefox 4 shapes – Beta 1 available for download
Firefox 4 Beta 1 is now available for download. Developers of Mozilla have invested a lot of effort in the process of user interface design. The following video explains design decision to move tabs to the top of the window. … Continue reading
Where Photography meets Geoinformation
Pixelcase is an online service to create virtual tours. It allows to create impressive presentations about geographic places. By using photographs and panoramic views in a flash frame including functionality like zoom, rotate and pan a spatial feeling is added. … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Internet
Tagged Flash, Geoinformation, panorama, photography, photos, Presentation, views
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Some infos on the ESRI DevSummit 2009
In 2009 ESRI holds their 4th developer summit in Palm Springs, CA. Between March 23-26 various sessions covering the whole product line of ArcGIS will be covered. Of course news about the version 9.3.1 will be demonstrated and an outlook … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, Internet, Software, Videos
Tagged ArcEditor, arcgis, ArcGIS Server, ArcInfo, ArcSDE, ArcView, DeveloperSummit, DevSummit, ESRI, Flex API, GIS, Javascript API, Silverlight API, Software
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Intelligent Online Routing – TomTom Route Service with IQ Technology.
TomTom has introduced an online routing service with their IQ Technology. The routing service is currently in beta and an only accessed after registration. They use the latest version of Teleatlas Street data, which is a fully-owned subsidiary of TomTom. … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Geodata, Internet
Tagged best route, Internet, IQ technology, Location, minimize, online routing, routing, service, street data, TeleAtlas, tomtom, traffic information, travel time
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Java FX 1.0 available now – but not for mobiles.
Sun has recently published the final version of JavaFX 1.0. The new Java technology enables developers to create so-called Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). JavaFX is a Java-based technology in competition to technologies such as Adobe Flash and Adobe Air and … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Web
Tagged Adobe Air, Flash, JavaFX, JavaFX mobile, RIA, Rich Internet Applications, Sun
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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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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
Create a 3-dimensional Environment with your Photos
We explore our surroundings, with every technology we have. From text to audio to maps to photos. Now there is a new technology freely available to represent place – Photosynth. Photosynth comes from Microsoft and you can build up your … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Internet, Software
Tagged 3d, Advantages, create, disatvantages, drawbacks, envrionment, geographic, how to, Microsoft, photos, Photosync, photosynth, plugin, Software, surrounding, world
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Yahoo launches FireEagle – a service to track your locations
Yahoo has launched their contibution of “track your location” sites with the release of Fire Eagle. The basic idea behind Fire Eagle is to become the link between your location and the services that you want to give your location … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Internet, Webservices
Tagged API, application, Location, service, track location, track your location, yahoo
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