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

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Google Maps Mobile Placemark Icon

It was very hard to find the new stylish placemark icons of Google Maps Mobile 3 (GMM 3) in the web. Therefore I tried to create a icon which look like those optimized for mobile devices. In my opinion they … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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