Tag Archives: geoweb
Startup: Askaro – Why not to ask your neighbourhood for local events
Recently there were some news about Eduardo Manchón, the co-founder of Panoramio, leaving Google and the Panoramio team. After four and a half year he wants to address to his new task at Askaro. He stated in this blog post … Continue reading
Posted in Start-ups, Web
Tagged aks around, answers, askaro, company, georeference, geoweb, Location, neighbour, questions, startup
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Online Subway map for New York City
I’m currently panning my trip to New York and was searching for a subway map. I found this nice mashup: The service is called onNYTurf 2 and includes features like search stations, addresses, businesses etc. Beside New York other maps … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb
Tagged geoweb, Google Maps, mashup, plan, subway, tourism, trip, underground
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Rebuild Google Earth in your Browser
Is it possible to build a full functionality Google Earth site in your Browser using the Google Earth API? Since the Google Earth Plugin was introduced for all major Browsers it is possible to transfer Google Earth Navigation and part … Continue reading
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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GeoWeb 2008 Keynote talks
You can watch the keynote talks from the Geoweb 2008 conference on Youtube. I have listed the video also here. Keynote Speaker, Alex Miller – GeoWeb 2008 10:00 Full podcast will be available for download at www.geowebconference.org. Alex Miller is … Continue reading
Posted in Event, GeoWeb
Tagged Conference, Event, geoweb, Geoweb 2008, Keynote, talks, Video
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Finding Addresses in Austria
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 … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb
Tagged address, address geocoding, experiment, find, geocoding, geoweb, locate, Map, Maps, Search, search engines, test
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Another Earthbrowser simply called “EarthBrowser”
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 … Continue reading
EveryScape – StreetView inside buidings
EveryScape is a web service similar to Google StreetView but it allows also indoor navigation. Therefore it is possible to navigate though the streets of an city and go inside buildings along the city. Of course only public buildings are … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Travel, Web, Webservices
Tagged buildings, EveryScape, geoweb, inside, Location, Streetview, web service
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Yahoo! Geo-Web Services
Yahoo’s announcement of its Internet Location Platform will be of interest to web developers and programmers interested in geolocating data. The platform uses something called Where on Earth ID (WOEID), a numerical tag that is associated with a given location; … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Web
Tagged geoweb, internet location platform, services, soa, Web, yahoo
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Must it always be Google Maps?
To visual geographic content most of the people I know use Google Maps. But must if always e Google Maps? in my opinion NO! Currently there are great alternatives out there, where you can do a lot more than with … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Software, Web
Tagged alternative, geoserver, geoweb, mapnik, open source, openlayer, qgis, tilecache
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