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Application Domains: GlobCover Version 2 Global 300m LULC Released

posted by Satri on Friday October 03, @10:51AM

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from the land-cover-users-rejoice dept.

An important land use land cover global dataset was released this week, the ESA's GlobCover Global LC version 2 at a spatial resolution of 300m. Amongst the highlights: "The GlobCover Land Cover product is the highest resolution (300 meters) Global Land Cover product ever produced. The GlobCover Land Cover product is based on ENVISAT MERIS data at full resolution from January 2005 to June 2006. The GlobCover Land Cover product has been developed in partnership with EEA, FAO, GOFC-GOLD, IGBP, JRC and UNEP. The GlobCover Land Cover product is labelled according to the UN Land Cover Classification System." Be careful, the product description and some webpages have not been updated yet but should be very soon. We discussed GlobCover in the past. Our Land Use topic may also be of interest.

Industry: Geospatial Solutions Launch a Geo-Wikipedia

posted by gignacnic on Thursday October 02, @01:07PM

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from the Geowikipedier dept.

From the Geospatial Solutions web site: "We're excited to announce the launch of the Geospatial Solutions Wiki — an interactive resource created by the geospatial community. This dynamic encyclopedia comprises information about the people and technologies involved in mapping, remote sensing, location, and geographic information systems (GIS). Whether you're a student or a professional, a novice or an industry veteran, this is your place to learn and share — what knowledge can you contribute?" See this Geospatial Solutions Wiki home page to contribute: http://wiki.geospatial-solutions.com/

Industry: OGC Spatial Data Quality Survey Released

posted by Satri on Thursday October 02, @10:34AM

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from the quality-is-in-the-eyes-of... dept.

Vector One provides a followup the OGC survey on spatial data quality, mentioned last year. The results of the survey can be found here [pdf]. From V1's entry: "- Smaller companies (less than 20 people) are most keenly interested in data quality, followed by large companies. Medium sized are last. - Spatial data quality impacts 46% of projects currently with end-user’s feeling most impacted. – People want consistent results. – 80% of people store data digitally (but 20% are still on paper)."

Technology: IP Addresses Geolocation

posted by Satri on Thursday October 02, @09:27AM

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from the we-know-where-you-are dept.

APB links to a Wall Street Journal article on IP addresses geolocation. See also these two previous stories. From the article: "Still, geolocation technology won't pinpoint Web visitors' locations beyond the city level, which won't satisfy advertisers seeking to target potential customers by neighborhood or street. "That might be the next forefront people might try to push toward," says Dane Walther, director of custom engineering at Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies Inc., which has a geolocation product. "There's certainly interest from marketers, who always want to get as detailed, as local as they can." [...] Marie Alexander, Quova's chief executive, says one manufacturer told her that it has found a transaction to be fraudulent in 73% of cases where the state in the credit-card billing address doesn't match the state associated with the IP address. "It's a huge savings to pull those [transactions] out," she says."

Application Domains: Review of the Major Developments from Three Location-Based Services Conferences

posted by Satri on Thursday October 02, @08:29AM

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from the location-based-vices dept.

DM shares an article named "Location is the Ultimate Context: A Review of the Major Developments from Three LBS Conferences in San Francisco". From the article: "There’s never been a time when I’ve heard as many tangible enterprise and consumer values expressed in solid business cases using location to create profit and better quality of life. From all three events, NAVTEQ Connections, SiRF Location 2.0 Summit and CTIA's Wireless and Entertainment Conference, came predictions that location technology, for use in both enterprise and consumer mobile applications, will be embedded and standard in every device delivered to the market. From operating systems to handsets, location as a key contextual element will be essential. As Darren Koenig, LBS director for Tele Atlas, stated: "Location is the ultimate context." Finally, all parts of the mobile technology ecosystem are realizing the same thing."

Industry: [old geonews] QGIS 0.11.0 & GeoJSON 1.0 Released and GeoTools Graduates

posted by Satri on Wednesday October 01, @02:45PM

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from the back-from-the-dead dept.

A short note on old summer geonews (while I was away) which were not yet featured on the site. First the release of QGIS 0.11.0, GeoJSON 1.0 and the graduation of GeoTools as full fledge OSGeo project. See also related stories. Not directly related, FOSS4G 2008 is going on this week. We'll share the best summaries we'll find.

Industry: New 3D Textured Cities in Google Earth

posted by Satri on Wednesday October 01, @12:28PM

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from the race-for-textures dept.

The GEB informs us Google updated several cities with 3D "photorealistic" textured buildings. From the entry: "I've discovered the following new cities have the new 3D buildings: Chicago, Nashville, Philadelphia, San Diego, St. Petersburg, Jacksonville, and Miami Beach (the last three all in Florida). Other cities already known to have the new buildings: US: San Francisco, Baltimore, Raleigh, Atlanta, Charlotte, Boston, Orlando, Austin, Oakland, Dallas, Tampa, Memphis, and Phoenix. Also, Zurich, Munich and Hamburg in Europe; and Tokyo in Japan has a smattering of 3D textured buildings. And, don't forget Disney World in 3D."

Technology: GeoCommons Maker! Launches

posted by Satri on Wednesday October 01, @11:05AM

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from the can-webmapping-be-exciting-again? dept.

The HighEarthOrbit is proud to announce the launch of GeoCommons Maker!. From the entry: "The goal of Maker is to push the boundaries of web mapping to provide easy to use and powerful cartographic design tools along with access to a huge amount of complex geospatial data. We’ve integrated Maker into Finder!, so any interesting or datasets can be immediately dropped into a map, customized and styled. [...] Another key aspect of the openness of GeoCommons is the key feature to export your maps as styled KML. This means you can build up a rich cartographic visualization, export to KML and open in something like GoogleEarth or WorldWind and retain the styling." I only played with it a few seconds but I feel the interface is better than other similar tools.

Technology: Oracle Buys Maker of 3D Retail Software

posted by lxnyce on Wednesday October 01, @10:49AM

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from the not-another-virtual-world-builder dept.

From CNet News : "Oracle is adding to its retail software lineup by acquiring Advanced Visual Technology, a maker of 3D space planning software for retailers. AVT, based in Hertfordshire, England, sells a product called Retail Focus, which lets retailers plan store floors and shelf space. An add-on product, called Retail Focus Merchandiser, gives retail planners a three-dimensional view of retail space that they can "walk" through virtually."

Technology: MetaCarta Announces Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (GSRP)

posted by Satri on Wednesday October 01, @10:22AM

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from the more-services-on-the-radar dept.

APB discuss a press release about MetaCarta's announcement of their Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (GSRP). MetaCarta are behind the open source OpenLayers, TileCache, FeatureServer and more. From APB's analysis: "In other words, you can separately license their API's but still have access to their geo-referencing engine. So, if you only want to use their geotagging or query parsings applications in conjunction with the underlying geo-referencing engine software developers will now be able to license them as they need them. In the past, the six modules (geotagging, query parsing, geosearch, location finder, save-search-notification, and document density) that comprised the MetaCarta platform were highly inter-related and did not work independently." See related stories below.

Technology: More Geospatial Games

posted by Satri on Wednesday October 01, @09:15AM

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from the some-kids-have-no-time-for-play-time dept.

Here's recent geoblogs coverage of geospatial games to complete the ~20 previous geogames stories mentioned here. First there's the GEB top 10 games for Google Earth. Mapperz links to Nokia Mapter's game. VerySpatial links to a short entry on location-based gaming. Less directly related to geospatial, there's also Google's virtual world, Lively, which stated goal is to be used as an online game platform.

Technology: Successful Launch for 3 GLONASS-M Satellites and GIOVE-B Offline

posted by Satri on Wednesday October 01, @08:35AM

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from the more-than-spoutnik-or-Poutine-in-space dept.

Last week, the SatNav blog informed us three GLONASS-M satellites have been successfully launched by Russia. From the entry: "If recent indications from the Russian government are anything to go by this will represent the first launch of many leading to the restoration of a 30 satellite constellation by 2011. Another launch of 3 satellites is planned for 2008, most likely on Christmas Day."

The same blog informs us GIOVE-B, GALILEO's second test satellite, has been knocked offline by "space radiation". From the BBC article: "This region of space is known to have a high intensity of fast moving particles that can disrupt spacecraft electronics. But the conditions are reasonably well understood, and engineers will want to know why Giove-B experienced the glitch. Giove-A is unaffected."

Industry: Routing With Open Standards and OpenStreetMap

posted by gignacnic on Tuesday September 30, @01:04PM

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from the Awesome-Mapper dept.

An innovative project, called OpenRouteService, shows how "volunteered geography" and OGC standards can be merged together. This project respond to the need for a "public-owned" routing service. From the article: "OpenRouteService.org is the first routing service that uses OpenStreetMap data and provides those through the standardized interfaces specified by the OGC within the OGC Open Location Services initiative (OpenLS)". This project has been implemented by the Research Group Cartography, Department of Geography, University of Bonn. The application works from Denmark to Italy. See this article for more information. Update: 09/30 21:17 GMT by S : Fixed gignacnic summary's source name.

Application Domains: Online Geospatial Courses

posted by Satri on Tuesday September 30, @10:13AM

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from the don't-you-want-to-know-everything? dept.

As a followup on our three previous stories about online geospatial courses, earlier this month, Spatial Sustain shared an entry on new online GIS courses. From the entry: "The Johns Hopkins University just announced five new online courses in GIS. The online certificate in GIS includes a GIS overview, remote sensing, introduction to spatial analysis, advanced GIS modeling and management of GIS projects. This latest online GIS course offering joins just a select few universities that offer online-only coursework."

I was also happily surprised to learn about iTunes U ("University") offering several pertinent (and free) podcasts and videocasts, such as 20 hours of geospatial courses from Pennsylvania State University.

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