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Starting next week, the Delhi government-appointed competent authority will start a field survey of all monuments protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the capital. The survey will map all existing structures within a 500m radius of every ASI monument.
The goal is to simplify the requests for construction permits, which can be restricted close to such monuments.
- Times of India
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by Adena Schutzberg on 10/27 at 03:00 AM |
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You can now "helicopter" in Google Maps to preview a route from the air.
To preview your own route, it is as simple as clicking on a button. Start by entering your starting point, destination, and mode of transport like any directions; in this case, driving directions from ‘Carmel CA to Big Sur CA.’ Then, just click on the “3D” play button. The map will switch to Earth view and automatically start flying you along your recommended route.
- Google Lat Long Blog
In Scotland a coastal town appears in a forest and second is mis-located on Google Maps. TomTom, which provides the data says Google is at fault. Google appologized for confusion and asked for input via the "Report a Problem" link.
- UK Daily Record
Google added a new feature called “My Location” to Maps. It uses the GeoLocation API (what I think most think of as the HTML5 geolocatoin API supported in many modern browsers) to find your approximate physical location if you let it as the starting point of a route.
- Google Lat Long Blog
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/06 at 03:00 AM |
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I was at one time the editor of OGC News, so it's sad to see its last issue. On the other hand, I'm pleased more timely info, from more contributors lies ahead on the new blog.
This will be our last quarterly OGC Newsletter , because the newsletter format constrains us in our effort to keep our community informed. To do a better of job of 1) getting our news and views out more quickly to more people and 2) getting more people to contribute their news and views, today we are launching The OGC Blog [http://www.opengeospatial.org/blog] – a blog about spatial communication.
The OGC Blog will include regular contributions by staff as well as frequent posts by members of the broad and continually expanding OGC community, some of whom are NOT OGC members! We will offer newsfeeds and daily or weekly email updates to serve a range of news consumer preferences. All the types of content we've been publishing in the newsletter will be available on the blog, but the news will be more timely and there will be more opportunity for reader commentary, more links to relevant content out on the Web, and more opportunities for OGC members to communicate with each other and the world.
- OGC News (last issue!)
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/21 at 03:00 AM |
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Standards adoption is not a sexy topic. Sure, interoperability cures a lot of ills but really, isn't interoperability just too big of a word? I actually saw it on a billboard once and wondered just how many people understood exactly what it meant.
But that's the business of the Open Geospatial Consortium. I sat down for a long conversation with Steven Ramage the director of communications for the OGC. Let's review some of the recent initiatives that the OGC has built. The GovFuture initiative kicks off a program to get small municipalities involved with the standards organization. It's a lower cost entry fee model to encourage interoperability standards adoption and to get them involved with the OGC specification process. Watch our webinar with the OGC that goes into greater depth on this program. The Business Value Working Group is tasked with demonstrating the return on investment by standards adoption. The relationship with the Building Smart Alliance is driven by the increased recognition that 3D building models and the interior space therein is inherently geospatial. As such the two standards organizations are working together to make sure there is a synergistic approach to specification cooperation.
Likewise, the OGC has been making a huge impact in operations management. Take the recently announced pilot project in aviation safety. The OGC is involved in a project whereby the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) is working with industry stakeholders to utilize international standards to improve the awareness of Special Activity Airspace (SAA) usage, that airspace used for military missions. Both Lufthansa and Boeing as well as others are engaged in the project. The pilot is part of the OGC's interoperability initiatives. Information release by the OGC indicates that "SAA dissemination involves the access, filtering and graphical portrayal of airspace information, as well as the ability for subscribed users to receive notifications of SAA updates and reservation schedule changes."
The organization is making great strides at outreach while not taking its foot off the gas pedal in driving technical specifications for sensors, SMS, and many other initiatives. You need to be aware of their activities. Here are some links that are useful:
by Joe Francica on 07/17 at 10:45 PM |
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AuScope, a sort of NSDI for earth science for Australia launched last September. Now ITNews offers an article highlighting its use of standards. The article itself highlights the lack of understanding of the difference between standards, open source software and open source that implements standards.
It involved various open source standards, including Web Feature Service, GeoServer, FullMoon and HollowWorld.
That sentence boggles my mind. Let's see if I can parse it:
Web Feature Service is an open standard from OGC.
GeoServer is an open source map server that implements many open standards including some of OGC.
Full Moon is, I think, open source clustering software from Sun (I had to look that up and found no reference past about 2007).
HollowWorld is a GML application schema template from CSIRO (and I think an open standard, though I'd not heard of it).
- ITNews
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/04 at 03:39 AM |
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