Google announced new datasets including demographics, parcels, traffic counts in its for fee Google Earth Pro this month. Why? What market is the company looking capture? Are those data enough? And, do they belong in Google Earth Pro? Our editors explore the new additions.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 06/29 at 01:00 AM |
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This week the California State Automobile Association announce it would end its production of road maps due to falling demand. The slack will be picked up by the national Association. At the same time police and response organizations are warning the public and their staffs to keep a paper map on hand. What is happening to paper maps as GPS devices become part of our daily lives? Editors Adena Schutzberg and Joe Francica share their thoughts.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 06/03 at 01:00 AM |
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Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg explore where innovation is occurring in the geospatial marketplace in both geospatially focused professional tools and in the consumer marketplace. There’s interaction between the two markets as well as innovation moving up and down the geospatial user pyramid.
The podcast is 14 minutes long (~ 6 Mb) and was recorded on July 27, 2007.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 07/31 at 06:00 AM |
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I turned that into a question, but it was actually a statement in an e-mail from the folks behind Globe Glider. The message states:
New geobrowser turns Microsoft and Google products into single,
easy-to-use tool
Most important, because Globe Glider is a geobrowser, it gives you a smooth, one-click ride around the world and to all of the information needed on each destination via (your choice!) Google Maps©, Google Earth©, Microsoft Virtual Earth© and Google Street View©.
Something Globe Glider does away with: the minutes, even hours spent hunting-and-pecking your way through today’s search engines, trying to put together a portfolio of travel information.
Two of the Google Earth blogs use terms like “groundbreaking,” “awesome” and “holy grail.”
I didn’t feel that way; I found myself confused and bewildered. I don’t think I’d visit it again for travel planning. I don’t think the problem was the content - it’s from all over he Weather Channel via Yahoo, Rough Guides, some unknown hotel listings, etc. I don’t the problem is technology - it’s a nice mix of using APIs and open source.
The challenge was the four panel interface, the menu bar in the middle, smaller panel (not the main map) and the fact that I had to read the directions to figure out how to use it. I suspect I was expecting too much from the marketing speak; I look forward to the next incremental update.
by Adena Schutzberg on 07/10 at 05:46 AM |
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Update 3/1/07: I forgot to note, it’s in partnership with Microsoft.
The new app will appear at http://www.weather.com on Monday and provide a slider so visitors can “zoom in” on the location of interest. The maps will show detailed road maps and satellite imagery. The company will start local mapping for points of interest, next.
I guess I’m spoiled. My city is quite small geographically and the local weather at Accuweather (hey, I’m a Penn Stater!) is fine. And, I’m a big fan of the hourly forecasts. (I use them to figure out the likely temperature at start, middle and end of long running races.) I know others swear by Weather Underground.
- AP
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/28 at 12:28 PM |
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