One of my favourite trips in Innsbruck is a trip on the Stubaitalbahn. This is a tram that winds it way out of Innsbruck and into the alpine Stubaital valley and is also a great way of getting into the mountains for some fantastic walking. It is quite intriguing how the tram winds its way [...]
Taiwan’s local search and map services “Live Pages” has just been launched: http://www.livepages.com.tw In my mind this is still the big challenge for all web mapping: providing mapping, geocoding and routing that has been properly localised for local markets (rather than just providing a generalised Western centric view of the word). If we do everything [...]
Microsoft Surface is a new way of interacting with digital content via a tabletop display on which you use gestures and touch to interact. This video shows how cool this can be with maps! After about 3 mins it shows Surface in action with Virtual Earth I think this new kind of interactive environment is [...]
Photosynth is my favourite technology at the moment and I am really excited to see that it is now live for all! See http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx More info is here. We’re pleased to announce the first full release of Photosynth, available now at photosynth.com. Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object [...]
Johannes Kebeck has been really quick off the mark and already has a demo of SQLServer2008 working with Virtual Earth. SQLServer2008 was released a few days ago with spatial support. See Johannes’ blog post.
There are so many sources of technical information on Virtual Earth that I am never sure that I have found them all or am using the best ones. Therefore I found Soul Solutions post here really useful. So here is their recommended list: This is a simple list of the various resources available for your [...]
Mark Brown has been doing a great series of videos on how Microsoft Virtual Earth flies its imagery data. The technical innovation in this area is amazing. The 1st video covers the Ultracam camera and software with the team in Graz (Austria) who created it. The 2nd video follows this up with a look at [...]
SQL Server 2008 was released yesterday and can be evaluated from here. The bit I am excited about is the new Spatial Support. Johannes Kebeck has some great posts on how to use this with Virtual Earth. Also see this white paper.
Coming form a background in GIS and working in Web Mapping I am always really interested in closer collaboration between GIS and and Web Mapping. In my mind one provides the great interface and the other the sophisticated spatial analysis. Basically they have different strengths. Recently I have got really tired of the paleo vs [...]
One of the more popular features in Multimap and Virtual Earth is the Birds Eye (oblique) imagery. The coverage of Birds Eye is now awesome and it can provide great context information. for example if you are booking a hotel you can check out the neighbourhood and see if it is next to a busy [...]
