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This is indeed really great news. Let's not forget the open NASA WorldWind project also has Java/OpenGL versions in development for MacOS X and Linux and that WorldWind itself has been forked into Punt.

If you're serious about geospatial, you might be interested in joining us :-)

This is indeed really great news. Let's not forget the open NASA WorldWind project also has Java/OpenGL versions in development for MacOS X and Linux and that WorldWind itself has been forked into Punt.

If you're serious about geospatial, you might be interested in joining us :-)

Not the first time I post about it, but I really see this as the future of RSS: GeoRSS. And you know what, if one company can push the georss standard to general use, yup, it's Google.

What's georss? From slashgisrs: A team is working on Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds. From the overview: "GeoRSS is simple proposal for RSS feeds to also be described by location or Geotagged. We standardize the way in which "where" is encoded with enough simplicity and descriptive power to satisfy most needs to describe the location of Web content. [...] it should serve as an easy-to-use geotagging language that is brief and simple with useful defaults but extensible and upwardly-compatible with more sophisticated formats like the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) GML (Geography Markup Language)".

The Open Geospatial Consortium is really an important body in the geospatial community. They're the one whom just made WMS an ISO Standard.

Not the first time I post about it, but I really see this as the future of RSS: GeoRSS. And you know what, if one company can push the georss standard to general use, yup, it's Google.

What's georss? From slashgisrs: A team is working on Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds. From the overview: "GeoRSS is simple proposal for RSS feeds to also be described by location or Geotagged. We standardize the way in which "where" is encoded with enough simplicity and descriptive power to satisfy most needs to describe the location of Web content. [...] it should serve as an easy-to-use geotagging language that is brief and simple with useful defaults but extensible and upwardly-compatible with more sophisticated formats like the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) GML (Geography Markup Language)".

The Open Geospatial Consortium is really an important body in the geospatial community. They're the one whom just made WMS an ISO Standard.

I only quickly browsed MS's site, but I don't think they implemented something similar to georss.org.

From slashgisrs: A team is working on Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds. From the overview: "GeoRSS is simple proposal for RSS feeds to also be described by location or Geotagged. We standardize the way in which "where" is encoded with enough simplicity and descriptive power to satisfy most needs to describe the location of Web content. [...] it should serve as an easy-to-use geotagging language that is brief and simple with useful defaults but extensible and upwardly-compatible with more sophisticated formats like the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) GML (Geography Markup Language)".

GeoRSS is really an interesting innovation from the actual concept of RSS.

Couldn't there be a way to make a FreeRisk.org in the same way there is a FreeCiv.org? And thus, bypass legal limitations?

Civ IV can even use NASA Blue Marble tiles, I don't see why a FreeRisk or not-so-free Risk couldn't make use of NASA's Blue Marble data. It would be more beautiful than a Google Map basemap. Am I wrong?

Clearly, this is another example where IP impeds innovation...

Here's some links from the geospatial community, reacting to this great announcement.
First, there is this very interesting analysis:
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_i d=2037
There's also this interesting comment:
http://geovisualisation.com/WordPress/?p=223
And some comments on this:
http://industry.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05/1 1/28/1453240

This Autodesk announcement is one of the most important news in a great while (since Google Map/Earth made some geospatial tools known to the world?).

I wonder if they plan to integrate this tagging idea to their newly launched web mapping service.

(This hasn't been on /.'s mainpages, but Amazon added a map service earlier this month, you can read more about it.)

Are there any meaningful sites out there that run slashcode?

I'd like to believe so. http://slashgisrs.org/ - we're trying to be pertinent and useful. But since we're less than 2 months old, we don't have the readership /. gets. But we still have 6000 daily hits :-) It's very specific: for the geospatial community out there.

Normally, you can find other slashcode projects there: http://www.slashcode.com/sites.pl but this part of the site is down since the last slash-css update.

slashcode is *hard* to correctly install and setup. But it *is* a great tool once everything runs at a steady state :-)

Cheers!

Taken from http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05 /10/25/1419228
ClickZ article about Google using geo-targeted RSS ads. From the article: "I think there's a lot of potential in geo-targeting RSS feeds, given that the sky's the limit in the number of mobile devices it has the ability to show up on," Marshall said. "Even advertisers that may not understand it at first, I think when you explain it to them, they'd be excited.". See also our previous GeoRSS.org coverage.

Taken from http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05 /10/25/1419228
ClickZ article about Google using geo-targeted RSS ads. From the article: "I think there's a lot of potential in geo-targeting RSS feeds, given that the sky's the limit in the number of mobile devices it has the ability to show up on," Marshall said. "Even advertisers that may not understand it at first, I think when you explain it to them, they'd be excited.". See also our previous GeoRSS.org coverage.

OgleEarth points to three games involving GoogleEarth, Earth Contest, GoogleEarthing and GEwar. Taken from http://industry.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05/1 0/07/134251

Ok, this is a shameless plug, but still a useful one :-) For those interested in Remote Sensing, as this story is about, there is a new slashsite, called http://slashgisrs.org/ that targets the RS and GIS crowd. The site is about one month old. Cheers :-)

RFID tags are so cheap (or rather, will soon be, read below), I'm really seeing a flood coming, not only for passports, for anything the human mind can imagine!

Taken from http://slashgisrs.org/
MobileMag have a small article about a 100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents. From the article: The new RFID Tag chip is able to function on the 30 kHz frequency by only using 100% organic compounds and an inkjet printer. By cutting down the price considerably it will allow for thee mass production through the printing process. The chip can also be printed on any paper, plastic and wood standard.

I agree, it could go wrong. Especially with the price of RFID tags falling down dramatically, it is reasonable to believe we'll be flooded by RFID in our not-so-far future. We will required strong laws. But the is those who don't care that much with about the law!

Taking from slashgisrs.org: MobileMag have a small article about a 100% organic matter RFID chip developed in Korea, costing only 0.5 cents. From the article: The new RFID Tag chip is able to function on the 30 kHz frequency by only using 100% organic compounds and an inkjet printer. By cutting down the price considerably it will allow for thee mass production through the printing process. The chip can also be printed on any paper, plastic and wood standard. The new chips from Korea will use the 30 kHz frequency.

Yeah. I too wish for a MacOS X port for Google Earth. Same with NASA's worldwind, Windows only. Ports will eventually come, I'm sure.

Meanwhile we wait, three games involving Google Earth, Earth Contest, GoogleEarthing and GEwar. (plug) Taken from the new slashgisrs.org, which can be of interest to you if you're interested with Google Local/Earth and anything GIS+RS. (/plug) Cheers :-)

"In addition to this (posted on http://slashgisrs.org/ [slashgisrs.org] ), the /. crowd will be happy to learn that According to Planar, future imaging applications for its new device may include medical imaging, molecular modeling, CAD/architecture, and computer gaming."

So basically everything we use computer monitors for today.

Talking about LCD technology
GIS Monitor has an excellent article about new planar 3D monitors (picture included), they are stereoscopic 3D LCD monitors based on an entirely new stereoscopic technology. From the article: The device is particularly well-suited for geospatial image analysts and photogrammetrists, who require 3D viewing to discern depth in the imagery and interpret spatial details.

In addition to this (posted on http://slashgisrs.org/ ), the /. crowd will be happy to learn that According to Planar, future imaging applications for its new device may include medical imaging, molecular modeling, CAD/architecture, and computer gaming.

Ok ok, not a real dupe, but this was published on http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05 /09/28/1348208 last -wednesday-!

I know I'm slightly off-topic, but not that much! I'm pretty sure readers of this story will have interest in the brand-new (launched a week ago) slashsite http://slashgisrs.org/ . It a new site for GIS + RS and everything spatially related, where this very story was published in the middle of the week.

FYI, slashgisrs.org is probably the first slashcss newborn. There's also plenty of low UID available ;-)

Ok ok, not a real dupe, but this was published on http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05 /09/28/1348208 last -wednesday-!

I know I'm slightly off-topic, but not that much! I'm pretty sure readers of this story will have interest in the brand-new (launched a week ago) slashsite http://slashgisrs.org/ . It a new site for GIS + RS and everything spatially related, where this very story was published in the middle of the week.

FYI, slashgisrs.org is probably the first slashcss newborn. There's also plenty of low UID available ;-)

As indicated on the brand-new slash-css website http://slashgisrs.org/ , this new "team" will probably have an impact on GIS.

"Google's engineers will be able to pick NASA's brains for ideas on supercomputing design, which could help the company in its efforts to create products such as 3-D maps. "We already have Google Earth. We'd like to have Google Mars and Google Moon," quipped Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google."
Taken from http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05 /09/29/173248

As indicated on the brand-new slash-css website http://slashgisrs.org/ , this new "team" will probably have an impact on GIS.

"Google's engineers will be able to pick NASA's brains for ideas on supercomputing design, which could help the company in its efforts to create products such as 3-D maps. "We already have Google Earth. We'd like to have Google Mars and Google Moon," quipped Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google."
Taken from http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05 /09/29/173248

Oh, forgot to mention, http://slashgisrs.org/ is based on SlashCSS, probably the first brand new slashsite using SlashCSS :-)

SlashCSS/slashdot announcement:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/22/132420 7

Humm, I'll start stealing slashdot's content for our new slashsite! :-)

Want to discuss GPS stuff or anything related to geospatial like GIS and Remote Sensing, visit the brand-new http://slashgisrs.org/ website. Ad-free and non-for-profit.

It has just launched (last friday afternoon), so plenty of low uid still available ;-)