On review my first impresson was correct
June 5, 2006 2 Comments
I had gotten an email from IDELIX and promptly ignored it as their idea sounds like a hassle given the simplicity and ease of use Google Maps and Virtual Earth offer us. Well after a weekend of seeing everyone post about it I thought I’d give it another look. Well I think I was correct in ignoring it, the more middle men you put between me and the data, the less interested I am in it. The technology looks impressive, but to me it almost seems like a technology looking for a purpose rather than filling a need. Plus it turns the speedy Google Maps and Virtual Earth into a slow “Java-like” web application, rather than the lightweight AJAX solution that they are. I’m sure that there is an application for this technology out there, but the demo doesn’t show it.
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Applying this to Google Maps is overextending the tool, which is actually pretty useful in a standard GIS.
During one of their online demonstrations, they put a “Before” aerial in the lense, and drug it around the “After” main image. My first thought that was that is would be easier to use and do analysis than ESRI’s Swipe tool in ArcGIS Explorer. This is because it lets you focus in on one small area.
Idelix should concentrate on the defense and security apps and not the GMaps bandwagon.
ArcMap already has magnification capabilities, plus you can perform edit sketchs within. What would be really cool is if it would magnify while changing the display properties such as histogram info or band info of multispec images.