Author: James

Steve says it all via IM:

its all about geoserver, postgis, WWJ, and openlayers

He’s probably right. Between that combination and SQL Server 2008 + VE, we have to very impressive platforms for those who want to program in Java or .NET.

Thanks to all who emailed me, the WWJ SDK is now available again.

World Wind JAVA SDK Page

Guess it didn’t go so well for someone.

Found on street next to dorm building…

Nate Irwin’s been working at getting MapDotNet Server 2007 to talk with ArcSDE 9.2.

I’ve been experimenting quite a bit recently with MapDotNet Server 2007 (from hereon, referred to as MDNS), and I’ll say that I’m pretty impressed. Building maps in MDNS is admittedly more difficult than simply publishing an .mxd with ArcGIS Server – MDNS uses MapServer’s map file format, but the power of gaining access to Virtual Earth base data far outweighs the trouble that it takes to build the application and the performance is killer when compared to the alternatives.

Looks very interesting!

From the WW Java SDK page:

Due to technical issues, the World Wind SDK will be released on May 11th.

As I said in the previous post, probably best to just stay away until they get this one pushed out “officially” for the second time.

via Virtual Earth/Live Maps Blog

Today at the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference, Ted Kummert, VP of the Storage Platform Division, introduced SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) in his keynote [Press Release]. Scheduled to ship in 2008, Katmai will be the first version of SQL Server to support spatial data and operations natively. Pretty cool! Finally, support for Spatial as a first class data type with indexing.

• Spatial will be supported in the next release of SQL Server (code named Katmai) as system data types
• Katmai is scheduled to ship in 2008 and will most likely be called SQL Server 2008
• Katmai spatial will support two models: a ‘Flat Earth’ planar data type and a ‘Round Earth’ geodetic data type
• The Flat Earth data type (GEOMETRY) will support the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Features for SQL Specification with support for approximately 70 spatial methods/functions
• There will be spatial indexes for both planar and geodetic data types

The SQL Server spatial team will apparently be watching to see what users want. All I can say is Giddy-Up!

Virtual Earth and SQL Server 2008 should be quite the team.

The Java SDK for World Wind was supposed to be released over an hour ago. And what do you know, typical government bureaucracy, they miss the deadline.

The Java SDK will be available prior to Tom Gaskins’ technical session.

May 10
10:55 AM – 11:55 AM
Hall E 135 (TS-3489)
3-D Earth Visualization with
NASA World Wind

Its been a very quite week here and I think I’ve finally recovered from moving into my new house. All the boxes are put away and I’ve actually got a working internet connection in the house. I had been using the City of Tempe Wi-Fi, but its been brutally slow while inside my house (probably due to the “block construction”). Anyway time for an open thread….

I wanted to let you know about FreeEarth, Poly9 has launched FreeEarth which is a cross platform digital globe which uses the Adobe Flash plugin. It even has a javascript API. World Wind Java was supposed to be released today, but it still hasn’t show up. Until then feel free to play around with this cross platform globe.

Fantom Planet reports that Google Earth is like a country upon itself:

Michael Jones, the CTO of Google, noted that GE’s user base is approximately the tenth most populated country coming in with 200,000,000 users in the world in his keynote

Well my 2,094 RSS readers make me the 230th largest country in the world. Norfolk Island at 2,114 persons will be mine soon.