Python Tools for Visual Studio Beta 2 Released
Microsoft really wants YOU to know that they just released Beta 2 of Python Tools for Visual Studio. To be fair, Python Tools for Visual Studio is about as awesome sauce as you can get considering it is at the crossroads of Python and Visual Studio.
Python Tools for Visual Studio Beta 2 Released
Microsoft really wants YOU to know that they just released Beta 2 of Python Tools for Visual Studio. To be fair, Python Tools for Visual Studio is about as awesome sauce as you can get considering it is at the crossroads of Python and Visual Studio.
Google Map Maker Arrives in my Hometown
So Google “finally” opened up Google Map Maker to the good old USA.
Today we’re opening the map of the United States in Google Map Maker for you to add your expert local knowledge directly. You know your neighborhood or hometown best, and with Google Map Maker you can ensure the places you care about are richly represented on the map. For example, you can fix the name of your local pizza parlor, or add a description of your favorite book store.
Really? I can fix the name of my local pizza parlor? I thought that was your job Google and how YOU were going to make billions on LBS technology. As a GIS Professional (Totally not certified anymore, but that’s just the way I roll in our space), I do have an inherent need to update the location of all coffee shops in my neighborhood, but to think I’d lift a finger to help out Google and their map is beyond laughable.
Domino’s Hotline
That said, I’ve gone into Google Map Maker and updated the local Domino’s Pizza name to be “Crappy Pizza Place”
Google Map Maker Arrives in my Hometown
So Google “finally” opened up Google Map Maker to the good old USA.
Today we’re opening the map of the United States in Google Map Maker for you to add your expert local knowledge directly. You know your neighborhood or hometown best, and with Google Map Maker you can ensure the places you care about are richly represented on the map. For example, you can fix the name of your local pizza parlor, or add a description of your favorite book store.
Really? I can fix the name of my local pizza parlor? I thought that was your job Google and how YOU were going to make billions on LBS technology. As a GIS Professional (Totally not certified anymore, but that’s just the way I roll in our space), I do have an inherent need to update the location of all coffee shops in my neighborhood, but to think I’d lift a finger to help out Google and their map is beyond laughable.
Domino’s Hotline
That said, I’ve gone into Google Map Maker and updated the local Domino’s Pizza name to be “Crappy Pizza Place”
Google Earth Builder - Esri 2.0 or Solution Looking for a Problem
So Where 2.0 is going on and I haven’t seen that much of interest (If you need to have Robert Scoble do an interview of your company on stage, then clearly you’ve got nothing to talk about). One thing that is news in our space is this Google Earth Builder.
It lets you upload, process and store your geospatial data in our cloud. Your employees can use familiar tools - Google Maps and Google Earth - to easily and securely share and publish mapping data. No technical expertise or GIS training is required.
There is a website that has a very little actual information about what it does. Some spin from Google seems to indicate this product is aimed at the mainstream. I’m not sure what the mainstream is, but I suspect they are running on SharePoint and MapPoint. Paul Bissett put it accurately:
Curious why GOOG aka BORG wants to invade Jack’s $1B pond. It doesn’t move the needle on their $25B business? #where20
– Paul Bissett (@pbissett) April 20, 2011
I still have never really understood what Google Earth Enterprise was/is and this seems like something that will fall into that category. Expensive, secret and used by a couple people you sort of know, but they’ll never show you what they are doing. I doubt Google will be invited to any Esri events anymore though.
Bottom line? You need an enterprise product to talk about so you have something to talk about when talking with enterprise customers.
Google Earth Godzilla
Google Earth seems to keep bumping around into things trying to figure out why it is here.
The 2011 Nebraska GIS/LIS Biennial Symposium
I’ll be heading off this week to give a keynote at the 2011 Nebraska GIS/LIS Biennial Symposium. I’m pretty sure I’ve never keynoted a biennial symposium (sounds serious doesn’t it?) so it should be a first for me. I think we are going to try and have drinks with a couple of folks from the Omaha area one of the nights I’m there so let me know if you are up for it.
Looks like the Storm Chasers are just down the road from the hotel so maybe I’ll try and make a game while I’m there. I’m already listening to the Counting Crows to see what Omaha is all about.