Directions Magazine Podcast on Cloud Computing
The weekly Directions Podcast touches on Cloud Computing in Geospatial. Clearly cloud computing is a buzz word, so it is good to see people delving deeper into the subject matter. Both Joe and Adena did a good job of outlining what cloud computing means and pros and cons of moving toward hosted services and the pay as you go model. Adena nicely mentions WeoGeo as the best example of SaaS GIS.
I highly recommend that you listen to this podcast so you can break through some of the buzz words with SaaS and not sound like these guys below.
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MapQuest continues to update their API
Well how about this? Draggable routes in MapQuest.
One notable feature in this initial release is that Draggable Route functionality is included. This will allow developers to build applications that let their users dynamically edit their directions right from the map.
You can test it out here. Could MapQuest under the “new AOL” become a competitor again?
MapQuest continues to update their API
Well how about this? Draggable routes in MapQuest.
One notable feature in this initial release is that Draggable Route functionality is included. This will allow developers to build applications that let their users dynamically edit their directions right from the map.
You can test it out here. Could MapQuest under the “new AOL” become a competitor again?
Huge Bing Maps Worldwide Update
Looks like Microsoft rolled out a huge new release of Bing Maps. From Chris Pendleton’s blog:
We just deployed 41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data forBing Maps covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers of Bird’s Eye photography. Did we get your town this time? Check out the?Bing Maps World Tour to sit back, relax and watch the?Bing Maps Silverlight Control take you through every new local with new data. Alternatively, you can immerse yourself into the application and explore for yourself.
You can get the whole list by clicking through to Chris’ blog.
Huge Bing Maps Worldwide Update
Looks like Microsoft rolled out a huge new release of Bing Maps. From Chris Pendleton’s blog:
We just deployed 41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data forBing Maps covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers of Bird’s Eye photography. Did we get your town this time? Check out the?Bing Maps World Tour to sit back, relax and watch the?Bing Maps Silverlight Control take you through every new local with new data. Alternatively, you can immerse yourself into the application and explore for yourself.
You can get the whole list by clicking through to Chris’ blog.
Heading to WhereCamp5280 next week
I’ll be running up the hill to Denver next week to join everyone at WhereCamp5280. If you’ve never been to an ’unconference” before you are in for a treat. What is special about this is that there is no set agenda so everyone can pick what they want to talk about. ESRI, Google, Microsoft, .NET, Python, Ruby, C++ are all welcome. In fact, I’m a firm believe that if we get more people with different backgrounds in one room, some really amazing things will happen. So you don’t have to be Steve Coast to speak and add to the conversation, just yourself.
The attendee list is looking impressive. If you think you’ll be going, please add your name to the bottom and what days you’ll be attending. If you’ve thought about what you’d like to talk about, add that to the potential talks page as well. There will also be a social event in LoDo as well Friday Night. The economy is still at the top of everyone’s mind so a free “unconference” for the Rocky Mountain region is a good thing. Given the attendee list, I’m not sure we’ll see another get together in Denver until FOSS4G 2011 (we got next).