Here a dose of geonews courtesy of slashgeo.org.
On the FOSS4G/Geodata front, Google Maps API v3 reached OpenLayers development version. Here’s an entry on United Nations geospatial data accessibility. Learn about WhooTS, a small and simple wms to tiles proxy / redirect system. Good news, Vodafone open sources Wayfinder. There’s a new initiative on Crowdsourcing Ocean Navigation Data and related, here’s the crowdsourcing of Marine Conservation Zone Mapping.
On the ESRI front, out of the numerous ESRI-related entries: ESRI Released ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2,Publishing Your Own Maps To ArcGIS Server 10 For Use In ArcGIS For iOS, ESRI Unveils ArcGIS Server 10 On Amazon and ArcGIS API For Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 Now Available. It seems ENVI/IDL is getting more and more integrated into ArcGIS. From a blog I just discovered, named The Sandpit, here’s how to extract geographic locations from an email or web page with ArcGIS 10.
On the Google front, some news from the official source: Google Maps can now send destinations directly to more than 20 car brands worldwide and there was an imagery update earlier this week. Here’s another entry on Making Tracks: New KML Extensions in Earth 5.2. There’s also a new 3DHawaii.com, leveraging Google Earth. Good news, Google Maps gets short URLs. And why not, explore Climate Change Impact Using Google Earth.
In the miscellaneous category, here’s an entry named Quantifying the Business Benefits of Open Geospatial Standards. Related, MapGuide Enterprise 2011 and Topobase Web 2011 are now WMS v1.1.1 Certified. Regarding Microsoft, here’s an entry named Data Connector: SQL Server 2008 Spatial & Bing Maps. The FGT blog shares these two entries: Handheld GPS Units – Beyond The Manual and Geotagging Coordinate Viewer For Adobe CS5. Three months after their acquisition Nokia sells MetaCarta. It’s now nothing less than 95% of data that is georeferenced data.
In the maps category, here’s an interesting entry named The Agnostic Cartographer. APB informs us MapSherpa got significantly updated. Here’s an entry on Alberta: Energy and Interactive Mapping.
