Playing on words for the title in light of Where 2.0, Google demonstrated the technology behind Google Maps Street View — Immersive Media. Frank Taylor includes a video of the demonstration at the conference to share in the crowd reaction, and other important notes.
Entries from 'May 2007'
Mixing Realities 2.0
May 31st, 2007 · No Comments
Categories: External News · UAV Technologies · Web Mapping
Tags: Google Maps, helicam, immersive visualization, qtvr, street view, uav
Where, Now
May 30th, 2007 · No Comments
So far, there’s been a great deal reported in just the few days of announcements and demonstrations at Where 2.0.
Frank Taylor, in attendence, reports from Google Earth Blog:
Google further aligns with the OGC through KML
Google releases Street View (Demo it!) for Google Maps
Google releases KML 2.2 Reference (Beta)
Sound in Google Earth via new KML content […]
Categories: Events · External News
Tags: where conference
- Wed, 30 May 2007 at 8:30 am · I’ve more recently been tracking something that I’d never experienced in all the years I’ve been involved on the Internet. The occurrence of Anonymous Proxy sites mirroring site content overseas. I’ve since blocked the offending sites. · (0)
- Tue, 29 May 2007 at 4:09 pm · Niko sent out a bulletin on Myspace this afternoon, with coverage from Ecogeek.org about a new revolutionary technology about ready for commercial mass production — MDI’s Air Car. This unique car was developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre, and will be built by India’s largest automaker, Tata Motors. The car will soon have the capability of driving the equivalent of a trip from Los Angeles, California, to New York City, New York — on a single tank of gas. — Additional coverage at Popular Mechanics. The marketing side of me can also see the humor in a new term or slogan being coined for “Air Superiority.” · (0)
Hard Drives Behaving Badly
May 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Anyone who’s experienced an external hard-drive issue is familiar with the frustrations associated. In fact, this morning, I ran into an incredibly frustrating circumstance of my own — not one, but two external hard-drives appeared to be failing. But, with a little diligence, I managed to troubleshoot the problem and was surprised by how simple […]
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Remote Sensing Tools at Accuracy & Aesthetics
May 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Deborah MacPherson notified me this morning that she’d written-up a piece introducing myself and friend Nikolas Schiller, at Accuracy & Aesthetics.
It’s always interesting to read what others think about what I have to say, and I don’t think that I could have received a more elequent review of my thoughts in this case. The synopsis […]
Categories: Announcements
Tags: accuracy & aesthetics, mentions
Flickervision 3D Using Poly9 Flash
May 20th, 2007 · No Comments
I’m just noticing an added option for viewing the Poly9 FreeEarth 3D version of Flickrvision, developed by Dave Troy. Flickrvision is a Google Maps mash-up that displays the feeds published directly from Flickr, in a geographic context and in near real-time via the Google Maps API. Flickrvision’s sister mash-up development, Twittervision, also has a Poly9 […]
Categories: Demonstrations · External News · Web · Web Mapping
Tags: 3d visualization, flash, flickrvision, flickrvision 3d, poly9 earth, twittervision
Optimus Maximus Keyboard Specifications
May 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Specifications for the Optimus Maximus Keyboard have been officially released. The keyboard offers an impressive benefit to any user by lighting each key with the function it’s associated with using OLED technology. The flexibility this keyboard offers with its user-configurable options is actually more elegant than I was expecting to see! When can I get […]
Categories: Hardware · Production
Tags: dynamic keyboard, production hardware
BigTIFF Development to Break 4GB
May 18th, 2007 · No Comments
Frank Warmerdam notes:
“As announced in this press release, four industry sponsors (WeoGeo, Safe, Leica Geosystems, and ESRI) have gotten together to fund development of BigTIFF support in libtiff. This extension adds support for GeoTIFF files much larger than 4GB! With libtiff used by most open source and commercial applications, there is reason to hope that […]
Categories: Data · External News · Formats
Tags: bigtiff, bigtiff announcement
Redaction Back to the Fore
May 18th, 2007 · No Comments
The San Francisco Chronicle released an article this morning on imagery redaction practices between web mapping applications, and the discussions that have been directly related. A while back, Nikolas Schiller and I discussed discoveries of metadata and imagery redactions present in the USGS database of aerial imagery.
Categories: Data · External News
Tags: censorship, redaction
- Thu, 17 May 2007 at 9:57 am · I could get lost in Flickrvision for several hours if I allowed myself to do so. It’s certainly more interesting than anything television has to offer these days — unless you’re into the Phil Spector case, or anything else that’s absurdly disconnected from everyday life. The interesting thing about it to me, isn’t really that it’s updating in near real-time via a Google Maps mash-up (although that is pretty neat). The interesting thing to me, is that it offers a unique global perspective from all participating cultures on the planet — whether common or uncommon. The most obvious, if you watch it long enough, is you see how common we all truly are — just living our lives day-to-day, trying to find happiness, trying to find meaning, sometimes just having fun or expressing ourselves. · (0)
Optimus Maximus Keyboard Release
May 17th, 2007 · No Comments
The Art Lebedev Studio, in Russia, had released on the 15th of this month that the description and specifications will be published for the Optimus Maximus Keyboard, on March 20, 2007 at 3:00 pm Moscow time. On that same day, they’ll begin accepting limited pre-orders.
Categories: External News · Hardware
Tags: dynamic keyboard, production hardware
My Natural-Color World
May 15th, 2007 · No Comments
I’ve been asked several times, since it became known that I had converted the entire NASA GeoCover 7,4,2 mosaic to natural-color — what I plan to do with this dataset. Some of those inquiries have been interesting. I thought I’d devote a post here to explain my reasoning for producing the dataset by myself, and […]
Categories: Announcements · Data · Personal
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GeoSage Releases Spectral Transformer
May 7th, 2007 · No Comments
GeoSage Releases Spectral Transformer B742B321 — easily making natural-color, 14.25 meter resolution imagery from false-color GeoCover series Landsat bands 7,4,2.
Sydney, Australia — 2 May 2007: GeoSage is pleased to release Spectral Transformer B742B321, a powerful utility tool for producing high-quality, natural-color imagery (simulating Landsat bands 3,2,1) from pan-sharpened, false-color 14.25 meter resolution Landsat bands 7,4,2 […]
Categories: Software
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