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 from Wild Sanctuary
- Google acquires Panoramio
- Google Maps releases Mapplets
- And Michael Jones presented, among other things, something to do with an Apple iPhone that made everybody drool just a little bit
Keep updated at Frank’s Google Earth Blog for what’s sure to be a more well-rounded follow-up. (No pun intended.)
In other places:
Someone in attendence sent me a message that MapQuest had officially released their API for Adobe ActionScript™ — which came as extremely interesting to me toward the Flex and Flash realm of visualization development. And that Garmin released their Garmin Communicator Plugin API for better interoperability and development options.
Other notes of interest are Microsoft’s release of 3D building models for New York City (and others) — and announced at the All Things Digital, Wall Street Journal Conference on Wednesday, the projected release of their own touch table-top computer called Microsoft Surface. Surface is expected to be seen initially at Sheraton Hotels, T-Mobile stores, Harrah’s Casinos, and select restaurants. (I’m not sure what to think of those choices. I’m just anticipating another branding change like every-other product they’ve released over the last few years. Hopefully this brand was more thought-out by the marketing department and we won’t see a continuation of history repeating itself.)
If you’re interested in the kind of interactive visualization models that have been around for some time, just dig into CASA’s various sites and you’ll see all kinds of interesting, and intuative interfaces being developed with Google Earth. Common searches will also produce a number of results that have already been in development for interactivity and visualization in Google Earth (and Maps). CASA seems to be on my radar more these days, because they’ve been doing it for a while — and they’re good at it.
I would have hoped that Microsoft had something else of note before the end of this conference. Cross-platform compatibility would have been a nice usability development, I think. Improvements in their existing navigation model would have been interesting to me as well. And anything that would have remotely alluded to a vertical market opportunity — would have certainly peaked interest.
Updated on: October 28th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
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