Entries from 'December 2007'
- Sat, 29 Dec 2007 at 2:43 pm · I’ve been running WorldView-1 imagery through its paces through the holiday season — and although I’m getting good colorization results with my color-source, I’m still not at a point of total satisfaction with the end results to provide any immediate demonstrations.
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- Thu, 20 Dec 2007 at 6:47 am · My heart goes out to NASA astronaut, Daniel Tani — whose mother has passed due to a traffic related accident in Lombard, Illinois. Daniel received the news of his mother’s passing as he’s currently in orbit performing duties aboard the International Space Station. · (0)
- Wed, 19 Dec 2007 at 7:04 am · Victor Nekrasov formally updates his Web site in his plans to reestablish where he left off with OrthoMap and other projects. OrthoMap 1.33 can be downloaded as a trial with 30-day unlimited capability, and purchased through ShareIt! for $99 USD.
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- Sun, 16 Dec 2007 at 6:42 am · Upgrading to XP, from Vista.
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- Sun, 16 Dec 2007 at 1:50 am · Victor Nekrasov has informed me that he will reestablish progress in development of his tool OrthoMap for automatic orthorectification of satellite and aerial imagery. Feel free to contact Victor with any questions you might have, or to express your interest. · (0)
- Fri, 14 Dec 2007 at 3:25 pm · Digital Globe has given me access to the first ready samples for WorldView 1 — thus, I’ll be in the process of experimenting with a range of techniques I had anticipated for this source.
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This entry is simply a test of the Google Chart API. The pie-chart here actually represents the browser usage on this Web site.
There’s obvious use in pulling database queries to build URI strings for visualization via the Web — and for a variety of end-uses. A plug-in for an analytics display page would be just […]
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Categories: Visualization · Web
Tags: analytics, google chart, google chart api
December 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Another early Christmas present — the ability to embed Street View from Google Maps. (How many days of Christmas are there again?):
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“Out of my way, Cubs fans — got to get to the Metro to see my buddy’s band!”
Publishing embeddable Maps and Street View is easy through the Google Maps interface — and […]
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Categories: Web Mapping
Tags: embed, embedded street view, Google Maps, street view
One of the developments that’s been sadly lacking in available software is automatic or semi-automatic orthorectification. You can get it — usually with a software suite that’s completely cost prohibitive. Or, you can try varying methods in the Open Source that typically don’t suit fundamental imagery production needs, or end-up entirely manual in work-flow.
I did, […]
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Categories: Software
Tags: automatic orthorectification, orthorectification
- Sun, 9 Dec 2007 at 11:31 pm · Using the Chart API in KML for Quick Data Visualization — for it was not something I had in only a dream. · (0)
- Sat, 8 Dec 2007 at 9:20 pm · Justin noticed the new Google Chart API. This really is rather cool actually — the URI structure is similar to Google Maps. It would be easy to implement this in the manner that I did with the custom Google Map — in an
iframe so you can embed it in a Web page. What would be sweeter, is if Google rolls this out as a service similar to My Maps. (My Charts?) Or perhaps better yet — in an info-bubble, in a Map? · (0)
- Thu, 6 Dec 2007 at 3:18 pm · Sandio Tech releases their new Sandio 3D Game O2 mouse, with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) in 3D environments. The mouse looks like an ideal 3D 6DOF controller for me, as it would be more intuative to the production work-flow that I’ve mastered or grown accustomed to. I’ve tried just about any kind of peripheral you can imagine that’s supposed to make things easier, from track-balls, to pen-tablets and touch-screens (like Wacom) — I’ve always been faster and more efficient with a mouse and short-cuts.
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- Wed, 5 Dec 2007 at 1:16 pm · Leszek Pawlowicz releases a new GUI program called LibgeoGUI for running listgeo and geotifcp commands — which includes better TFW support for writing to GeoTIFF than the GeoTIFF Tools GUI, as well as additional desired enhancements. (I’ll update the Geotiff tutorials here, to include this utility as it’s appropriately the best option.)
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With the holiday season nearly upon us, I thought this item would be a fun thing to point-out — perhaps as a gift idea. I had come across Animals On The Underground a while back through a Web search, and had been meaning to share it.
The book (and other merchandise) is available on the Merchandise […]
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Categories: External News
Tags: animals on the underground, books, gift ideas
The release of Global Mapper 9.01 includes an option to export any loaded data to Google Maps tiles. The process is very simple — just load your vector or imagery data (or all the layers you want to include), click through Tools → Configuration → Projection and choose the Mercator projection and the Google Maps […]
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Categories: Demonstrations · Software · Tutorials
Tags: Global Mapper, Google Maps, map demonstration
- Sat, 1 Dec 2007 at 5:28 am · Carrie Farrell from Google shares charming insight into the background of how NORAD’s Santa Tracking came about, with a picture of the man who started it all — Carrie’s grandfather, Colonel Harry Shoup. In the ongoing tradition of Santa Tracking every year — NORAD has teamed up with Google to offer several ways to keep children informed of where Santa’s sleigh is being sighted on the map this Christmas! · (0)
- Sat, 1 Dec 2007 at 4:51 am · According to AP, the Pentagon is organizing newer efforts for a next-generation spy satellite program. Reading through the piece, however, it appears the Pentagon is looking at a range of options, including scaling back the effort to be less ambitious than the previously failed FIA Boeing program which was scrapped in 2005 and cost tax-payers billions. · (0)
- Sat, 1 Dec 2007 at 12:06 am · Mike Childs either planted an Easter Egg in Google fashion, or he’s the new Santa and I just got my early Christmas present — as I just noticed the new robust Google Maps tile exporter in Global Mapper 9.01. Best Christmas present — ever. (Except for that year when my parents got me that drum kit when I was little. But it’s darn close!)
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