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Here's a series of recent geospatial news items. I've been quite busy lately, don't hesitate to use the submit button.
The FGT blog shares his experience with the solid 3D printing of a landscape model with LandPrint, screenshots included.
The first beta of GeoServer 2.0 is now available.
Ogle Earth offers a geospatial roundup of North Korea's 2009 nuclear test.
The MapFish blog informs us of the GLOBE program: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment, which uses MapFish.
Between the Poles shares an entry named Open RESTful Architecture for Geospatial Data Web Services: Accessing Spatial Data with No Programming.
O'Reilly mentions that Amazon now hosts U.S. TIGER mapping data and informs us about Mapumental, "a map app that lets you pivot on travel-time, "scenicness", and house-price in the London area".
Mandown has an entry named dynamic geocoding and routing services now available through ArcGIS Online.
Mapperz offers different way to have 3D OpenStreetMap via the Google Earth plugin and kmz.
The Google Maps and Earth APIs just got a new G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP capability.
Spatial Sustain discusses survey maps of Artic oil and gas reserves.
In the same vein, the GEB discusses the mapping of gas flares, a huge visible waste of energy (screenshot/video included), and why not, doing exoplanet astronomy Star Trek style.
See also related stories below.
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Industry: WorldWind JavaOne Roundup
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A lot of World Wind news came out of the JavaOne conference last week, so I am going to summarize those here for one quick and easy source.
- JavaOne WorldWind Java Presentation Slides
If you want to see what was presented at the NASA World Wind Java SDK 3D Earth in your Applications and Web Pages session, you can now view the power point file and see what was covered The power point also has several diagrams that explain some of the core features about WWJava. - First Known Commercial Use of WWJava
LandPrint.com is an interesting commercial enterprise, they are creating 3D models of the earth and make use of WWJava as the way the user selects what they want to have created. - NASA World Wind Java Demo Applications and Applets
List of live examples of WW usage - NASA Presents Knowledge Planet at JavaOne Conference
At this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco, NASA developers showed that virtual globes are not only suited to explore geographic maps, but can also serve as rendering engines for other types of imagery.
New Map of Carved Up Arctic
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Slashdot runs a discussion about a new jurisdictional map of the Arctic. Their summary: "The International Boundaries Research Unit has recently published a new jurisdictional map of the Arctic, using geographic and legal definitions. Now it appears Santa Claus could potentially be Danish. But as pointed out in an article at The Star, more important than St. Nick is 'an area thought to contain one-fifth of the world's undiscovered and recoverable oil and gas resources,' and from this map, Russia has a huge claim in that."
TMR adds a link to a Reuthers article.
We covered earlier this year the border conflict between the U.S., Canada and Russia in Arctic, and longer ago, the relation with oil exploration area expansion.
Technology: 3D Printing On Demand 1 comment
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We've previously reported on 3D printing, but slashdot has a discussion currently going on this. Here is their summary :
"The Netherlands based company Shapeways is beta testing a new service allowing people to print three-dimensional models. Customers can upload designs or use a creation tool hosted at the Shapeways website, then order a printed model of their designs for less than $3 per square centimeter. The printed items are shipped to the customer in ten days or less, bringing 3D printing to consumers and not just companies large enough to afford their own printers."
Technology: U.S. Census Released Tiger 2008 Data
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The OSGeo-Geodata mailing list was amongst the sources indicating the U.S. Census Bureau released this week the 2008 TIGER/Line shapefiles.
From the site: "The TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracts containing selected geographic and cartographic information from the Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER® (Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) database. The MAF/TIGER database was developed at the Census Bureau to support a variety of geographic programs and operations including functions such as mapping, geocoding, and geographic reference files that are used in decennial and economic censuses and sample survey programs. Spatial data for geographic features such as roads, railroads, rivers, and lakes, as well as legal and statistical geographic areas are included in the product. Other information about these features, such as the name, the type of feature, address ranges, and the geographic relationship to other features, also are included. The TIGER/Line Shapefiles are made available to the public for no charge and are typically used to provide the digital map base for a Geographic Information System or for mapping software."
See also previous stories below.
Technology: Print 3D Buildings from Google Earth 1 comment
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The Google Earth Blog has a post with the following information : "Another company has come out with a solution for making 3D prints from Google Earth. This time the solution is actually based on SketchUp 3D models. The company is called Sweet Onion Creations, and they describe how to click on a 3D model seen in Google Earth (or any found in the Google 3D Warehouse) and using their "3D printing" service get back an actual physical model. "
Technology: RESTful GIS Myths, MapGuide REST Extension and More REST 1 comment
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Sean Gillis keeps hitting the same nail with a very interesting and informative entry aiming at busting RESTful GIS myths. It started with Jason Birch (City of Nanaimo) detailing the plans for a MapGuide Open Source REST extension. Spatially Adjusted reminds us "ESRI has a REST API, GeoServer is going to have one, now MapGuide might get its own RESTful service."
From Sean's entry: "First, and this can't be said enough, because it still isn't really understood in the GIS community: REST is a particularly constrained style of architecture which just so happens to be the style of the World Wide Web. It is not a standard, but needs and shapes standards. Interoperability depends on standards, whether your architecture is RESTful or not. [...] In fact, a properly RESTful service has better accessibility than an OGC service. To use the same analogy, what if you drop your special OGC service client in the dark and can't find it? How do you access your OGC service? Pardon me, but you're screwed: standing knee-deep in other web programming tools, and none of them can make sense of the OGC's unique addressing schemes and unique methods of interaction. With a RESTful service you can poke at it in a standardized way (HTTP/1.1 again) with curl, or XHR, or whatever, and get an actionable description. [...] Web architecture has been done in the REST style since 1994. HTTP/1.1 began to be adopted in 1997. The Web itself goes back to 1990. The OGC's service architecture is not more mature than this."
Technology: OpenStreetMap 3D
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The Anything Geospatial blog has a very interesting report on OSM usage. From their summary : "An interesting update from Germany - a first prototype is available for entire Germany - Integration of OpenStreetMap and Digital Elevation Models and their use by means of interoperable GI-Web Services- In the context of the research project ‘Geodata Infrastructure 3D’ the open geodata of OpenStreetMap (OSM) and the elevation data of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) were used for the development of a 3D Geodata Infrastructure (GDI-3D) based on open web service standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Entire Germany was used for a first test case. A Web 3D Service (OGC W3DS) is providing the data as a 3D scene graph to the client. See more http://www.osm-3d.org/ or see this latest update of services here "
Industry: GeoServer 2.0-alpha2 Released
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mpumphrey writes "The GeoServer Team has released the newest alpha of GeoServer 2.0. This release contains, most notably, a new UI based on the Wicket framework, as well as a streamlined workflow and a updated data directory structure. You can try out this software at http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+2.0-al pha2, and see screenshots here: http://blog.geoserver.org/2009/04/20/see-the-new-u i/"
Some related stories copied below.
Industry: MapFish Technical Overview
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Geoweb Guru offers a technical overview of MapFish, the open source web mapping framework.
From the entry: "As a development framework, MapFish Server it better suited for applications where customization is required. MapFish Server also makes it easier to implement editable layers. Ie. MapFish client can transfer feature changes to MapFish Server where the underling PostGIS database is updated. This communication uses the RESTful MapFish Protocol."
See also previous MapFish stories below, including MapFish Manager.
Industry: GeoServer 2.0-beta1 Released
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mpumphrey writes "Announcing the release of the first beta of GeoServer 2.0! http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+2.0-beta1. The focus of version 2.0 is the new user interface. Support has also been added for cascading delete, batch removal of layers, paging and filtering of lists, and the elimination of the Submit-Apply-Save workflow.
Find out more information on the GeoServer blog."
See also related stories below. This was also covered in our mid-week wrap-up yesterday.
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