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Google announces EarthEngine: global-scale analysis Google has announced via their LatLong Blog, the Google Earth Engine. Access is not yet available, but they do have some screen shots and will be making available access to the system for computational analysis of satellite imagery.
First shot from GeoEye-1 postedGeoEye has posted the initial picture taken from the new GeoEye-1 satellite. This is the high-resolution satellite co-sponsored by Google and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Thanks to Gizmodo and Wired for noting this.
Patents and advancing art in geographic coordinatesThere are a lot of things about algorithmic patents that just seem wrong, and I'm not going to sit here and debate the obviousness of the work in patent application 10/631611 by Bryan Kendall Beatty via Microsoft, however I think there is an interesting lesson in how innovation helps us defeat patent lockout.
GoogleEarth comes to the browserJust in time for Memorial Day, Google announced (using the LatLong blog) a new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which "[brings] the full power of Google Earth to the web." Unfortunately, it works under Windows only, so those of us on Macs will presumedly have to wait a while.
ESRI to export KML Naturally?My brother Derek pointed me at this article from CNet about a move by ESRI to more directly and easily support export from ESRI formats to "the geoweb." Now, considering that this is mostly KML, I'm not particularly surprised, since KML is basically a presentation and not analysis format. Would that they were adding more support for WFS!
State of the Map goes to Limerick in JulyThe folks who keep Open Street Map thriving are having a conference in Limerick, Ireland in July to discuss the State of the Map. If you aren't familiar with Open Street Map, I'd encourage you to check it out, and then to get out your GPS and digital camera and get some data on the map! Most of the current US data is from the TIGER/Lines data set, and in my area of DC is pretty out of date.
Google Maps adds hCard supportIn the Google Maps blog yesterday, they carried an announcement that Google Maps will be adding support for the hCard microformat in Google Maps. What does this mean for you and I? More machine-usable data in Google Maps.
Latest release of Google Earth Pro opens up GIS featuresThe latest release of Google Earth Pro version (additional $400 per year, subscription only) now includes the GIS import module, the movie making module, and the premium printing module, each of which were paid extras before this week.
Google adds features for mapsGoogle, as part of a recent set of announcements about their geospatial products, has announced that Google Maps can now speak KML for overlaying data and that they will be providing commercial support for the APIs as part of their product portfolio.
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