Here's the recent Google-related geonews.
From the official sources:
From other sources:
A lot of Maps applications are being developed recently. Each with its pros and cons, I recently wrote an article that compares Google Maps VS Bing Maps. People seem to like it.
So the Punch line, I decided to create a cool mashup that combines 4 Maps applications,
When you zoom or pan in Google Maps ALL 4 Maps are getting updated instantly!
Here's the recent geonews in batch mode. My challenge in life is to find out what not to do - too much enthusiasm impacts focus. But don't worry, I'm not dropping Slashgeo just yet ;-)
From the open source and open data front:
From the Google front:
From the Esri front:
From the Microsoft front:
In the miscellaneous category:
In the maps category:
Here's the recent geonews in batch mode.
From the open source / open data front:
From the Google front:
In the everything-else category:
In the maps category:
Slashdot is running a discussion named How To Pull Location Data From Encrypted Google Maps Sessions.
Their summary: "In the last couple of years, Google and some other Web giants have moved to make many of their services accessible over SSL, and in many cases, made HTTPS connections the default. That's designed to make eavesdropping on those connections more difficult, but as researchers have shown, it certainly doesn't make traffic analysis of those connections impossible. Vincent Berg of IOActive has written a tool that can monitor SSL connections and make some highly educated guesses about the contents of the requests going to Google Maps, specifically looking at what size the PNG files returned by Google Maps are. The tool then attempts to group those images in a specific location, based on the grid and tile system that Google uses to construct its maps."
Here's the recent Google-related geonews in batch mode.
From official sources:
From other sources:
Slashdot runs a discussion named French Court Calls Free Google Maps Unfair Competition.
Their summary: "A French court has ruled that Google is unfairly subsidizing its free mapping products, making for unfair competition with paid services. This might seem ridiculous, but keep in mind that Google started charging for use of its mapping API once the free version had come to dominate the market."
We of course mentioned last October that Google decided to enforce usage limits for the Google Maps API.
Mapperz made me aware of the open source Google Vector Layers project, allowing you to overlay your data over Google Maps.
Here's what it is: "Google Vector Layers allows you to easily add one or more vector layers from a number of different geo web services to a Google Maps API based application. Currently there's support for ArcGIS Server, Arc2Earth, GeoIQ and CartoDB with more planned."
And how it's done: "Google Vector Layers works by listening to map events (pan and zoom) and then fetching features within the map bounds after each event. This method works great for data sets with lots of features that you want to interact with, but not load all at once."
There's demos if you want to try it live.
Here's the recent Google-related geonews.
From official sources:
From other sources:
A lot of interesting geonews in this 'batch mode' edition.
On the Google front:
On the Esri front:
In the miscellaneous category:
In the maps category:
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