In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

Hi, please check out my new desktop map application:

http://landmax.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/uber-weather-chrome-store/

I am looking for partners to help make it better, and translate Uber Weather into as many languages as possible. 

Check out the 14,000 ski lifts and right click for 3D! 

Here's the recent Google-related geonews in batch mode.

From the official sources:

• For developers, Google shared an entry on managing and visualizing your location based data with Fusion Tables and another one on High Performance KML for Maps and Earth
• Google informs us building outlines now appear in London, Paris, Barcelona, and more
• Google announced Google AdWords Express for local businesses and that Places Pages has been improved
• They shared an entry on Keeping an ‘eye’ on the 2011 Atlantic and Pacific hurricane seasons
• Google added large geographic features in Google Earth, such as the Alps and the Sahara Desert
• Google has an entry named UNITAR/UNOSAT team up with Google Map Maker to boost impact of community mapping for disaster relief and humanitarian aid
• Google has an entry celebrating Marine Day with Google Earth exploration of the ocean with Japan's Skinkai 6500
• Here's an entry on the evolution of the look of Google Maps from 2009 to 2011
• Google shared an entry on last week's imagery update, with tens of countries getting fresh imagery

From other sources:

• The GEB shares an interesting tool to find out what you are allowed to do with Google Maps and Google Earth, license-wise
• SS mentions that Google and SAP are teaming up for geovisualization of business analytics
• The FGT blog lists Geodetic Tools For Google Earth
• Ogle Earth offers a long entry on South Sudan's northern border discrepancies between Google Earth and other sources
• Another entry on Ogle Earth indicates satellite corroborates accounts of a massacre in Sudan and is visible in Google Earth
• The GEB shared an entry on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu in Google Earth
• Here's an entry on Google Earth in the Classroom with StrateLogica

Here's the Friday geonews in batch mode, exceptionally covering the last two weeks. We're now up to date regarding geospatial news!

From the open source front:

• You can influence what the OSGeo priorities should be with this quick survey, here's funding ideas partial results
• Here's an entry on Sextant, a geoportal solution from IFREMER
• In a maintenance release, GeoTools 2.7.1 is now available

From the Google front:

• Google Transit is now available in Washington DC
• Google shared an entry named Make beautiful interactive maps even faster with new additions to the Fusion Tables API
• Google Places now supports in-business 360-degree perspectives, in another entry, the new Google Places API is described
• The GEB compares Nokia's new Ovi Maps 3D vs Google Earth
• The GEB discusses using Google Earth to confront government lies about damaged rainforest in Sarawak

From the ESRI front:

• Andrew Zolnai has en entry on ESRI's Change Matters website to compare satellite imagery, and that's possible thanks to Landsat imagery dating back to 1972 now available through ArcGIS Online

From the  Microsoft front:

• While we mentioned it before, Kurt too is, as I am, enthusiastic about Microsoft's free Photosynth iPhone / iPad 2 app
• There's a New Bing Maps iOS SDK
• Microsoft invites you to See AJAX 7.0 in action with the new interactive SDK

In the miscellaneous category:

• The MapQuest for Android Navigation App got updated and improves GPS capabilities
• Slashdot discusses using credit card transaction locations to determine CO2 footprints
• Spatial Law mentions a California Bill that would regulate 'Precise Geolocation Information'
• Vector One argues on Why Now is a Good Time to Invest in Geospatial Technology Stocks, and here's entries specifically on Trimble and DigitalGlobe stocks
• SS informs us Moscow Upholds Limits on the Resolution of Satellite Imagery

In the maps category:

• TMR links to an excellent series of 12 static maps of the 2011 Canadian federal election results 
• Mapperz mentioned WeatherSpark Beta, a Google Maps mashup to visualize historical weather patterns
• The FGT blog mentions Free Marine Chart Views, Plus An Online Waypoint/Route Editor With GPS Export
• Here's a New York Times's Natural Disaster Map for the U.S.

A few recent Google-related geonews.

The news having a potentially significant impact on a lot Google Maps/Earth API users is Google's updates to the Google Maps API/Google Earth APIs Terms of Service: "To ensure that we can continue to offer the Maps APIs to developers for free, we now require that any new Maps API applications going forward display any advertising delivered in the maps imagery, unless the site concerned has a Google Maps API Premier license. The opt-out from displaying such advertising that was offered in earlier versions of the Terms will continue to apply to any existing Maps API applications. [...] We are also introducing transaction limits on the number of maps that may be generated per day by commercial Maps API web sites or applications."

Mikel Maron reacted by sharing a rant against Google's map-related products and services. I expect more reactions on the geoblogs in the coming days.

In other news:

• Hotpot, mentioned a few times already, is now integrated in Google Places
• Google updated the mountains layer in Google Earth, as the GEB puts it: "new features, including a detailed information window, Panoramio photos, cross-section views of the mountain and tours that they've created for every mountain."
• Slashdot discussed a story named Google Earth To Include Google Deep Sea on the addition of Virgin Oceanic trips to Google Earth

Here's the recent Google-related geonews.

From the official sources:

• Google announced another imagery update for Google Earth/Maps
• Google detailed their Latitude and Places apps updates for iPhone
• There are new Google Maps domains for 11 countries
• Google shared an entry on marine debris and a kml made by NOAA

From other sources:

• The GEB informs us on four new cities added to Building Maker: Rome, New Orleans, Long Beach, Malibu
• The GEB has an entry on Gigapixel panoramas, a mix of gigapixel images and 360 degrees panaromas
• The GEB shares an entry on the Global Heritage Network: "The Global Heritage Network is the product of successful partnership with Google, Esri and DigitalGlobe, with those companies having donated millions of dollars in critical support, satellite imagery and GIS-mapping technologies to enable early warning and monitoring for 500 global heritage sites."
• The GEB offers an entry on a 3D model of the traditional tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Hamadan, Iran.

Here's recent Google-related geonews.

From the official sources:

• There's a new widget to select content to display in Google Maps, a significant interface change
• There's now an "Upload a photo" link in Google Places
• Continuing improving Hotpot, Google Maps searches can be enhanced by your Hotpot friends
• Google software, including Google Earth, is now available in Iran
• The Developer blog discusses 5 ad campaigns using Google Maps

From other sources:

• The GEB offers an entry on simulating flooding in Google Earth
• Here's how to turn SketchUp models more realistic with Shaderlight, a quick look at the screenshots show the dramatic improvement
• There was new imagery added to Google Earth last Sunday
• For people in California, here's how much solar power your house could generate calculated from Google Earth
• The GEB also discusses Water Point Mapper and finding safe water sources in remote areas with Google Earth