In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

Here's the geonews in batch mode, covering a bit more than a week (exception made of a few minor geonews I forgot to mention in our last 'batch mode' edition).

On the open source / data front:

• A new MapGuide Instant Setup utility has been introduced
• Here's a detailed entry on scale-dependent generalization in PostGIS and QGIS
• Here's an entry on time and elevation support in GeoServer
• If you're new to OpenStreetMap or want to introduce new people, here's OpenStreetMap editing for beginners videos
• Plenty geoblogs mentioned the Magicshop Frontdoor (Beta) tool, with which you can easily improve address search results for Bing Maps and OpenStreetMap

On the Google front:

• Ogle Earth mentions Google JV applied for online mapping license in China
• Ogle Earth also mentions the constraints on high-resolution satellite imagery of Israel in Google Earth/Maps
• There's New Building Maker cities available in Argentina and Canada
• Google unveiled the new My Places tab on Google Maps, "which helps you quickly view and interact with your saved maps, starred locations, and rated businesses"
• ​They also introduced descriptive terms in Local Search results
• The GEB mentions the Touristo and Skydiver games for Google Earth
• Some readers like to know when there's new imagery available in Google Earth, well, there is 

On the Microsoft front:

• An entry on The Value of Bing Maps Spatial Data Services

In the miscellaneous category:

• Mapperz informs us of the Yahoo! Maps APIs Service Closure, due 13th September 2011     
• James Fee summarizes What Was Up at the Pitney Bowes Business Insights Conference, with news of MapInfo 11, and APB has more on MapInfo Spatial Server
• APB shares a long article named Intergraph and ERDAS: From GeoMedia to IMAGINE-The Big and Little Picture for this Geospatial Marriage, Spatial Sustain also shares an entry on the same topic, named Intergraph ‘Reinforces the House’ Under Hexagon
• A study concludes that Schematic Transit Maps Affect Passengers' Travel Choices
• Slashdot discussed a story named New Projects Use Phone Data To Track Big Cities' Mass Transit Use
• Slashdot also offers a story named NASA's Aquarius Launched To Help Map the Oceans' Salt
• Still from the same site, we learn the Nissan LEAF Leaks Speed & Location To RSS Feed
• And last story from that site, if you're interested in tools to map wifi networks, this discussion named What's Killing Your Wi-Fi? will interest you

In the maps category:

• The Strange Maps blog offers maps of the U.S. States, with what they do best and worse, worth a quick look of you're American
• Slashdot mentions a map of the Universe called the 2MASS Redshift Survey
• Not a geographic map, but O'Reilly has an article on generating a map of your LinkedIn contacts with InMaps, I found the result pretty interesting

Here's the now traditional weekly dose of geonews in batch mode.

On the ESRI front:

• ArcGIS Viewer For Flex 2.1 Now Available
• There's an new white paper on GIS In The Cloud, The Esri Example

On the Google front:

• Here's an entry on AlterEarth.net, a new gaming platform for Google Earth, and yes, you can play Grand Theft Auto on Earth
• The Google elevation service now available in the Maps API for Flash

On the open data / open source front:

• MapQuest adds OpenStreetMap data of four more countries: Spain, Italy, Germany and France
• Here's GeoSpatial for Java Workbooks available

In the LBS category:

• O'Reilly links to locationlabs' Universal Location Service: "Remotely locate 250+ million phones. The Universal Location Service [ULS] aggregates location access across major tier 1 carriers including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon."
• A friend sent me a link to a small entry stating that your Facebook friends can check you in to places
• O'Reily also have an entry on a crowdsourced and location-aware bird watching app called BirdsEye
• Here's an entry on a Offline Map Viewer And GPS Tracker For Android

In the miscellaneous category:

• Emma wrote to let us know Slashgeo is amongst their top 50 Scholarly Blogs for Climate Science Students
• Bing Maps is now integrated directly in some HP printers
• I forgot that share that one before, you can now embed MapQuest maps on websites
• Arctic Web is a site to look for geospatial data of the artic
• You can now map your LinkedIn connections via a third-party

In the maps category:

• TMR has an entry on the National Geographic's Maps of the Gulf of Mexico's Oil Infrastructure
• Slashdot discussed a story named "Microwave Map of Entire Moon Revealed"