Project Glass

Google Geonews: Update on Project Glass, Summary of 2012 for Google Earth, and more

Here's the recent Google-related geonews, including the holiday break.

From various sources:

New Poll on Driverless Cars, Poll Results for 'Project Glass'

Our previous poll on Google's Augmented Reality 'Project Glass' gave the following results, out of 88 answers - much less than usual - we have 39% optimists seeing it as a success, with 10% of those anticipating it will dramatically enhance our lives. The rest, 61%, is much less enthusiastic about AR glasses, with 25% going to the point that augmented reality doesn't that much value.

Our new poll is also related to technology where Google is involved, driverless cars. In a recent NYTimes article, a Google engineer claims that driving cars “is the most important thing that computers are going to do in the next 10 years.” What's your take?

Batch Geonews: 2012 London Olympics Maps and more, Project Geo, MapPoint 2013, Global Arms Trade, and much more

Here's the recent geonews in batch mode.

On the 2012 London Olympics:

On the open source front:

On the Esri front:

On the Google front:

On the Microsoft front:

A few geostories discussed over Slashdot:

In the everything else category:

In the maps category:

'Is Geospatial Special?' Poll Results and New Poll on Google's Project Glass

The previous poll has been running for much too long, finally, here's the results! Out of 168 votes, there's clearly two camps. 58% of answers indicated that geospatial is special, at least a special type of data or that its overarching nature makes it special. That said, 20% (that's still 1 out of 5 of us) say that geospatial isn't special at all. In the 'neutral' answers, an additional 13% chose the option indicating that too many people deal with geospatial data without considering its spatial nature, and 10% admitted that no matter what, geospatial is special to them anyway! Yes yes, I will eventually write a followup on my entry named Is Geospatial Special? in order to provide precision on my point of view :-)

You are also invited to participate to the new poll on Google's augmented reality 'Project Glass'.

Google's Augmented Reality 'Project Glass'?

Will dramatically enhance our lives
10% (9 votes)
Will see popular adoption worldwide
7% (6 votes)
Will be a successful product
16% (14 votes)
Will succeed because Google's behind it
6% (5 votes)
Will be too expensive to become ubiquitous
9% (8 votes)
Won't be widely adopted
13% (11 votes)
Will fail to become widely used, just like the Segway failed
15% (13 votes)
AR is mostly hype, doesn't bring that much value
25% (22 votes)
Total votes: 88

Google Geonews: Google Dev Glasses Available, Google Earth for Android 7 Released with 3D Cities, and more

Here's recent Google-related geonews, with some pretty interesting.

  • While there's a new uninformative official entry on Project Glass, their augmented reality glasses we mentioned in April, Slashdot provides more information in this entry named More Details On Google Glass, including: "As we mentioned earlier, the developers at I/O have the option to buy the 'Explorer Edition' of Google Glass for $1,500. In addition to the (functional, but unfinished) device itself, they also get access to Google's engineers and to keep up with the devices development. Worry not: when the consumer version of the device is finalized, it will be cheaper, but of course they aren't ready to talk about actual prices yet. As for availability: "Less than a year after we get these Explorer Editions out.""

From official sources:

  • A new Google Earth for Android version is out, with new 3D cities imagery, yes, that's the new great city imagery similar to what Apple Maps will provide with iOS 6, and Google will soon provide a new  iOS version of Google Earth too. The other major feature is the 'Tour guide': "We’ve put together short tours of thousands of famous places and historical sites across the globe so it’s easier than ever to discover amazing places." Here's which cities have the new 3D imagery: "Boulder, Boston, Charlotte, Lawrence, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Tampa in the United States, along with Rome, Italy."
  • The Dev blog announced that Public transit routing and layer now are now available in the Google Maps API
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