In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

Here's the recent geonews in batch mode.

From the open source front:

• Here's a DM summary entry on FOSS4G-NA 2012 that I haven't shared yet, and it's pretty informative
• There's a new video showing us uDig features
• Here's examples of using QGIS in local government, related to QGIS, here's an entry on What's New in QGIS Plugins
• A technical entry on dynamic WMS styling with GeoServer with SLD
• Here's an interesting web browser memory usage experiment for OpenLayers

From the Google front:

• Google announce new StreetView imagery for Israel in an entry named Exploring Jerusalem’s Old City streets with Street View
• There's also an update to the Google Maps API deprecation policy and Terms of Service
• The GEB reminds us the options we have for Sharing your favorite locations in Google Earth

On the Microsoft front:

• You can now Find Venue Maps, Businesses and Buildings Faster on Bing Maps
• Bing Maps is Reducing the Complexity of Rendering Shapes

Discussed over Slashdot:

• A "Big Brother Chip", the Broadcom 4752, that acts as a ubiquitous location chip using everything available: "global navigation satellites, cell phone towers, and Wi-Fi hot spots, coupled with input from gyroscopes, accelerometers, step counters, and altimeters"
• A GPS system that will speed up tsunami warnings
• The Physical Travelling Salesman Challenge
• Using satellite imagery to counting Emperor Penguins from space

Directions Mag articles of note:

• The Top 10 Things You Should Know about GIS Certification, including "In 2012, more than 5,000 people are active GISPs." and "Eight states have recognized and endorsed the GISP"
• A Q&A entry about Is Intergraph’s New GeoMedia Smart Client for You?

In the everything else category:

• The ESA mentions Envisat's mapping of ice shelf disintegration in Antarctic and update on the investigation of Envisat woes, being offline since early April
• @Thierry_G links to interesting impressions on the Where 2012 conference titled From Where 2.0 To Just Where; With Meh 2.0 Somewhere In The Middle, asking where is the geospatial excitement today?
• Via Paul I found this extreme video example of augmented reality
• APB has an entry on TomTom’s New Global Geocoder Targets Power Users
• SS shares a perspective named Have the geospatial technology frontiers changed much in three years?
• SS also shares an interesting summary of a session on capacity building and the expansion of the global geospatial marketplace to a billion plus people

In the maps category:

• O'Reilly shares two visualizations, one on The history of shipping routes and the other on Mapping the Titanic's passengers

The Where 2012 conference was held earlier this week. The best summaries I found so far are from the Google Earth Blog (which isn't an official Google blog) - here is the GEB's day one, day two and day three.

From the day three: "Ingredients of a Modern Mapping Service by Brian McClendon, Google's VP of Geo. Brian gave us a brief history of Keyhole and Google Earth, then unveiled some impressive stats:

• In 2006, 37% of the world's population was covered by sub-meter imagery. That number is now up to 75%.
• Each imagery update (roughly every two weeks) is as large as all of the imagery they had in 2006.
• Street View started with five cities in 2007 and how covers 35 countries and millions of miles of roads.
• Google Maps driving directions was available in 22 countries with 13 million miles of road in 2008, and now is in 187 countries with over 26 million miles of roads.
• He also encouraged everyone to view the new Project Glass video, which has some amazing geo-related possibilities in the future."

​If you're looking for more, try the #whereconf hashtag on Twitter.

The famous O'Reilly Where 2012 conference is going on in San Francisco, but wherever you are, you can watch a live stream of the conference keynotes.

Here it is for your convenience:

There were much more participants than I expected to our contest for a free pass to the O'Reilly Where 2012 Conference... and the winner is... Suneet Kamath! Congratulations Suneet!

Others can still benefit from saving 20% on registration fees by using the WHR12SLASH code.

We were proud to announce last month that we're media partner with O'Reilly's Where 2012 conference again. This year, this major geospatial conference will take place in San Francisco, April 2-4 with an expected attendance of 1,000. That's in less than three weeks! If you are not registered but don't want to miss this motivating geospatial conference, we are running a contest for one free Conference Pass to Where 2012 (excluding workshops). How to participate? Simply drop me us a line while logged in with your Slashgeo account. I'll send you a confirmation that we did receive your interest for the Where 2012 free pass. The winner will be randomly chosen amongst users that enters the contest before midnight on April 20. If you have any questions, just ask! And good luck! :-)

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• Principles of Mobile Interface Design
• Unraveling the Mobile Web
• Location, Social and Mobile
• The Mobile Omnivore: A Taste Test of Mobile Website Development
• The jQuery Mobile API In-Depth

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