In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

First, I'm sorry for not publishing the "batch mode" version of the geonews for the last two weeks - along with several other responsibilities, taking care of two young daughters at home is certainly fun, but engulfs all available time. In this batch mode edition, there are certainly a few geonews that could deserve their own entry - click on what interests you to learn more!

From the Google front:

• In my previous Google entry earlier today, I forgot to mention the GEB entry detailing even more major improvements of Xavier Tassin's Google Earth Flight Simulator, now at version 0.7
• This one via APB, Google Maps rolls out business interiors in Street View

From the Esri front:

• Via VerySpatial, ArcGIS for Android 1.0 has been released
• Two weeks ago, mandown informed us that the ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 3 Now Available For Download

From the miscellaneous category:

• GeoIQ launched GeoIQ Social, "the first and only product that provides self-service analysis of social media data by time and location"
• On the OGC blog, there's an interesting short entry on "Big Data" vs SDI in geospatial
• Clearly, WebGL is en vogue, mapperz mentiones the new Nokia Maps 3D WebGL, and Nokia is readying LiveView, which blends maps and augmented reality for their upcoming Windows Phone
• Apple expanded iPhone 4S GPS capabilities with GLONASS support and Apple Siri's support for maps and local search is coming to international customers in 2012
• MapQuest refreshed their Developer Network
• The name Atanas Entchev ring a bell to you? He's an active member of the geospatial community and he needs our help, he's facing deportation from the U.S.

In the maps category:

• Mapperz mentions the UK car crash map
• Ok, not exactly a map, but trying to find what are the Wall Street protestors are so angry about, here's a breakdown of income inequality, the Gini coefficient, by countries

Here's the Friday geonews in batch mode.

From the open source / open data front:

• FGT mentions OpenCPN, an open source marine navigation software
• A year ago we mentioned MapGuide Maestro 2.0, the map authoring tool for MapGuide Open Source, they're now at MapGuide Maestro 3.0 and here's part 1 of a comprehensive walkthrough
• Here's an entry on Debian 6 "Squeeze" and its full support of geospatial software
• There's now a tour for the OpenGeo Suite
• APB shares an entry on Oregon TriMet moving from ESRI to geospatial open source software
• GeoCommons is doing fine, with now over 50,00 unique datasets and 400,000 attributes that you can map

From the ESRI front:

• The FGT blog shows screenshots of ESRI's Sketch-A-Map website to manually annotate maps
• Geogeeks offers an entry named Learn The Benefits Of Earning An Esri Technical Certification
• The FGT blog mention ESRI’s GovMaps.Org Beta website, currently offers a searchable catalog of 88  data layers

In the miscellaneous category:

• Kurt mentions NASA's GeoPapers tool, similar to their Google Spatial Scholar proposal
• APB mentions the upcoming SpacialDB, a new commercial spatial database that "Instead wouldn't it be great if you could just sign up and instantly load location data and access spatial functions from your existing app? SpacialDB is built to do just this."
• O'Reilly discusses Cartagr.am, a web map that displays geolocated images as basemap
• SS has an entry on the new U.S. government Geospatial Platform website
• Vector One has an entry named smart forests, wiring nature with geospatial technologies
• SS mentions that Drones Fly Imagery Missions Over Japan

In the maps category:

• Here's cartogram that shows earthquake risk vs population
• TMR links to a map named The 12 States of America that show how income inequality has fractured the nation and how median income has changed over the last 30 years
• Via SS, here's a forecast map of the nuclear radiation plume from Japan