Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode.
From the open source / open data front:
- Beautiful progress and maps, The first ten years of OpenStreetMap, nice progress map, and somewhat related, Mapping turn restrictions and speed limits with Mapillary (crowdsourced Street Level photos )
- A new open source database, GeoWave aims at linking popular geospatial tools to “big data” technology
- For Seoul, FOSS4G Call for Presentations/Papers/Workshops
- Collection of open source geospatial software, OSGeo-Live 8.5 released
- New open data site for New Zealand, Wiki New Zealand
- In CityGML, Metropolitan Lyon makes its 3D Data Reference available
- Another Turf webGIS example, Chicago crime data with Turf
- In recent updates, Geopaparazzi 4.2.0 is out, with offline tiles, and GeoServer 2.5.5 Released and GeoTools 11.5 Released
- QGIS news:
- - A QGIS plugin to run (common) spatial queries with PostGIS
- - For version 2.10, New geoprocessing tools in the QGIS Processing toolbox
- - A new QGIS tool (based on ogr2ogr) to import vectors in PostGIS
- - Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin v. 4.1.0
From the Esri front:
- Running ArcGIS Pro while not on Windows, ArcGIS Pro in VMWare Horizon View
- New wizards, Introducing Smart Mapping, “new ways to symbolize your data with ‘smart’ defaults”
- Always more, ArcGIS Open Data: What’s New for March and What’s New in ArcGIS Online (March)
From the Google front:
- A new API! Google Maps welcomes the new Roads API
- This is also useful, Introducing the Google Maps API checker
- StreetView in the jungle, Zipline through the Amazon Forest with Street View
- StreetView in Greenland, Greenlandic fjords and viking ruins await your discovery in Google Maps
- Differences between Maps and Earth, Maps ‘Earth’ view FOV
- Tips, Measuring in Google Earth Pro
Discussed over Slashdot:
- Is this getting real? Self-Driving Cars Will Be In 30 US Cities By the End of Next Year
- SmartEyeglass, Sony To Release Google Glass Competitor
- Locating bikes, Inside Bratislava’s Low-Cost, Open Source Bike Share Solution
- Destroying satellites with style, How Activists Tried To Destroy GPS With Axes
In the everything-else category:
- An informative entry named Why Are Geospatial Databases So Hard To Build?, including “Computer Science Does Not Understand Interval Data Types”, “Database Engines Cannot Handle Real-Time Geospatial” and “Correct, Fast Computational Geometry Is Really Hard”
- Also pertinent, GeoTiff Compression for Dummies
- Helping indoor positioning, FCC adopts rules forcing wireless carriers to provide accurate indoor positioning of E911 calls, related, HERE adds indoor maps to its Android app
- MapBox wants to help educators do more maps, Mapbox Education is here!
- Webinar on upcoming OGC standard on Augmented Reality, Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML 2.0)
- Apple Maps; Apple Adds ‘GasBuddy’ and ‘GreatSchools’ as New Maps Data Partners and it’s getting real-time animations by showing the correct time on Big Ben and reveals the London Eye rotating
- Via JF, the next step for spatial databases? Direct visualization of databases in the browser, that’s what does the Periscope software
- Help me help you, Boston Is Partnering With Waze to Make Its Roads Less of a Nightmare
- Jumping deeper into mapping, Uber bought deCarta
- On drones, International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics in Toronto, August 30-September 2
- On the same topic from SpatialLaw, How White House Privacy Rules Will Impact Commercial Use of UAVs
- It was coming, it’s here, DigitalGlobe now selling 30cm imagery
- Yeah, you can be tracked this way too, Spying your phone’s location with its battery usage
- We all have to start somewhere, JavaScript for Geospatial: Getting Started
In the maps category:
- Polarized map, Weather duopoly. America divided by temperature anomalies.
- Not WikiVoyage, USE-IT EUROPE, Crowdsourced Tourist Maps
- Many fans, The Unofficial Game of Thrones Map