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Autodesk’s cloud computing offering called Project Butterfly was launched as a public beta in early January, following the company’s purchase of the Israel-based start-up VisualTao. This new online CAD environment (think Google Docs for CAD) garnered a great deal of buzz at the 2009 AU event, and the site has been further validated by the [...]
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Bentley is gearing up their 3D modeling capabilities and workflows to tackle the needs of city-scale geographies. The emphasis here is on model creation as well as on 3D analysis and simulation for better city management. There are a number of sessions on 3D City workflows using Bentley products at the upcoming Be Together: The [...]
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The Earth Engine is an idea that spun out of work that Google.org was doing with the Google Earth Outreach Program in Brazil with indigenous people and non-profit organizations focused on conservation. The scientists were happy with Google Earth, but expressed the need for a system that could not only map, but also monitor, deforestation [...]
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Mapping as espionage is a concept that can’t be escaped even though technological advancements are slowly making this advantage obsolete. We are reminded of this as the Chinese refuse to be measured and monitored for their carbon emissions, showing a reluctance to be mapped based on security concerns. The strategic nature of mapping has become [...]
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A company called Absolute Hollywood has created a 20-meter globe-shaped movie screen in Copenhagen for the COP15 climate conference for nightly viewings of the planet as we are seen from space. The giant movie serves to illustrate our global impacts and to remind those that watch of our finite footprint. Images of the screen at [...]
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The U.S. Geological Survey has been moving their The National Map (TNM) online viewing and download platform to the same foundation of technology that the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) uses for Palanterra. The richer viewer application updates the delivery methods for base maps and topos with integrated download services. The new site is now [...]
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Google dropped a few bombs yesterday regarding the data that appears in their free Google Maps application. Many in the geospatial industry were struggling to understand where they obtained some of their data, and several local government owners who sell or license such things as parcel data were wondering about the legality when they viewed [...]
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I was just checking out the new interface to Google Maps Street View by looking at my neighborhood, and I was mysteriously teleported to a rural road in Boulder County. I just clicked to travel down the street that I was on, and I made an inexplicable jump. It was rather surreal, as it happened [...]
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