Thursday, 31 March 2011
Round-up of all imagery and resources available for Japan Earthquake | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4f36N
You Can find out where the Street View cars are currently on the road | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4h3DS
Two new Google Geo Developers Videos - Last Fall we released the lost archives of the Google Geo Developers Series. ... http://ow.ly/1bYYDz
With Helicopter over the Japanese Nuclear Plant - scary apocalyptic scene | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4gHr2
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Drive From Colchester To Leicestershire With Frontrear Camera Google Earth Overlay - http://ow.ly/4oNTD
Quantum Gis Geocoding Reverse Geocoding Plus Google Maps And Openstreetmap And Yahoo Overlays - http://ow.ly/4oNTA
Open Street Maps –vs- Ordnance Survey - In this post I’m going to look at how OSM data compares in terms of quality,... http://ow.ly/1bYeQI
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
The Art Of Maps Map Of Svecia And Norvegia From Atlas Sive Cosmographicae By Gerardus Mercator 1595 - http://ow.ly/4nXxV
OpenEcoMaps – Free Eco-living Maps and Data - OpenEcoMaps provides free eco-living maps and data from OpenStreetMap ... http://ow.ly/1bXwNH
With Helicopter over the Japanese Nuclear Plant - scary apocalyptic scene | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4gHqn
Monday, 28 March 2011
Google loosing its Midas touch?
Google will have to add another failure to its list – the company has just announced withdrawal of Real Estate listing service from Google Maps. It is partly the result of discontinuation of Google Base API but the primary cause quoted in the announcement is “low usage”. I appears that “economic reality” prevailed over somehow philanthropic ambitions of Google to provide “free services for all” – at stake was a huge revenue flow from advertising from subscription based real estate portals – and that is the main game for Google.
Real estate listings on Google Maps and via Google Base API service were available for US, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Japan. Many anticipated far reaching changes in real estate online listing market as the result of Google’s entry, including the author of this blog, but we were all proven wrong. No hard feelings on my part as it opens up new opportunities since Google left a big niche ready to be explored but it begs a question, what went wrong for Google? I believe that the main cause was the service was just an add-on layer to Google Map and, to my best knowledge, listings were never promoted in online search. Google lacked clear vision for the service and was never committed to push it in any big way, not to upset its largest advertising clients. Otherwise who knows what might have happened…
Google is indeed struggling with creating thematic content for its main map platform so it is no surprise the company decided in the end to leave real estate listings to third party developers. Is Google starting to loose its Midas touch? Initially it looked that they cannot make any wrong move – search engine dominance, online advertising platform dominance, online video dominance… But more recent explorations and experimentations seem not to deliver the expected results.
News and Fairfax, and their associated real estate portals realestate.com.au and domain.com.au, stood their grounds and did not want to participate in Google’s experiments. REA Group (realestate.com.au) share price more than doubled since Google entered the market in July 2009 and despite growing dissatisfaction with the service from real estate agents. Fairfax shares are only slightly up. If one had “blinked”, the outcome could have been totally different… So, for now, back to status quo - it will have to be someone else, not Google, who will shake the things up for them. Telstra was not so lucky and in the end it opted for tighter cooperation with Google (now not only providing listings for Google's local search from its Yellow Pages but also map data for Google Map).
Real estate listings on Google Maps and via Google Base API service were available for US, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Japan. Many anticipated far reaching changes in real estate online listing market as the result of Google’s entry, including the author of this blog, but we were all proven wrong. No hard feelings on my part as it opens up new opportunities since Google left a big niche ready to be explored but it begs a question, what went wrong for Google? I believe that the main cause was the service was just an add-on layer to Google Map and, to my best knowledge, listings were never promoted in online search. Google lacked clear vision for the service and was never committed to push it in any big way, not to upset its largest advertising clients. Otherwise who knows what might have happened…
Google is indeed struggling with creating thematic content for its main map platform so it is no surprise the company decided in the end to leave real estate listings to third party developers. Is Google starting to loose its Midas touch? Initially it looked that they cannot make any wrong move – search engine dominance, online advertising platform dominance, online video dominance… But more recent explorations and experimentations seem not to deliver the expected results.
News and Fairfax, and their associated real estate portals realestate.com.au and domain.com.au, stood their grounds and did not want to participate in Google’s experiments. REA Group (realestate.com.au) share price more than doubled since Google entered the market in July 2009 and despite growing dissatisfaction with the service from real estate agents. Fairfax shares are only slightly up. If one had “blinked”, the outcome could have been totally different… So, for now, back to status quo - it will have to be someone else, not Google, who will shake the things up for them. Telstra was not so lucky and in the end it opted for tighter cooperation with Google (now not only providing listings for Google's local search from its Yellow Pages but also map data for Google Map).
You Can find out where the Street View cars are currently on the road | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4h3DF
The Art Of Maps Map Of Svecia And Norvegia From Atlas Sive Cosmographicae By Gerardus Mercator 1595 - http://ow.ly/4nkAA
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Enomaly chooses Google App Engine for SpotCloud.com - SpotCloud.com is the realization of a dream originating more t... http://ow.ly/1bWyRJ
Discover 3D Drill Planner Tool Demonstration Tetrad Mapinfo And Discover Series - http://ow.ly/4mY8D
Dev Tip of the Week: How to search by driving time with AJAX v7, REST, and Spatial Data Services http://ping.fm/ZOQVW
Dev Tip of the Week: How to search by driving time with AJAX v7, REST, and Spatial Data Services http://ow.ly/1bWtcv
With Helicopter over the Japanese Nuclear Plant - scary apocalyptic scene | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4gHpF
Round-up of all imagery and resources available for Japan Earthquake | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4g1he
Saturday, 26 March 2011
ESRI ArcGIS 10: Analysis in ArcGIS 10 - Shows how to use fuzzy logic, including fuzzy overlay tool and fuzzy members... http://ow.ly/1bW897
Drive From Colchester To Leicestershire With Frontrear Camera Google Earth Overlay - http://ow.ly/4msts
You Can find out where the Street View cars are currently on the road | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4h3Dr
Quantum Gis Geocoding Reverse Geocoding Plus Google Maps And Openstreetmap And Yahoo Overlays - http://ow.ly/4mstp
Google I/O extends virtually around the world - In celebration of Google I/O 2011, many Google offices around the wo... http://ow.ly/1bW1t8
Round-up of all imagery and resources available for Japan Earthquake | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4f30E
Visualizing the vast problem of marine debris - With the fifth international Marine Debris Conference taking place t... http://ow.ly/1bVR3J
Friday, 25 March 2011
Round-up of all imagery and resources available for Japan Earthquake | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4f35E
Click-to-call emergency information - In November 2010, we began displaying relevant emergency phone numbers at the ... http://ow.ly/1bVxNS
The Art Of Maps Map Of Svecia And Norvegia From Atlas Sive Cosmographicae By Gerardus Mercator 1595 - http://ow.ly/4lHqy
With Helicopter over the Japanese Nuclear Plant - scary apocalyptic scene | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4gHnE
Google Earth: Four new cities added to Building Maker: Rome, New Orleans, Long Beach, Malibu http://ow.ly/1bVpGr
Google Earth: Gigapixel panoramas - We've talked before about Gigapixel images and 3D Panoramas, but it's not often ... http://ow.ly/1bVfm5
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Twitter стана на 5 години
Twitter празнува официално петият си рожден ден. Преди точно пет години беше написан първия туит от основателя Джак Дорси, който е бил – “Inviting coworkers”
В момента Twitter обслужва повече от 200 милиона потребители от които звезди, бизнесмени и дори президента на САЩ. През 2007-а година туитовете на ден са били около 5000, сега потребилите изпращат общо повече от 100 милиона туита на ден или около 1500 всяка секунда.
Най-драматичните моменти на микроблогинг платформата са били по време на политически въстания. В Молдова, Иран, Тунис и Египет, протестиращите превърнаха сайта в комуникационен център и го използваха за да коoрдинират плановете и да изпращат техните съобщения. Правителството на САЩ гледа на сайта като на важна роля в глобалното управление на държавите и по-време на електронните протести в Иран помолват компанията да отложи планираната профилактика и да продължат да „подпомагат“ протестите. Twitter все повече се превръща в информационен източник.
В момента Туитър има 400 служителя и е оценен на 4 милиарда долара, но ако иска да оцелее и през следващите 5 години, създателите му трябва да намерят начин да превърнат туитовете в приходи. Търсачките като Google и Bing плащат на Twitter за достъп на туитовете в реално време. Рекламата също е друг вид начин за приходи.
Създателят Биз Стоун, признава, че първоначално Twitter е създаден от скука: „Нямахме за цел да работим в Twitter.“ Сега той не работи вече за компанията, а работи по нов собствен проект, но твърди, че каквото и да се случи със сайта, той промени завинаги начина по който комуникираме днес онлайн.
Women get together to map Kenya
Many people enjoy using Google Maps to locate and learn about places around the world. Others, however, relish taking a more active role: improving Google Maps by adding and editing roads, parks, businesses, and more through Google Map Maker. In some cases, these citizen mappers take a day to collaboratively focus on a specific area, as more than 60 women did recently in Nairobi, Kenya. Together, they planned a “Ladies Mapping Party,” with the goal of empowering and inspiring a broad array of women to give back to their communities through mapping. From advocates to non-profit leaders, students to computer scientists, environmentalists to editors, these women mapped the places they live and love, know and often visit.
The event began with a short training and demo session during which participants received an overview of Google Map Maker, followed by a competition to spur the groups on to map their communities.
This strategy of targeted specific regions in Africa seemed to work well for the attendees. “We decided to map Isiolo because we know the area well, and the area had very few points that were mapped compared to other areas like Nairobi,” noted one of the students, who also joked that the prizes - including Google-branded bags - further encouraged them to map so comprehensively.
Interested in mapping your part of the world?
The event began with a short training and demo session during which participants received an overview of Google Map Maker, followed by a competition to spur the groups on to map their communities.
Training and demo session
One of the groups was comprised of three dynamic students from Strathmore University - Betsy, Issene and Yasmin. Within 30 minutes, they had mapped most of the points of interest in their home town, Isiolo, while the broader group of women worked together on Juja, Ongata Rongai and Nyahururu.This strategy of targeted specific regions in Africa seemed to work well for the attendees. “We decided to map Isiolo because we know the area well, and the area had very few points that were mapped compared to other areas like Nairobi,” noted one of the students, who also joked that the prizes - including Google-branded bags - further encouraged them to map so comprehensively.
Issene, Betsy and Yasmin: contributors at the event
Many of the participants mentioned that they’re eager to continue using Map Maker, citing it as “a new pastime.” But the women took away more than just mapping knowledge, with one of the mappers noting that the group “learned from the others that doing what you love is the key to success.”Interested in mapping your part of the world?
You Can find out where the Street View cars are currently on the road | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4h3Db
Google Earth: 3D trees arrive in London - When Google Earth 6 was released, it brought us a bunch of cool features. ... http://ow.ly/1bUy7U
Update on Marketplace Billing API - Nearly 3 months ago we announced a preview of the Google Apps Marketplace billin... http://ow.ly/1bUgfi
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Google Search app for iPhone—a new name and a new look - If you need to do a Google search on your iPhone or iPod to... http://ow.ly/1bTCrF
Drive From Colchester To Leicestershire With Frontrear Camera Google Earth Overlay - http://ow.ly/4jMQX
You Can find out where the Street View cars are currently on the road | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4h3D2
Quantum Gis Geocoding Reverse Geocoding Plus Google Maps And Openstreetmap And Yahoo Overlays - http://ow.ly/4jLap
Preview your hotel room with Google Earth - Room77 is trying to provide you with a lot of infomation about hotel roo... http://ow.ly/1bT9Yy
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Round-up of all imagery and resources available for Japan Earthquake | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/4f34t
Tips for creating a free business listing in Google Places Adding useful descriptions and relevant categories Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/48VVV
Quantum GIS: Geocoding & Reverse Geocoding plus Google Maps (and OpenStreetMap and Yahoo) overlays | Mapsys.info http://ow.ly/48M2K
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