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