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I just read the Virtual Globes Scientific Conference agenda, and it looks like a fine program: a day of introductory talks on software, a day of user talks with a panel, and a third day of tutorial/demonstrations. The conference, organized by the Matt Nolan and the EarthSLOT team, will be held July 10-12, in Boulder, Colorado. See the schedule and get details at the conference website.
Since no
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This is the New York Times article that seems to be floating around a lot today: geo-enabled mobile phones with attribute information about their location (article here).
[update 28Jun06, 1915Pacific: Yuk! The NY Times website just changed the access so you have to register to read the article. It's free, but highly inconvenient.]
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I just got the First Call for Papers for the 2007 AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco, April 17-21, 2007. Let's put some virtual globes / mashups / neogeog sessions together!
Since it's right down the road from Silicon Valley, it's a prime opportunity to infuse a techgeek vibe into AAG. Contact me if you have ideas.
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For Dan Montello's Cognitive Issues in GIScience class here at UCSB, I was asked to write two short essays, "for and against" the use of naive geography in geospatial software design. Normally, such essays would disappear into an archive on my hard drive, but since virtual globes are referenced a few times, I thought I'd post them.
Comments Against Naive Geographyby Alan GlennonEgenhofer and
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For Dan Montello's Cognitive Issues in GIScience class here at UCSB, I was asked to write two short essays, "for and against" the use of naive geography in geospatial software design. Normally, these things disappear into an archive on my hard drive, but since virtual globes are referenced a few times, I thought I'd post them.
Comments Supporting Naive Geographyby Alan GlennonWhen new users are
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Last Wednesday, Patrick Hogan, Project Manager of NASA World Wind, spoke at Where 2.0 in San Jose. Hogan's fifteen-minute talk was a straightforward description of the software, including comments on its open-source nature, Earth and planetary visualization functionality, and ongoing data import development. As Hogan spoke, World Wind Designer Randy Kim demonstrated and drove the software. The
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Before the conference, I gave four Where 2.0 expectations I had for Google, ESRI, NASA, and Microsoft concerning virtual globes. Here are my post-conference impressions:
Google will talk about their time browser
Google did not launch the time browser I was hoping for, but did introduce an attractive new version of Google Earth. When asked about spatiotemporal data at Geo Developer Day, Michael T
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In the hallway at Where 2.0, I saw Gary Lang of Autodesk. He is a lead in the Infrastructure Solutions Division. While my prodding did not glean any information about the possibility of Autodesk introducing a Google-Earth-like virtual globe, he did provide the following statement about their numerous three-dimensional and geospatial offerings: "we are working to provide common visualizations
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While talking to one of the guys from Microsoft Live Local, I learned a little bit about the way they do their internal business. According to the Microsoft rep, the Live Local team works in what he called "100-day sprints." The workgroups are expected to produce a predetermined, measurable result every 100 days. My thoughts are that a natural result for the Live Local Team is updated
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I had a nice talk with a developer of the KML support for Google Maps. He said that the dialog window sizing problem is a persistent, known issue, and Google is working to solve it. As a workaround, if you close and reopen any problematic placemark window, the window resizes properly when opened the second time. Concerning the other issues I noted in my previous post, Google spells out what KML
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Skyline launched a full-fledged, internet-based virtual globe today at the Where 2.0 Conference. Skyline President Ronnie Yaron test drove the application for me, and it looks promising. The client is about 5MB and can be downloaded at www.skylineglobe.com. As expected, it looks like Google Earth, with various tweaks to differentiate it. I'll post more about the details when I get a chance to
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