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Flickr goes with OpenStreetMap

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 2:19am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gis News

Flickr has announced the ability to display geotagged photos using OpenStreetMap as the base map with the goal of providing better street level geographic data than what was previously available. To kick off the change, Flickr posted before and after pictures of street level data for Beijing in honor of the 2008 Olympics: Thanks to the [...]
What Say You about GML?

Posted: June 26th, 2008, 6:59am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gis News

The Open Geospatial Consortium wants to know what you have to say about GML: The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change requests for consideration by the OGC Technical Committee on a revision of the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard. GML defines a data encoding in XML for geographic [...]
New Geospatial Coalition

Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 3:18am CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gis News

A new press release of note is one released by URISA announcing the formation of the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO). The coalition is currently made up of ten geospatial organizations for the purpose of: COGO was developed to provide a forum for organizations concerned with national geospatial issues that will 1) improve communications among the member [...]
KML Now an OGC Standard

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 8:16pm CEST by Caitlin

Tags: gis News

Google announced today that KML has become an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Standard. This means that Google will no longer be responsible for maintaining the KML file format which, instead, will be handled by OGC. KML (Keyhole Markup Language) is a file format that uses XML-based language to manage geographic information. Originally, [...]