Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode.
From the open source / open data front:
- Popular nowadays, Considering a Hybrid Proprietary/Open-Source Architecture
- Here’s a followup regarding the Open Letter for LiDAR standards, for which Esri’s Jack Dangermond himself provided feedback
- With the open source GeoMesa that is almost ready for release, Google & GeoServer Support Geospatial Big Data in the Cloud
- Nice QGIS effect, Trajectory animations with fadeout effect
- A GUI can’t hurt, Web-based configuration for MapProxy
- Second edition is available, PostGIS In Action 2nd Fresh off the presses
From the Esri front:
- Updated data, 2015 U.S. Esri Demographic data is now available
- Drive your city, CityEngine 2015.0 released
- We never mentioned that product before, Esri Maps for IBM Cognos 6.0.2 Released
- We mentioned the Nepal crisis quite a few times, but not the efforts from Esri yet, there you go! Maps and Imagery of the Nepal Earthquake
From the Google front:
- A kid’s dream, Google Maps in Lego form & Brick Street View
- That’s cool too, Wearality, Bringing Google Earth to VR
- There’s New Street View in Madagascar and Canadian Parks
- Expect this feature widely available soon, Google Maps now allows sending directions from computer to app
- The normal difficulties of crowdsourcing, Google Maps Edits Cause Embarrassment, Android peeing on Apple
- Why not, The Planet Mercury in Google Earth
- It’s back, Place IDs in the Google Geocoding API
- And oh, there was a minor bugfix release – the first update in 2 years!, New Version of Google Earth 7.1.4.1529
Discussed over Slashdot:
- Under the sun, Interactive Map Exposes the World’s Most Murderous Places
- We knew this already, Uber Wants To Buy Nokia’s Mapping Services
- They follow you until they deliver, Amazon’s Delivery Drones Will Be Able To Track Your Location
- Global village, Europe Vows To Get Rid of Geo-Blocking
- Again, in the US, Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant
- The police in your hands, Traffic App Waze To Alert L.A. Drivers of Kidnappings and Hit-and-Runs
- 3D soon everywhere, Intel Showcases RealSense 3D Camera Applications and Technologies In New York
- Everywhere really, Microsoft Integrates Autodesk’s 3D Printing Platform Spark Into Windows 10
In the everything-else category:
- Article on significantly improving smartphone’s GNSS accuracy to centimeters, Accuracy in the Palm of Your Hand (also discussed over Slashdot)
- HoloLens for architecture, engineering and construction, Trimble and Microsoft Hololens to the AEC industry
- It’s third year, first time I hear about it, the World Geospatial Developers Conference 2015, with 6000+ attendees
- In time of crisis, How Satellites Can Monitor California’s Underground Water
- Understanding crisis, What Satellite Data Tells Us About Nepal’s Brutal Quake and don’t forget interferometry, Nepal earthquake deformations
- Satellites everywhere, Nanosatellite and microsatellite market forecast to reach $2 billion by 2019
- New WorldDEM global DEM at high resolution, but it’s not cheap
- Self-driving cars: incremental or sudden change? It may well be incremental according to this interesting Wired article, while the next one is discussed over Slashdot, Self-Driving Cars In California: 4 Out of 48 Have Accidents, None Their Fault
- Location and the Internet of Things, Google’s Physical Web vs Apple’s iBeacon, and it appears Twitter invests in iBeacons
- What can be done with a smartwatch and location, 10 best location-based apps for Apple Watch
- Interesting from the OGC, Linked data versus geospatial semantics: Where do you stand?
- In recent releases (via VS), Geomatica 2015 released and FME 2015.1
In the maps category:
- Beautiful and alarming at the same time, NASA visualizes the year of Earth’s CO2 emissions
- Historical maps in the US, It Just Got Easier to See a Cool Historical Maps Collection
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