Slashgeo: Being Part of a Spatial Community

As much important as the job we do, is with whom we do it. Our work environment matters. What also matters to most of us is feeling part of a larger community, in that case, the geospatial community. Yesterday, I felt part of it again for a few hours. It was the welcoming event of this week's OSGeo Montreal Code Sprint 2011.

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Slashgeo: Being Part of a Spatial Community

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Google Geonews: Google Using Their Basemaps for 10 More Countries, More on Costa Rica and Nicaragua Boundary, Spatial Queries in Fusion Tables, and much more

Here's recent Google-related geonews.

From the official sources:

• Google changed its basemap data for ten countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa and Switzerland. Google already switched to their own data for the U.S. and Canada in the not so distant past.
• Following a previous entry Costa Rica and Nicaragua boundary in Google Maps, Google Lat Long and Ogle Earth discuss the matter
• Google Maps tiles have been significantly updated for Japan
• There's contest for SketchUp 3D modelers
• You can now perform spatial queries in Fusion Tables

From other sources:

• An entry on using SketchUp to model interiors
• An excellent flight simulator for Google Earth
• Here's an entry on the state of the Berlin Wall, as seen using the Google Earth Plugin
• An online tool for Satellite Tracks And Visibility In Google Maps
• We mentioned BatchGeo a few times in the past, via APB I learned that BatchGeo was forced to disable extracting geocoded coordinates because it's a violation of Google's Terms of Service. We rarely saw similar enforcements as far as I can remember.

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Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/11/12/Google-Geonews-Google-Using-Their-Basemaps-10-More-Countries-More-Costa-Rica-and-Nicaragu

Slashgeo: Google Geonews: Google Using Their Basemaps for 10 More Countries, More on Costa Rica and Nicaragua Boundary, Spatial Queries in Fusion Tables, and much more

Here's recent Google-related geonews.

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Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/11/12/Google-Geonews-Google-Using-Their-Basemaps-10-More-Countries-More-Costa-Rica-and-Nicaragu

Spatial Industry Top Performers Announced at 2010 APSEA Ceremony

The winners of the 2010 Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA) were announced at the spatial@gov Conference on Wednesday 6 October 2010 at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. This year’s awards saw a high standard of competition, with a diverse group of private, public and academic sector organisations, as well as...

Post originale: http://www.cebit.com.au/news/technology/spatial-industry-top-performers-announced-at-apsea