ProgrammableWeb reports of a new open source mapping control from Microsoft named DeepEarth. The control integrates their Virtual Earth mapping service and their Silverlight web platform.
A demo has been developed by Soul Solutions here.
For some background on the history of DeepZoom, the underpinning technology, TED have a video:
Inspired by the recent rather uninspiring Microsoft campaign (I’m a PC), and the prospect of hacking together an application for the Apple iPhone, I’ve just splashed out on a MacBook.
John McKerrell has been posting recently on his experience developing an iPhone application for the ‘Free The Postcode‘ project - the project aims to build a free collection of UK postcodes (why?).
Interestingly, I found John’s application surfing the application store on my iTouch; it’s a smart move by Apple to put such consideration into providing a market place and distribution channel for application developers. John has shared the download stat’s for his FreeThePostcode app…a staggering 3000 downloads in just a couple of months - for an application that targets a niche audience - all very impressive.
Matthew Somerville has also built a similar iPhone application for FixMyStreet.
One thing that often frustrates me when working with a map is the absence of meaningful neighbourhoods. For example, try finding ‘Marchmont’ in Edinburgh, Scotland using Google Maps. You might find ‘Marchmont Road’ but that only gives an indication as to the area that the people of Edinburgh consider to be ‘Marchmont’ the neighbourhood.
A novel approach has been taken to resolve this and similar problems using Flickr’s 90 million geotagged photographs: The Shape of Alpha.
A handy demonstration of the API has been developed by Tom Talyor. A good example of the power of crowd sourced datasets.
Something had to change, that point we all came around to agree on. The Sunday Times suggests tomorrow that the Ordnance Survey along with other state owned organisations (think the MET Office and Forestry Commission) are being prepared for sale by the government.
Parliament? An MP? The Cabinet Office? The Shareholder Executive? No, read it here first…
Today America votes; drawing to a close another epic, media fuelled, billion dollar US presidential race. As always geography has played its role…
Earlier in the summer Ed Parsons noted the recruitment of a GIS analyst for the Obama campaign…
On the campaign trial John McCain struggled with the Iraq-Pakistan border…
A slip of tongue, or a clue to future foreign policy? Kevin Burke has noted similar geography hiccups from Barack Obama.
Of course long before November 4th, geography and GIS are at work carving the outcome of the election, the folks over at WhyTuesday have posted a clip to YouTube raising awareness of ReDistricting and the dark art of Gerrymandering…
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