torsdag den 30. oktober 2008

BLOM HAS COMMERCIALLY LAUNCHED ITS ONLINE GEOSERVER PLATFORM, BlomURBEX

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BlomURBEX has been designed to meet the rapidly growing demand for online access to images and vector data across multiple sectors. The innovative platform enables fast development of consumer and professional services and applications based on Blom's oblique images and content.

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BlomURBEX is a hosted solution. The sheer scope and size of the images in BlomURBEX makes it impractical for the application and service providers to host their own server and data containers. In the case of mobile services, for example, supporting on-board data for large areas would require huge memory capacity, which would increase the device price considerably. BlomURBEX has been developed to address these issues through the delivery of the entire range of Blom content online, enabling countless applications to be created quickly and easily using Blom's real images.

BlomURBEX is a cluster of servers connected to the internet, which serve pre-processed data using very simple protocols - including HTTP to facilitate the integration with web solutions. An online service, it provides all the necessary technology to host and deliver different datasets with enough storage and process capacity to deliver data and services as required.

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Google Adds RSS Feeds For Web Search Results

Så er cirklen fuldendt ... Opret en Google Alert på f.eks. 'Grunde til salg' og få det smækket direkte ind i din RSS reader ...
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Combining automatics ... Create a Google Alert on say 'GIS in Denmark' and add it as an RSS feed to your favorite reader ...
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Google RSS Feed screenshot

As expected, Google has added an RSS feed for web search results to the Google Alerts service. As seen in the screenshot above, when creating a new alert, you can now choose to get the alert via email or RSS feed. RSS feed alerts are only available to logged-in Google account holders.

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Read more: http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-rss-feeds-for-web-search-results-15287.php
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StreetView now in Italy

Ser frem til når min by er gennemfotograferet ...
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Looking forward to the day when my city will be street viewed ...
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Fresh on the heels of launching StreetView in Spain, Google has released StreetView in four major areas in Italy: Florence, Lake Como, Milan andRome.

Check out some of the cool sights that Keir found on Google Maps Mania, and then submit your own to theGEH StreetView Gallery.

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Read more: http://www.digitalearthblog.com/2008/10/29/streetview-now-in-italy/
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StreetView comes to Spain!

Så er en håndfuld spanske byer dokumenteret ...
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Now a handful of Spanish cities have been documented ...
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They only added in four cities (Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia and Barcelona), but each seems to have rather extensive coverage.  Google Maps Mania has found a handful of cool places, and we always encourage you to add your other finds to the GEH Streetview database.



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ESRI EMEA User Conference 2008: Insurance & Integration

GIS og forsikringer ... Betal for noget du håber aldrig at få brug for.
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GIS and insurances ... Pay for something you hope you'll never need.
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Timothy Mitchell, RSA Group delivered a keynote presentation that focused upon the topic of insurance. “Pay now and never hear from us again” he stated. “How many of you have heard this from an insurance company?” Mitchell scratched his head wondering how such a business model came to be, wondering how many people contemplate paying for services they never hear about - and do so happily.

Timothy Mitchell, RSA Group

More to the point, Mitchell could point to the use of GIS in insurance applications today, but could also point to the issues of historical disasters such as the waves of 1580 that killed 120, the storm surge of 1607 that killed 2000, the storm of 1703 that resulted in 8000 fatalities and a volcano of 1783-84 in Ireland that killed 20,000 people.

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Read more: http://vector1media.com/vectorone/?p=1292
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London - ESRI EMEA User Conference 2008 Opens

1600 deltagere ved ESRI europæiske brugerkonference.
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1600 attendees at the ESRI European User Conference.
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The ESRI Europe, MIddle East and Africa User Conference 2008 opened today in London, UK under bright and sunny skies. With about 1600 in attendance, “this conference is the largest gathering of GIS professionals in the UK and in Europe,” said Richard Waite, director of ESRI (UK). Waite went on to point out that ESRI (UK) is on a mission that includes “making GIS an indispensable part of daily life,” the thought giving way to the theme of this years event - ‘GIS for Everyday Life’.


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Read more: http://vector1media.com/vectorone/?p=1271
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ESRI’s EMEA User Conference Expected to Be Largest-Ever GIS Gathering in the UK

Så går det løs i London ...
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Time to do GIS in London ... 
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ESRI EMEA UC 2008 - Call For PapersAylesbury—October 24, 2008—ESRI (UK) Ltd. has announced that more than 1,500 GIS professionals were expected to attend its European, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Conference from over 60 countries, making it the largest-ever GIS event in the UK. The conference will take place 28–30 October 2008 at London’s QEII Conference Centre and will showcase over 100 innovative examples of GIS from across EMEA and reveal technology developments all under the conference theme of GIS for Everyday Life.


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Sociale netværk vil ændre forholdet til it-leverandører

Sociale netværk ér en kommunikationskanal på lige fod med mail og 'web'. Disse nye netværk må og skal leverandører af software og web applikationer lære at mestre ellers vil de nye unge opfatte arbejdet med dem som tunge, statiske og uden fleksibilitet. 
Men det er ikke kun leverandørerne som skal ændre tankegang. Det er i lige så høj grad de organisationer, firmaer, institutioner som køber varen som skal tænke nyt - tænke web 2.0.
Blandt disse finder vi kommunerne som i princippet burde stå forrest når det gælder sociale relationer med borgerne - men er de klar?
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Social networks like Facebook and the like must be considered as an individual and new channel for information like mail, chat and traditiobal web 1.0. By doing so one must realise that most current software out there needs to be upgraded in order to meet the needs and expectations by the new users to come. If not traditional software programs and web applikations will fall behind as being old (even if new) , static, and non flexible.
But it is not just the software developers who needs to rethink - the organisations using the software will too have to adjust their way of communicating with their users.
Among those we find the municipalities who among all ought to be social. But are they ready?
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Computerworld News Service: Web 2.0 kommer til at revolutionere samarbejdet med it-leverandører, forudsiger Forrester.

Vice president Christina Ferrusi Ross fortæller, at unge mennesker, der i dag begynder på arbejdsmarkedet, bringer en ny kultur med sig og forventer at udnytte sociale netværksværktøjer.

"De unge fra millenium-generationen er fleksible, nærmest for selvsikre, og de medbringer en ny attitude," fortæller hun til Computerworlds søsterblad i Storbritannien ved Forrester Services and Sourcing Forum i London i sidste uge.

"38 procent af de unge bruger social software hver dag sammenlignet med 13 procent hos de ældre generationer."

Dette ændrer, ifølge Christina Ross, hvordan erhvervslivet udnytter web 2.0, hvilket betyder, at man diskuterer strategi med leverandører og udvikler nye ideer.
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onsdag den 29. oktober 2008

Kortdage 2008

(Gen)se Jespers power point fra Kortdage 2008 ...
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Only Danish
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Her kan du se min powerpoint og finde links til eksempler på kort i mediere fra mit keynote-indlæg ved konferencen Kortdage 2008.

Keynote - Kortdage 2008
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: geojournalistik kortdage)

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Read more: http://www.geojournalistik.dk/2008/10/28/kortdage-2008/
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Blom Signs Global 3D Agreement with Tele Atlas

3D her kommet for at blive ...
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3D is here to stay ...
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Oslo, Norway, 28 October, 2008—Geographic information provider Blom ASA and digital maps and dynamic content provider Tele Atlas today announced a five year agreement focused on speeding up the development of 3D city maps and elevation models and on creating imagery products for personal and in car navigation, Internet and mobile solutions users. The new partnership will give map users a more realistic view of the world and show them building details in the world’s major cities.

Under the terms of the agreement, Blom and Tele Atlas will work together on the development and delivery of 3D city maps and other features using Blom’s imagery and 3D map components. Tele Atlas will add Blom data to its existing 3D database to rapidly expand its offering and will be able to license Blom imagery products to its customers to further enhance their users’ visual experience. In addition, Tele Atlas will gain access to Blom’s imagery databases to update its existing maps.

“Demand for 3D maps on personal navigation devices and in local search applications is rising, as consumers everywhere want more realistic views of what is around them,” said Tele Atlas CEO Bill Henry. “Blom’s vast library of 3D imagery is of the highest quality, and will allow us to deliver fully three-dimensional products in more than 250 cities worldwide in 2009.”

“This is an exciting milestone in the navigation industry and marks the start of bringing 3D maps to the masses,” said Blom CEO Håkon Jacobsen. “Our solutions will significantly improve the user experience across all map devices and applications, and with Tele Atlas as a leading partner, put us in the strongest position to deliver the best features.”

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Read more: http://www.teleatlas.com/WhyTeleAtlas/Pressroom/PressReleases/TA_CT020404
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