onsdag den 23. september 2009

Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML)


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Making it easy to move augmented reality ... ?
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This is a brief overview of ARML.

The Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML) is a specification to help establish and shape a long-term, sustainable framework for displaying geographic annotation and location-specific data within Augmented Reality browsers.

The purpose for establishing a open ARML specification is to assure all data that is created for augmentation in the physical world could be universally accessed and viewed on any augmented reality browser. ARML allows individuals and organizations to easily create and style their own AR content (e.g. points of interest) without advanced knowledge of AR, APIs or tools. The ARML specification is analogous to HTML for the Web, which is used for creating web-pages and web-sites.

Features of the proposed ARML specification 1.0 include:
• Founded upon KML with extension name-space for AR specific data;
• Placement of a "View in AR" icon which clearly identifies a mobile website that supports location aware (real time) data in an ARML browser;
• Compliance with basic XML document structure - no proprietary programming API required to create an AR layer.
• ARML adherent data can be viewed on ARML browsers (e.g. Wikitude) and KML browsers (e.g. Google Earth);
• Custom styling of AR data (points of interest) via standard KML styling elements;
• Initial support for UTF-8 encoding;


Read more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvfEORp-fhU

Welcome to The Developer Hub


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ESRI (UK)’s Developer Hub is your gateway to the latest online resources for ArcGIS developers, providing you with easy access to key developer tools, information and news that will help you to get the most out of the ArcGIS developer platform. [...]


Read more: http://www.esriuk.com/developerhub/

Google Chrome Injects Itself Into Internet Explorer With Chrome Frame


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We come in peace ...
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Google just announced the launch of Chrome Frame, a new open-source project that will allow Chrome's rendering engine to run within Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6,7, and 8. This plugin, which is available now, will give developers the option to ask users if they would prefer to switch to the Chrome rendering and JavaScript engine. Users simply continue to use Internet Explorer and the switch will be completely seamless, with no noticeable changes to the user interface. [...]


tirsdag den 22. september 2009

GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library


Geodataens Babelfisk ...
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The geospatial Babelfish ...
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GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing. The NEWS page describes the August 2009 GDAL/OGR 1.6.2 release.

The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.

Master: http://www.gdal.org
Download: ftp at remotesensing.org, http at download.osgeo.org

User Oriented Documentation

Developer Oriented Documentation

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Read more: http://gdal.org/

Displaying the World's Information: New Articles for KML


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KML is the most common data format for displaying geographic information, with over half a billion KML files on the web. However, much of the world's geographic information is also in other file types, particularly shapefiles, and image data. Fortunately, there's an open source utility library that helps developers work with all sort of Geographic file types, the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library. We've taken just two of the utilities in GDAL, and wrote articles about them.

Converting GIS Vector Data to KML: This tutorial walks you through the basics of converting GIS vector data to KML using the OGR open source library.

Creating super-overlays with gdal2tiles: This tutorial walks you through the basics of creating a super-overlay, a set of ground overlays that use region-based NetworkLinks, using the open source gdal2tiles utility. [...]


Read more: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/09/displaying-worlds-information-new.html

mandag den 21. september 2009

iPhone RFID: object-based media


Hvis ting man ikke kan se var udstyret med rfid tags ville mange ting blive noget nemmere ... Når en gravemaskine graver tæt ved elektriske ledninger, vandrør eller andre gemte ting i jorden ville det være rart hvis de faktiske objekter i jorden selv kunne fortælle om deres eksistens ... Tænk hvis man kunne udstyre sin gummiged med en rfid sensor på skovlen så ville mange informationer dukke op som man ellers aldrig ser ...
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Managing things you can't see you might like it to tell you what it is you don't see ... Digging in the grown near power lines, water pipes or sewers ... Drilling in the walls near electric cables ... It's would be great if you could just swipe you iPhone near the objects and it would give you all the informations needed ...
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This is a prototype of an iPhone media player that uses physical objects to control media playback. It is based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) that triggers various iPhone interactions when in the range of a wireless tag embedded inside a physical object.



This video prototype is basic and intended to open up for discussion and new exploration around the experience of media selection through physical objects. At the moment the interaction is a trigger, but what if the phone doesn’t just react as output but also as input to physical objects? How do we programme and manage our sets of media and applications in these objects?

Overall the demo points towards opportunities around the distribution of media through physical objects, it is an example of general ideas around an ‘internet of things’ or ‘spimes’ applied to the world of media. What opportunities would the distribution of RFID-embedded products open up in terms of media, gaming, services and marketing? What does this mean for the future of products?

Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface


Det bedste brugerinterface er det du befinder dig i lige nu ...
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Let the real world be the user interface to informtion about the real world ...
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Though many computer applications and operating systems make use of real-world metaphors like the desktop, most software interface design has little to do with how we actually experience the real world. In lots of cases, there are great reasons not to directly mimic reality. Not doing so allows us to create interfaces that enable people to be more productive, communicate in new ways, or manage an increasing amount of information. In other words, to do things we can’t otherwise do in real life.

But sometimes, it makes sense to think of the real world as an interface. To design user interactions that make use of how people actually see the world -to take advantage of first person user interfaces.

First person user interfaces can be a good fit for applications that allow people to navigate the real world, “augment” their immediate surroundings with relevant information, and interact with objects or people directly around them. [...]


Read more: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/21/enhancing-user-interaction-with-first-person-user-interface/

MyMaps Her kommer du til kort - Kort, billeder og information om danske byer


En flot side med megen nyttig info ...
Nu må det være på tide, Søren, at du får gang i den der DK fact book ... ;-)
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Local information and maps for the 7000 main cities and places in Denmark.


Read more: http://www.mymaps.dk/

The Age of Stupid is right now


Mennesket er fra naturens hånd skabt dumt .. Mennesket var en et dumt indslag i evolutionen ...
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The human race was born stupid ... The more clever we get the greater the stupity gets ...
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The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong(McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? It was released in UK cinemas on 20 March 2009, and will be followed by other countries.



Read more: http://www.ageofstupid.net/