An interesting post from Tim who is a GeoWeb 2006 in Vancouver. Great new blog by the way..
Tim notes comments from Microsoft about their plans to create 3D city models in a “different” way to Google. Just speculating but maybe the different approach its something to do with the fact that Microsoft also own a gaming platform ?
For a long time the Mac has been the poor relation of the Windows PC in terms of GPS managment software, the type of software that allows users to create and downlaod waypoints, display base mapping and user defined routes. RouteBuddy is a universal binary application that now fills this gap supporting Garmin and most other consumer GPS recievers which use the NMEA standard. It also works with bluetooth and allows Tele Atlas mapping to be downloaded.
Now if only we could convince ESRI or MapInfo to get back into the Mac software market.. but then again maybe we are all waiting on the expected windows virtualisation solution in OS X v10.5 Leopard ?
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The Very Spatial podcast this week celebrated it’s first year anniversary with an interview with Intergraph CTO and fellow Brit, Peter Batty.
Peter seems to have a real challenge on his hands bringing together a diverse range of Intergraph products around a common framework. The approach seems to be realistic as the scope sounds similar to the work ESRI did with ArcGIS, and to a lesser extent the work we are doing at OS, – these things take a long time !!
Interesting views around location intelligence and it potential for security applications, clearly Intergraph’s strongest market.
As with most Very Spatial podcasts, a little US centric, but well worth a listen. Congratulations Sue, Jesse and Frank !!
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