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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GoogleMaps? |
| Date: |
10/21/2005 03:25:01 PM |
| From: |
hvp |
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> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Sonny Parafina <sonny@ionicenterprise.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:35:35 -0400
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> in Google Earth, you can load your own imagery
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>> Landon Blake wrote:
>> Have you ever waited for imagery to load on Google Maps?
>> =
>> My desktop GIS is a lot faster......
You can import shapefiles in Google Earth. Recently, I beta-tested Arc2Eart=
h [http://www.spatialdatalogic.com/cs/blogs/brian_flood/archive/2005/09/12/=
98.aspx]: works well for simple polygons, works ok for complex polylines.
Anyway, it is, mildly put, "short-sighted" of an industry that touts "70% o=
f all information is spatial" to not see competition from a company that pr=
oclaims to "organize the world's information". Especially, when the competi=
ng approach was already around- the USGS's TIGER Map Server [http://tiger.c=
ensus.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl]. Still, none of the GIS bigwigs could come=
up with such a simple distribution model [more service-oriented, less sale=
s-oriented] that truly domesticates spatial technology. A high-end niche ro=
le is fine, but I am sure they=92d have loved to get the multitudes of low-=
end users. =
And desktop GIS might just take a new meaning if browser-based applications=
gain ground. Take a peek @ [http://robin.sourceforge.net] in Firefox [http=
://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/].
Harsh Prakash
[http://www.spatiallink.org/gistools/discuss/weblogs/blogs/]
PS: BTW, SRC [http://65.39.85.13/google/] lacks important explanation. The =
smallest unit is an irregular census block, so non-approximate data for ran=
dom circles doesn't seem quite right. =
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