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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GoogleMaps? |
| Date: |
10/21/2005 03:35:01 PM |
| From: |
Dean Stoecker |
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Clarification on the data for Google -
Our Allocate product drives the data going into the Google and VE apps as
well as any other desktop or web based application. The data is generated
for irregular objects based on block-centroid retrieval. Data is
apportioned from block groups to irregular polygons based on weighted
population or households of each BG's block centroids contained within the
polygon.
hope that helps
Dean Stoecker
SRC, LLC
190 South Glassell
Suite 201
Orange, California 92866
Phone 714-516-2400 Extension 202
Fax 714-516-2410
www.extendthereach.com
SRC in Action:
www.DemographicsNow.com
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of hvp
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:17 PM
To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Subject: Re: [gislist] GoogleMaps?
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Sonny Parafina <sonny@ionicenterprise.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:35:35 -0400
>
> in Google Earth, you can load your own imagery
>
>> 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 Arc2Earth
[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% of
all information is spatial" to not see competition from a company that
proclaims to "organize the world's information". Especially, when the
competing approach was already around- the USGS's TIGER Map Server
[http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl]. Still, none of the GIS
bigwigs could come up with such a simple distribution model [more
service-oriented, less sales-oriented] that truly domesticates spatial
technology. A high-end niche role is fine, but I am sure they'd 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
random circles doesn't seem quite right.
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