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Tonight, the first of the planned 30 satellites for the European positioning system GALILEO has reached its orbit and successfully positioned its sonar panels. Four other satellites will be put into operation by 2008 to enable positioning tests. The remaining 25 satellites will follow until 2010.
GALILEO will not only mean independence from GPS, which is […]

Web 2.0 is the evolving technologie of 2005. This article does provide a short overview of AJAX and Tagging.

I just read the newsletter of the OGC for December and was really excited about it, because it contains an article about the blogosphere and the ongoing dicussions about GML vs. KML. So blogs are playing an important role in the sense of formation of opinion in the web and standardization community.
Just a short […]

In the last two weeks I went through some conference websites and compiled a list of my favorites
Here they are:

The german News.Giswiki blog has an interesting article about the security threats created by tools like Google Earth and maps on the web. The company b&p SDI has analysed which of these threats are realistic, and which are scare stories.
After 9/11, potential targets of terrorist attacks like the White House or nuclear power plants […]

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) notes in its latest press announcement that the Web Map Service (WMS) implementation specification has finally been adopted as ISO 19128. After the Simple Feature implementation specification, WMS is the second OGC standard adopted by ISO, and some others are in the progress of becoming ISO standards (such as the […]

New mashups come up nearly every hour. People combine google maps with any other information available on the Internet. That’s not a big deal since almost everything (80% as it is always said) is related to a location - even your first kiss. Google maps mania and cool google maps observe this trend very well, […]

Why using gps or waiting for galileo? http://www.placelab.org/ offers positioning which works worldwide, both indoors and out with radio beacons that already exist in large numbers around us in the environment.