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Making laws in Europe is a quite cumbersome process. The proposal for establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the Community (INSPIRE) is good example for this. On January 23rd, the European Council formally adopted (pdf, p.23] the common position. Next step will be the second reading by the european parliament. So, now there’s the […]

Some days ago, the Google Earth Team announced an improvement of Google Local (and Earth) by adding two more zoom levels. Old news, actually. I read it, tried it, and… found out that I don’t really care. My area is still not covered by high resolution imagery, and it doesn’t look like this will change […]

As you might know, there is a open request for public comment for the Web Processing Service Specification 0.4.0 (WPS) of the OGC. This session closes in about less than 2 weeks and I hear nothing about it. Nobody submitted something until now. I am really wondering, why. There are so many things to put […]

Andena from All Points Blog notes that Google has become a principal member of the Open Geospatial Consortium. I wonder what this might mean for Google Earth and Google Maps, as none of them supports any OGC standards yet (at least as far as I know).
Just a short off-topic note: There were problems with some […]

Since communication with OGC works so well, I would like to utilize this and post a question that has been on my mind since my diploma thesis in 2004:
Is there an OGC standard for map annotations?
There are two discussion papers heading into this direction that I know about (there might be more that I don’t […]

Two recent posts from gisblog have been mentioned and commented on in the latest OGC newsletter.
The OGC’s comment on OGC WMS Becomes ISO Standard:
OGC staff responds: OGC has worked with ISO for many years. The OGC members agreed to release WMS to ISO to be approved as an ISO standard. The OGC and ISO had […]

All Points Blog notes that Microsoft has acquired a Toronto-based company specialized in 3D visualisation named GeoTango. Their product GlobeView seems to be pretty similar to Google Earth, plus it is based on OGC Standards. The description of GlobeView has been removed from the GeoTango website, but you might still find it cached by your […]

Brain Flood developed a script which combines Google Maps with OGC’s Web Map Services (WMS). A pretty good idea, especially for the region of Germany, where Google does not offer to much map material. Fortunately a lot of map data is available through Web Map Services of our provincial government. I created a website which […]

Don’t let your mobile phone remind you at 7 pm (the time you drive home from work) to buy something at the super market - let it remind you when you pass the market! Great idea: Geominder.