Archive for February, 2006

Coordinate-Based AdSense Marketing

Wednesday, 22. February 2006

Heise online, a German IT news portal, just released an article stating that Google is about to extend their AdSense program to support coordinate-based marketing. This step would enable websites presenting spatial information to embed ads which refer to the location a user is currently viewing on the map. Certainly a big improvement compared to […]

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OGC approves GMLJP2

Tuesday, 14. February 2006

OGC just released the specification for GML in JPEG2000 for Geographic Imagery Encoding. The specification provides you to include GML tags in your JPEG file. This can be used for georeferencing images, map annotations and so on.
I just did not go completely through the document, but seems to be a good approach. I am now […]

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RSS Feed Mapping

Monday, 13. February 2006

Jeroen Wijering, Designer from Eindhoven (NL), has implemented quite an impressive tool for RSS feed mapping. What’s Up uses a Flash interface to display a large number of RSS feeds on a world map. Though the online demo is not running live due to technical issues, Jeroen already announced that there will be a […]

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