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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]