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Yahoo! is currently running an invitation-only beta test for it’s Fire Eagle location broker. The idea is as simple as useful: Fire Eagle takes your current location as input from different services or applications and passes them on to other services or applications. To locate yourself, the Fire Eagle web site, services like plazes.com, or […]

The demos here at Google I/O today made me seriously think about installing Windows on my Mac for the very first time. The reason: Google Earth API. Putting Google Earth into your browser just like Google Maps, with full hardware acceleration. Only on Windows (FF2+, IE6/7) for now, Mac and Linux are announced to be […]

I really enjoy reading Wired every time a new issue is out (and I manage to get one here in Münster, which is not always as easy as it sounds). It’s articles like this one that cause my fandom for this mag.
Have you ever wondered why people still move into crowded cities, with incredibly expensive […]

The foss4g conference, which is held this year in Victoria, is the biggest event on Open Source GI-software development. As already stated in Paul Ramsey’s blog there are 217 submissions, of which 120 presentations have to be selected for a presentation. The comittee decided to go for an open review process. Anybody can start and […]

Yesterday was the application deadline for this years’ Google Summer Of Code. Two fellow students and me decided to take part with the idea of a plugin for uDig. Map annotation is already a big topic here in this blog. Carsten wrote his thesis about argumentation maps, which brings this issue even a step […]

While scanning through digg or other tech-news resources, I get sometimes the impression that a lot of people spend their free time (ok, I suppose it’s actually during their job) with map tools like Google Earth. These ‘Spotters’ scan every meter of the earth’s surface. There might always be something weird, which no one […]