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What Are Some Other Cool Developments in Geospatial Technology?
Let’s face it, geospatial technology is a rapidly
changing field, with new innovations and advancements coming all the time, and you’ll probably first
hear about these things online. Blogs are a great
way to keep informed on up-to-date geospatial
developments. Check out the following examples
of blogs to see what people are buzzing about concerning current or upcoming developments in the
geospatial universe:
1. Digital Geography: http://www.
digitalgeography.co.uk
2. Digital Urban: http://digitalurban.blogspot.
com
3. Esri blogs: Esri maintains many different
blogs about different software programs,
development tools, and applications: http://
www.esri.com/news/blogs/index.html
4. Google Earth Blog: http://www.gearthblog.
com
5. Google Lat Long Blog: http://google-latlong.
blogspot.com
6. Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog: http://
mapperz.blogspot.com
7. Official Google SketchUp Blog: http://
sketchupdate.blogspot.com
8. Ogle Earth: http://ogleearth.com
9. Planet Geospatial: http://www.planetgs.com
Once you’ve examined these examples, fire up a
search engine and try to locate some other blogs or
forums or pages on a social networking site concerning new developments in geospatial technology.
Hands-on Application 15.9
Some Blogs about Geospatial Technologies
Using the GeoWall for visualizing geospatial data carries a lot of benefits. For instance, the GeoWall enables the user to see maps draped over a
surface model or terrain data displayed in stereoscopic 3D. Certainly, being
able to dive inside a meteor crater or view volcanic features, coastlines, or
river valleys in a stereoscopic 3D environment allows the viewer to get a
better sense of the terrain features. Landscapes, geologic processes, draped
satellite imagery, draped topographic maps, stereoscopic photos, and tours
of virtual environments are all types of data that can be viewed using a
GeoWall setup.
Right now, you can run Google Earth on your
phone, download satellite imagery for free, view
landscapes and cities in immersive 3D, create
your own geospatial maps and post them on a
Website, and earn a doctorate in the geospatial
field. If that’s what you can do today, what’s going to happen tomorrow? Where do you see the
geospatial field going? As access to information
becomes faster and easier, as computing power
advances, and as our lives become more and more
tied together in a global web, what’s going to be
the next stages for geospatial technology? What
do you see the geospatial world looking like five
years from now?
What Do You See as the Next Frontiers for Geospatial Technology?
Thinking Critically with Geospatial Technology 15.2
What Are Some Other Cool Developments in Geospatial Technology?
Let’s face it, geospatial technology is a rapidly
changing field, with new innovations and advancements coming all the time, and you’ll probably first
hear about these things online. Blogs are a great
way to keep informed on up-to-date geospatial
developments. Check out the following examples
of blogs to see what people are buzzing about concerning current or upcoming developments in the
geospatial universe:
1. Digital Geography: http://www.
digitalgeography.co.uk
2. Digital Urban: http://digitalurban.blogspot.
com
3. Esri blogs: Esri maintains many different
blogs about different software programs,
development tools, and applications: http://
www.esri.com/news/blogs/index.html
4. Google Earth Blog: http://www.gearthblog.
com
5. Google Lat Long Blog: http://google-latlong.
blogspot.com
6. Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog: http://
mapperz.blogspot.com
7. Official Google SketchUp Blog: http://
sketchupdate.blogspot.com
8. Ogle Earth: http://ogleearth.com
9. Planet Geospatial: http://www.planetgs.com
Once you’ve examined these examples, fire up a
search engine and try to locate some other blogs or
forums or pages on a social networking site concerning new developments in geospatial technology.
Hands-on Application 15.9
Some Blogs about Geospatial Technologies
Using the GeoWall for visualizing geospatial data carries a lot of benefits. For instance, the GeoWall enables the user to see maps draped over a
surface model or terrain data displayed in stereoscopic 3D. Certainly, being
able to dive inside a meteor crater or view volcanic features, coastlines, or
river valleys in a stereoscopic 3D environment allows the viewer to get a
better sense of the terrain features. Landscapes, geologic processes, draped
satellite imagery, draped topographic maps, stereoscopic photos, and tours
of virtual environments are all types of data that can be viewed using a
GeoWall setup.
Right now, you can run Google Earth on your
phone, download satellite imagery for free, view
landscapes and cities in immersive 3D, create
your own geospatial maps and post them on a
Website, and earn a doctorate in the geospatial
field. If that’s what you can do today, what’s going to happen tomorrow? Where do you see the
geospatial field going? As access to information
becomes faster and easier, as computing power
advances, and as our lives become more and more
tied together in a global web, what’s going to be
the next stages for geospatial technology? What
do you see the geospatial world looking like five
years from now?
What Do You See as the Next Frontiers for Geospatial Technology?
Thinking Critically with Geospatial Technology 15.2