On April 14, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) — an international, consensus organization that develops standards for geospatial and location-based services — adopted Google’s KML language schema as a standard. According to Michael Weiss-Malik, Google’s KML Product Manager, this was the first time that the OGC “swallowed whole” a large piece of code developed entirely outside of its processes and widely adopted in the mass market. From now on, the OGC will take responsibility for maintaining and extending KML, which will now be vendor-neutral and publicly controlled.
Archive for June, 2008
Adoption of KML as a standard sets a precedent
Posted in General, tagged Galdos, Google, Google Earth, KML, mapping, OGC, Open Geospatial Consortium, Weiss-Malik on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Apple iPhone publicity machine will further boost geo-tagging and location services
Posted in Cool stuff, Industry happenings, tagged AP, Apple, geotagging, GPS, iPhone, Loopt, smart phone on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Monday, Apple, with all its customary hype, announced the second-generation of its smart phone, the iPhone GPS (press release is here). While the first model allowed its 6 million users to tap into some location services using data from cell towers, the new model incorporates GPS into the phone. On the surface, the company [...]
FT article nicely looks at Geoweb opportunities
Posted in General, tagged Geoweb, Google, GPS, Nokia, Virtual Earth on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to highlight an article from late last month that did a great job pointing out and examining the issues around integrating maps and information. In “Way to go? Mapping looks to be the web’s next big thing,” Richard Waters of the Financial Times had a number of excellent points, interesting interview tid bits, [...]
