Mark Brown's Web Platform Blog : GeoIndustry

Showing Miami & Virtual Earth at GeoWeb

mjbrown — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:12:21 GMT

The nice folks at GeoWeb stopped by my booth at GeoWeb on Thursday asking, how the geoweb can contribute to better planning and management of our cities. Well in fact, there are lots of great examples of State and Local Governments who use Virtual Earth to help in exactly this way. The City of Miami uses Virtual Earth to visualize their parcel, flood and permit data for commercial and other developers to accurately get information. Check it out here.

Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Virtual Earth,GeoWeb

Ed Katibah is Blogging Again

mjbrown — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:34:36 GMT

Over the last few months since I’ve been on the Virtual Earth team I become friends with Ed Katibah. Ed works on the SQL Spatial team and is one of those guys who lives and breathes what he loves and what he loves is Spatial Databases. He also loves talking about them and I find that when I’m hanging out with Ed I learn a lot. When I first met Ed he was doing some blogging, then he stopped. Myself and a number of people like James Fee have been working him over this past week at GeoWeb to start blogging again.

After all, there is too much good stuff up in that head of his to not share and with our release of SQL Spatial there is much the Microsoft developer community can learn from Ed about how to design and build spatial databases.

Well I guess our convincing worked because “Spatial Ed” has started blogging again. Keep it up Ed. We definitely enjoy it.

Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Virtual Earth,SQL Spatial

Question of the Day at GeoWeb 2008

mjbrown — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:31:18 GMT

The folks at GeoWeb are walking around with a camera and asking many of the speakers, industry heavy hitters and even me questions about the Geo Industry. Each day there is a different question. For today’s query the question is:

“Do you see the activities of the major search engines as a threat or an opportunity for the rest of the industry?”

They also interviewed Ed Katibah from Microsoft’s SQL Spatial team with the question: “What are the major impediments in your view to the broader sharing of geographic information?"

There are also a ton more of these with some leading industry folks also answering the same questions as Ed and I here. The videos are short at about a minute each and definitely worth checking out.

Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Virtual Earth,GeoWeb