GISCafe Voice Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’LiveLink integrates GIS with remote sensing and image processingTuesday, February 7th, 2012Mladen Stojic, vice president Geospatial, Intergraph, talked about their new Live Link product which integrates Intergraph GeoMedia objects into ERDAS IMAGINE. Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon acquired in 2011. What this product offers is what customers have been asking for – an integrated approach to desktop workflows, combining the desktop GIS capability of GeoMedia integrated with the raster remote sensing and image processing capabilities of ERDAS IMAGINE.
Forrester Research speaks on the cloudThursday, December 8th, 2011James Staten of Forrester Research spoke about the cloud at the recent Autodesk University in Las Vegas. He made a case for the cloud by saying that “clouds are more secure than you are.” His recommendations:
OpenStreetMap founder now Principal Architect for Bing MobileTuesday, November 23rd, 2010Founder of OpenStreetMap, Steve Coast, has taken a position as a Principal Architect for Bing Mobile at Microsoft. What this means is that Steve will lead a new initiative of Bing’s involvement with the OpenStreetMap project, a community of 250,000 people who have built maps for all countries in the world. Microsoft is donating access to Bing’s Aerial Imagery for use in the OpenStreetMaps project, as part of this initiative. Google sues Interior DepartmentTuesday, November 2nd, 2010An article in this morning’s New York Times reports that Google is suing the Department of Interior for violating the Competition in Contracting Act by considering only Microsoft email and collaboration software products for its 88,000 employees, and not Google Apps. with a suit filed Friday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Google is attempting to block the department from buying any of the Microsoft software until it allows competitive bidding. Google Apps are cloud-based tools. In July, the company came out with Google Apps for government, which passed federal security standards. Google Claims U.S. Excluded It From Contract The New York Times November 2, 2010 Battle of the mapping giants at the OlympicsThursday, February 25th, 2010It would seem that Google and Microsoft have been vying for mapping airtime during the Olympics in Vancouver. According to a CNET article, “Google has been featuring Olympic-themed doodles on its home page, while Bing is featuring Olympic-themed photos as its background, with the images rotating several times a day. Microsoft can also tap the fact it is helping power NBC’s Olympics Web site through MSN, giving it access to quite a bit of content from the Games…. Bing Maps has a special Olympics page that lets visitors see medal charts and click on a country to see how its athletes are faring. Meanwhile, Microsoft has also updated Vancouver with new street-side imagery and made it one of three cities (along with Seattle and San Francisco) in which it is trying out new features, such as Flickr integration” For its part, Google features an interactive schedule, with links to medal results, news, and the venues. To get additional imagery for its maps program, Google augmented its usual fleet of cars with Street View photos captured by snowmobile. Vancouver Sun reporter Jeff Lee has been covering the preparation for the Games since 2003. His Vancouver map, created on top of Google Maps, has pin points for everything from the venues, to public events, national pavilions, and public transit stops and road closures.” Olympics notebook: Mapping the Vancouver Games by Ina Fried, CNET News.com Bing Maps sports new featuresTuesday, November 10th, 2009Microsoft BIng Maps sports new features such as ‘Draggable Routes’, the ‘Zoom Bar’ and ‘Embed a Map’ as well us updates to the user interface. The Bing Maps team blog has more on these specific updates. |
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