Google Imagery and Terrain update 6/2

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/910528

sons of bitches are updating on the weekend too. the updated terrain will be nice for cities with mountains nearby, salt lake city, denver, portland, etc. and the imagery update in europe may put some pressure on us to have something available for our euros.

i wonder if google rests on sundays...

CityGML and 3D buildings

CityGML is trying to become the open source standard for 3d Business Information Modeling (BIM).
http://www.citygml.org/

A story about them from Directions Mag at http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2209&trv=1

Landsat 7 data to be released June 4th

"The project will allow the Landsat data user community to help refine the distribution system planned for the upcoming LDCM. Each scene will be registered to the terrain, or "ortho-rectified," prior to being placed on the Web. Copies of these data will also be available on CD or DVD at the cost of reproduction."

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1676

Good news for those that like cheap/free data

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_5961970?nclick_check=1

Had this case gone the other way, it would have set a very nasty precedent and made data collection from the data a tricky thing.

Very interesting article looking at the data sources and future of GMY mapping

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/trends_of_onlin.html

ok, and the article looks at Ask too, but I don't consider them as influencial as the big three...

California Data Site Coming Soon

Might make it easier to collect data for California, also might be more data available now there's a home for it.

http://www.allpointsblog.com/archives/2723-California-SDI-Coming!.html