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Your Source for Geospatial Technology Thursday | July 10, 2008

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SERVIR Viz: A 3D Data Access and Visualization System for Mesoamerica

The challenge may sound familiar: deliver geospatial data hosted remotely at many different locations via one access point to many different levels of user. The goal may also soud familiar: share, disseminate and visualize across eight countries, with multiple languages and in some areas, limited infrastructure. But, more than likely, you've not yet heard about the solution: SERVIR, the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System for Mesoamerica, which extends from southern Mexico to Panama, including Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT) developed a key part SERVIR Viz, a free, easy-to-use data access and visualization framework for geodata built on NASA's World Wind. Three team members give us a tour.


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From our letter's to the editor this week, our APB blog post on "Ask.com Moves to Virtual Earth " drew a few comments:

From SS...
Looks like they removed the walking directions in the process. Too bad - that was the one thing that distinguished them in my opinion.

From Brick Marketing Local
Shame that Ask is just disintegrating before our eyes....

From Marc Prioleau at deCarta...
Ask did build their maps on deCarta and as some of the others above commented, did a really nice job. They had great features like neighborhood search, search within a polygon, pedestrian routes. Also a very nice, unique look to the maps. That made sense when they were competing with other search portals and didn't want to dilute their brand with maps from the competition (Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft). Unfortunately they dropped out of that race in March and refocused on being a site for married women (see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23473125/). With that, they didn't need custom maps and went the cookie cutter approach. Sad to see them go...they did nice work.













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