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SAP has announced a new alliance with Google to display SAP’s analytics on Google’s map visualization tools for location-based intelligence. The alliance focuses on the visualization of geo-tagged data to unlock new dimensions of enterprise information and to deal with increased volumes and frequency of data. The focus here is on easily accessible dashboard-like views [...]
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The United Nations University is holding a workshop this weekend in Tokyo to explore ways to redevelop the region of Tohoku after the devastating earthquake and tsunami. The aim is to harness community input through the creation of social contribution networks and the use of Google’s mapping and modeling tools. Google representatives will be training [...]
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This week Google is holding their I/O developer-focused event, and there area number of interesting announcements coming from the conference that have been reported. Fusion Tables has proved quite popular with those interested in quickly mapping tabular data, and Google has added the ability to style colors and icons on mapped data based on details [...]
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The Earth Knowledge Portal launched recently as a new way to view global news and information via a Google Earth interface. The Google Earth Outreach Team contributed a large collection of their Google Earth Tours as content. News comes from BBC Earth, World Wildlife Fund, Reuters, NASA, NOAA, Christian Science Monitor, and the Global Heritage [...]
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Certainly you’re familiar with the brouhaha that Apple and Google stirred when the extents of their tracking were revealed over the last ten days. Details were shed on this issue at the Where 2.0 Conference, although many had been tipped to the tracking at the timing of the release of the iPhone 4 with a [...]
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Google just announced the launch of Google Earth Builder this morning at the Where 2.0 Conference, outlining a cloud-based ecosystem for hosting and creating geospatial data. The new tool will be available in the third quarter of this year, and will harness Google’s impressive computing power to enable enterprises to store and access terabytes of [...]
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Ars Technica reports, that the owner of a patent that provides a means to place store information on a map is finding resistance from both Google and Microsoft. Geotag, the current patent owner of a patent that was purchased for $119 million has sued more than 400 companies that utilize such functionality with both Google [...]
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As promised last year by Rebecca Moore and her team at the philanthropic arm of Google, the Google Earth Engine launched today at the COP16 Climate Change Conference in Cancun. Earth Engine is a dynamic digital model of our planet that is updated daily, with 25 years of satellite imagery from the Landsat imagery catalog [...]
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Bloomberg has broken the story that Marissa Meyer, Google’s VP of search products, is set to take over location and location services. You may have seen Mayer recently when she launched the company’s new search capability called Instant last month. Mayer has been with the company since 1999, and takes on a new role on [...]
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The German government met with Google and other Internet executives this week regarding their concerns about the privacy of personal geographical data. The concern arises primarily from the company’s StreetView technology, which has raised widespread concern in the country. Despite the unprecedented move by Google to allow any German property owner to opt-out of having [...]
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