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There’s an interesting and timely post in the online magazine On Windows that details a partnership between Microsoft and ESRI to create a Fusion Center, which aims to help first responders share real-time data, collaborate, and display information visually on interactive Bing maps and SharePoint-based tools. The solution addresses the need to make sense of [...]
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Microsoft Labs offers a video vision of how they’d like to see information technology evolve by 2019. In this five-minute video are details of SmartGrid technology to monitor a home, and various communication tools that allow us to connect and collaborate better. The vision is decidedly greener, and there are some interesting touch screen technologies [...]
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A funny typo in the Map World Forum program caught my eye in a remote sensing session that touted “High-Resolution Imagery for Mircosofts Virtual Earth.” The typo in the program was surprisingly mirrored on the first of the presenter’s slides for an overview of their Vexcel camera, right under the familiar and correct Microsoft logo. [...]
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It’s nice to learn that ESRI and Microsoft have teamed up to help the Kenyan-based Green Belt Movement in their reforestation efforts. The alliance aims to lend technology assistance to this group to plant trees more efficiently, and in the right places. Green Belt Movement has planted more than 30 million trees since they were [...]
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Today MapMart announced that Microsoft’s UltraCam imagery would be offered for download on the MapMart website. This announcement follows the report that Microsoft Virtual Earth data will be available to ESRI users as a service. This latest announcement leverages Microsoft’s considerable investment in imagery acquisition and places them in competition with all other imagery providers. [...]
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The Microsoft and ESRI release has gotten some good play, and rightly so. It’s an interesting pairing that may have huge implications for the geospatial industry. At the very least, it should ratchet up the Google vs. Microsoft battle. ESRI is wise to make use of Virtual Earth as a data source. It provides a [...]
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Bill Gail a director at Microsoft Virtual Earth gave the morning keynote today at GeoWeb. The focus of the talk was on the transition of the GeoWeb, showing the current status and features of Virtual Earth and presenting three evolving scenarios for the evolution of the GeoWeb. Gail detailed the content and functionality of Virtual [...]
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Microsoft gathered 120 teams of students from 61 countries in Paris, France this week for the finals of their Imagine Cup, which urged students to use Microsoft technology to come up with environmental solutions. The Australian Smart Operational Agriculture Toolkit (SOAK) took the top prize in software design. SOAK is a prototype network of solar-powered [...]
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