Msn virtual earth

So it seams MSN copied google's ideas to create a world-mapping-application... Unfortunately they lack speed and functionality. Test it at http://virtualearth.msn.com. It seems they virtually destroyed Apple's headquarters (1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014) and reinserted old farm houses (= in that specific situation they used old photographic material).

*fun* Do you know what material the moon is made of primarily? Find out by zooming in at any position at http://moon.google.com

chameleon-shirts

I recently noticed you can buy t-shirts with the chameleon logo, so from now, you can show all you're friends, what you're working on (and hope they understand).

http://www.cafepress.com/maptools

satellite imagery of europe in Google maps

Google recently added satellite imagery of the whole world to its fast mapping service. Until now only the united states could enjoy their fast mapping service. But we're very pleased to see the whole world getting visible in google maps

Very interesting is the imagery of Africa. A part of the world where not much internet-mapping is available (in most cases, no maps are available). Maybe the google service can aid scientists and development workers there by providing easy-to-use, fast imagery of the region. Personally i visited Cameroon, Kenya and Guinee and could easily point out the various trips i made to maintains and cities.

Variables in CF

Try this out...

<cfoutput>
<cfset x["y.z"] = "a">
#x.y.z#
<cfset x.y.z = "b">
#x.y.z#
#x["y.z"]#
<cfdump var="#x#">
</cfoutput>


the amazing world of CF

Introduction of new srid to load autodesk data for mapguide not supported by oracle?

In the Netherlands we have (had) a lot of problems when introducing Autodesk geo data in Oracle Spatial, because of the different spatial reference systems used in both applications. A company ISIS (these days part of Bentley) develloped a fix for the problem, which is widely used by local administration in the Netherlands (organisations using mapguide FlexiWeb).

In the fix ISIS, amongst other things, introduces a new srid in Oracle (srid 19025), similar to RD (dutch standard system).

However yesterday i learned this fix is not officially supported by Oracle. So lots of organisations will miss oracle support when there software solution fails. The province of Limburg didn't agree with the ISIS-fix and tried to find another solution, so they brought a team of Oracle, Autodesk and other developers together working on an Oracle supported fix. The project is in full progress and a fix is expected soon.

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introducing an srid in oracle (autodesk)
known bug in 8i/9i with srs's (autodesk)
problems showing oracle data in mapguide (autodesk)
Loading data from autodesk (oracle)
Nice mapping application (limburg)