GeoWeb & Digital Mapping News

Rosen Aviation has tied up with Quantum3D to produce a three-dimensional (3D) mapping system and Human Machine Interface (HMI) for the new RosenView HD in-flight entertainment (IFE) system.
 
With this development, the two companies have strengthened their relationship. Quantum3Ds IDataMap product is already flying on multiple business jets as a part of Rosens existing RosenView LX system.
 

French company Aéro Photo Europe Investigation (APEI) has acquired Intergraph Z/I Imaging Digital Mapping Camera (DMC) airborne and ground processing system as the company makes transition from analog to digital aerial photogrammetry.
 
According to the company, this marks the first DMC system to be used in France.
 
Post this acquisition, the aerial survey company captured 50,000 images with ground resolutions ranging from five to fifty centimeters during its first six months in operation.
 

ESRI has updated its GIS Portal Toolkit for ArcGIS in order to improve geographic information system (GIS) data access over the web.
 
GIS Portal Toolkit is a free technology and services solution for implementing local, regional, national, and global spatial data infrastructure (SDI) portals.
 

Flight search engine, Skyscanner.net, has launched Maps Tool API.
 
The Skyscanner Maps Tool API is a Flash travel map that webmasters can easily embed on their own sites to display Skyscanner flight route information and is free to download from www.Skyscanner.net.
 
According to the company, the new initiative is the first in a new series of free tools that allows third party websites to integrate Skyscanner flight functionality into their own sites.
 

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has introduced a new online tool that combines Google Earth technology with a special IHG hotels file.
 
Visitors to IHG's website  or http://www.earth.ihg.com/ can download this tool for free.
 
With this tool, IHG, which has seven hotel brands, intends to "make it easier to plan and book an IHG branded hotel room anywhere in the world in just a few clicks".
 

Geowebtoday.com Special

ubExact, which recently launched the beta version of what is being described as the only direct navigation, action-based search engine, is attempting to lend a new dimension to the search world, similar to how the iPod impacted the music industry.

Yandex recently introduced a world map, terming it to be the most detailed online map of the world in Russian language.

All new maps are available on Yandex.Maps beta version. The new map comes with search features. For example, Yandex users looking for Paris will find four of them – one in France, another in Slovakia, and two in Russia: in Bashkortostan and in Chelyabinskaya Oblast.

I have only just seen this - fascinating stuiff about the BBC geo-tagging all the content on the local video network from

Mozilla lab's latest plugin, Geode, helps websites detect your current location It is a forerunner to their WC3 Geolocation Specification, that will allow websites to deliver localised content and services in any browser (once universally implemented). The user will then control both how they want to reveal their location (via GPS, WiFi, manually etc.) and to what specification - country, city, neighbourhood or exact location.

And a simillarly themed post from Ed Parsons but with a European perspective from the other side of the pond on his blog.