While Google has announced to open-source its code of Google Earth Enterprise, Esri has released an update of ArcGIS Earth that enhances the on-premises experience. Google made two recent announcements about the future of two of its mapping products. First, they...
The Google Elevation Service provides elevation data for points on the surface of the Earth as well as sampled elevation data along paths. The ElevationService object is used to communicate with the service. The process of obtaining elevation data about a location or...
GeoSpatial Training Services is pleased to announce the release of our newest instructor guided, Internet based course, Introduction to Programming the Google Maps API. This is for version 3 of the API. This course will be taught by Eric Pimpler, Qualified Google...
Google Fusion Tables, still in the experimental stages of development, is a Google product that allows you to upload and share data in multiple tables. These tables can be joined together to create derived tables and provide a way of visualizing and sharing data. ...
Recently, GeoSpatial Training Services completed a custom, web based GIS application using the new Arc2Earth Cloud Services and its associated REST API. Arc2Earth Cloud Services is an excellent alternative for deploying GIS applications to the web without the hassles...
The Google Maps team continues to add really useful functionality to the Maps API. Now the Google Maps API team has introduced a new Elevation Service that enables applications to determine elevation profiles. The Maps API v3 contains an ElevationService class or...