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B.C. first in Canada to give Google its maps
Internet service will provide full aerial views
Marke Andrews,
Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008
An overhead view of Port Alberni illustrates what can happen when government works with an Internet mapping service.
The
right side of the image on this page depicts what Google Earth and
Google Maps showed before entering into an agreement with the B.C.
provincial government: Streets are identified, […]
A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 147
Episode 147
May 11, 2008
Main Topic: Ron Lake and Bob Samborski on the Geoweb Conference
OGC Approves KML as Open Standard
April 14, 2008
The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced the approval of the OpenGIS® KML Encoding Standard (OGC KML), marking KML's transition into an open standard which will be maintained by the OGC. Developers will now have a standard approach for using KML to code and share visual geographic content in […]
GeoWorld: Industry Outlook 2008
GeoWorld December 2007
Issue Date: Industry Outlook 2008 — Full Responses, Posted On: 1/1/2008
Ron Lake, CEO and chairman, Galdos Systems Inc.
Where will the geospatial industry and technology be in 10 years?
Predicting the future is a difficult task often done by looking at the past—what Marshall McLuhan referred to as “rear-view mirrorism.” Although this is fraught with […]
GIM International: A New Age (I)
01/01/2008
GIM International Interviews David Schell, Chairman and CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium
On 23rd October 2007, at the annual Geoint Symposium, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) announced that Microsoft Corporation had joined the organisation as a Principal Member. This important milestone was reason for us to approach David Schell, OGC chairman and CEO, and to ask […]
The OGC: Seeks Comment on OGC Candidate KML 2.2 Standard
December 4, 2007
Recently, Google and Galdos Systems Inc. submitted KML into the OGC consensus process ensuring that KML will be aligned with international best practices and standards, thereby enabling greater uptake and interoperability of Earth browser implementations.
Read the release on Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
Read the release on GeoCommunity Spatial News.
Read the release on Directions Magazine.
Read […]
GeoWorld: What Can the Web Do for “Geo” and Vice Versa?
Issue Date: October - 2007, Posted On: 11/1/2007
Tech Time
By Peter Batty
Peter Batty is vice president and chief technology officer, Intergraph; e-mail:
peter.batty@intergraph.com.
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I recently was at the GeoWeb conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where Ron Lake of Galdos Systems observed that the conference’s previous focus had primarily been on what the Web could do […]
The Economist: The World on Your Desktop
September 6, 2007
Galdos Systems Inc. was interviewed by The Economist for an article published in the journal's September 2007 edition of Technology Quarterly.
Read the article on their website: The Economist.
Download the PDF file: The Economist-The world on your desktop September 6 2007.pdf
Imaging Notes Magazine: GeoWeb2007
Fall 2007
GeoWeb2007
The State of Spatial Data Infrastructure
Geospatial web-based infrastructure, or the GeoWeb as it is known
today, created by the ability to exchange complex geodata through such
standards as GML(Geographic Markup Language)[1] and KML(Keyhole Markup
Language),[2] is a game changer in the way geodata are consumed,
analyzed, visualized, and distributed. The second annual GeoWeb
Conference, held in Vancouver July 25-27, […]
E-Commerce Times: Galdos CEO Ron Lake: Mapping the Future of the Browser
August 15, 2007
By Jack M. Germain
TechNewsWorld
Ron Lake, the original creator of Geography Markup Language, was one of the organizers of GeoWeb 2007. He is among those innovators working to produce the browser of the future: a map display that will let people zoom around a map to find the information they need instead of […]