Today’s geospatial industry news includes the “Cool Vendor in Energy and Utilities” award for Topcon, the release of the Bentley User Conference Keynote Report, and contract awards for Nvision, Timmons Group, and SuperGeo. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) will be holding its next OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meetings from 12-17 June 2011 […]
Microsoft
GIS Learning
GeoBriefs: Google Maps adds biking directions, new ArcGIS Explorer released, Aerial update for Bing Maps
The Official Google Blog announced the addition of biking directions to Google Maps. Shannon Guyman, Product Manager at Google explains why it took until now to add biking directions, “we wanted to include as much bike trail data as possible, provide efficient routes, allow riders to customize their trip, make […]
GIS Software
Bing Maps Update
Microsoft’s Bing Maps has a host of new features in their latest update. New functions include draggable routes, command parsing for functions such as driving directions and traffic information, the ability to embed maps into personal web sites and better web site navigation features. The Bing home page was also […]
GIS Software
Online Mapping Sued
What do Expedia, Google, Microsoft, the Washington Post, Ticketmaster, Travelocity, Tripadvisor, Yahoo, Yellow Pages, Yelp, and Zagat Survey have in common? They are all being sued by Webmap Technologies LLC for infringement of patent 6,772,142 called Method and Apparatus for Collecting and Expressing Geographically Referenced Data. Read more: Google, Microsoft, […]