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O'Reilly - Safari Books Onlinehttp://safari.oreilly.com/9780321574404 [O'Reilly - Safari Books Online] Tostart creating KML, all you need is a simple text editor. To viewit, use the free version of Google Earth or Microsoft VirtualEarth, or one of the many other applications that support KML-basedEarth browsing--including NASA World Wind, ESRI ArcGIS Explorer,Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk AutoCAD, and Yahoo!

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ESRI UC Bloghttp://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/ucblog/archive/2008/08/04/arcgis-online-resource-center-delivers-content-on-demand.aspx [ESRI UC Blog] ArcGIS Online Resource Center Delivers Content on Demand: He clicked to access data from the ArcGIS Desktop Resource Center, selected a USGS local topographic map, and then clicked another button to add this data into the ArcMap project. Another click and more data, high quality imagery was added to the map, which easily aligned with the other GIS data used in the project.

Matt Penner[Matt Penner] ESRI 2008 UC: Plenary Session: Now ArcGIS will have native KML export built in. When used in conjunction with ArcGIS Server and other tools this will make offering your GIS data to online mapping systems a very easy process, that will free up maintenance and always .

GIS Education Community Bloghttp://feeds.esri.com/~r/gisedcom/~3/340545082/creating-kml-files-in-arcgis-9-3.aspx [GIS Education Community Blog] KML in ArcGIS 9.3: You can also load your KML files into Web maps like Google Maps (via the My Maps tab) and Microsoft Virtual Earth (via the Collections menu). This functionality provides new ways for you to share maps and data with others and tell your .

geoweb 2008 Conference - Infrastructure: Local to Globalhttp://geowebconference.org/building-a-better-world-in-geoweb-2008-part-2/ [geoweb 2008 Conference - Infrastructure: Local to Global] Building a Better World in GeoWeb 2008, Part 2: In some corners of the geospatial world, people have been toying with the notion of a Geopedia, based on the Wikipedia model that lets everyone contribute their geographic knowledge to develop an ultimate geospatial database. In Miller’s view, that’s not feasible, at least not at the moment.

maperturehttp://www.maperture.net/maperture/2008/8/4/esri-leads-gis-users-into-the-future.html [maperture] ESRI leads GIS users into the future: mobile mapping, enterprise computing, distributed spatial data infrastructures, and support for Google's GeoWeb by way of KML standards support for publishing. All of these, plus making Microsoft Virtual Earth services available for .

All Points Blog Commentshttp://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/4576-Microsoft-VE-to-be-in-ESRIs-ArcGIS-Online.html [All Points Blog Comments] Sanjeev: Microsoft VE to be in ESRI's ArcGIS Online: The rest of the world in IT has settled on XML, or a variant of it, but the last time I checked the GIS folks were still debating how to order point coordinates - as Lat-Long, or Long-Lat! Have we settled on any standard language yet - GML, KML, AXL .

Ogle Earth[Ogle Earth] Links: Radiohead GIS, multitouch OSes, Galaxy Zoo: My money is on Android (Google’s own) and iPhone (based on Mac OS X, for which a version already exists.) What about Nokia’s open-source Symbian, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and RIM’s Blackberry OS? Will these be served by browser-based virtual Earths?

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