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[thematic mapping blog] thematic mapping blog: Visualizing Scientific Data Using KML and ...: Now recognized by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as an international standard, KML is now increasingly supported by a range of platforms, including Google Earth and Maps, NASA World Wind, ESRI ArcGIS Explorer and Microsoft's Virtual Earth and EarthBrowser.

[Slashgeo] Slashgeo | Geonews Cleanup: Laws of Geography, OSS Support, KML ...: And finally, the thematic mapping blog shares an entry on KML projections: "The projections commonly used by geobrowsers are not the best choice for thematic world maps. Many cartographers dislike thematic maps rendered on virtual globes, .

[thematic mapping blog] thematic mapping blog: Why 3D works #1: Looking on the other side: I think you're WWJ application looks very promising and I think it's always good to have open source alternatives. I didn't know that you could make prisms on a "flat" map with WWJ.

[High Earth Orbit] KML 3 Kick-off, Module: Metadata :: High Earth Orbit: KML’s earlier version Metadata tag was more oriented towards simple attribute style (no hierarchical nesting of elements) and while that might be sufficient for some applications, the basics which I needed to support my work was the ability to associate a list/collection of observations with an associated KML Placemark/TimeStamp. I’m not a member or participant in OGC specifications processes, but do hope that OGC is able to incorporate simpler document-centric approaches and recommendations for popular data/metadata formats in addition to the earlier/ongoing service-centric, query based approaches.

[Slashgeo] Slashgeo | CityGML is an Official OGC Standard: From the CityGML wiki : "It defines the classes and relations for the most relevant topographic .Included are generalization hierarchies between thematic classes, aggregations, relations between objects, and spatial properties.

[Comments for Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne] Chiming in on KML Metadata | Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne: Long story short, yes, there are real issues that need to be addressed, but let’s think before this turns into a monster.  KML was already becoming the standard way to store and transport geodata around the web, and it’s recent introduction into the OGC standards process has further cemented that.  One of the reasons that FortiusOne ultimately decided to support KML import in the short term, instead of GML or GML Simple Features profile was because it was simple.  It was one file that you needed for import, and you didn’t need to pull down a separate application-specific schema for more complex files.

[OGC News Feed] OGC Reference Model (ORM) | OGC®: Any feature may also have a number of attributes : Spatial, Temporal, Quality, Location, Metadata, Thematic. A feature is not defined in terms of a single geometry, but rather as a conceptually meaningful object within a particular information or .

[Comments for James Fee GIS Blog] James Fee GIS Blog » Blog Archive » GeoCommons Maker! - the next day: But best wishes to them, I have to hope those who put their money and time into GIS related efforts will be rewarded and should be respected as entrepreneurs, but as a professional, I can’t get excited yet. I don’t want the rest of the world thinking a few dots on a pretty map is all GIS is.

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