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Adding Analytic Muscle To Spinning Globes:. Bulking Up Google Earth & Virtual Earth with PostGIS. Brian Timoney. Google Earth Free Version OK for Business/Professional Use. MS Virtual Earth to support KML In Fall of 2007. Competing Visions.
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Adding Analytic Muscle To Spinning Globes: Bulking Up Google Earth & Virtual Earth with PostGIS Brian Timoney
Google Earth Free Version OK for • Business/Professional Use • MS Virtual Earth to support KML • In Fall of 2007
Competing Visions (Contrasting the heavy, all-encompassing ESRI approach—Database +SDE + ArcServer + ArcObjects to the ’80-20 rule’ first posited by Pareto).
Don’t Give The Masses What They Don’t Want (Most general users can have their needs met by a simple set of spatial tools (buffers, Intersections, distance measures). Again, invoke the 80-20 rule.
PostGIS KML SQL WKT Analysis Request w/Viewing Parameters Spinning Globe Server Via PHP, ASP, Ruby, Python, etc. Formatted KML or JSON A simple schematic.
Stream Imagery Globally; Analyze & Visualize Your Data Locally With the consumer interfaces, your data sits behind the firewall while you can stream In base imagery from over the internet.
http://www.thetimoneygroup.net/foss This includes sample code and demo data from the PostGIS/Google Earth workshop given earlier in the week at the conference.