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World's Largest Digital Photograph
For those interested, the worlds largest panorama is now online for your viewing

Microsoft's 'Street Slide' Takes Aim At StreetView
Found on cnet news

Google Geonews: Google Maps for Mobile 4.4 & Sky Map Released, Political Borders Improved, and more
Here's Google-related geonews for the last 10 days or so, during my absence. MapServer

NAVTEQ 3D City Models Overview
bleifisch writes "NAVTEQ 3D City Models Overview: A Product Guide for Developers. Content of the white paper:

• Tropical Storm and Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Mashup
  Andrew Zolnai writes "The tropical storm threatening the Gulf of Mexico oilspill cleanup

  New Opticks 4.4.0 Release Candidate
  kstreith writes "Opticks release candidate for 4.4.0 has

  Google's Free Satnav Outperforms TomTom
  Another nail gets hammered into the TomTom coffin. How do you market a paid app/device versus a free app (so long as you pay you

  NASA Creates First Global Forest Map Using Lasers
  Currently in discussion on Google wifi collection debac

  A Traffic Reporting System in Bangkok
  Phisan Santitamnont writes "== Indiginous Traffic Reporting System over Ban

  Friday Geonews: Crowdsourcing Ocean data, ArcGIS SP2, 95% of Geodata, Benefits of OGC, and much more
  Here's your weekly dose of geonews in batch mode. I will be away on holiday next week, other Slashgeo will still be active and m

  OpenPlaques.org Receives Funding from the RSA
  jnicho02 writes "openplaques.org is a service tha

  Apple Acquires Web Mapping Firm Poly9
  Found this on enga

  Roger Tomlinson, ESRI UC Senior Executive Seminar
  Andrew Zolnai writes "I believe Dr Tomlinson's 1967 application featured in the seminar,

  Friday Geonews: MapQuest Funding OpenStreetMap, Intergraph Acquired, More ArcGIS on iPad, and more
  Several interesting geonews in our batch-mode edition this Friday.
  
  On the ESRI front, the gvSIG Project writes "Dear users, The gvSIG workshop that was held at OSGIS 2010 (Nottin

  ESRI Releases Free ArcGIS for iOS (iPad/iPhone)
  I know we published a wrapup of recent ESRI geonews

  BMW's Pathfinder 'MicroNavigation' System For Augmenting GPS
  Found via engadget

  Monday Geonews: OSGeo Presentation, OGC HTTP URI, 976 Map Apps, and more
  Here's your dose of geonews in batch mode, this time again on a Monday.
  
  In the FOSS4G/Open data front, here's the

  Google Geonews: Google Maps API now 5, New Imagery, 3D Cities on the iPad, and more
  Here's recent Google geonews.
  
  From the official blog, there was an entry almost a week ago named recent availability of ArcGIS 10, ther

  Help Build GIS-Specific Stack Overflow/Exchange
  matt wilkie writes "Help Build a vendor neutral Oliver Tonnhofer writes "There is a new blog about

  Mapquest Updates
  There is an article on

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