Ars has a really good post on location aware software for Linux. The framework is called Geoclue and it builds on a number of other software packages and services, sharing an API through D-Bus, which is a common way for
In the ohboyohboyohboy department, Google Earth 5.0 has been released. You can read a good summary and watch a video on the Google blog, but here’s a quick summary of the new features: The thing people have been tal
In the it’s-almost-here department, Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s ubiquitous crashware slug of a browser, is getting read to push out a new release. And despite my uncharitable description, I’m pretty hyped about it. It
I’ve got a collection of things I’ve bookmarked that I thought were interesting, but none of them together were interesting enough for a blog post. Going under the belief that a great many mediocre stories = one good sto
I spotted this on the Google Earth Blog. It needs no further explanation: The developer is planning on releasing the source code sometime soon.
In the extra-crispy department, I caught this on the Wired blog. Basically it’s a Google Maps mashup that will show you how cooked you’ll be should a nuclear device land on your head. You can find it here. It uses some e
First, in the department-cubed department, Google SketchUp 7 has been released. Google SketchUp is 3D modeling software with spatial overtones. It’s probably the easiest tool out there for making detailed 3D models for i
From the I-am-Spartacus! department, an article on BBC alerted me to a detailed 3D rendering of ancient Rome in Google Earth. Just fire up Google Earth, head to Gallery in the Layers section, and turn on Ancient Rome in
From the bug-squashing department, ArcGIS 9.3 SP1 is out. Everybody probably knows about this already (it seems like every other entry in Google Reader is assaulting me with this news the last few days), but one does not
There are so many new FOSS software releases lately, I thought I’d hit on a few:The previously mentioned OpenLayers 2.7.Ubuntu 8.10 should be out by the end of the month. As I do every year, I promised myself to wait for