Thursday, December 23, 2010
Friday geonews delayed... happy holiday break to all!
A quick note to wish our users a great holiday break. Geonews will be sporadically published in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, you can still submit them. We'll be back at full speed in January.
MapQuest Introduces Open.Mapquest.com
The official MapQuest blog introduces open.mapquest.com.
From the announcement: "After the successful launches of 10 open-sourced maps in Europe and Asia in partnership with OpenStreetMap (OSM), MapQuest is proud to launch its U.S. site located at Open.Mapquest.com. [...] Open.Mapquest.com provides the same features as our 10 sites in Europe and Asia, and also debuts a new error-reporting tool (which has been added to all of MapQuest’s open sites). For many, this tool may be their first step in becoming OSM contributors."
New Poll on 2011 and Poll Results on The Future of the Shapefile Format
About time we change our front page poll. The new poll asks you about what 2011 in geospatial will be like.
The results and comments on the poll about the future of the Shapefile formatare pretty interesting. Out of 347 answers, 35% believe the shapefile will stay with us forever and 25% believe SpatiaLite will become the choice of many. Otherwise, it's pretty mixed results, 13% admit they don't know, 11% think that web services will eventually replace flat files, 8% think the GML standard will become widely used, the same amount of people believe ESRI's Geodatabase format will eventually replace the shapefile format. Please also take a look at the insightful comments shared by our users for that poll.
Living in Toronto, Looking for a Condo
TheRedPin
TheRedPin is Toronto and the GTA's first one-stop condo destination, where condo buyers can find all project details, such as floor plans, amenities, model suites and more. On top of the project details, buyers also have access to a wealth of neighbourhood information, such as nearby schools and daycares, investment stats and neighbourhood amenities.
You can search for a condo using TheRedPin Google Map. You can search by location, price and by number of bed and bathrooms. TheRedPin also uses Google Maps to provide local amenity information as well as sales office directions for each condo project
TheRedPin is Toronto and the GTA's first one-stop condo destination, where condo buyers can find all project details, such as floor plans, amenities, model suites and more. On top of the project details, buyers also have access to a wealth of neighbourhood information, such as nearby schools and daycares, investment stats and neighbourhood amenities.
You can search for a condo using TheRedPin Google Map. You can search by location, price and by number of bed and bathrooms. TheRedPin also uses Google Maps to provide local amenity information as well as sales office directions for each condo project
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