Adding Analytic Muscle To Spinning Globes:
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Adding Analytic Muscle To Spinning Globes:
Bulking Up Google Earth& Virtual Earth with
PostGIS
Brian Timoney
1. Google Earth Free Version OK for Business/Professional Use
2. MS Virtual Earth to support KMLIn 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.
Spinning Globe Via PHP, ASP, Ruby, Python,
etc.
Analysis Request w/Viewing Parameters Server
PostGIS
SQLKMLWKT
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 streamIn base imagery from over the internet.
DEMOS
http://www.thetimoneygroup.net/foss
This includes sample code and demo data from the PostGIS/Google Earth workshopgiven earlier in the week at the conference.