Thursday, June 09, 2005
Cool uses of XML - maps and overlays
The new Google maps allows programmatic access and this has opened up some interesting new uses where demographic information is overlaid onto the maps.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050609/D8AJQ81O0.html
The ability to toggle to satellite imagery makes this especially compelling. These images are very useful - (I use them alot to locate soccer fields for away games where the directions are woeful - road signs poorly located - and Americans just do not give good directions - not a skill taught in school!)
Microsoft is also implementing technology too with 45' angle views:
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050523-125208
The next step is to get these search interfaces using a common XML syntax based on ISO23950. to see how this can work - and also examples of the underlying XML query syntax, see:
http://www.gils.net/srwGoogle.html
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050609/D8AJQ81O0.html
The ability to toggle to satellite imagery makes this especially compelling. These images are very useful - (I use them alot to locate soccer fields for away games where the directions are woeful - road signs poorly located - and Americans just do not give good directions - not a skill taught in school!)
Microsoft is also implementing technology too with 45' angle views:
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050523-125208
The next step is to get these search interfaces using a common XML syntax based on ISO23950. to see how this can work - and also examples of the underlying XML query syntax, see:
http://www.gils.net/srwGoogle.html
