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Items of Geospatial Interest in the Washington Post

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geographic, Placenames, Washington

A couple recent articles in the Washington Post having to do with things geospatial. Rob Pegoraro describes his experience using the neighborhood boundaries in Yahoo! Maps live. Just goes to show that not only are those boundaries are loosely defined, but when those who approximate the location of those boundaries have no local knowledge, there [...]

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KML is now an OGC spec…

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geographic, standards

Yep, that’s right. It was Announced today. KML is now an OGC specification, and no longer a proprietary Google spec. Good news all around. Here’s the link.

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