Monday morning shorts

Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Lab has released some visualizations to go with last week’s press release, as grabbed from Autoblog:

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There’s more where that came from. Jos at Jos’Blog looks at these and wonders what’s taking airlines so long to revamp their inflight entertainment system.

GoogleEarthing has started a mammoth new contest. If you have way too much time on your hands, you won’t want to miss this.

James Fee points the way to a short PDF that illustrates the ease with which ArcGIS Server 9.2 will be able to serve KML network links. Just as with WMS, you tick a checkbox, and voila.

Apparently, boaters tend to use the Nobeltec Visual Navigation Suite for electronic navigation, which lets you track your routes. Roly_in_Victoria_BC writes on Google Earth Community that he’s created a VB6 script that translates those to KML. If anyone is interested, he’ll release it, he writes.