- Directions Magazine’s Top 10 for 2006 features GeoRSS, ArcGIS Explorer and… Declan Butler!
- What looks like the final release candidate for NASA World Wind 1.4, RC3, is out (Windows download). The Earth is Square is blogging some of the new features and mentions that the .Net 1.1 version (1.3.6) is on hold. The Java version of NASA World Wind is still forthcoming, reports Bull’s Rambles.
Meanwhile, here’s what’s new in 1.4. Here’s the page listing the remaining bugs in 1.4 RC3.
- In London for the weekend, I managed to pop into the British Museum, where, until 11 February you can see The Past from Above, an exhibition of absolutely amazing aerial photography by Georg Gerster. I only wish I had the opportunity to buy a CD with the images, georeferenced, as a KML file in the shop at the end. No such luck.
- Google will become the archival experts for the 30 terabytes of daily data the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is set to produce when it goes live in 2013. Also on the agenda: making this data accessible to the public. Google Sky, anyone?
- Christian Spanring dissects the latest rumors regarding Apple Mac OS X 10.5 + GPS integration.