Slashgeo

It seems the Virtual Globes war interests our readers, it came second in our Hall of Fame for poll participation. Slashgeo users strongly (58%) believe Google Earth is winning the war. NASA World Wind is good second with 14%, Virtual Earth 3D at 6%. Advertisers received 7% of the vote, while 5% claim the users themselves are winning the war. ArcGIS Explorer (2% but unreleased at the beginning of the poll) and GlobeXplorer (0%) did poorly. 7% cautious users said it's too early to tell. Now, let's have a Christmas-related poll!

Some improvements to Slashgeo. Trackback pings can now be sent and received. Additionally, you can slashdot and digg stories with a simple click as much as adding a del.icio.us bookmark. As some of you might have noticed, our RSS feed is back to GeoRSS and Google Maps can be shown on a story's page. Not everything works flawlessly yet, but we're working on it. You can sure share your feature requests! I also update the main page poll to ask you about which main scale you work with. The previous poll about projects revealed most users have many projects (39%) and are missing time (18%) or funding (18%). Only 7% feel they work on the best geospatial projects. You might also expect few news items until Friday, since I'll be attending the Geomatics 2006 conference. Don't worry, we'll cover any significant story to make sure you didn't miss anything pertinent.