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Leica's TITAN Now Works with Microsoft Virtual Earth

posted by Satri on Thursday August 23, @01:09PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
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Ogle Earth informs us Leica's virtual globe named TITAN can now work with Microsoft's Virtual Earth 2D and 3D. From the announcement: "The Geospatial Instant Messenger now supports the direct publishing and serving of geospatial data to Microsoft Virtual Earth 2D and 3D. Simply open up a chat session with a user sharing data, right click on a shared dataset and choose ‘Load in Virtual Earth 2D’ or ‘Load in Virtual Earth 3D.’" See previous TITAN-related stories below.

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Remember the 'leak' about Leica upcoming TITAN virtual globe, this press release announces the beta version. The intro: "Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces the Beta release of Leica TITAN and launch of the Leica TITAN Network. Empowered by a 3D virtual globe, this dynamic online solution allows users and communities to share geospatial and location-based content in a single, secure environment. "Users and organizations need a central, safe environment to discover, share, visualize, and retrieve geospatial data, web services, and location-based information," said Mladen Stojic, Director of Enterprise and Visualization Products, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging. "With a high performance 3D virtual globe, Leica TITAN provides this vibrant solution, with enhanced features, allowing interactive communication, collaboration, and sharing of information.""
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Vector One offers an interesting entry on the benefits of having multiple parallel virtual globes. From the entry: "Are We Destined to Have Parallel Digital Earth’s? The alternative to parallel digital worlds is one digital world - no thanks. I don’t want Google, Microsoft, WorldWind, TITAN or any other single world becoming the dominate, stand alone, source for digital spatial content. In fact, I think each of these do their best work and will reach their highest potential through competition and interaction. [...] The primary difference between digital worlds and all other mediums for communication will simply be that they are digital and characterized by what one can do with digital data." From my point of view, interoperability is the key component for the users. Update: 09/28 15:29 GMT by S : Spatial Sustain's Matt Ball also shares his thoughts on the subject: "There’s currently ample opportunity for niche players in this space, but the gap between the leaders and others is rapidly expanding to the point that it will be a chasm where vast amounts of investment will be required to catch up."
Leica TITAN 2008 Now Available [+]
Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces the availability of Leica TITAN 2008, a dynamic online data sharing solution. Leica TITAN 2008 includes:

• Leica TITAN Client
o Leica TITAN Viewer – enables global users to interactively visualize and share data.
o Geospatial Instant Messenger – primary communication protocol used to share, chat, discover, access and retrieve geospatial data & web services into a variety of client applications.
• Leica TITAN GeoHub
o Organizations create their own secure community with the Leica TITAN Network. The GeoHub enables both internal & external permission-based data access in a secure network.
• Leica TITAN Master Server
o Organizations create an autonomous, private and isolated network, where GeoHub communities and individuals interact outside of the Leica TITAN Network.
• Leica TITAN Web Cache Server (Coming soon!)
o Improves the performance of the GeoHub and can be set up in different geographic locations.
Leica TITAN Client new features include:

• New icons & functionality
• Create and persist lists of public web services
• Access public web services from others
• Set permissions on local data allowing public access to your data
• Search for available data across the entire Leica TITAN Network
• Set Preferences for both the Geospatial Instant Messenger and the Viewer
• See User Profile and Stats referent to the GeoHub you are currently subscribed to
• Switch between viewing modes
• Share KML and KMZ files via the Geospatial Instant Messenger
• Save MyWorld and set permissions on datasets
• Add and remove users from your buddy list (MyNetwork)
• Subscribe and connect to different GeoHubs available in the Leica TITAN Network
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