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on Wednesday November 26, @01:06PM
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In what I find to be kind of embarrassing for Microsoft, someone has written a javascript version of the DeepZoom functionality of Silverlight. Once again proving that introducing a new standard that only works on one platform doesn't quite make any sense when it can be done easier and efficiently with current technology. And best of all, works on all major platforms (even mobile). Here is part of their summary : "In a move that I wouldn’t have bet a dollar on, Live Labs released a purely JavaScript Deep Zoom client. You read that right, what was so far one of the nice features only found in Silverlight is now available in an open web, standards-based version."
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From the GIS in XML blog : "One of the many announcements at the MIX08 conference is the availability of Deep Zoom technology for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. This results from an R&D program in Microsoft called Sea Dragon. Sea Dragon was evidently a Microsoft acquisition awhile back. Reminiscent of Keyhole(now google earth), Sea Dragon is a tool for smooth viewing of very large image resources. The novelty is to have it useable inside a SilverLight browser view."
For links to a live demonstration of Silverlight and more info on the Blue Marble project, visit the GIS in XML blog.
For links to a live demonstration of Silverlight and more info on the Blue Marble project, visit the GIS in XML blog.
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Another Deep Zoom GIS experiment unfolded today. This time, it's from the GIS in XML blog. From the blog's summary : "Just to show that I can serve a compiled Deep Zoom Silverlight app from various Apache servers I loaded this Denver example on a Windows 2003 Apache Tomcat here: http://www.web-demographics.com/Denver, and then a duplicate on a Linux Ubuntu7.10 running as an instance in the Amazon EC2, this time using Apache httpd not Tomcat: http://www.gis-ows.com/Denver Remember these are using beta technology and will requires updating to Silverlight 2.0. The Silverlight install is only about 4.5Mb so the install is relatively painless on a normal bandwidth connection."
For a live demonstration, as well as a very highly detailed link, please visit the GIS in XML blog.
For a live demonstration, as well as a very highly detailed link, please visit the GIS in XML blog.
DeepZoom spatially embedded documents
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Randy George writes "Using Deep Zoom Composer, images can be inserted at various locations within the zoom pyramid. This means full images of ... documents, html pages, schematics, data records, photos ... can be inserted down at lower levels of a main image’s zoom. Here is an experiment from a geospatial perspective looking at potential for this type of DeepZoom imagery.
Live demonstration at GIS in XML"
Industry: Virtual Earth and Photosynth Via Seadragon on the iPhone
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iPhone owners can use Virtual Earth on the iPhone. From the entry: " Perhaps you’ve heard that the Live Labs team launched a free version of the Seadragon browser for iPhone…perhaps not. While the viewer is awesome and provides a killer photo viewer (arguably better than what comes with the iPhone) it also has Microsoft Virtual Earth included natively in the application. The application lets you navigate the world in Road, Aerial and Hybrid modes (sorry, no Birds Eye). [...] Also, Photosynth exploration and viewing is included in the release. I searched for “Pendleton” and you just have to love the auto-complete feature because sure enough as I was typing my “CP MS VE TE” synth came to the top (poor picture from my camera phone)."
Seadragon is the first Microsoft app for Apple's iPhone, and it's free.
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From James Fee GIS Blog here is a snippet of MSFT's announcement : "Now, because we’re using Silverlight, .NET developers (all 6 million + of you) can leverage your skill set to build rich, killer apps that make your data bling and highlight media in a geo-contextual way as has never been seen before. VESL leverages all of the drawing tools that come with Silverlight, so for Silverlight developers you’re not relearning how to take your computer art and force it onto a map. Instead, you’re starting with a map-based canvas instead of a blank one."
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Here is a snippet of the official announcement via the mandown blog : "The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™ enables you to create rich internet and desktop applications that utilize the powerful mapping, geocoding, and geoprocessing capabilities provided by ArcGIS Server and Microsoft Virtual Earth™ services. The API is built on the Microsoft Silverlight/WPF platform which is integrated with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008. The Microsoft Silverlight platform includes a lightweight version of the .NET Framework CLR (CoreCLR) and the Silverlight runtime - all hosted via a browser plug-in."
If you're like me, all you really care about are the examples, so here you go.
If you're like me, all you really care about are the examples, so here you go.
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