Autodesk, ODA Settlement Ends Lawsuit (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Microsoft Embeds DWF as Native Viewing Format in Windows Vista (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Open Design Alliance Complies with Court Order, Pulls Offending Code (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Court Favors Autodesk, Grants Temporary Restraining Order Against Open Design Alliance (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Autodesk Sues Open Design Alliance for Trademark Infringement (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Suspect Arrested in Open Design Alliance Embezzlement Case (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Open Design Alliance Puts Yares on Administrative Leave (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Adobe Acrobat 8 Will Push Collaboration and Add Flash (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Open Design Alliance Reverse-Engineers AutoCAD 2007 DWG (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Intergraph to Go Private: It's About the Patents, not the Products (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
GE Puts the Sketch Napkin Online (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Autodesk Extends Google Earth Support to AutoCAD, ADT, Map 3D (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Zopto Adapts Physical Addresses to the Web (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Microsoft Pulls PDF Publishing from Next Version of Office at Adobe’s Request (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
CAD Markup in a Browser: AfterCAD Announces First Ajax-Based CAD Application (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Google Earth and the Emergence of Location-Based Simulation for AEC (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Autodesk VIZ, ISD Shipping Dates Slip to April (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Analyst: Autodesk to Increase Prices Next Week (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Bentley Connects MicroStation to Google Earth (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))
Google Buying SketchUp is a Shrewd Move (AECNews.com (Randall Newton))

Tuesday Edition: Commutes Longer, Earlier and Lonelier (Al's Morning Meeting (Poynter))

2005 TIGER/Line files via free download (Anything Geospatial (Glenn Letham))

(ArcDex (Ken H.))

Sun CEO praises Google Maps on Blackberry Pearl as a near “religious experience� (Berlind's Testbed (ZDNet))

1Spatial Conference 2007 and the new SDSFIE (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))
Oracle and Open Source (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))
GeoWeb 2006 (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))
Integrating MapGuide Applications with Google Earth (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))
Oracle Spatial Users Conference (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))
Interoperability Using Open Standards (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))
GITA 2006 (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))
Landbases and Infrastructure (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))
Handheld Devices (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))
Field Force Automation and the Aging Worforce (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))
Common Misconceptions about Open Source Software (Between the Poles (Geoff Zeiss))

Autodesk Design Review 2007 Trial Now Available (Beyond the Paper (Scott Sheppard))

Introduction to Neogeography Short Cut (Brain Off (Mike Maron))

Google are now playing fair (kind of) (Bull's Rambles)
<3 VE Plug-in (Bull's Rambles)

What to Expect in the Next AutoCAD - Maybe (CAD Insider (Roopinder Tara))
Why Do You Buy CAD Software? Survey Result (preliminary) (CAD Insider (Roopinder Tara))
Flash: Bentley Raises MicroStation Subscription, Adds Exchange Option (CAD Insider (Roopinder Tara))

Apple, Dell, Google and Others Join Khronos Group (Cadalyst GIS Feed (Questex))
All Ages Explore GIS (Cadalyst GIS Feed (Questex))

OS and INSPIRE (Cartography (Canadian Cartographic Association))
Global Shoreline Data (Cartography (Canadian Cartographic Association))
UK's OS Staff Walkout (Cartography (Canadian Cartographic Association))

ed.parsons[at]google.com (Christian Spanring)
Geo Blog Search (Christian Spanring)

"If you don't like ESRI so much, why are you using it?" (Dark Matter)

Not much disclosure in the GIS Blog world (Datum Shift (anonymous))

Proprietary Spatial Data Silos Considered Harmful (Digital Earth (Andrew Hallam))
KML Adapter for ArcIMS (Digital Earth (Andrew Hallam))
MapGuide Open Source is RC1 (Digital Earth (Andrew Hallam))

Dev Summit Continues (Dot Net Without a Net (Matt Priour))
Thoughts on Dev Summit (Dot Net Without a Net (Matt Priour))
AGXcellent? Not Quite Yet. (Dot Net Without a Net (Matt Priour))

EveryBlock: One-Stop Shop for Local Info (E-media Tidbits (Poynter))
Automated Tagging or Sleepy Human? (E-media Tidbits (Poynter))
Google Mapping Clinton's Speech- & Money-making (E-media Tidbits (Poynter))
Need Local Blogs? Check Out Placeblogger (E-media Tidbits (Poynter))

More on Leica TITAN (Earth is Square)
i-cubed Landsat7 Now Available in World Wind (Earth is Square)
90511 World Wind 1.4 Downloads (Earth is Square)
World Wind Java Teaser (Earth is Square)

OGC and the ?Mass Market? (Ed Parsons.com)
MapServer in the Enterprise (Ed Parsons.com)
The other data in Mash-ups (Ed Parsons.com)
TomTom and Microsoft take-over rumours (Ed Parsons.com)
5,000 changes a day and other urban myths.. (Ed Parsons.com)
What the GI Industry can learn from Web 2.0 (Ed Parsons.com)
Copyright free mapping is coming.. (Ed Parsons.com)
Perceptions of Open Source (Ed Parsons.com)
Location, Location, Location (Ed Parsons.com)
MapSat plans revealed (Ed Parsons.com)
Tim Berners-Lee agrees: our data should be intelligent (not free) (Ed Parsons.com)
Satnav savvy ? (Ed Parsons.com)
Origami useful for mappers ? (Ed Parsons.com)
GeoRSS - bringing geography to the blogs.. (Ed Parsons.com)
Guardian article just plain wrong !! (Ed Parsons.com)
MapQuest API - a different business model ? (Ed Parsons.com)

Developer Summit Slide Presentations Now Available (ESRI News Feed)
2007 ESRI Federal User Conference Plenary: Jack Dangermond, Keynote (ESRI News Feed)
ESRI User Conference News: ROI in GIS Award (ESRI News Feed)

ESRI Technology Trends (ESRI Wisconsin User Group)

Are We Seeing the Emergence of Online Geospatial Processing? (Fantom Planet (GeoMullah))
Thoughts About ASPRS 2007 (Fantom Planet (GeoMullah))
Where Overkill (Fantom Planet (GeoMullah))
Something Better Than MapCruncher? (Fantom Planet (GeoMullah))
Crunchin' Map Bones (Fantom Planet (GeoMullah))
Sony, Intergraph. . . In Cahoots!?! (Fantom Planet (GeoMullah))
Giving Advice To The Denver Post (Fantom Planet (GeoMullah))

That word "open" (GCN Blog (Government Computer News))

How We Watch the City, Paper from Microsoft Research. (Geobloggers (Dan Catt))
Introducing the Garmin® Astro™ GPS Dog Tracking System (Geobloggers (Dan Catt))
Geotagging at the rate of 43 every minute (Geobloggers (Dan Catt))
Open Street Map gets Yahoo Map Tiles (Geobloggers (Dan Catt))

US Officially Ends Selective Availibility in GPS (GeoCarta (Roger Hart))
Coalition Seeks More Funding for USGS (GeoCarta (Roger Hart))
New Version Of NOAA's NowCOAST Web Mapping Portal Features Real ... (GeoCarta (Roger Hart))
Stronger Solar Storms Predicted; May Disrupt GPS & Other Satellite ... (GeoCarta (Roger Hart))

Safe Software - The Spatial ETL Experts (Geopinion (Martin Kyle))

Google supports GeoRSS! (GeoRSS Blog)
What?s the Point GeoRSS? (GeoRSS Blog)
New implementations of GeoRSS ala Where 2.0 (GeoRSS Blog)

Agile Development Practices 2007 Podcasts (GeoScrum (Chris Spagnuolos))

Live Maps and Virtual Earth supports GeoRSS (Geosemantic Web Blog (Harry Chen))

Open Source Software Support (Geospatial from Ames, Iowa (Howard Butler))
LizardTech DSDK Version 6.0 (Geospatial from Ames, Iowa (Howard Butler))
GeoRSS redux (Geospatial from Ames, Iowa (Howard Butler))
OGC to assume GeoRSS? (Geospatial from Ames, Iowa (Howard Butler))
OSGeo Communication Overload (Geospatial from Ames, Iowa (Howard Butler))
LizardTech 2.0 (Geospatial from Ames, Iowa (Howard Butler))

Schemas, Interoperability and RDBMS (GeoWeb (Ron Lake))
SDI Concepts (GeoWeb (Ron Lake))
GML Complexity Re-visited (GeoWeb (Ron Lake))

Does Slashgeo have a point? (GIS Dirt Bag)
Google Earth 4.0 should make ESRI rethink ArcGIS Explorer (GIS Dirt Bag)
Why Where 2.0 isn't that 2.0 (GIS Dirt Bag)

ArcGIS 9.2 Released (GIS Matters (David Maguire))
Open Source GIS: 52°North and ESRI (GIS Matters (David Maguire))
ArcGIS Explorer at AAG (GIS Matters (David Maguire))

GlobeXplorer's High Speed Image Service and New Global Datasets (GlobeXplorer's Earth Mapping Blog)

New Terrain Mode for Google Maps (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Earth Free/Plus License Change: Allowed in Businesses (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Maps New Additions for India and UAE (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Introducing Google Earth Outreach - New Global Awareness Layers (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Acquiring Panoramio (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Licensing Automated 3D Building Generator (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Yahoo! Pipes Supports KML (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Earth 4 Officially Released (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
New Image Update for the Holidays - Awesome! (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Four New Featured Google Earth Layers (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
New Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D - Not a Threat to Google Earth (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Pushed Out Terrain Fixes Today (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Another Huge Imagery Update for Google Earth / Maps - October 3, 2006 (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Maps Improvements Introduced July 11th (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
News Roundup (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Major New Announcements for Google Earth (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
New Layers Layout for Google Earth (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Earth for Linux to Follow Picasa (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Earth Wins Several Webby Awards (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Tagzania - Powerful Google Maps/Google Earth Mashup (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Honda Releases Traffic System in Japan for Google Earth (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Earth for VW Car Navigation Demo (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Enhanced Avian Flu Outbreak Tracker (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Real-Time Sensor Net in Google Earth (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Earth Visual Guides (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Tutorials for Google Earth (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Get Your Google Earth T-shirt Now (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Google Earth E-mail Signature (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Best Topo Map Interface for Google Earth (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Jane Goodall Chimpanzee GeoBlog (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
New Crater Discovery Using Google Earth? (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))
Huge Crater Discovered in Saharan Desert (Google Earth Blog (Frank Taylor))

Google Geo Developer Day Post #1 (Google Maps Mania (Mike Pegg))
Google Geo Developer Day Post #2 (Google Maps Mania (Mike Pegg))
Big pile of Google Maps Mashups 2/2 (Google Maps Mania (Mike Pegg))
Big pile of Google Maps Mashups 1/2 (Google Maps Mania (Mike Pegg))
Google Maps News and Blog Posts (Google Maps Mania (Mike Pegg))
Google Maps World Mashup Roundup (Google Maps Mania (Mike Pegg))

Google Maps "Street View"� to be launched at Where 2.0? (Googling Google (ZDnet))

FireEagle Officially Launched (High Earth Orbit (Andrew Turner))
Open-Source libkml coming from Google (High Earth Orbit (Andrew Turner))
GeoRSS site rebooted (High Earth Orbit (Andrew Turner))
NetSquared - OpenStreetMap North America (High Earth Orbit (Andrew Turner))
GeoNames supports reverse geocoding (High Earth Orbit (Andrew Turner))
Where2.0 - and so it goes (High Earth Orbit (Andrew Turner))

Proprietary vs. FOSS in the Geospatial Web (Into the Pudding (Chris Holmes))
Why isn?t collaborative geodata a big deal already? (Into the Pudding (Chris Holmes))

Google Enterprise "Mashups" to Suck in Data From Cognos, Oracle, and Salesforce.com (Let's Push Things Forward)

Desktop Mapping Software - QGIS v. ArcExplorer Java Edition (Lord King Squirrel (Walt Eis))

Mapdex search in Cadcorp SIS (Mapdex (Jeremy Bartley))

The power of the press (Mapping Hacks)
Public Domain geodata held to ransom! (Mapping Hacks)
there will, if necessary, be a grass-roots remapping. (Mapping Hacks)
Web Map API Roundup (Mapping Hacks)

Mapping the Afghan Experience in the U.S. (MapZ: A GIS Librarian)
Geographic Coordinates in MARC Authority Files (MapZ: A GIS Librarian)
USDA Agriculture Research Service: Most Cited GIS Publications (MapZ: A GIS Librarian)
Google Map Viewer & Zoho Sheet for Attributes (MapZ: A GIS Librarian)

Reigning In Freedom of Information Requests? (Mashalist (Rick Burnes))

OpenLayers Hackathon (MetaCarta Labs)
MetaCarta Labs Web Services Coming Soon... (MetaCarta Labs)

Mapping the News - Syndicated Maps for Citizen Cartography (Moving Past Pushpins (FortiusOne))

Blipstar reinforces new a la carte Web site model (News.Blog Web 2.0 (c|net))
The time of your life, now in Web 2.0 (News.Blog Web 2.0 (c|net))

GeoTEC Conference - Industry moving too fast? (NovaGeomatics Blog)

Interior Department to Get New Acting CIO (NSGIC Blog)
Federal Legislation of Interest (NSGIC Blog)
Some Wisdom About E-Mail (NSGIC Blog)

Yahoo MapMixer: The easiest way to add an overlay (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Drawing in Google Maps vs drawing in Live Local: Which is better? (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
New Orleans, take two (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Skyline patent infringement suit agains Google Earth dismissed (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
And then there were two (KML editors) (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal get SPOT5 imagery upgrade (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
DigitalGlobe removes Basra imagery from online store (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
ArcGIS Explorer - the review (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Leica lets TITAN out of the bag (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
ESRI ArcGIS Explorer download now available (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google Earth 4.0.2091/4.0.2413 Beta released (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
NWS embraces KML (finally) (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google Earth Pro extras now free (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google for Educators comes with lesson plans for Google Earth (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
SkylineSoft's SkylineGlobe launches, competes with Google Earth (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
WMS: How does it work in Google Earth? (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Geonames.org gets a network link (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
This post is not about Caernarfon (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Short news: ArcGIS Explorer, Géoportail (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Short news: Run Google Earth in IE; Blender imports KML (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
France's Géoportail launch due Friday June 23 (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Short news: Google Earth as GeoRSS reader; switching geocoders (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google Earth at the office? You need Pro (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google Earth gets major data update for low population-density areas (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
June 12: From lunch to launch (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
KML to Google Maps, via PostGIS (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
NASA World Wind coming to the Mac (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Short news: gps2geX, Google Earth for CSOs, Shnitzl (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Shorts: RSS2GeoRSS2KML, GeoWeb 2006 (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Geotaggers.com, anyone? (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google testing adwords in Earth (again) (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Can you use Google Earth at work? (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Short news: WWML, Brad Schell, VectorWorks hearts SKP (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Some Dutch sites censored in Google Earth, Maps (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google Maps European road layer now live (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
RFM (Request for Mashup) (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
On the impending regional niching of geospatial blogs (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Big data update for Europe, global borders and placenames (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google Earth feature wishlist (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Norway's Bergen in content deal with Google Earth (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Sweden plays hide and seek with maps (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Shorts: USGS does San Francisco, Geoblogger killers, TrailrunnerX (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Shorts: Mapki, GIS workflow chart, Map Middle East (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
First Annual Virtual Globes Scientific Users Conference, 10-12 July 2006 (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
VW-Google prototype video demo (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Spring Cleaning: Google Earth data overhaul; Yahoo! maps to follow? (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
KML support to be built into NASA World WInd (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Future Earth II: Sensor webs and the Information Commons (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Yahoo!'s Tagzone: Good enough for Google Earth? (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Converters: KMLImporter for NASA World Wind, GoogleEarthTweaker for geocaching.com (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Blender to the rescue: Open source 3D authoring for Google Earth (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Future Earth (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
RoboGeo now exports to SketchUp (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Press review: Stars and Stripes, InformationWeek... (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Shorter news: Delaware first again?, Vextel... (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Friday's short news: KML sorter, Arc2Earth FAQ, education freebies... (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google Gaia (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
KvetchUp (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Shorts: geocards, on meta-reporting, GeoRuby, NASA open source... (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Martyn Day: Don't forget to watch Bentley (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google buys Sketchup, II: Why? (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Shorts: SXSW2006, Flyin'Globe (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Geobloggers moves on (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google Mars coming to Earth client (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Shorts: Google Mars. No, really. (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Censoring Google: What are India's options? (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Le Monde covers Google Earth (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Google Earth team seeing double? (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Shorts: Nearby.org.uk, India, Geonames, GeoRSS (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
Motion Based for Mac (beta) (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))
GPS Visualizer Hacks (Ogle Earth (Stefan Geens))

AND donate entire Netherlands to OpenStreetMap (OpenGeoData)
The Pragmatic Mapper (OpenGeoData)
OpenStreetMap Baghdad (OpenGeoData)
Yahoo! aerial imagery in OSM (OpenGeoData)
State of the Map (OpenGeoData)
OS Shows Off Open Spaces (OpenGeoData)
First commercial OSM usage! (OpenGeoData)

Feedburner-Google Deal In Final Stages, Possible $100 Million Value: Reports (Paid Content)
Microsoft Asks Yahoo To Reconsider Merger Talks: Report (Paid Content)

The reliability of web services (Perry Geo (Matt Perry))
Some thoughts on Where 2.0 (Perry Geo (Matt Perry))
USGS Seamless is back (Perry Geo (Matt Perry))
The distinction between open source and open standards (Perry Geo (Matt Perry))
WMS layers: My Top Ten (Perry Geo (Matt Perry))

What Working in I.T. Really Means (Pogue's Posts (David Pogue))
It Tracks Your Every Move?at the Water Park (Pogue's Posts (David Pogue))

Quantum GIS Reaches 1,000 Registered Users (QGIS Blog)

KML, Mapping and the OWS-5 Testbed 2007 (Rajsingh.org (Raj Singh))
OGC is standardizing Google?s KML (Rajsingh.org (Raj Singh))

FME UC - Day Two (or… two days late and several dollars short) (Random Nodes (Jason Birch))
FME Worldwide UC - Day One (Random Nodes (Jason Birch))
MapGuide Open Source 1.0.1 - Now Featuring Web Studio (Random Nodes (Jason Birch))
C’mon, please Google? (Random Nodes (Jason Birch))

Is More A9?s Block View Imagery Coming? (Resource Shelf (Gary Price))
Traffic.com Increases Range; Personalized Traffic Info Feeds via RSS, Phone Alerts and More (Real-Time #12) (Resource Shelf (Gary Price))
National Geographic MapMachine Gets a New Look and Some New Features (Resource Shelf (Gary Price))

ArcGIS Server 9.2 Installed! (Scrappad)
ArcGIS 9.2 Tutorials Library (Scrappad)
Google Code, Hosting For Open Source Projects (Scrappad)
Free 10 Week Online AJAX Course By Sun Microsystems (Scrappad)
System Design Strategies, March 2006 (Scrappad)
The Tuesday, Business Partner Conference d3 (Scrappad)
ArcGIS Server, Workgroup Edition (Scrappad)
Developer Summit And Business Partners Conference Preconference Survey Q & A (Scrappad)
ArcGIS 9.2 b2 Media (Scrappad)

Google "Wikifies" Maps To Improve Local Data (Search Engine Land)
Google Earth And 3D Warehouse Opened Up To 'Game Developers' (Search Engine Land)
Ask City Adds Embed Map Feature (Search Engine Land)
Local Mobile Search Provider 1-800-Free411 Touts Patent Against Rivals (Search Engine Land)
Google Builds Local Map Content in 3D (Search Engine Land)
Is Google Behind Mobile 411 Company? (Search Engine Land)
Local Search Best Practices (Search Engine Land)
Google Local Ads In Google Earth (Search Engine Land)

Google Maps Add Collaboration Features, Terrain Maps (Search Engine Watch)
Local Search and Universal Search (Search Engine Watch)
Zillow Lands ex-Googler and Zestimated $30M Follows (Search Engine Watch)
Local.com Acquires PremierGuide (Search Engine Watch)
Hyper-Local Gets a Vote of Confidence (Search Engine Watch)
Local.com Gets Location-based Search Patent (Search Engine Watch)
Breaking News: Semel Ousted as CEO (Search Engine Watch)
Universal Search Boosting Map, Video Traffic (Search Engine Watch)
Yahoo Researcher Declares Semantic Web Dead (Search Engine Watch)
Google Goes Universal, Adds Navigation (Search Engine Watch)
Google Launches New "Geo" Blog (Search Engine Watch)
NearbyNow in 100 Cities by the Holidays (Search Engine Watch)
ZipLocal Brings Local Search 2.0 to Canada (Search Engine Watch)
Skype Lanches v. 3.1 With Local Search Feature (Search Engine Watch)
Yahoo Launches Pipes, an RSS Remixing Tool (Search Engine Watch)
Google Earth Getting Press Accurate or Not (Search Engine Watch)
Google Maps Offers Speech-Friendly Alternatives (Search Engine Watch)
Google Launches Patent Search (Search Engine Watch)
Local Service Business Searches on the Rise (Search Engine Watch)
Web Increasingly Used for Local Service Business Searches (Search Engine Watch)
Google Testing Map Quick Link Under Search Results (Search Engine Watch)
Sprint Launches Mobile Search Relationship With Microsoft (Search Engine Watch)
President George Bush Uses Google Maps To Get Away (Search Engine Watch)
Google Earth Helps Cops In Drug Bust (Search Engine Watch)
Google Blog: Please Get Descriptive With Your Headlines! (Search Engine Watch)
Google Calls Operational Pause On Products & Yes, New Rollouts Were Hurting Search (Search Engine Watch)
New Search Patent Filings: October 4, 2006 - Using Google to find the Cable Guy (Search Engine Watch)
comScore: Local Search Gains Momentum (Search Engine Watch)
See Google Results As If You Are In Another Country (Search Engine Watch)
Zillow Adds 'Owner-Generated' Content (Search Engine Watch)
Windows Live Local Better, But Still Not There (Search Engine Watch)
New 411 User Survey Points To Mobile Local Search Demand (Search Engine Watch)
Google Maps Inline With Search Results (Search Engine Watch)
Windows Live Local Maps UK With Aerial Imagery (Search Engine Watch)
LookSmart's Zeal Directory To Close (Search Engine Watch)
A Deeper Look At Personalized News Search Engines (Search Engine Watch)
Google Base Creeping Into Main Search Results Page (Search Engine Watch)
Congoo Offers (Free) Subscription Based Content For Free (Search Engine Watch)
Google Hires Lobbying Firm (Search Engine Watch)
Microsoft Begins Testing Advertising in Live Products (Search Engine Watch)
Google Buys SketchUp; Google To Map The World in 3D? (Search Engine Watch)
25 Things I Love About Google (Search Engine Watch)
25 Things I Hate About Google (Search Engine Watch)
Google Enables Related Content JavaScript Block (Search Engine Watch)
Google to Partner with Wikipedia (Search Engine Watch)
Google to Partner with Writely, a Browser Based Document Publishing Company (Search Engine Watch)
Google Click Fraud Settlement Story Updated (Search Engine Watch)
Google AdWords Launches Demographic Site Targeting (Search Engine Watch)
TeraGoogle, Google's Social Search Aspirations & More From Accidentally Released Analyst Day Notes (Search Engine Watch)

Ten ways NOT to ask a question in a developer forum: (SharpGIS Blog (Martin Nielson))

New Service Maps Speed Traps By Cell Phone (Slashdot)
Census Bureau To Scrap Handhelds — Cost $3 Billion (Slashdot)
Making 3D Models from Video Clips (Slashdot)
Microsoft Planning to Buy Open Source Companies? (Slashdot)
DARPA Testing Numenta's Brain Tech (Slashdot)
Microsoft Moves in on the Graphics Market (Slashdot)
Microsoft to Offer Free Online Storage (Slashdot)
Microsoft Invents Split Screen PC (Slashdot)
The Internet of Things - What is a Spime? (Slashdot)
1-800-Google Launches (Slashdot)
Companies Asked to Donate Unused Patents (Slashdot)
Patent Filed for Underwater GPS (Slashdot)
Demystifying Salary Information (Slashdot)
Google Opens Gmail To All (Slashdot)
Measure Anything with a Camera and Software (Slashdot)
TomTom Admits Satnav Device Infected With Virus (Slashdot)
Open Source Databases "50% Cheaper" (Slashdot)
GPS Phone Tells Others Where You Are (Slashdot)
Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites (Slashdot)
GeoTagger Adds Positioning Info to Snapshots (Slashdot)
Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed (Slashdot)
Flickr Launches Drag and Drop Geotagging (Slashdot)
Blackboard Patenting Educational Groupware (Slashdot)
What Does the Microsoft ODF Converter Mean? (Slashdot)
Open Source In the National Interest (Slashdot)
Does It Matter Where Open Source is Based? (Slashdot)

Pac Manhattan Creator Speaks Out! (Slashdot Games)

GeoNetwork and OpenLayers Enter OSGeo Incubation (slashgeo)
Geo-Certification vs Mentoring (slashgeo)
WMS, Where Shall I Find Thee? (slashgeo)
Who Owns Your Virtual Home? (slashgeo)
Geotagthings: A Simple Way to Geotag any Web Page (slashgeo)
New Flash WMS Client (slashgeo)

A2E Google Warehouse Redux (Spatial Data Logic (Brian Flood))
Arc2Earth and the Google 3D Model Warehouse (Spatial Data Logic (Brian Flood))
Getting Data into Google Earth using Arc2Earth (Spatial Data Logic (Brian Flood))

Diminished Expectations (Spatial Galaxy (Gary Sherman))
Making Open Source GIS Easier (Spatial Galaxy (Gary Sherman))
Brittle Systems (Spatial Galaxy (Gary Sherman))
GIS Data is an Illicit Drug (Spatial Galaxy (Gary Sherman))

OSGeo Sponsorship Update (Spatial Guru (Tyler Mitchell))
The missing open source piece? (Spatial Guru (Tyler Mitchell))

ArcGIS Online detailed imagery and street overlay added for the United States (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
The Day ArcIMS Died (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ESRI 2007 Business Partner Conference Plenary Session (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ESRI posts the Developer Summit Q&A (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ESRI to be Silver Sponsor at FOSS4G 2007 (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
The Search Continues for Jim Gray (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcGIS Server Code Challenge Entries Posted (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Microsoft Virtual Earth Birds Eye View Greatly Improved (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcGIS Server Development Blog goes live (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcGIS Online - Bigger news to ESRI users than ArcGIS Explorer (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ESRI ArcGIS Server licensing - Be ready to get out your checkbook (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Re: ArcGIS Explorer (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Microsoft releases Photosynth (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Libre Map Project is now up and running (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
More ESRI to Open Source (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Jeff Jackson writes on the passing of Beckett (�Bex�) (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Are we begining to see a shift away from ESRI Server backend to Open Source solutions? (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Manifold Toolbar? (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Update on ArcGIS Explorer Release Candidate (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
The DRGs are free (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
The big picture of ArcGIS Server (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Taking the latest ArcGIS Explorer Beta for a spin (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Google has licensed ALL of DigitalGlobe’s imagery exclusively for online/web use (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Zillow and their Open API (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ESRI Streamlines ArcGIS Server (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Oracle skipping the 2006 ESRI UC again? (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
What is missing at the 2006 ESRI User Conference? (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Nostalgic for ArcView 1? (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcGIS 9.2 Pre-release / Beta 2 shipping July 7th (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
No ESRI ArcGIS Explorer public beta in June (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
WMS Services in ArcGIS Explorer (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ESRI Labs? (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Arizona State University campus map powered by Google Maps (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcWeb Explorer Javascript API Officially Out (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcWeb Explorer Javascript API Available (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Geoprocessing with ArcView (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ESRI betaWeb (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Because we haven’t seen a mapping services yet this week (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
O’Reilly on Mapdex (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcGIS Explorer public beta available “later this year� (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Yahoo! Maps now has satellite imagery (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
VirtualEarth plug-in for NASA WorldWind (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Google Maps API v2 is out (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Using ArcWeb Explorer (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcGIS Server for Workgroups? (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Five points to take away from the 2006 Developer Summit (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Blogging the Business Partner Conference (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Day Two at the 2006 Developer Summit (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
The Java SIG from the back of the room (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Standing room only at the Building Web Applications with ArcGIS Server and .NET (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Dev Summit Day 1 (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcDeveloper.net Community Site - by ArcDevelopers for ArcDevelopers (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcWeb SVG Viewer and the new ArcWeb Labs (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Beta testing ArcGIS Server 9.2 on Virtual PC 2004 (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
Demos of ArcGIS Explorer in action (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
MapQuest OpenAPI Blog (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
MapQuest now has an API (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))
ArcGIS Server 9.2 (Spatially Adjusted (James Fee))

More from FedUC - What did Dr. Dangermond Let Slip? (Surveying, Mapping and GIS (Dave Smith))
USEPA Geospatial Information Officer (Surveying, Mapping and GIS (Dave Smith))
Hype Cycle (Surveying, Mapping and GIS (Dave Smith))
Geospatial Line of Business Debrief (Surveying, Mapping and GIS (Dave Smith))
EPA GIO Brenda Smith leaves (Surveying, Mapping and GIS (Dave Smith))
ESRI Geospatial Portal Toolkit on Oracle (Surveying, Mapping and GIS (Dave Smith))
EPA GIS Workgroup (Surveying, Mapping and GIS (Dave Smith))
2006 MetaCarta Users Group (Surveying, Mapping and GIS (Dave Smith))
Laser Scanning, Archaeology, Metadata.... (Surveying, Mapping and GIS (Dave Smith))
GeoWeb 2006... signs of things to come? (Surveying, Mapping and GIS (Dave Smith))

Supreme Court Ruling On Patent Obviousness Already Having An Impact (Techdirt)
Once Again, Real Estate Professionals Go To War Against The Web (Techdirt)
Distance Does Matter On The Internet, Sometimes (Techdirt)
Spam Scam Says You're Fired (Techdirt)
Appraisers... er... Non-profit Group Complains To FTC About Zillow's Electronic Estimates (Techdirt)
Buying Content To Free It Is Not The Answer (Techdirt)
Email Killing Off The Postal Service's Blue Street-Corner Mailboxes (Techdirt)
Gartner Admits They're No Better Than A Coin Flip (Techdirt)
The Mad Dash For Online Word Processors (Techdirt)
Now That Plaxo Spam Has Annoyed Enough People, It's Time To Fade It Out? (Techdirt)
Town Not Really Sold On eBay To Actually Be Sold On eBay? (Techdirt)
Wheels Of Zeus Come Off (Techdirt)
If The Trade Press Can't Get This Right... Copyright And Patents Are Different (Techdirt)
Woz Raises $150 Million For, Well, Nobody Knows (Techdirt)
Is Xero The Second Coming Of Gizmondo? (Techdirt)
Amazon Offers Up The Platform That Google And Yahoo Should Have Built (Techdirt)
Can You Blame The Search Engine For Lost Wedding Presents? (Techdirt)
Open Spectrum? Bah, Who Needs It! (Techdirt)
Newspapers: Not Looking Very Dead Yet (Techdirt)
Origami Buzz Makes OQO Try To Remind People Of Its Existence (Techdirt)
You Got Your Tags In My Contextual Advertising... (Techdirt)
Just Because It's Mobile, It Doesn't Change The Economics Of Content (Techdirt)
Rumors Of McNealy's Resignation Greatly Exaggerated (Techdirt)

Google Maps Adds Traffic Conditions (The Map Room (Jonathan Crowe))
NAVTEQ vs. Tele Atlas (The Map Room (Jonathan Crowe))
Google Buys Endoxon (The Map Room (Jonathan Crowe))
Yahoo! Maps Out of Beta; Europe Update (The Map Room (Jonathan Crowe))
MapQuest Abandons Printed Maps (The Map Room (Jonathan Crowe))
Tufte on Airport Runway Maps (The Map Room (Jonathan Crowe))
Caught Mapping (1940) (The Map Room (Jonathan Crowe))

Google's KML Search - SDI or not? (Think (Allan Doyle))
FOSS4G 2007 (Think (Allan Doyle))

Ancient history (Topo Employees, Too)

Cyber-cartographies collective (transferred from old blog) (Ubikan)

ESRI UC: Survey Summit ?Bridging the Gap? (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
Europe Votes ?NO? on Charging?for now (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
Ready - Set - Go: Bentley On Track (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
Web Mapping: Are You Caught In The Dust? (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
SensorWeb Data OverRun: Think Many Times/Apply Once (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
OS & National Mapping: Evolution or Not? (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
Revealing Infrastructure: A Look Underneath (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
INSPIRE - The Road Ahead (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
What?s Bentley Up To With Google? (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
The Geospatial Industry Blogging Highway (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
CeBIT 2006 II (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
CeBIT 2006: One Day - 3 Needed (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
In Pursuit of CAD / GIS Potential (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))
USDA Agriculture Statistics Mapping Site (Vector One (Jeff Thurston))

MAPPS vs US delayed again (Very Spatial)
Quantum GIS Applies to OSGeo (Very Spatial)
Amicus Brief (Very Spatial)
National Geographic to upgrade their map-related web offerings (Very Spatial)
Zoom Into Maps- nice Library of Congress educational site (Very Spatial)
SensorMap from Microsoft Research (Very Spatial)
Mark Up Your Google Maps (Very Spatial)
OpenGeoData » Podcast: Ed Parsons (Very Spatial)
Virtual Globes session at AAG (Very Spatial)

Chandu moves on... (Via Virtual Earth)
Version 3 released! (Via Virtual Earth)
Talking to Microsoft VirtualEarth team (Via Virtual Earth)
Getting There (Via Virtual Earth)
Map tiles not updating properly (Via Virtual Earth)

Microsoft Re-joins the Open Geospaitial Consortium (Virtual Earth)
Monthly Virtual Earth Data publish is complete (Virtual Earth)
New Commercial use licensing for Virtual Earth announced at Mix (Virtual Earth)
Virtual Earth API V5 is released (Virtual Earth)
Collections Redux for Scoble (Virtual Earth)
Virtual Earth Imagery Update for March 29 (Virtual Earth)
You can Assist in the Search for Jim Gray (Virtual Earth)
Ultracam Imagery beginning to appear in Virtual Earth (Virtual Earth)
Australia Day Imagery online (Virtual Earth)
Another big Birds Eye Update Today (Virtual Earth)
Lots of New Birds Eye coverage in Europe (Virtual Earth)
New textured cities added to Virtual Earth (Virtual Earth)
Birds Eye Coverage update: Italy, UK, and US coverage expanded (Virtual Earth)
Live Search for Mobile beta is available! (Virtual Earth)
Thanks for the Feedback and Feature requests! (Virtual Earth)
Thematic Mapping and Shaded Area Maps with Virtual Earth (Virtual Earth)
Add 400 Million contacts to your Web application or mashup (Virtual Earth)
Exploring Collections interactively and with GeoRSS feeds (Virtual Earth)
Live Toolbar released. Includes great mapping capabilities (Virtual Earth)
Collections and GeoRSS Player (Virtual Earth)
International Coverage in WLL (Virtual Earth)
Mashups vs. Mixins (Virtual Earth)
Virtual Earth Featured at CEO Summit (Virtual Earth)
MapCruncher Available to the Public (Virtual Earth)
PC World magazine selects Live local as the best online mapping service! (Virtual Earth)
Has Microsoft Acquired Vexcel? (Virtual Earth)
13 new counties of Birds Eye coverage added to WLL (Virtual Earth)
Invitation to Location Intelligence 2006 (Virtual Earth)
Live Expo Classifieds - Launches with Virtual Earth Map integration (Virtual Earth)

Virtual Earth Geocoding Updated (Virtual Earth For Government)

What's in a name (change)? (Virtual Earth, a developer blog)

Virtual globes expectations from Where 2.0 (Virtual Globes (Alan Glennon))
KML in Google Maps: one-on-one with the Google Maps Team (Virtual Globes (Alan Glennon))
KML in Google Maps: a little rough (Virtual Globes (Alan Glennon))
A few more (specialized) globes (Virtual Globes (Alan Glennon))
NASA World Wind road map (Virtual Globes (Alan Glennon))
NASA World Wind at CalGIS (Virtual Globes (Alan Glennon))
Microsoft statement about Vexcel (Virtual Globes (Alan Glennon))
Microsoft acquires Vexcel...probably (Virtual Globes (Alan Glennon))
Blogging about the AAG session (Virtual Globes (Alan Glennon))
NGA Research Priorities (Virtual Globes (Alan Glennon))

Google launches Street View, Mapplets (Webware)
Swivel adds maps to data repertoire (Webware)

Mapping Tucson's Fruit Trees (World Changing)
Naming the Local Terrain (World Changing)
Google Transit Hits Five New Cities and releases API (World Changing)
Swarming Satellites (World Changing)
Aerial Mapping in Carpetc (World Changing)
Pangea Cinema: the day the world comes together (World Changing)
On the Horizon (03/10/06): Seeing the World (World Changing)
Why Geo-Engineering is a Bad Fall-Back Strategy (World Changing)
Letting Objects Tell Their Stories (World Changing)
Worldstock (World Changing)
See SPOT. See SPOT Sense. Sense, SPOT, Sense! (World Changing)

Autodesk Australia
Sued for $42 Million (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
Whaa? GPS Runs CAD Tutorial (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
That Additional INGR Information (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
Get Adobe to Fund You (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
Adobe's Lightweight PDF Reader (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
ADSK: 3D Always 10% (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
Patented! 2D/3D Docs (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
3D Views from 2D Photos (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
CADalyst: Autodesk to Force Subscriptions (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
Who's Got the Mindshare? Goooooooogle! (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
ODA Accuses Autodesk of Copyright Infringement (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
50 AutoCAD Blogs Fed! (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
Population-based Site Licenses (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
Google Housing (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))
Yares and Newton Comment on DWG 2007 (WorldCAD Access (Ralph Grabowski))