Podcast: ESRI and Google Offer New Solutions for Finding and Using Geospatial Data

By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
May 20, 2008

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Photograph from the Where 2.0 2008, presented by O'Reilly Media. Produced by Good Company Communications. Photograph copyright James Duncan Davidson.

At last week's Where 2.0 conference held in Burlingame, California, Google's John Hanke and ESRI's Jack Dangermond shared the stage to describe their updated vision for making ESRI's users' geodata and services more usable across the Web. Our editors describe the key points in this technological and business handshake and explore its implications.

Show Notes

Google/ESRI Announcement in Plain English (All Points Blog)
Where 2.0 Video: Google/ESRI Keynote (O'Reilly Radar Blog)
New Mashup Capabilities in ArcGIS 9.3 Will Be Previewed at Where 2.0 (press release)
GeoServer and Google's Geo Search (Geoserver Blog)
Google Maps Adds More: Wikipedia Entries and Geo-Coded Photos (TechCrunch)
Google Local Search Ajax API Doc (Code.Google.com)

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	I use it the same way as before.
	I use it about the same, but now I report errors.
	I use it less.
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	Google Maps has a new data provider?