Google Earth Gets New Partner, Tools
For 3pointD developers: A pair of press releases this week flag a new partner for Google Earth and new .NET toolkit support. First up, an announcement from engineering firm CH2M HILL that its Enterprise Spatial Solutions unit has become the first Google Earth certified partner in the Google Enterprise Professional Program. Then there’s also the announcement that the Carbon Project’s newest “open-geospatial .NET toolkit,” CarbonTools PRO, will include support for “an extensive range of new location content and services including Google Earth KML, ESRI Shapefiles, MapInfo and Autodesk formats as well as support to services such as Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) WCS and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation’s (OSGeo) MapGuide.”
More on CH2M:
The CH2M HILL ESS team of 500 geographic information system (GIS) and IT specialists design, customize and fully integrate the visualization power of Google Earth Enterprise with all location-based corporate information systems including supply chain management, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), logistics and asset management.
More on CarbonTools PRO:
CarbonTools PRO provides powerful and extensible software development tools for bringing location-based content into Microsoft’s .NET 2.0 Framework. . . . Using KML, GML or Shapefiles becomes seamless under a unified API. . . . CarbonTools PRO Beta will be released in July 2006.
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Oh, are you saying that the Metaverse won’t come from games, won’t come from social worlds, won’t come from all those men in tights and all those women in prefab Victorian houses, but will come some engineers making some kind of spacial solutions for building RL stuff connected to the actual RL world cities?
You mean…they’re going to skip a step? And make Second Life irrelevant? or?