September 01, 2009

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    All Things Location Tuesday | September 01, 2009

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Podcast: OGC Gets into Real Estate, DigitalGlobe Readies Bird for Daily RevisitsPodcast: OGC Gets into Real Estate, DigitalGlobe Readies Bird for Daily Revisits

Our editors ask: Why is the Open Geospatial Consortium hooking up with the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate and what should potential users of DigitalGlobe's Worldview-2 satellite data be pondering before its launch planned for October?

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OFF THE BEATEN PATH

Artist Bill Guffey uses Google Maps Street View to travel the world and find places to paint. It is certainly a new spin on plein air painting! Below is his painting of Angwin Vineyards in Angwin, CA, a place that Bill's actually never visited. Used with permission. (Via The Christian Science Monitor.)

Angwin Vineyards Painting

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