Mark Ireland, Product Support Engineer
Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC,
CANADA
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Solutions for Spatial Data Translation,
Distribution and Access
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Ireland
Sent: July 20, 2005 1:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [fme] Google Earth and FMEHi FME'ers,
Don and Dale asked me to suggest you check out FME's newly developed ability to mesh with Google Earth and Google Maps.See our web site at http://www.safe.com/google/index.php
We have a downloadable patch to add support for Google Earth's KML format and a demonstration of using FME to add data to Google Maps.
At this point the technology is extremely experimental (my experience is that it's just a long-winded way to close my web browser) but it's well worth checking out and we'd certainly appreciate any suggestions or feedback.
There are a lot of people who think the future direction of GIS is open source, open APIs, free data, free web services; applications that are not installed, but accessed through a browser - and the common reaction among these folks when shown an FME/Google demo is to become very excited and run around a lot shouting "this is [EMAIL PROTECTED] incredible" - I expect existing users to be more blasé about what FME can do, but you have been warned!
Google maps is accessible via http://maps.google.com/
Google Earth can be downloaded for free from http://earth.google.com/
You'll need FME2005 to be compatible (nothing older and not a 2006 beta either) - so here's a great reason to upgrade to FME2005 right now. If you're still unsure see http://www.safe.com/2005/index.php for another 1500+ good reasons to use FME2005.
If you want to read more I'm told an article about the technology will be published in Directions magazine on Friday.
Enjoy,
Mark
Mark Ireland, Product Support Engineer
Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.safe.com
Solutions for Spatial Data Translation, Distribution and Access
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