<p>Via PlanetGeo I came upon a couple of early stage demos today worth* a moment of your time if you're a developer interested in some near future technologies that will have big impact on the geospatial industry. <p>First is from Dave Bouwman whose blog on .NET GIS development has been at the top of my feed pile the last few months. <a href="http://blog.davebouwman.net/2008/03/12/VirtualEarthSQL2008DemoSite.aspx" target="_blank"><strong>This proof of concept application</strong></a> queries SQL 2008 for points along a route that are keyed to streetside images.* <p><a href="http://blog.davebouwman.net/2008/03/12/VirtualEarthSQL2008DemoSite.aspx" target="_blank"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px" height=280 alt=image src="http://byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1pTcqBXnZTBA_RKKTkGud9tzdVwQTud4Cv9DiWE_G4tJylzUC-6gcvEFdlYXPbdT3SZfQ7flJsnwQ?PARTNER=WRITER" width=442 border=0></a> <p><strong><a href="http://www.cadmaps.com/gisblog/?p=32" target="_blank">Next up is a pretty neat experiment</a></strong> with Silverlight 2.0's Deep Zoom feature on the GIS in XML blog. Deep zoom is a technology from Live labs based on <a href="http://labs.live.com/Seadragon.aspx" target="_blank">Seadragon</a> that you may have seen <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129" target="_blank">demo'd at last year's TED Conference</a>. [if you haven't seen this, i total recommend you stop right here and invest 3 minutes!! its amazing.] What you will see in Randy's Silverlight application is a 144 megapixel image with completely fluid navigation thanks to Deep Zoom. Also of interest in his post is the story and steps to piece the image together from Terraserver's* USGS Urban Area imagery. <div style="padding-right:0px;display:inline;padding-left:0px;float:none;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px">Technorati tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Silverlight" rel=tag>Silverlight</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Deep Zoom" rel=tag>Deep Zoom</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SQL 2008" rel=tag>SQL 2008</a></div><img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3151506992847969176&page=RSS%3a+A+couple+of+early+stage+demos...&referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""><img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&NA=1149&PI=73329&RF=&DI=3919&PS=85545&TP=virtualearth.spaces.live.com&GT1=virtualearth">

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