Google Tech Talks
February, 20 2008
ABSTRACT
Cheryl Parker, founding father of Urban Explorer, will current their patent-pending Flash-based “Local Portals” for the Google Mapping API. Urban Explorer’s “Local Portal” enhances the Google Map with each superior GIS performance and dynamically-served polygonal-based map layers. Flash-based map layers are dynamically served by way of an underlying MySQL database that options time sequence enterprise, actual property and demographic information units. These information units, in flip, populate translucent vector-based parcel, census and city-based map layers that align completely with the underlying Google Map. The Local Portals allow customers to search, view and analyze mixture datasets throughout time and house, by that includes thematic animated mapping and multi-criteria searches throughout a number of datasets. The portals will probably be distributed as net widgets by the OpenSocial platform, by way of LinkedIn and SalesForce.com. They will probably be distributed freely, however a minimal payment will probably be charged for information downloads, utilizing Google Checkout. Portals will probably be developed for numerous vertical markets, together with Small Businesses, Real Estate Developers, Political Mapping, and so forth.
Speaker: Cheryl Parker
Cheryl Parker is founding father of Urban Explorer (www.theurbanexplorer.com), based mostly in San Francisco, Ca. Prior to establishing Urban Explorer in 1999, Ms. Parker labored professionally as an city designer, financial improvement specialist, metropolis planner and GIS net developer. Ms. Parker was additionally a Lecturer in the Landscape Architecture Department at University of California at Berkeley for six years, educating GIS-based 3-D simulation for Urban Designers. Ms. Parker obtained a Masters of Architecture and Masters of City Planning from UC/Berkeley in 1994.
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