Microsoft Location Summit is an annual event, organized internally, where various groups, both microsoft research groups and product groups, within the Microsoft gathered together to share thier technology and business development that is related to ‘location’. We had one day event this year held in the Microsoft headquarters, Redmond, WA. I was invited to give a general talk about “Top Ten Technology Breakthroughs in Geospatial Industry“. This is a hard job but I tried my best to assemble the following top ten work among three categories, positioning, mapping and GIS. This is purely my personal perspective. If I missed any important work, please feel free to comment on it.
Top Ten Technologies that have made a profound impact to the geospatial industry in positioning, mapping and GIS:
- GPS/GNSS/GALILEO
- Network based Positioning (Cell networks based, WiFi based, etc)
- Ubiquitous Tracking (RFID Tagging, etc)
- Vehicle based mobile mapping (ie, Street Mapping)
- Laser/Lidar Scanning (Land-based or airborne)
- High-Resolution Satellite Imaging
- Database Centered GIS (Oracle Spatial, SQL Spatial etc)
- Componentized GIS (MapInfo, MapPoint, etc)
- Internet Mapping (MapQuest, Yahoo Maps, Google Maps, MSFT Live Maps etc)
- Immersive 3D Earth Visualization and Interaction (Virtual Earth, Google Earth etc)
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