For some reason the link in the first comment does not work, but this should...

<a href="http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorial_spreadsheet.html"> http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorial_spreadsheet.html</a>

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Some more information can be found here on the Google Earth Outreach site: http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorial_spreadsheet.html.

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My worry about new paper journals is that libraries don't buy them, or at least too few do. T&F seem to me to be one company that specialises in journals no-one can read, and they are not keen to let you post your own pdf files. I suspect that established journals adapt at a rate that is faster than take-up of new journals.

I may post my "fun" experiences with T&F in a quiet moment for people's amusement.

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Thanks for posting about Geosphere, Toby.  Open access is great and yes, we should check out the other journals in this regard.  Having glanced at the Geosphere web pages, I couldn't find many (or indeed any) articles about informatics, data or software - it was mostly geology articles.  Nothing wrong with this per se, but perhaps a more focussed journal is more appropriate, since I can't see Geosphere having much visibility in the informatics community with its current content.

(I just remembered that I'd forgotten about Computers and Geosciences - I'll post to the Wiki now!)

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I've added a link to your wiki page: the Geological Society of America's online-only journal, who say:

"As the field of geoinformatics has emerged over the past few years, a common theme has been the need for researchers who have developed databases and software to have an outlet to publish their results in a peer-reviewed forum. Thus, we have established “data contributions” and “software contributions” as categories of publication"

http://geosphere.geoscienceworld.org/

This one has the advantage of

• not being owned by Taylor and Francis (some people don't like them)
• being fully open-access - ie everyone will be able to read your articles.

If anyone has the time to do so, I'd be interested in the open-access-ness of the other journals listed.

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I just watched an article on BBC's Click programme about 3d visualisation, learning among other things that Microsoft flies over cities taking photographs to use to construct its 3d representations. They seem to want to move from satellite to aeroplane images.

Whether or not 3d images are good for what this community wants is not clear, but there is clearly a useful job to be done in surveying where all these technologies are heading. 

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thanks Jon

 I thought I did change it before. unfortunatelly, it was changed on my personla blog. we will add more funcitons to WKML and release it soon.

 

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Great! Where can users download WKML from?  Also, would you be happy to change the permissions of this blog post to Public so that anyone can get the userguide?

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Toby - I think that's a pretty interesting idea (embedding data in XML and providing an XSLT transform to HTML). Clearly this is beyond most end-users, but data providers should be able to handle this sort of thing and it's a good way to carry data that can be rendered human-readable.

I've created a "Wish list" Wiki page to capture ideas like this and bring them to the attention of software providers: http://scispace.niees.group.cam.ac.uk/geobrowsers/page/Wish+list

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By the way is there a reason why this post is for logged-in users only?  Could this not be public?  It just took me ages to rediscover this post, then I realised I hadn't logged in...

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