Using our quick prototype Google Earth tool, we put together a quick map from the USGS showing the Magnitude 5.8 – VIRGINIA earthquake.
Update 8/23/11 8:11PM EST: Added another layer to the Google Earth Map that shows recent seismic data from across the globe.
The church I attend had a need for a new kiosk that would be used to serve up the webpage of their online giving portal. I immediately volunteered, having had done a few basic kiosks in the past for fun, using the Morphix and other old-school linux live cd version.
Its been over six years since my last “kiosk” experience, and figured this would be a piece of cake. Surely, the open-source “kiosk” scene would be light-years ahead of where they were before, since nearly every major linux distribution has a “live-cd” version.
I found that it was nearly the opposite.
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We recently started research work for a potential grant and some of the project focused on dynamic visualization of data sources. A few years ago we had done some work for a client in visualizing aircraft telemetry data using the stand-along Google Earth client. At that time, the Google Earth browser plug-in was not yet mature and still had a few issues.
With our current project, we needed a quick way to geographically visualize a large set of data. A years worth of Apache log files, a perl script, some PHP code, and we were able to create a fully automated data integration and visualization system with no cost.
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While working on a prototyping project for a customer, I was having problems “updating” existing placemarks in Google Earth that had been created by a simple Network Link file. Granted I was writing a custom web server to server KML data, but it was not immediately clear why my KML data was not being interpreted correctly. While Google Earth’s KML Documentation is fairly comprehensive, it seems to lack a good deal of simple examples.
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For this project Silva Tech helped Applied Avionics with several prototyping and software development projects to further enhance their model aircraft based UAV platform. Mr Silva architected and developed and entire service that would accept any type of streaming video feed (MOV/AVI), translate it near real-time and stream it as a flash video. This flash video would then be accessible across a network via a web browser with a flash video client plug-in Mr. Silva also created a prototype system in C# .NET, that would accept live aviation telemetry data from a web-socket connection, translate the data into Google KML entities and automatically display a model aircraft flight in near-real-time. The prototype included a sample driver program that would also replay previously collected telemetry data to review previous aircraft flights exactly as they had occurred on Google Earth. Mr. Silva was also consulted on system architecture changes to the aircraft and its ground-based processing system. |
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