What’s in a Geospatial Coordinate?

By now many of you have heard of Google Earth or MSN Virtual Earth, or seen their images used on the evening news. If not, then you’re probably at least familiar with Yahoo Maps or MapQuest. Well, there’s been plenty of buzz surrounding this stuff, and the MIT Technology Review site has a really nice article explaining it all. So if you’d like to get a better handle on where it came from, what it’s about, and what it could become, then check out “Killer Maps“. That way, when people start annotating real world maps with virtual constructs, you’ll be half way to understanding what’s going on. Can hardly wait for the AR stuff.