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NCALM Data Distribution Center wins Google KML in Research Contest    

Posted on Tue, March 10, 2009 by C. Crosby in Data • News

imageYesterday Google announced the winners of their KML in Research contest via the Google LatLong blog.  Ionut Iordache, of the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) at UC Berkeley was awarded for his very nice NCALM Data Distribution Center KML file that allows integrated access to tiled LIDAR DEMs as well as hillshade overlays in Google Earth.  Google Earth provides an excellent platform to visualize and then download LIDAR-derived topography and the NCALM DDC KML is an nice example of how a lot of functionality can be bundled into a small, easily-downloadable, KML.  The Google Earth files available via OpenTopograph.org/kml offer similar capabilities as the NCALM DDC file, but for a variety of reasons we have chosen not to integrate them into a single download like the file produced by Ionut.

A full list of winners in the KML in Research contest can be found here.  Congratulations to Ionut and NCALM!


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Indeed congratulations to Ionut and NCALM, but also kudos to you Chris. It was your steady pressure to modernize these interfaces via GM that I think provided some encouragement to Ionut.

By: Ramon Arrowsmith on 03/10/2009



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