This week I had time to follow the 26c3 remotley from home via video live streams. And this was a really great and inspirational experience to me. Here is what it looked like on my computer during the conference:

I figured out two different approaches, to get 3DWarehouse SKP/KML/COLLADA models into CityGML, which I want to share with you (this is all very trivial, but If you don't know it, it can cost quiet some time to find the right tools for doing this).

The first way is to use the CityGML PlugIn for Sketchup from www.citygml.de.

Oh Boy!! This is about when its starts to get nasty with LaTeX editing.

I'am writing my Diplomathesis at the moment, and I choosed LaTex for the typesetting, which is normally without a doubt the best choice you can take for that task.
But I'm now at a point, where it starts to get nasty...

For the purpose of splitting my bibliography references into two bibliographies (one for the referred normal scientific literature and one for referred websites).

Hi all,

I want to share some media, which I got recently on two mailing lists I'm subscribed to, with you.

The first Video was posted by Puneet Kishor on Geowanking mailing list.

Bruce Sterling is pondering on AR. Really intelligent and very wise. Just some other view angles then just the technical ones on the topic. Very good!

Hi there!

I just installed Google Sketchup 7 with wine on Ubuntu 9.04 and it works!

But I have to say, there are some minor "bugs" you have to take care of, to get it up an running nice.

One of the few available CityGML Viewers out there is LandXplorer CityGML Viewer from Autodesk.
As you can find out on their homepage, it is a proprietary product and at the moment only available for MS Windows Platforms.
This is normally bad news fro Linux users like me. But luckily there is wine.

Hello,

I tried to setup a deegree-WPVS on a 64Bit Ubuntu Linux environment and encountered some Problems with that. The thing that wondered me, was, that I first made this procedure on my Laptop, running Ubuntu 9.04 (but in 32Bit environment), and everything went fine without a problem.

On my 64Bit Desktop it gave me the following error (in catalina.out):

When you are learning for an exam (like I do in the moment), you have these moments when you can't make any sense of what you are reading. So you need to strain some other senses, best is to do something completely different to relax, but in the last time before the exam you (me at least ;)) don't even have the time to do something different, so you can relax by watching videos on the topic you are learning in the moment.
Here is what I found by a websearch. Not bad and I am sure you can find more by searching more deep.

The best videos I found are from Wolfgang Hürst.

From Slashgeo today I got this is really great news for the future of web3D!
The Khronos Group announced an initiative to create an open, royalty-free standard for bringing accelerated 3D graphics to the Web.

A bold statement? Yes indeed, but I'm sure here. :)

I think Java WorldWind has a huge potential to bring the GeoWeb to a next generation.