Electronic Health Records (EHR) offer patients the opportunity to access their own medical records. Google and Microsoft recently extended their public services by introducing internet-based personal healthcare information platforms – Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault. Over one hundred thousand people have registered at the two services since they were launched. Both companies invite othe...

Real-time collaboration is being offered by multiple libraries and APIs (Google Drive Real-time API, Microsoft Real-Time Communications API, TogetherJS, ShareJS), rapidly becoming a mainstream option for webservices developers. However, they are offered as centralised services running in a single server, regardless if they are free/ open source or proprietary software. After re-engineering Apac...

This paper mainly introduced how WAP, Google API and 51ditu API were applied to the System of Insects’ Classification Retrieval. The introduction of Google API makes the query interface more visualized, convenient and humane. The purpose of 51ditu API is to provide support for decision-making when open country investigators are considering investigation routes. The application of WAP enables to...

The main objective of this paper was to research the use of Web 2.0 techniques and freely available geospatial tools as a base for information-focused applications. The investigation was conducted, based on a prototype development of a project portal for the Fichtner Group. The methods adopted include; developing both server and client-sides of the application with Adobe Flex Builder. Toad for ...

This eye-opener article aims at introducing the health GIS community to the emerging online consumer geoinformatics services from Google and Microsoft (MSN), and their potential utility in creating custom online interactive health maps. Using the programmable interfaces provided by Google and MSN, we created three interactive demonstrator maps of England's Strategic Health Authorities. These ca...

In this paper, we present Active Cloud DB, an open source Softwareas-a-Service (SaaS) application that allows for RESTful access to cloud-based distributed datastore technologies that implement the Google Datastore API. We implement Active Cloud DB as a Google App Engine application that we employ to expose the Google App Engine Datastore API to developers – for use with any language and framew...

This paper documents the development of an interactive web map designed to communicate geographic research using three different technologies: the Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Google Maps API for Flash, and ActionScript 3.0. These technologies are used in conjunction with geospatial data related to a research study involving the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in monitoring hydro...

Real-time collaboration is being offered by plenty of libraries and APIs (Google Drive Real-time API, Microsoft Real-Time Communications API, TogetherJS, ShareJS), rapidly becoming a mainstream option for web-services developers. However, they are offered as centralised services running in a single server, regardless if they are free/open source or proprietary software. After re-engineering Apa...