Splashpoint - The Beginning to Current

I've been working on this project now for quite sometime (several years along with several support team. Many thanks to the NASA World Wind development team headed by Patrick and programmers like Chris and Randy for having introduced their 3D mapping technology to the public. Several months ago I started this collaboration with NASA and see if this mapping viewing tool can be transformed to a fully GIS platform. We are now in beta testing the application that we called Splashpoint.

To make Splashpoint a serious application for professionals, it must have a solid backbone. So we added an enterprise geospatical database and search engine as the core for data repository and functional calculation and analysis. From this we are developing interesting and unique classes of applications.

We are always short of cash but with a lot of prayers and luck, we are still alive and kicking to get this done. So far everyone that remained on the team is commited to reach the end very soon. It's too bad I didn't start this blogger earlier to document the trials and tribulation that we have gone thru to get to this point. We have reached as many as 25 people at one point and then dwindled down now to about 10. It's the survival of the fittest! We've been working for the most part without or with very little funds. Those who had to drop out for survival necessity will be invited back again when we hit big time - i.e. to be able eat a full, hot meal!

There are three big pieces (components) that make up Splashpoint: One piece is the Web interface, the other is the 3D mapping, and the third is the geospatial database & enterprise search engine.

Today we've gone over 30 log-issues. Our target is get all of these resolved plus others in a couple of weeks.