GeaBios
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Flexible user interface - more concurrent rich Internet applications
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Type of site
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Web mapping and astronomy |
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| Available in | English and Slovenian |
| Owner | Academa |
| Created by | Academa |
| Website | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Not required |
| Launched | May 1999 |
| Current status | Active |
GeaBios is a free (non-profit) “Slovene Citizen Oriented Information Service” and the name stands for Geo Enabled And Better Internet Oriented Services.
People backing up the service come from a variety of businesses, institutions and different countries, but mostly from Slovenia. All the information are somehow connected to the Earth and Space (geocoded). The Internet applications, which are running mostly on client side, enable the viewing of maps, aerial photography and satellite imagery. They reveal the Earth from above and the Space from below. Many specific layers of different content can be pasted over those maps and images. Time dependent information is calculated on-line.
Motto: GeaBios is a process not a fixed solution.
In 1999 the first application named Aviator 2000 2D/3D map over Internet came out. It was created in Javascript (DHTML) with additional ActiveX/OpenGL plug-in. The application had little uptake, as Netscape Communicator, which did not support ActiveX, had a large market share at that time. Users complained because they were not able to use the 3D modules. To avoid that, developers created 2D Java 1.1 based interface and soon removed ActiveX application. For Internet Explorer users with Microsoft's JRE 1.1 the applications are still written in Java 1.1. Due to well known problems of Gecko's Java Live Connect the applications are being gradually transferred to Flash.
The basic principle in the design of the service is to “Keep it as simple as possible, but not more than that”. Through offering a wide range of general interest data and useful services free of charge, the service is attractive for users in spite the fact that it is not always simple to use. GeaBios offers a variety of information and services, adding new ones constantly. Some of them are:
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