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by Matt Ball on February 7, 2012
Ericsson Labs has recently released a Geo Location Messaging API for quick and simple location-based content delivery. The API can be used to push content to clients in a selected location or to alert clients about data. Users can subscribe to information channels or services in order to receive these pushed messages. While the API [...]
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by Matt Ball on February 6, 2012
The BBC have done a nice job of summarizing the possibilities, and future potential, for augmented reality in this video. The piece highlights the 110 Stories application that places a silhouetted image of the Twin Towers at the right height, in the right orientation into your smart phone, allowing you to take and share a [...]
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by Matt Ball on January 20, 2012
UpNext debuts interactive and fluid 3D maps, available on iPad and Android. There are enhanced 3D models of 23 cities in the United States with 50 world cities that show points of interest and Foursquare checkins, with the idea that you’ll be able to see the activities that are “up next” in your area. View [...]
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by Matt Ball on January 18, 2012
LizardTech has just launched a free GeoViewer application for the iPad that extends the display of their MrSID image format as well as the JPEG 2000 format. The lightweight application features measurement functionality and geolocation support as well as band selection of multispectral imagery and different geographic coordinates. Users can view both raster and vector [...]
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by Matt Ball on January 3, 2012
Elizabeth Lindsey, an anthropologist specializing in ethno-navigation, is working to compile a dynamic Map of the Human Story with embedded film, photographs, audio, text, maps and animation. Lindsey and photographer Lisa Kristine will spend the next twelve months collecting photos, video and audio for the project from around the world. The plan is to launch [...]
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by Matt Ball on January 2, 2012
Two recent cartography graduates from the cartography program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have launched a company called Carticulate, with a bright optimism for the future of cartography. The pair was profiled in this feature in the Minneapolis Journal, where they spoke about the democratization of cartography as well as the infusion of new tools, [...]
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by Matt Ball on December 28, 2011
China’s second most popular search engine, Soso.com, has launched a street-level viewing function to their maps.soso.com. This feature currently is only available for three geographies, but more collection is underway with more areas to be added. The street-level mapping function looks very similar to Google’s StreetView. Unique to this offering is a night view that [...]
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by Matt Ball on December 27, 2011
The twin Grail lunar exploration spacecraft that NASA launched in September will begin their gravity mapping mission on New Year’s Day. The Grail probes, standing for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, will both orbit the moon in tandem at 35 miles above the surface, and an average separation of 124 miles. The probes will speed [...]
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by Matt Ball on December 13, 2011
The local information site Clever Sense was just acquired by Google. The site uses Internet crawling technology to process and mine data in order to connect the online world with the offline world. Clever Sense developed technology to combine this data with data that they mine from social interactions, such as check-ins, likes and ratings, [...]
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by Matt Ball on November 22, 2011
Today, TomTom announced the addition of vehicle maintenance planning for their WEBFLEET online fleet operation tools. This combination of vehicle planning and mapping introduces some exciting possibilities for mapping and sensing, because today’s vehicles are our most highly sensored machines. TomTom’s offering helps businesses to keep an eye on maintenance in order to improve efficiency [...]
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