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by Matt Ball on November 18, 2011
The instantly-updated map provides a sense of magic, as in the “Marauder’s Map” that is so central to Harry Potter’s edge against his pursuers. Within that fictional map context, there are details of every nook and cranny of the school grounds, including secret passages, as well as the name and location of every person in [...]
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by Matt Ball on November 3, 2011
There’s an interesting interview in The European Magazine with George Dyson in which he discusses the Internet and personal computers toward human progress. There’s some discussion about computers emerging as imaginative entities. Dyson’s reply: “I am not sure whether computers are just tools. When you look at your iPhone to get directions, are you asking [...]
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by Matt Ball on November 1, 2011
iOnRoad is a free Android phone application that adds a suite of in-car features, including an augmented reality app for collision avoidance. The collision detection app uses the phone’s camera to detect distance between you and the vehicle in front of you, and issues warnings when you get too close. The customizable on-screen menu provides [...]
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by Matt Ball on October 28, 2011
The mobile smartphone platform gets a mapmaking boost this week with new offerings from both Ericsson Labs and Nokia Beta Labs. Both focus on the mobile users’ interest in collecting data about their surroundings. Ericsson’s Map Studio offers tools to create indoor maps (Map Studio), use the maps in Android Applications (Android Map API), and [...]
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by Matt Ball on October 27, 2011
The Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD) has developed a communication tool called GeoChat for coordinating communications between relief organizations and the local community in real-time. Central to the tool is a map interface to visualize communication in context. The tool fosters interaction that maintains shared geospatial awareness of who is doing what [...]
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by Matt Ball on October 26, 2011
lifeClipper is an augmented reality research project being developed by Jan Torpus at HGK in Basel, Switzerland. This outdoor GPS augmented reality tour uses high-precision GPS, a video camera, microphone, and a head mounted display to overlay the existing environment with digital details. The intent is to create an outdoor art experience that alters the [...]
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by Matt Ball on October 18, 2011
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has made rapid progress on an application approach for delivering data and intelligence to the field. Their in-house application development team received the go-ahead in June, and now includes eight developers that have launched a number of new applications for Android and Apple iOS devices. Demonstrations of the technology were [...]
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by Matt Ball on October 17, 2011
Letitia Long, director of the National Geospatial-Information Agency, demonstrated a number of applications that they have developed to deal with their humanitarian assistance mission. In the past, the agency has developed paper mapbooks that required the printing, binding and shipping of more than 200,000 pages for a typical disaster. These tools go direct to first [...]
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by Matt Ball on October 11, 2011
In late August, the U.S. Department of Energy granted a $1.2 million award to University of California, Riverside for a three-year study on Eco-Driving. The focus of the research is to evaluate technologies that will lower emissions and save fuel. The end goal is a driver-feedback system that will help drivers save from 10 to [...]
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by Matt Ball on October 6, 2011
The MIT Media Lab has been using smartphones to collect data on people’s habits and opinions for research projects for several years. The group is now releasing their smartphone data collection and visualization system as a free open-source download for anyone interested. The software called Funf has both an Android-based phone component that exposes sensor [...]
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