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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 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 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 16, 2011
Today, Trimble announced the launch of a new service that provides large-format printed maps via MyTopo.com. The service provides tools for the custom design of areas in the U.S. and Canad with base map options, aerial imagery, and hybrid topo and aerial photo maps. The market aims at construction, surveying, agriculture and field research fields. [...]
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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 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 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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by Matt Ball on October 4, 2011
TomTom is launching an enterprise-focused geospatial service called TomTom Geospatial for Oracle as announced at OpenWorld 2011. The service will offer geocoding, vehicle routing and mapping information, all hosted on Oracle’s 11g database. Oracle customers will be able to easily integrate TomTom’s map and routing data into new and existing business applications. This new business [...]
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by Matt Ball on August 25, 2011
New market research on the global magnetic sensor market show steady growth that is projected to reach $3.2 billion by 2017. Magnetic sensors are used for position, speed, and as record heads for disk drives, but the largest growth area is for e-compassing for in-car navigation and GPS-enabled handheld devices. The growth rate for these [...]
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