UAE Plans Remote Sensing Satellite

The Inquirer reports that the UAE is planning to launch a remote sensing satellite. Details are sketchy, but the paper reports:

[Senior military official from UAE] Brigadier Khalifa Mohammad Al Rumaithi, told Gulf News of plans to launch a satellite in conjunction with other GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE).

Speaking at the Defence Geospatial Intelligence conference, the UAE’s Chief of Military Works at the Armed Forces, noted that a lot of progress has already been made on the Satellite, dubbed Dubai sat1, which the UAE says is for peaceful and civilian purposes only.

It will purportedly be able to help the country with urban development planning and infrastructure by providing accurate maps and be useful in management of potential natural disasters. It’s not for spying, honest.

MapWii - Find Local Wii Players

You can play Wii games with others online, but latency means that sometimes there’s a bit of delay. The good news is that if you choose players closer by, that latency decreases. So, how to find local players? MapWii. You won’t get too local too fast with this Google Maps app. First you pick a country, then a sublevel (state in the U.S.). When I ended up in Massachusetts, many of the folks don’t seem to have any Wii games.

The site has been up for some time, but I point it out because it’s a situation where geography still matters!

via AppScout