Tuesday, November 25. 2008

Podast: Geo and the Economic Downturn

Whatever you choose to call the current economic situation, it's clearly impacting everything, worldwide in one way or another. This week we look into the crystal ball to think though the impact on the geospatial technology industry. More that one company in the industry has seen its stock not just fall but plummet; some are cutting jobs. But what about those in government positions? What about software vendors? Consultants? What's the prognosis for gadgets and phones? Join us to see if you agree with editors' perspective.

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Monday, November 24. 2008

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Why the iPod Touch Didn't Get Google Street View

Charlie Sorrel at Wired gives a less-than-satisfying answer. What does Apple say?

Will News Focussed Mapping App Mapwith.us Make It?

The original vision for the mapping app, once named GeoMonkey, (that's still the name of the company, Q&A) was as a social networking app. But that didn't pay the bills for its creators, students at the University of Washington, Vancouver. So the app was updated and renamed as Mapwith.us. One use is as a community mapping site, where users can save their own maps and post photos and the like to them from GPS-enabled phone apps (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Java).

The second use, is more interesting: an app to map news of professionals and citizen journalists.

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Mark Newman (Cartogram guy) on NPR

If you've not yet read about or seen Mark Newman of the University of Michigan's election maps or hisAtlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live, All Things Considered provides an introduction.

Times-Picayune: How New Orleans is Shrinking

One key stat in the first few paragraphs of an article exploring the challenges of managing the shrinking city:

ESRI, a leading market research firm, projects New Orleans will gain only 15,000 residents in the next five years.

The city now has about 300,000 residents, down to about 1/2 its peak population of 627,000 in 1960. Now, here's the part that I didn't know: "About half of the population loss of the past 50 years happened before the levees breached."