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Update: 12/29/08:
Back on Dec 5 Jeff King was ordered to pay a $4,000 fine and another $750 in restitution to the National Park Service. King was found guilty in court this fall of shooting a bull moose 600 feet inside the park boundary in 2007.
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President & CEO, Director of GeoEye Inc. Matthew M Oconnell bought 6,250 shares on 12/19/2008 at an average price of $17.91. That’s about $111,000.
Word is Rolta will by a “US-based specialist IT firm, which provides software and related services to the oil and gas industry.” Rolta acquired WhittmanHart Consulting, a Chicago-based business intelligence firm, earlier this year. Others looking at the acquisition pulled out when the economy slumped.
ReadWriteWeb rekindles a post about from earlier this year which highlights the difference between traveller type apps (for a “stranger in a strange land”) vs. those meant to bring people together in their shared geography.
Re-localization is about locals. It is about people who like being in one place and interacting with neighbors.
As I’ve noted, there are more of us who “stay in” our geography than those who happen upon it. LBS needs to cater to the “stay at homes” in a different way.
The Globe offers an article titled The Year in Maps, with the subhead: “A cartography boom offers new ways to see the world.”
The author, Drake Bennett, spoke to me and some other locals for input and its nice to see some of the local work highlighted. I confess I was very pleased to see that this was a topic worthy of exploration in the “Ideas” column in the Sunday paper.
I wonder, though, has there really been a cartography boom, or just more tools to make maps? Or is it the same thing?
