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Tuesday, June 30. 2009
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Podcast: Delivering Maps to the FBI
This past week two geospatial practitioners were cited for their good work by the FBI. What did they do? At the request of the Bureau, they went online and found some Digital Raster Graphics, scanned quad maps, printed them and gave them to agents working in their area. Is this how agents and others in the federal government, or even citizens, should get their geographic data? What does this scenario reveal about the FBI? The state of our geospatial infrastructure? The value of the geospatial workforce?
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Tuesday, June 23. 2009
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Google Working on Landmark Recognition - Relation to Google Map?
Google shared that it's working to identify landmarks on images in part by starting with geocoded images on Picassa and Panaramio. Clint Boulton wonders what it'll be useful for beyond grade school homework projects. I know - Google can do what Bing already does (though apparently using different methodology) adding landmark images to its mapping app.
- Google Watch Blog at EWeek
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Monday, June 22. 2009
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Flickr's Location-based Image Gallery
Yahoo announced a new feature of its mobile Flickr page. Those using Android-based phones or iPhones can click a button to "find images taken nearby." Once the user gives permission to the page to determine location, images are found and displayed.
- Flickr Blog
via MocoNews
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Saturday, June 20. 2009
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Google Maps Answers the Question: What's Here?
A new Google Maps feature allows you to right click on a location in a Google Map, choose "What's here" from the bottom of the menu, and get an address and a list of businesses at/near that point. When I clicked on the hospital across from my house, I got two graffiti pictures (which are not of the hospital) and no indication it was a hospital. When I clicked on a business in Davis Square I got the Joshua Tree (a bar) and a tanning salon. Yes, both are in the area. I also got an ad for a hotel in Joshua Tree, CA.
Interesting idea, not sure how it'll be used.
via eWeek
- Google Blog post
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Friday, June 19. 2009
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Those Sticky Google Maps Mashups
I think the very first Google Maps mashup I ever used was GMaps Pedometer. I used it to lay out running routes around the area. I was primitive and simple and worked just great. And, it's nice to see it's still out there (now better than before!) and cited in the New York Times this week.
Do I use it now? Not so much. Now I'm typically looking for routes to "get somewhere" on foot or bike as part of my training and I use Google Maps. I get a route it suggests, then "rearrange it" get in the required mileage.
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Thursday, June 18. 2009
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Best Maps of Tehran? User Generated
Brady Forrest at O'Reilly Radar studies the map portal's maps of the area and concludes:
"Looking at the images below [ Yahoo, Mapquest, Google, and Bing] it becomes very clear that user-generated maps win in hard to reach places."
Flickr has even swapped out Yahoo Maps in favor OSM (something they've done before).
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