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I noted James Fee (of the James Fee GIS Blog and RSP Architects Ltd.) presented the keynote at the 2009 FME International User Conference in my event coverage. Safe has allowed us to embed the video here for all to see. We are happy to share this presentation titled “Removing Barriers to Data Sharing.”
One upshot of the rise in online degree programs (I teach in one) is that many “commuter schools” have lost significant enrollment. Many are working to integrate an online component to keep those students.
But, findings suggest that as students get more comfortable with online education, location does matter:
The bottom line is that even online, for many students there seems to be no place like home. Surveys show around two-thirds of consumers interested in online education would rather do it at a local institution, notes Richard Garrett, program director and senior research analyst with Eduventures Inc., an education-consulting firm.
That preference may fade in the future, he says. But for now, “there’s a strong sense, at least so far, that geography isn’t removed from the equation by any means.”
The code for the tool was developed in Sydney and launches today in Australia and New Zealand. It has already been added to real estate searches in the U.S. Providers of real estate data can submit their listing, but some in the region have already said they will not, arguing they offer better portals. Some third party developers will no doubt think this is a land grab (ha!) for their business.
This is perhaps no different than when the large GIS technology vendors slowly but surely put their third party developers out of businesses. You have been warned.
Augmented reality (AR) refers to layering computer generated (or collected) information on top of real time, real world data. Venturebeat offers a tighter definition that required live 3D data,but I prefer the broader one.
In any case, Venturebeat reviews the existing mobile AR browsers and content providers, along with the more “hockey” (so far) marketing uses of the technology. You’ve likely heard of firms like Earthmine, but may not have head of some of the other players.
Placemaker is a developer tool to take locations from unstructured text and pop them onto a map. With some time on his hands, London-based Yahoo developer Chris Heilmann, made it more accessible to non-programmers in GeoMaker, which debuted July 1 (when many in the U.S. were getting ready for a big holiday weekend). The resulting autogenerated comes in two forms - an embeddable map (you need a Map Developer key) or the data in the geo microformat.
Heilmann is looking for feedback and plans to release the code as open source in the future.
- Yahoo Developer Blog Post (includes video demo)
via TechCrunch
