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Wednesday, July 29. 2009
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Media GPS Coverage Trend?
This is anecdotal, but I think it's true: media outlets are doing far fewer stories on "people driving around and capturing geospatial data" stories and more "what do I do if my house is mislocated on MapQuest/in my GPS" stories. The latest one I saw was in the Kansas City Star and to the Watchdog column writer's credit actually cited NAVTEQ MapReporter (alas there was no live link to the page, but then many papers are still just dumped print text on the Web). The response didn't note Tele Atlas' MapInsight and/or TomTom Mapshare. Perhaps its time for data collection companies (and even OSM) to do some outreach on those efforts?
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Friday, July 10. 2009
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Update: LA Times: Crimes Missing from LAPD Map
Thursday LAPD Chief William Bratton thanked the LA Times (pdf) for its investigation which revealed that many crimes listed in department summaries did not appear on the department's online maps. Bratton pointed to contractors as the source of the error. PSOMAS and Lightray are currently working to fix the problem. In the meantime, the site remains up.
Sadly, the whole effort may mean less access to data instead of more. Bratton has asked the city attorney to look into the terms by which the LA Times had access to the crime listings. He suggests having to make this data available to any might put undue burden on the department.
- LA Times
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Wednesday, July 1. 2009
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Lessons Learned in Hyperlocal
Poytner's E-media Tidbits has a contribution from Dr. Michelle Ferrier, an associate professor at Elon University and a former columnist and managing editor of MyTopiaCafe.com at the Daytona Beach News-Journal. She details what she learned trying to make MyTopiaCafe.com, a hyperlocal news site for two counties successful. It closes today.
Themes: Don't bite off too much, have multiple revenue sources, have a salesforce that knows how to sell your unique offering
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