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“GIS has been around since the cave days when hunters drew pictures of animals they hunted. Their animal drawings and the animal migration routes are the early records that imitate today’s modern GIS images.”
- Althea Blackwell, writing about GIS in the DC Government Technology Examiner
Now the same company offers Geology TX, its second “GIS iPhone app.” (press release)
Reader Kevin points out the latest from the Freakonics blog:
Two physicists and a computer scientist used Google maps to study traffic in Boston, London, and New York, and found that when people use real-time driving maps to try to pick the fastest routes, traffic slows down. Their solution: close a few roads so drivers have fewer options.
The citations go back to a Christian Science Monitor article from last year citing a scientific paper (pdf) from August 2008.
The bit of irony for me? I saw Steven D. Levitt, one of the authors of Freakonics speak at the Tele Atlas conference a few years ago!
