I’ve been keeping an eye on augmented reality and the apps are getting better and better. Consider Bionic Eye from Presselite. it’s an update of app originally announced as “Nearest Subway” for iPhones (iPod Touch, and old iPhones, too - but with limited functionality since those don’t have the compass of the 3GS). The video says it best:
One point not made: only POIs with in 1km are shown in the augmented reality app.
The cool part, for me, this requires no interactivity (cell phone connection or wi-fi). All the data, including POIs which come with the app and pub transit stops for NY, Chicago and DC, which are available in app for an additional fee, are stored locally. Now, that’s great when you don’t have a connection, but it does mean the data are static. That in turn means the company (or another one) can provide updates for a fee. The app is available now, for $1.
The delay is caused by the launch scheduled before DigitalGlobe’s, which was set for Oct 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The company does not expect any significant delay, but shares did drop 3%.
Chris Tucker is one the most animated people when it comes to discussing geospatial and he does it again in a brief, articulate piece in Federal Computer Week titled, Where is Where.gov?. His vision:
From the lowliest citizen to the president of the United States, we should all be empowered to fire up an application I will call Where.gov. At that portal, you could draw a bounding box on a map, declare a slice of time and instantaneously discover everything our government knows about that place. And we should be able to marshal that data instantaneously to support our needs.
We are looking forward to catching up with Tucker at the Location Intelligence Conference the week after next, where he’ll be on a panel titled: “The Intelligence Community Meets LI - What the Intelligence Community can Teach Commercial Geospatial Companies about Location Intelligence and Vice Versa.”
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/24 at 08:38 AM |
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The study, titled “Geospatial Contributions to Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis,” is part of a project that began in September 2008 with a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Arizona State researchers will release findings in October, but the general conclusion is that wealthier neighborhoods have more vegetation that helps keep temperatures down, while poorer ones are warmer.
One goal of Sharon Harlan, an associate professor with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change who contributed to the study is to use the findings to explore ways to lower temperatures in less affluent communities.
“GIS is our preferred mapping tool. It can take so many layers from many of different sources. This is very important, not only in the planning phase, but also in the engineering and construction phases. It’s crucial to have one base tool to put all the pieces in and that’s GIS.”
Diane Reinebach, Senior Energy Specialist for RMT Inc. on GIS specialist as a key job in Wind Farm Development; there are six other jobs noted in the article in Renewable Energy World
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/24 at 07:32 AM |
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