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I-70 Wildlife Watch can use Google Maps of the interstate corridor to pinpoint an animal sighting (live or dead) within a tenth of a mile. The goal is to increase driver awareness of animals, which cause many accidents per year and to implement safety efforts in Colorado.
AT&T Labs in San Francisco held an open house last Thursday to show off its Emerging Devices division, and some location-based services, social networking, and medical devices of the future. Most were, well, lame (coupons based on location!). The augmented reality platform isn’t lame but feels a bit behind the times:
Another project currently being cooked up in AT&T’s Labs, this is called Air Graffiti. AT&T’s version of augmented reality, it allows users to virtually tag places with tips, web links, sales information, personal notes, and more. When people then look at digital maps they can see the information for places tagged as they walk down the street. The carrier is aiming to build the back end of this platform and sell it to companies that want to make their own location-based services.
Update: Canton is back where it belongs…but when you search for Canton, Ohio, you are not taken there. Instead, you are still in Massillon. So, I guess while the label is now there, the geocoding is not up-to-date.
