Wayfinder NYC was the big winner in this month’s Big Apple Apps competition, which pitted apps that use public information against one another for prizes. The app uses location-based technology, data and augmented reality to help you get around New York City. Steven Lao and Victor Sima tell the story of how the app came to be, the surprising challenge they faced and introduce their newest app which covers Vancouver’s transportation system, just in time for the Olympics.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 02/15 at 06:00 AM |
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The Sandhills region of North Carolina is using suitability map to help find suitable uses for land within the area. A local non-profit, Sustainable Sandhills, developed them.
“Suitability has nothing to do with land use and it doesn’t predict change,” said Jeff Brown from the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. “But it takes into account the makeup of the area and what’s surrounding it to determine suitability.”
“This program was developed because sometimes developers don’t take all perspectives into account,” Parsons told members of the Richmond County Cooperative Extension Office as well as Richmond County staff.
Sustainable Sandhills is also developing the “Green Growth Toolbox, which takes the same mapping approach but applies it to wildlife in areas so developers can take animal habitats into consideration before starting a development project.”
- Richmond County Journal
Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI), an agency dedicated to implementing the Forest Rights Act in Maharashtra State in India, used GPS, GIS and satellite imagery to settle 10,000 claims pertaining to the rights of tribals on forest land in last three months by measuring 61,000 plots. About 13,500 claims have been rejected.
- Sikaal Times
Not exactly GIS, but geospatial: NYC Mayor Bloomberg announced on Thursday 2/11 that two trial pedestrian plaza implemented over the last eight months in Times Square and Herald Square will be made permanent. While traffic analyses showed the blocked streets slowed some trips while speeding others, pedestrians and cyclist seemed to pleased with the new calmer zones in the city.
- USA Today
Success in Lewisham, with its online graffiti reporting website - “complaints about graffiti in the borough fell by 30% between June 2007 and August 2009 following the launch of the LoveLewisham.org website” - have given the council a new job: to develop LoveCleanStreets.org for the whole of London.
- BBC
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