A 3D perspective model of Vancouver allows the viewer to zoom to any of the Olympic venues but is especially good for interactively viewing the alpine event locations.
The Boston Globe - The Globe provides a graduated symbol map of the number of medals won by country from 1924 until the 2010 games. Using a slider bar on a time scale to advance the dates between Winter Olympics a viewer can see the progression of each country’s success.
NBC TV- Perhaps the most disappointing website covering the Olympics as I could find no maps of any sort. And because NBC is broadcasting the games, I expected much more.
Vancouver.com- static 3D buildings and extruded models without the nice facades as you would see in Bing Maps. Too basic.
Vancouver "deToured" - activist website, "critical of official representations of Vancouver," is trying to show the city in a different light. What’s interesting about this website is that the user gets the choice of whether they want to see the background information from Google Maps or OpenStreetMap. Is that akin to "conservative" vs. "liberal," "Nixon Administration" vs. "Woodstock?" Not sure why you would offer two views but a nice feature nonetheless.
*Google - not to be outdone by the media, Google takes StreetView to a new level by letting the viewer take a run down the slopes. Several venues are mapped.
Sources report that FaceBook is doing “due diligence” on Loopt. That’s generally done before investing in or acquiring a company, though neither company will comment. Loopt did advertise a potential app to be done with Facebook early last year.
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. launched a new Web site and buildings database, Feb 23 “powered by a geographic information system, to support state economic development efforts.” It’s a Zoom Prospector site.
I’m a fan of Herkimer, NY (my car broke down there once - and I had a very nice experience). Herkimer County is looking for a tool to help market itself and early discussions include Manifold GIS.
Anne Arundel County decided to drop tracking its plows using GPS, which impacted the snow removal in recent weeks.
With the county having spent more than $10.5 million so far this year on snow removal, giving up the ability to use GPS technology to dispatch the plows in order to save a small sum of money was unwise. Use of the antiquated system resulted in some roads being plowed repeatedly while others in the same neighborhood were never plowed at all, according to the results of an online survey I conducted on Feb. 10.
Apex CoVantage won the contract to do broadband mapping, funded by ARRA, in Nebraska. Many states have gone with Connected Nation, which has ESRI as a partner.
“I think you can expect to see this [topic] emerge as part of a larger legislative item,” said Rep. Rick Boucher, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center submitted comments: “EPIC recommended that Congress establish strong rules, similar to those in the European Union Eprivacy Directive, that would give users meaningful control over their locational data. EPIC had previously recommended that the F.C.C. establish guidelines for the protection of users’ locational privacy.”
- full docs
- ReadWriteWeb rails against treating location data like medical records.
See also: coverage yesterday and links to testimony docs
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/25 at 07:48 AM |
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DigitalGlobe made $13.8 million, or 30 cents per diluted share, on revenue of $72.9 million during the quarter that ended on Dec. 31, 2009. During the fourth quarter last year, DigitalGlobe reported a net income of $13.8 million, or 31 cents per diluted share, on revenue of $72.2 million.
That did beat the analyst projections, but not by much.
Revenues were down for the year and expectations for next year are relatively flat. The company continues to support private companies including Microsoft and Nokia and expects to receive some of the DoD’s EnhancedView contract later this year. The big achievement this year was the successful launch of WorldView-2.
Space News has a good review of where DG’s revenues may come from in 2010.
