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Serial entrepreneur, Perry Evans, the man behind MapQuest and Local Matters, has announced the launch of Closely, Inc. for what Evan’s calls "live local marketing." According to the press release, "Closely Business Edition is a real-time application service that allows small businesses to centrally launch, manage and measure promotions through social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter." See the video where Evans explains more.
NAVTEQ announced their 12 finalists for their North American LBS Challenge awards at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, CA.
Watch the short video (click graphic at right) by each of the finalist that each had only 1 minute to explain their apps.
The winners were:
Last night there was a big “boom” in Portland. Quickly Reid Beels (designer, geo-developer and one of the community organizers of an upcoming citizen open source conference) put up a Google Map and engaged the community, with help of the local media, to post what they heard on the map. Pins were color-coded; Google could not handle the amount of data so special scripts were written. Police identified an exploded pipe bomb.
What’s most interesting? Lessons learned:
Beels says two big lessons came out of the experience for him. First, the tools they used were easy and fast, but they were also quite limited. Google Maps in particular was capable of multi-user collaboration but did poorly when it came to displaying a large amount of data. As Eschright wrote after the action, “It’s not the best platform for a couple hundred people, many without prior experience editing maps, to be using all at once.”
He’s now considering Ushandi for future work.
- ReadWriteWeb via @geopdx
Bartlett & West offers the results of its PDF GIS Use for Public Works Management in the US and Canada. The results come from 1375 respondents about their organizations’ use of GIS.
Bartlett & West undertook this study to provide a resource for public works professionals, offering insights into how their colleagues in the United States and Canada are using and supporting Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The report examines public works entities’ use of GIS, budgets, funding, resources, technical support, and other pertinent information.
via @Taliesn
Last week, CTIA, the Wireless Association, held their spring conference and issued an updated statement of Best Practices and Guidelines for Location Based Services. Why? According to CTIA, "the guidelines were revised due to the dynamic and constantly innovative nature of the wireless ecosystem and the latest developments in Location-Based Services." Certainly the understatement of the year. In this podcast, we’ll discuss the details and whether they will actually work in practice.
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