To mark the occasion [of the mid-term elections in the U.S. 11/2], Foursquare has teamed up with noted design firm JESS3 to create a dynamic map, which will display Foursquare check-ins in real-time at nearly 107,000 polling locations across the country. You’ll be able to access it at http://elections.foursquare.com/.
The site is built using OSM.
- TechCrunch
Gowalla has a voting pin you can earn but has map.
- Gowalla Blog
The Atlantic like Google’s election maps.
- Atlantic
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/28 at 08:06 AM |
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Even as I note the complexity of accessing Bing Maps add-ons, comes word Google is testing out a new “big button” look for Google Maps in some areas.
- Google System Blog (unofficial blog)
There’s a new look to Places search results rolling out.
- USA Today
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/28 at 07:48 AM |
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Jefferson Middle School (Georgia) students Hal Jarrett and Ben Rigsby Jarrett, 13, and Rigsby, 14, both in eighth grade, have spent the past month creating 3-D models of buildings in their hometown as part of one of five cities selected a project funded by a grant from Google and tech training company Go-2-School. It’s a photo, Sketch-Up, Google Earth sort of effort to be online next May.
- OnlineAthens
Baylor University (TX) will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Frances C. Poage Map room and opening exhibit “Mapping It Out: A Cartographic History of Texas” at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28. The Frances C. Poage Map room was established in the late 1980s by the late Congressman W.R. Poage in honor of his wife, Frances. The map collection exceeds 10,000 maps focusing on Texas maps. The collection includes early maps dating back to the 17th century, Texas county maps and local maps, such as the 1869 plat map of Waco. The new Poage Map room was built to accommodate this expansive collection of Texas maps. This resource is available to Baylor and the community with hopes of incorporating the use of maps into the Baylor curriculum.
- press release
“Why does #geography education matter? Enter #NCGE contest with your video answer by 30 Nov, top 5 entries each win $500”
- @tinacary
Jones County Junior College (MS) students and guests attended a recent workshop hosted by Halöf Inc. and JCJC’s forestry department. Information Technology manger for Haglöf, Patrick Lidstrom demonstrated how the forestry industry is changing with better equipment, software and technology including LiDAR for forestry. It’s not clear the college will teach GIS specifically for forestry. “The U.S. is just now starting to adopt LiDAR for forest inventory,” said JCJC forestry and GIS instructor, Brian Mitchell, PhD.
- Hattiesburg American
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/28 at 07:22 AM |
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A trial in New South Wales revealed that a GPS device that beeped when drivers were over the local speed limit (access from a database, not input by drivers as other devices require) caused 89% of drivers to slow down. If implemented statewide it would save 35 lives per year. Still, there are no plans to make the device mandatory.
- SMH
A group of African rhinos are the latest users of GPS trackers. Five individuals already have the “in horn” devices at Africa’s Mafikeng Game Reserve.
- Ubergizmo
Taiwan’s Travel Agent Association on Monday urged all tour groups to only use buses installed with GPS. This after an untracked bus full of tourists went missing in an area of landslides caused by a typhoon.
- Taiwan Focus
Russia plans to launch eight GLONASS satellites between 2011 and 2013. That’s the word from Nikolai Testoyedov, the head of the Information Satellite Systems (ISS) company, which manufactures the satellites. Three are expected to be launched this year taking the total in orbit to 29 (of which three are currently not operational).
- Space Daily
Patrolling robots complete with GPS, that cost $590,000 are the security guards at Plutonium Valley in Nevada, where radiation is high and costs of people and surveillance could run up to $6 million.
About the size of a golf cart, the MDARS robots are powered by four-cylinder diesel engines that propel them up to 20 miles per hour. As they move, the robots keep watch over the area they’re patrolling with an intrusion-detection video camera during the day and an infrared video camera at night.
- Defense News
A letter to the editor in a paper in Albany, OR suggests that GPS is taking jobs from people.
- Democrat Herald
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/28 at 07:20 AM |
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Gowalla launched a handful of new revenue-oriented features, including new business listings, City Pages and a Stamp Calendar.
- GigaOm
Nike is running a game (ha!) in London where runners check in at pay phones (they still have them there, I guess). Points, badges, etc.
- Fresh Business Thinking
Some recent stats on why folks upgrade handsets?
As to why people buy the latest and greatest devices, a whopping 46% said they do it just because they don’t like having out of date hardware and want to appear as modern. Mapping and other location based services accounted for 25% of the reason people upgrade, and 21% say they wanted to access their social networks on the go.
Data from OpenCloud survey of 1000 people in UK.
- IntoMobile
A man is the mayor of Wellesley College (a girls school)!
- Wellesley Blog
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/28 at 07:19 AM |
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