Residents [of Reynosa, on the Mexico side of the Texas/Mexico border] are now using social media and Google Maps to report drug dealers in their neighborhoods.
An anonymous group of Twitter users launched the project a few months ago but it's now surging in popularity.
In an email interviews with Action 4 News, the creators of the map said they are asking people to report drug dealers using the #reynosafollow channel of Twitter.
Officials have their own reporting channel.
- Valley Central
The McCreary County [Kentucky] Tourist Commission is looking for local mappers. The goal?
to “map” trails for tourists who may share their particular interest — such as hiking, off-roading, crafting, coal history, photography, etc. The resulting maps can then be developed into itineraries available on the county’s tourism website for self-guided tours.
“We need information for all kinds of trails,” County Tourism Director Ginger McCartt-West told The Record. “It doesn’t have to be an outdoor experience.”
A grant enables the effort and volunteers can use helmet cameras to make first person videos for the county website.
- McCreary Record
A class at UC Berkeley is mapping doggie amenities vs number of babies in San Francisco's Mmission District. Have any input?
- Map via Mission Local
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/29 at 06:00 AM |
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Update: Rolta’s founder, chairman and chief executive, Kamal K Singh responds to the allegations and details the company focus on homeland security.
- DNA India
--- original post 12/8/11 ---
The Hindu has an in depth report that suggests that confusion in contracts between Rolta, which delivered a custom package of software from Intergraph, Bentley and Oracle for image analysis, and the Indian Army have led to software slowdowns and the need to reinvest to updated licenses. There is also a suggestion that Rolta repackaged Intergraph software without permission.
- The Hindu
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/29 at 05:42 AM |
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Yes, that's right, you can pay for an app for you cell phone that will "fine" you when you fail to meet your planned gym workouts.
Gym Pact, a new program dreamed up by Zhang and fellow Harvard grad Geoff Oberhofer, charges you a penalty for skipping your workouts. It launches Jan. 1 at gympact.com.
"A gym membership is something you pay for at the beginning of the year or the beginning of the month, and there's no additional money on the line," Zhang says. "We wanted to tie a cash incentive to every single workout you do, week-by-week."
Here's how it works: You set a pact to get to the gym of your choice a certain number of times (minimum one day per week). You pick a fee to charge yourself for breaking your pact (minimum $5 per day missed). You download the Gym Pact app to your smart phone and check in when you get to the gym. (They'll use GPS to confirm you're actually there.) And when you fall short of your pact? They charge your credit card the pre-determined penalty.
Sure you could fool it by "checking in" at the gym and doing nothing (lots of folks seem to use the gym for checking e-mail rather than actually doing those bench presses...) but I guess it's better than nothing. Even better: having an actual person meet you at the gym. They are much harder to fool than cell phones.
- Chicago Tribune
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/29 at 05:26 AM |
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