Friday, February 16. 2007

Tracking Bicycle Races With GPS

Under a somewhat confusing title ("Bike Racers Gear Up With Geodata"???), Wired describes the effort of the Amgen Tour of California bike tour organizers to make the event "watchable" on the web, with help from the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).

"This is more than just GPS," says CSC's Identity Labs chief technologist Dan Munyan. "This is object field tracking. We want to be able to focus on a field of objects in motion, looking not only at where they are on the route, but also where they are relative to each other.

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Sunday, January 28. 2007

Spamming Google Maps

Slashdot reports that in preparation for the Google flyover of Sydney, a number of dotcoms spent hours making huge signs that would be visible from the air.

Is this spam?

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Thursday, January 25. 2007

The US Postal Service Is As Good As (If Not Better Than) The UK Royal Mail

When blogger Ron Pristas read the story about the UK Royal Mail delivering a letter with only a map, he decided to put the US Postal Service to the test. And when he got the letter back as undeliverable, he did not give up but tried mailing it again from a different facility. Ron's persistence paid off! The envelope is now in the hands of its intended recipient.

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Friday, December 22. 2006

[Update: Apparently Not] New Google Maps API Terms of Use Limit Geocode Requests to 50,000 per Day

I just saw this on ZDNet: According to the updated Google Maps API Terms of Use, there is a limit of 50,000 geocode requests per day per Maps API key. If you exceed this 24-hour limit, the Maps API geocoder may stop working for you temporarily.

This is likely to affect users with popular mashups that rely on this feature.

[Update] Mea culpa. Thanks to reader Frank Taylor, who pointed out that the 50,000 requests per day per Maps API key is not new. There is some new language in Google's updated Terms of Use describing what might happen to those who exceed the limit (geocoder might stop working temporarily), which hardly warrants a blog post. As I keep telling my son, haste makes waste...

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Sunday, December 3. 2006

"Windows Live and Privacy" on Slashdot

A long thread on Slashdot about Windows Local Live. One user's opinion:

"If this is really true M$ seems to have no clue as to what to do next. This seems to be a huge $ sink - and something that I just can't see anyone wanting to use."

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Saturday, October 7. 2006

Directions Magazine on Slashdot

I know that Slashdot is falling out of favor on this forum, but I thought I'd let you know that Benton Yetman's Directions Magazine article on GIS and Robotics is top of Slashdot at this very moment.

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