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Monday, November 16. 2009
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Dutch to Tax Drivers Based on Driving Distance, Road Time using GPS
According to the Associated Press, the Netherlands will levy a tax based on the time spent driving in order to reduce congested highways. When the plan takes effect in 2012, a GPS monitoring system will track the distance, time, and place of drivers who will pay a few cents per kilometer. The tax replaces an annual road tax that amounts to approximately $900 per year for a mid-size car.
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Thursday, November 12. 2009
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Time Magazine's Top 50 Inventions for 2009 Lacking in Location Intelligent Design
Time Magazine's Top 50 Invention's list for 2009 seems to lack a entry that was at least location-aware. Unless you count the "Smart Bullet" or "Teleportation" there are no inventions that leveraged location technology or data. Even those reach a little far. Seems odd given what seems to be a busy community of developers and entrepreneurs using location-based technology. What's your take? Check out the five worst inventions, too.
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Monday, November 9. 2009
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Northrop Grumman to Sell TASC to KKR
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Northrop Grumman is selling its TASC unit to General Atlantic and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., of leveraged buyout fame. Northrop has a huge geospatial group as did TASC, which excelled in remote sensing and image processing, at the time of the original acquisition. According to the Journal, separating the two units would avoid potential conflicts of interest for military contracts whereby Northrop had been both an advisor and a contractor for services.
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Tuesday, November 3. 2009
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The Gravestone Project: Graveyard Geology for air pollution and climate change information
This from one of our readers: The Geological Society of America (GSA) is using cemetery data to serve as global climate monitors. To participate all you need is a GPS and a micrometer to measure weathering. This 2 year project should help create a global map to provide data for climatologists. Watch to video to find out more:
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Friday, October 23. 2009
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Podcast: Press Conference of Vice Admiral Robert Murrett at the #GEOINT Symposium 2009
This podcast is a recording of a press conference by Vice Admiral Robert Murrett, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at the GEOINT Symposium 2009 on October 21, 2009 in San Antonio. Murrett discusses the new NGA charter, the situation with aiding and supporting both domestic and military missions and other issues related to the agency's work.
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Posted by Joe Francica
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Wednesday, October 21. 2009
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Liquid Galaxy: An Immersive, Multi-screen Version of Google Earth
If you had six, 42" flat screen monitors what would you do? If you are unsure, you may want to configure something like Liquid Galaxy, Google's immersive environment that takes Google Earth from impressive website application to simulation environment. Stepping in side a small booth at the GEOINT Symposium, the user is surrounded by flat screens, and a small podium mounted with the SpaceNavigator joystick from 3DConnexion. Yes, it's very cool, and everyone should have one for their game room (see below and click for larger image).
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Posted by Joe Francica
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