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Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Jay Tilley, Senior VP, Sanborn

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:00 -0600

Adena Schutzberg interviewed Jay Tilley, Sanborn's Senior Vice President about why 3D data is important and how the industry is overcoming challenges such as cost, data fusion and the integration of real time data. Tilley also speaks to the future gr...Read more

Computerworld on CloudMade

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:33:07 -0600

Actually, it was MacWorld (both IDG pubs) that caught up with Nick Black, CloudMade founder, to explore why the company and OSM can change the world. - Computerworld...Read more

Seen During Geography Awareness Week IV

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:15 -0600

""The woman requested that the deputies Google Earth her house and keep it on satellite surveillance overnight," [Sgt] Dawes said." - A Lake Forest (CA) resident called local police to as for a watch on her house after she heard noises, as report...Read more

SimpleGeo: AWS for Location

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:43:53 -0600

Former Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump and Social Thing founder Matt Galligan are now offering a private beta of SimpleGeo, a "new infrastructure for location based services." Per TechCrunch: SimpleGeo is akin to an Amazon Web Services for locat...Read more

AOL Lays Off Workers, Puts Properties up Sale

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:12:19 -0600

AOL which will be sprung from Time Warner at the beginning of next month laid off 1/3 of its workers and reports indicate it's putting its ICQ messaging service and perhaps MapQuest up for sale. Among the possible buyer suggested for the mapping biz:...Read more

Google Goes Deeper on Real Estate with Place Pages

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:54:36 -0600

Now Google offers a page for each real estate offerings. (Generic "Place Pages" were announced in Sept. [LatLong Blog].) Data is drawn from a variety of sources (multiple listings!), perhaps pushing Google more toward aggregator of than organizer of ...Read more

Twitter Geo API Available

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:33:38 -0600

It went live yesterday (Twitter blog) and the Twittersphere was excited. The only challenge: it's an API so only developers, not end users, could do anything with it. Further, you can't take advantage of the API from the website, so, no cool locatio...Read more

Update 5: AT&T Sues Verizon over "Map for That" Map Ads

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:29:00 -0600

In the latest round AT&T responds to Verizon's ads with its own ads. Most reviewers cast them as "lame" and "slapped together." I don't even know who Luke Wilson is, but he runs down a checklist of features (some say with errors) that the two carrie...Read more
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Quote of the Week

(Adena Schutzberg) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0600

"Technology has changed a great deal since I went to college. We used to take measurements by hand. We now have GIS systems where you can map a boundary. A new person entering the field really needs to have those skills and the new course curriculum...Read more

KUOW Weekday: The Arts of Maps (Thursday)

(Adena Schutzberg) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:28:54 -0600

KUOW, based at the University of Washington, hosts its "Weekday" radio program on "The Art of Maps" (9 am pacific) today (Thursday). Maps tell you more than simply how to get from here to there. Nearly any kind of information can be put into a map. ...Read more

Oregon Data Portal Opens

(Adena Schutzberg) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:02:28 -0600

Phase One of the The Oregon Spatial Data Library was launched in November 18 for GIS Day. "The Oregon Spatial Data Library provides easy and convenient ways to find, access and share geospatial data." It's all ESRI-based, including an ArcGIS Serve...Read more

Seen During Geography Awareness Week III

(Adena Schutzberg) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:48:34 -0600

"Unlike flat paper maps, GIS, short for geographic information systems, allows people to analyze relationships between many layers of information at once." - From an article on Helena 5th graders who attended a GIS Day event at the Montana State L...Read more

Crossing the Border Safely, With LBS

(Adena Schutzberg) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:40:39 -0600

b.a.n.g lab's Transborder Immigrant Tool is an LBS app built to run on an inexpensive cell phone designed to help Mexican immigrants safely cross the border. From an interview with the team's Ricardo Dominguez: We looked at the Motorola i455 cell...Read more

Why I got an e-mail from Wolfram Research

(Adena Schutzberg) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0600

Colin DeCair at Wolfram e-mailed to let me know about an interesting geosci modeling tool built on Mathematica. I had to do some research but now recall that Wolfram Research (the folks behind the in the news Wolfram Alpha knowledge engine) is also t...Read more

Wisconsin Bill: Stop the Presses on State Maps

(Adena Schutzberg) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0600

Rep. Brett Davis, R-Oregon, a cosponsor of the bill states: "This specific bill saves the state taxpayers $250,000 by not allowing the Department of Transportation to print state highway maps," A surplus of more than 400,000 maps will only last ...Read more