Google's now jumped into the gaming fray itself with its new Cube game, which places players on a giant, six-panel cube whose faces spin when generating each of eight new levels. No, you're not competing in some grand survival game within a giant Cube (like the movie). Rather, players are instead given a series of tasks that all require you to tilt the cube, Labyrinth-style, to move your marker to a number of targets – all real-life locations.
From what I understand you it's basically a "roll the tiny ball to various targets by rotating the cube" game built on Google Maps. Maybe the coolest thing about it is that it's HTML5?
- PC Mag
Google has brought its cool new enhanced 3D buildings (announced in March) into GoogleMapsGL, the slicker version of the app announced last fall in beta, that runs on selected browsers with the right graphics card.
Now, we’ve brought this enhanced 3D experience to Google MapsGL as well.
Google MapsGL is a true 3D experience affording a perspective called “parallax”, so you can get different views of a building depending on where you pan.
- Lat Long Blog
And, if you missed it, we featured the new Google 3D photo tours video over at Directions Magazine last week.
Finally, Google Maps on Android users will want the upgrade announced last week. Several Labs tools are now in the release version:
The update, which is currently live in the Google Play store, adds elevation data to the “Measure” lab, and also adds the scale bar and zoom buttons directly onto the map.
- Droid Matters
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/30 at 03:00 AM |
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As their computers warm up and students log in, April Salas assures them, “We’re going to learn two new things today. What took me six months to learn in college, you’re going to learn in three days.”
Her geographic information systems classroom was about to embark on mastering the art of geocoding, and “joining” data using a leading GIS software program, ArcMap 10.
I'm not sure if the first paragraph or the second make me more uncomfortable. It really too her six months to learn geocoding? Why? And, will the students master the process of geocoding - aka pushing buttons - or will the understand the goal and the challenges along the way. I'm also disappointed this article makes no mention of Geography Awareness Week or GIS Day.
- Record Gazette
Duke unveiled a new online map Friday that includes 3-D models of 325 buildings across the campuses. The map also includes satellite views and traditional two-dimensional street maps and offers overlays that display details such as dining locations and parking permit requirements, photos related to the buildings and videos linked to specific campus locations. The map is fully functional on mobile devices.
- Duke Today
Tulsa Community College is hosting a treasure hunt for GIS Day sponsored by ERGIS and GISCI. I figured it was a geocaching-like hunt. It's not.
GIS Day is a free event that invites the community and students to learn about TCC’s GIS Certificate program, to network within the geospatial community and to discover GIS career options. The day includes a scavenger hunt in which participants will use GIS technology to find items, and there is a cash prize. For complete rules, click HERE.
That page describes three different hunts: beginner (find things), intermediate (find things and note lat/lon) and advanced (find things, take picture, make a map). There are cash prizes, too. I'm curious to see how that plays out in downtown Tulsa.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/15 at 05:53 AM |
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