The Korea Times has a feature on Yoon Jay-joon (Jay Yoon), CEO of Sundosoft, a large GIS player in the country. One of the graphics is of a box of ArcGIS 9. I guess 10 is not yet out there.
- Korea Times
Panasonic's new GPS enabled cameras may not work quite right in China. How and exactly why is not clear, but apparently geotagging is illegal in that country.
- GPS Tracklog
Mackenzie District Council in New Zealand is fight against bad GIS data.
"During the last revaluation, it was discovered the information we sent to our valuers was incorrect. This was due to multiple users creating different copies of the data, manipulating the information and treating it as correct," Mr Morris said.
"If council chose to do nothing, the GIS information will get progressively worse.
But the local government does not want to put a dedicated outside person in charge of cleaning up the data. Instead, it's looking into a shared position.
- Stuff.co.nz
The Doolin Coast Guard team in Co Clare Ireland will be the only such unit in the country with a GIS. It'll be run on tablets to increase efficiency in response and planning.
The system also contains up to date information on the locations of caves, popular surfing spots and other areas where the team might be requested to respond to an incident.
It will also aid in incident planning as it contains information such as radio reception blackspots, access routes and helicopter landing sites.
- Clare Herald
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There’s one big new feature in today’s global rollout of Facebook Timeline. Facebook has enhanced the Timeline Map with a wizard that lets you rapidly tag your existing photos with locations. You can also now type in a location and share rich stories about whether you’ve been, took a trip, or lived there. The Map feature could seriously advance Facebook’s “location as a layer” plan. By convincing users to append valuable geographic data to its massive collection of photos with this easy flow, Facebook could improve local ad targeting.
TechCrunch sees it as another tool to collect data and better target ads, but an engineer on the project says it's not.
- TechCrunch
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/16 at 05:50 AM |
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D Magazine (that's for Dallas) is looking for feedback on its rendering of neighborhoods in the city. The goal is to use these for identifying bars, restaurants, etc. so residential areas are not so important.
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What Was There is a crowdsourced effort to tag old photos so we can look back in time either on a map or via cell phone app ("augmented reality -ish" it seems you have to georef the photos).
The premise is simple: provide a platform where anyone can easily upload a photograph with two straightforward tags to provide context: Location and Year. If enough people upload enough photographs in enough places, together we will weave together a photographic history of the world (or at least any place covered by Google Maps). So wherever you are in the world, take a moment to upload a photograph and contribute to history!
- Whatwasthere.com via engadget
CrowdFlower, the leader in enterprise crowdsourcing, today announced general availability of the industry's first enterprise crowdsourcing platform to address the data management needs of Fortune 500 companies. Built on the patent-pending CrowdEngine technology system, CrowdFlower's technology platform enables companies to streamline large-scale business processes and obtain automated, high-quality results at exceptionally low costs. Examples include eCommerce product categorization, SEO content creation, business and marketing data verification and enrichment, and brand sentiment analysis.
This sounds more like Amazon's Mechanical Turk than what I expected.
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The Bermuda Cultural Map Trust announced the launch of ’Are you on the map?’, a campaign designed to offer organizations and individuals involved in Bermuda’s creative and cultural industries a no-cost marketing and cross-promotion opportunity.
The Bermuda Cultural Map Trust is a Bermuda-registered charity whose vision is to provide a platform for Bermuda’s creative and cultural assets and explore how they can contribute to Bermuda economically, socially and culturally.
The Trust oversees the development and management of the Bermuda Cultural Map, a Google Maps-based directory that is fully editable and extendable with user-controlled updates.
- Bernews.com
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The idea is that users of the photosharing site can draw circular areas (of desired radius) are geofences. Photos geotagged as being taken within these areas are shared by default with only viewers you select (friends, family, baseball team, etc.). Said another way, now you can designate geographies within which photos have a default sharing setting.
- Flickr Blog via reader Don
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/30 at 03:12 PM |
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Both the UK's Guardian and the U.S.'s New York Times are starting crowdsourced efforts to capture information on schools. The former will try to map school data while the latter is more about collecting and organizing data about different regions of New York City.
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Two San Francisco projects are throwing public energy at making the libraries stock of Sanborn and old photos more usable. Maptcha asks the pulic to help geocode Sanborn maps while Old SF has users geotag the photos.
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The City of New York on Sunday launched a website, powered by Google Maps, for Greater New York area residents to map tales of Hurricane Irene-related destruction.
I see Ushahidi, actually CrowdMap, in use!
- PC Mag
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