Everyone has seen maps and videos created to familiarize athletes with the course they’ll run, bike or ski in the coming weeks or months. But Race My Race goes further: you enter 10 (real or projected) splits and your start delay time (how long it take to get to the “line”) and off your avatar goes! Since the app is built on Google Earth you can change views from overhead to street level and watch as you run past key points - but without the cheering crowds.
Todd Goold, a land surveyor and endurance athlete from Wisconsin built the app which now offers eleven courses and hopes to expand to key events like the Boston Marathon. There’s a $15 annual membership. The app includes this statement in the footer: “DUPLICATION AND REVERSE ENGINEERING ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW.”
One of the big advantages, some suggest, is getting a sense of the topography before the event. I’m not sure I can get a sense of the nature of a hill without running it. We classify hills in my world based on the local Winter Hill (which we run every Thursday) and Derry (the big hill in the Boston Prep race in that town in New Hampshire). And, no, we don’t use Heartbreak Hill as a reference. I can’t say why.
- Chicago Tribune
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/12 at 07:35 AM |
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You may not have noticed but Google’s doing very well switching educational institutions to its platform offering, called Google Apps for Education (mail, content sharing, etc.). There’s even a “marketing” site complete with a map of schools using the tools.
Yesterday Google’s announced a plan to “sell” those same services to government via a new product (ok it’s just packaging as is the above offering) called Google Public Sector. Top on the list of apps: Google Maps and Earth.
- Google Blog Post
- Mashable
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/16 at 06:11 AM |
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Our editors ask: Why is the Open Geospatial Consortium hooking up with the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate and what should potential users of DigitalGlobe’s Worldview-2 satellite data be pondering before its launch planned for October?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 09/01 at 06:00 AM |
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I got a real “two-fer” when I spent some time with Deke Young, the Director of Business Systems at GeoEye. I got the inside scoop on the back end of its new GeoFuse applications and I learned more about the cloud and its use.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 07/15 at 04:38 PM |
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The map’s here. Google Maps and Google Earth and Excel. Far different than that from other states.
Per a press release:
The map uses the State’s Critical Infrastructure Information System, a state-of-the-art geographic information system that utilizes hundreds of mapped data layers, in combination with Google Maps for map display and searches, as well as integration with Google Earth for more advanced searching and display. An easy-to-use Excel spreadsheet export function allows users to download the underlying data, enabling unlimited ways to examine, analyze and make use of project-specific information.
by Adena Schutzberg on 07/10 at 09:16 AM |
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