A plane will be scanning the island to build a three-dimensional map that will allow the planning authority to monitor environmental changes over the years.
The photographic map will carry information such as on air and water quality and noise levels. All data will be available online for free, explained Saviour Formosa, who is heading an EU-funded environment project being carried out by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority.
I guess it's LiDAR + other sensors?
- Time of Malta
The Philippine government has made geo-hazard maps, which outline areas prone to natural disasters, publicly available in a bid to reduce vulnerability at community level.
They are jpegs.
- IRIN Asia
February 1 is the cut-off for companies with onine mapping websites to have a license from the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. Google has applied for one, but does not yet have approval. That suggests its ok to keep running as is, but can't launch anything "new."
- China Daily
Google is guilty of abusing its dominant position with Google Maps per a court in France. It was ordered to pay €500,000 in damages and interest to the plaintiff and a €15,000 euro fine against Bottin Cartographes. The company, until it was put out of business, offered online maps.
- GPS Biz News
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Google is open-sourcing Google Sky Map, an app created by employees at Google's Pittsburgh office who wanted to put the sensors in Android phones to the test. While the app has seen more than 20 million Android phone users since 2009, the app will now be used in student projects at Carnegie Mellon University.
A number of other apps and API are to be shut down entirely.
- eWeek
Hertz Global Holdings Inc. has acquired from Thales Navigation the remaining 35 percent of Navigation Solutions, the operational arm behind its in-car global positioning systems, known as NeverLost.
- AP
The highlight of the [latest ChaCha] upgrade is the exciting all-new Real-Time Map feature, which allows users to see questions recently asked by others using the application. For the first time ever, ChaChees will visually see on a real-time map what questions are being asked where.
Why "visually see"? Why not just "see"?
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Rentenna.com -- the free, groundbreaking rental tool that condenses everything a renter would want to know about a rental building into a single score -- releases its interactive "Rentenna Score Map" to the public today.
You can score and map anything now. The question is: which provide viable business models?
Local restaurant search tool "Ness" added maps in its new release.
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The patents is titled, Transitioning a Mixed-mode Vehicle to Autonomous Mode.
Abstract:
Disclosed are methods and devices for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous vehicle from a human driven mode to an autonomously driven mode. Transitioning may include stopping a vehicle on a predefined landing strip and detecting a reference indicator. Based on the reference indicator, the vehicle may be able to know its exact position. Additionally, the vehicle may use the reference indictor to obtain an autonomous vehicle instruction via a URL. After the vehicle knows its precise location and has an autonomous vehicle instruction, it can operate in autonomous mode.
Experts confirm the patent is only for Google's specific method; it does not restrict development of rival self-driving cars.
- BBC
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/16 at 06:05 AM |
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Google Earth V6 is out. It has 3D trees “species-accurate but not necessarily individual-tree-accurate” per the Map Room.
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- Google Earth Blog
The Santa Rosa Democrat used Google Earth (likely V5) to locate a 2.6 magnitude earthquake on Nov 29 under the playground at the Middle School.
- SR Democrat
All Things D (WSJ) reports: “According to sources close to the situation, Google has offered $5.3 billion for Groupon, in what would be its largest acquisition yet if completed.”
- All Things D
Google announced at Web 2.0 Summit that near field communications (NFC) support would be in the next iteration of Android. It’s a local sensor type tool that could be used to fight credit card fraud (you are where the transaction is) or check in fraud (you are not lying to Foursquare about being in Starbucks).
- Technorati
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/30 at 07:17 AM |
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This week DigitalGlobe joined the ranks of other companies that are publicly traded. Does this move and the related buzz help move geospatial technology into the realm of the broader information technology space? How should we see this change? Also: concerns about GeoEye-1 push that company’s stock down.
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