Remembe that resolution that the fomer secreteraries of state and other geographic bigwigs signed last summer (press release)? Google has signed on, too.
- AAG via @theAAG
Santa Barbara based Maps.com, a leading provider of mapping products and services; donated over fifty maps to schools in Tanzania, Africa as part of an effort to improve the country’s education system.
This is a joint effort with the student-initiated non-profit organization One Heart Source (OHS), whose mission is to provide high quality education, specifically with regard to health issues such as HIV/AIDS, to rural areas in Tanzania.
- press release
WTS International, the association for women in transportation, has received a signed memorandum of understanding from the US Department of Transportation allowing their federal employees to participate in a mentorship program WTS has created for chapters across the country called "Transportation YOU." The MOU validates the call from all corners of the White House to get our nation's kids involved in STEM-related fields to serve them and the US as infrastructure needs continue to evolve.
- e-mail from WTS International sent with press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/19 at 03:00 AM |
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Update (2;30 PM EST): The OSM Foundation Blog reports on how OSM is used and that apporpriate attribution is not yet given in the apps. (How can a huge company like Apple NOT know to do that???? Do you know how to attribute CC content? No? Time for some homework!)
- OSM Foundation Blog
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Wednesday night was full of excitement from the geospatial fans of Apple, which anounces its new iPad and apps easlier in the day. The upshot seems to be:
Apple's new iPhoto uses OpenStreetMap data for much of the world outside the US. How about that for #switch2osm?
- @openstreetmap
James Fee suggests that U.S. data is simply TIGER.
Apple's been acquiring mapping companies over the last few years and its no secret that at some point the company would begin to break ties with Google which is becoming a rival on many levels.
There's still a bit of confusion on what mapping data, geocoding and other tools are used in different parts of the world and in different apps.
- Apple Insider
- GigaOM
- Ars Technica
- 512Pixels
- (James Fee's) Spatially Adjusted (1, 2)
- Thread at OSM-Talk listserve
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/08 at 03:58 AM |
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The Associated Press and Google are rewriting the book this year on how to provide fast, accurate election results, and the theme of the latest chapter is cooperation.
Tuesday night, news outlets that pay AP for election results for particular states will be able to embed Google Maps of the results on their sites.
- Poynter
Time Magazine is offering some special content to Foursquare users who check in at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August or the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
Users who unlock the Time-Foursquare badge get “access to a curated list of must-attend venues and events,” plus convention tips from Time reporters—like historical facts from past conventions and 2012 campaign tips about the nominees and delegates.
- Paid Content
Two fascinating and useful studies of California’s political landscape have been published in recent days, one mapping the geographic variations of attitudes and the other creating and applying a scientific measure of communities’ ideologies.
“California’s Political Geography” by Eric McGhee and Daniel Krimm of the Public Policy Institute of California, matches California counties by residents’ party identification, 2008 presidential vote and by responses to two social and two fiscal survey questions with what McGhee calls “clear liberal or conservative dimensions.” ...
“The California Political Precinct Index” by David Latterman at the University of San Francisco, is a powerful tool for assessing counties and electoral districts according to actual precinct votes on nine ballot measures that are “easily interpretable” as liberal or conservative.
- CalBuzz
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/06 at 05:38 AM |
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PanoMap, based in Florida, filed a patent infringement case against Apple and Google last week. It's really about the display of data, not the capture and thus the allegations are against big users of these types of display.
The patent,
US No. 6,563,529, was filed back in 1999 and issued in 2003. There are a total of 28 claims in the patent, but the broadest of them essentially cover a mapping system that displays a wide map view in combination with a more detailed view of location specifics. The claims also require synchronization of the two views.
As I see it, the invention here is what I call "active overview maps" and I have to believe there may be prior art from desktop GIS, if not a sense of obviousness.
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/28 at 06:20 AM |
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Gartner, the market research firm, released its report (registration may be required to download) on companies reviewed for its "magic quadrant," a chart showing the leading players in business intelligence software solutions. Making the grade were companies with location intelligent functionality. Most companies in the report use location as an adjunct to their reporting capabilities while only one, Alteryx, truly relies on its geospatial roots to leverage location-based data in a more significant way. Others, however, use maps for primarily visualization rather than analytics. Here is a synopsis of each with both Gartner's analysis and my take on where they fit in the quadrant.
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by Joe Francica on 02/27 at 09:20 AM |
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