Jeremy Wood introduced readers to his method "for tracking cellphones to generate useful demographically-keyed data on the movement of people, without compromising anyone's privacy" back in 2009. Today his patent was granted; it's number 8185131. Will applications that use this methodology be more attractive to potential users? Will the data collected be valuable to marketers and others?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 05/22 at 03:00 AM |
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Teaching high school stduents and elementary students about GPS and having them use it to make maps is not a new idea. What is new in Urbana, IL is that the older students are teaching the younger ones. And, both groups are English as a second language students and the teaching and learning is occurring in English. My head spins considering how much learning could be going on in these hands on sessions.
- News Gazette
West Potomac High School students from Frances Coffey’s Advanced Placement Human Geography class were treated to a visit from Cathi Hoefler and Steven Keating from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency recently. Hoefler and Keating discussed the importance of using data to better predict and respond to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan and tsunami.
- Connection Newspapers
California State University, Fresno's Division of Continuing and Global Education has just announced a new online certificate program focusing on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a field that uses digital technology to manage, map, analyze and display spatial information.
Classes in the 12 credit sequence begin in August. It's Esri-based (included in tuition).
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by Adena Schutzberg on 05/07 at 03:00 AM |
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TomTom, Waze and other "GPS" companies build and offer map data based on their users travel routes. ALK Technologies has been using its data internally for its consumer and trucking products for years. But now, the plan is to license the data to others.
Barry Glick? He of MapQuest, Webraska and NAVTEQ fame became CEO for the mobile navigation and truck mileage solution provider last April.
- GPS Biz News
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/12 at 04:10 AM |
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We asked Garmin's Jim Alpiser at the Aircraft Electronics show in Washington, D.C. if this signals the beginning of the end for big ticket portable GPS. "We recognized that the tablets on the market today are very attractive for a lot of reasons. It allows, number one, to get a giant display in the cockpit and get charts on there," Alpiser told us in this podcast recorded at the AEA show.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/05 at 04:53 AM |
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An group of companies including Deloitte, Deutsche Telecom, HYVE and The RWTH-TIM Research Group have banded together......to hold a contest with prizes worth more than $10,000, inviting people to use their imagination and present their wildest and best ideas for tracking anything—people, animals or objects of any size. The goal is to come up with new state-of-the-art, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications solutions.
Entries due: April 10.
- Ideabird via Sat News
The European Earth Monitoring Competition GMES Masters takes place on an annual basis and calls for new ideas and services making the best use of earth observation data from Europe's flagship program on Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES). Initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Bavarian Ministry of Economy, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and T-Systems and supported by the European Commission and European Space Imaging GmbH, the GMES Masters 2012 will call for submissions between 1 June and 16 September 2012 in six categories.
This year there's a new challenge centered on the use of new applications for very high-resolution satellite imagery.
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GISCI reminds GIS folks:
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/03 at 03:00 AM |
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