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
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
After Google launched its Ocean extension for Google Earth back in 2009, oddly well laid-out features on the floor of the Atlantic had been speculated by some to be evidence of the existence of Atlantis, the legendary ancient civilization said to have vanished into the sea thousands of years ago. Those theories have been sunk, though, with NOAA's sobering clarification on exactly what those features are: errors in sonar rendering caused by assembling multiple data sets together, which is exactly what Google Earth does to create a global picture of Earth's oceans. It's a fairly common problem — students at UC San Diego have spent the last three years removing those types of errors from the data by hand, and as of last week, "Atlantis" has been once again wiped off the map, so to speak.
- The Verge
In Korea, Google's December enhancements to Maps, including showing the insides of some 1000 stores in Seoul, has meant competitors had to scramble. They are adding more routing options, more data, easier to use icons on mobiles to try to compete.
- Korea Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/06 at 05:02 AM |
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UCLA landed three grants totaling $435,000, including $137,000 for a five-week seminar for college teachers on “the life, work and cultural milieu of Oscar Wilde” and $248,000 for a digital project that will investigate how recent mapping technologies such as GIS can be deployed in humanities research and teaching.
- LA Times Blog
Higher and further education schools in the UK and Ireland can continue to take advantage of the Chest agreement, a dicount program for software from Aug 1, 2011 until July 31, 2014. " It provides among other things, "Around 95% discount off of commercial prices for Esri ArcGIS software."\
- Eduserv via @michael_d_gould
Today saw the unveiling of a beautiful wooden scale model of Eden Project that allows people with visual impairments to experience the site’s famous landscape and architecture.
Complete with Biomes and planting schemes, the map is the handiwork of Lauren Milton, who created it on her model-making course at The Arts University College of Bournemouth.
It's made from natural materials (mostly wood) and Milton has already been commissioned for a similar map.
- Telegraph
Faculty at UW-Madison and Arizona State are building database of lichen and moss with funding from NSF.
When complete, the database will include entries for as many as 2.3 million lichen and moss specimens from more than 60 collections from U.S. herbaria. Each entry will include data about when and where the specimens were collected. Ultimately, the database will be in a searchable, publicly accessible space where, according to Nash and Gries, government agencies as well as environmental scientists, ecologists, climatologists, botanists and others can access the data. ...
Nash and Gries are particularly enthused by the geographic information that will be included with each entry. Typically, when a specimen is newly collected, the point of collection is noted. The new digitization project will catalog latitude and longitude coordinates. In a database, such information can be used to track the historic movement of the plants across the landscape. This promises to be particularly useful information as scientists document the effects of climate change. The Arctic, for example, is a veritable garden of lichens. But polar regions are also among the most affected by potential climate change, and the composition of lichen ecosystems may change dramatically.
- UW News
LONDON: A method of predicting which individuals may become friends on social networking sites based on the places they visit out in the real world has been developed by researchers at Cambridge University in Britain. ...
“We monitored the behaviour of people going to places and the connections they made. We found that lots of people who go to the same places end up adding each other as friends, accounting for around 30 per cent of new social links,” [researcher Salvatore] Scellato said.
More intimate places (gyms, work) are given higher preference as predictors over less intimate ones (airports, stadiums). The work used data from Gowalla.
- Dawn.com
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All of Esri's licenses are online. That was news to me. The Home Use license (pdf) amends the ArcGIS Desktop (actually it refers to the old name, ArcView!) license.
by Adena Schutzberg on 07/14 at 07:26 AM |
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Bahrain
The Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) of the Kingdom of Bahrain launched the “Bahrain e-Atlas”, an online GIS.
- FutureGov Asia (even the source document had no link to the site!)
Ethiopia
A Swedish firm, Swedesurvey, has won a contract to restructure the Addis Ababa City land and tenure management system. Swedesurvey has done national standards for Ethiopia, as well as parcel work in Greece and China.
- Ezega
China
Google applied for a license to run Google Maps in China. It did so with a local joint venture partner. But it did so just before the July 1 deadline. Nokia's license has already been approved; Microsoft has applied but the license has not yet been granted.
- PC World
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/14 at 05:15 AM |
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