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by Joe Francica on 03/11 at 11:21 PM |
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The iPhone app for agents from Trulia was announced before the holidays.
Trulia, a leading site for home buyers, sellers, renters and real estate professionals, today announced the launch of a brand new iPhone app, Trulia for Agents. The iPhone app integrates mobile, social and location-based technologies to help agents meet new clients, showcase their local expertise and access their business from anywhere. The Trulia for Agents iPhone app is the first national mobile application designed specifically for the residential Real Estate Industry. Agents can download the app for free from Trulia.com or the iTunes store.
It can pit agents against one another, but also lets clients see where their agents are checking in.
- press release
FoursCrowd uses foursquare’s API to show you which locations in your area are the most popular, and uses data from previous days to predict whether that spot will be popular at any given time.
Clearly, 2012 is about the metaapp.
- The NextWeb
MapMuse today announced the release of its Winter Funand Winter Services maps, two series of web-based locators that find winter-themed retailers, services, and places across the USA and Canada.
There's an iPhone app, too.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/05 at 04:50 AM |
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In late September the third GeoRabble was held for those in and around Sydney, Australia, who are "obsessed with all things ‘geo.’" It sounds like their version of a geomeetup.
- StreetCorner
The New York Times Learning Network offers discussion of the value and challenges of visiting landmarks and tells the tale of the Hollywood sign.
- NY Times
The 2011 URISA Student Competition winners were announced.
- URISA
U Oregon's campus iPhone app locates books in the stacks!
The latest version of the university's official iPhone app takes mobile mapping in a new direction by guiding users through the shelves of the state's largest research library.
The UOregon app, built by students and staff in the InfoGraphics Lab in the Department of Geography with the Office of Web Communications, allows users to search the UO Libraries' catalog. Once an item is selected, the app can map the search result to the precise location of the book in the stacks at the Knight Library.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 09/28 at 03:00 AM |
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The New York Times is building a map of places to breastfeed babies in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. If you think there should be a map of something, there probably is, or it can be crowdsourced.
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BMW's Ultimate Drive app for Android and iPhone lets users search for, create, and share their favorite drive routes. The navigation app is less about how to get where you're going, and more like a travel guide for Sunday drives.
C|NET found adding the routes tedious and since the app is only a few days old there are few routes. The big request: uploading routes from Google Maps created on a computer. Creating routes on a phone (if they are not captured by GPS) can be quite challenging.
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I saw an interesting new, low-tech crowdsourcing idea over the weekend. A while paper ad, the kind with paper strips at the bottom to tear off, was tacked to a tree on one of my favorite streets in the city. The text: "Would you raise a child here?" The rip off strips were printed half with "yes" and half with "no." Three "yes's" were gone and all the "no's" remained.
- eye witness account, Hancock St. in Somerville
Back in June for UK Bookseller's Week the Guardian crowdsourced a map of independent book sellers (and hoped reader would buy books there). It was an update of a Flickr map project from the year before.
This week we're building a tweet map of our book-buying hive mind. Just tweet us @guardianbooks with the title of the book you've bought, the name and postcode of the bookshop where you bought it and the hashtag #indybooks, and we'll assemble a map of independent action.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 08/16 at 03:56 AM |
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Republican lawmakers have pulled the plug on the state’s landslide mapping unit, terminating a controversial project to assess which slopes in the mountains are landslide prone.
A team of five state geologists working on the maps are being laid-off this week, saving the state $355,000 a year.
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Indianapolis is latest city to get a mobile app to report issues that need attention to the city. It started as a Web portal last June.
The city of Indianapolis announced the new RequestIndy mobile app Tuesday morning. It allows residents to report problems and to request city services from the Mayor's Action Center.
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The City of Austin has a new crime viewer, but it's not one of the national services I'd heard of (like CrimeReports.com). It does use SliverLight, though. It uses to be using a tool called RAIDS (free for law enforcement and the public) from Bair Software and built on Google Maps.
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