I think the online mapmakeing tool WorldMap is out of beta, but the article does not make that 100% clear. It's open source and developed by Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis,
- Harvard Gazette
The GeoTech Center has published its 2012 newsletter (pdf).
- GeoTech Center Blog
A team of students from the University at Buffalo Law School has been named a winner of the 2012 New York Redistricting Project, a national competition that challenged student teams to draw new congressional, state senate and state assembly district maps.
- UB News Center
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/19 at 06:03 AM |
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Want to know what a tree species is on your hike? Take a picture of the leaf and Leafsnap will help you identify it. The app will also upload your image and location to help create a database of species distribution. The free app is form free app developed by Columbia University in New York, the University of Maryland and the Smithsonian Institution.
- Lorton Patch
How about mapping the local Halloween decorations? Oddity: the story is hosted at Castro Valley, CA Patch but the map is from Google built with ZeeMaps. I wonder if the folks writing for Patch are aware they are owned by the same company as MapQuest? Or does MapQuest not yet have a crowdsourcing solution? Or maybe its going to be mqVibe?
- Castro Valley Patch
NASA is crowdsourcing exploration of the ocean bottom.
Using a new platform which takes a square kilometer of ocean-bottom imagery and parses it out into an easily navigable, compelling user interface, we humbly ask you to help find scientifically relevant items, in order to allow us to outline them for a broad representation of the reef. Then, traverse planning scientists can then use this aggegated data to target, or confirm the interest items for further study. We can't do this kind of science on our own. We need your help today and again when we send humans beyond the surly bonds of Earth.
- SpaceRef
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/20 at 05:41 AM |
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“I am absolutely confident the FCC will approve it,” Ahuja said in an interview with The [NY] Post ...
- NY Post
LightSquared again is helping prop up the newspaper industry by paying for a statement to all Americans about it vision. The releases are titled, for example, "Open Letter to New Yorkers from LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja." I've seen several states swapped in where "New York" is.
- press release (again not on LightSquared website so not yet published by Directions Media)
In other news, a LightSquared press release (not yet on the LightSquared website, so we have not yet published it) highlights how Iowa Senator Grassley is on the company's side regarding the availability of a fix. The statement reads in part:
We're gratified that Senator Grassley has recognized something that the GPS industry has denied for months. The industry tried to say that there was no technical or engineering fix to the interference problem.
Did Grassley say there is a fix? It seems LightSquared thought so, but Grassley has denied it.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says he has not taken a position on whether there is a technical fix to LightSquared's GPS problems, but simply wants the FCC to tell him whether the taxpayers will be footing the bill. He also warned the company not to use him to further their arguments.
- Broadcasting Cable
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/30 at 04:51 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.
- NY Times
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.
- C|NET
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.
- The Guardian
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The Clay County GIS is up and running. It's built on ArcGIS Server, uses flash, with the latest interface from 39 Degrees North. No mention in the latest article about the freebie deal. But a look at the company website suggests it's open to all.
- Brazil Times
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by Adena Schutzberg on 07/06 at 03:00 AM |
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