Designers at data visualization house Stamen have created a very cool compromise for digital maps. It’s a watercolor-like skin for any OpenStreetMap project, and it’s totally remarkable. Streets have an organic, analog roundness to their edges, and bodies of water aren’t a solid blue, but a mix of hues and color densities, as if the map is actual, textured paper slathered with a casual mix of water and paint. (In fact, the digital render is pretty much indistinguishable from any actual scanned map.)
It's iicensed under Creative Commons.
- FastCo Design
The NextWeb delves into Apple, Google and OSM. One big quesiton: Does Bing use OSM. In the end we learn: no, it does not. Oh, and there's some conspiracy theory in there, too.
- The Next Web
The OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan (OSMFJ) and TheOpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) announce the release of a new OpenStreetMap layer for Yahoo!JAPAN map services. The new OSM layer is available on Yahoo! JAPAN Local.
This follows the March 6 donation of data by Yahoo!Japan. And, there's a mobile layer, too, for Japan.
- OSM Foundation
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/29 at 04:18 AM |
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Steve Eillis joined AeroMetric as Vice President of Business Development, leading the expansion of AeroMetric's enterprise geographic information systems (E-GIS) team. I got a "Constant Contact" style e-mail developed in a service called Vertical Response from Steve. It cited this press release on his new job. The release reminded me how I knew him: "Ellis was most recently vice president with GeoDecisions, a division of Gannett Fleming."
Thea Clay is now RHoK [Random Hacks of Kindness] Community Support Manager. She's known there as Thea Aldrich. I heard about her new job via Twitter and read a blog post she wrote on the RHOK website. Oddly, the post had a man's picture, since he posted it. The post reminded me she was most recently at MapQuest, on the MapQuest Open Initaitive Team, then before that at CloudMade.
Tony Moracp at SAIC got a plain old press release.
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) announced today that Tony Moraco, executive vice president for operations and performance excellence, has been appointed to president of SAIC's Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Group, effective immediately. Moraco is currently responsible for enterprise-wide business support in information technology, facilities, security, program execution, procurement, shared services and operational initiatives.
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/20 at 05:13 AM |
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In support of Kalusugan Pangkalahatan, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) launches the first of its ‘Crowdsourcing for Health’ initiatives using GoogleMaps.
Determined to maximize the benefits of the social networking platform, PhilHealth is encouraging the online crowd to help map all health facilities in the Philippines, according to the statement from the agency website.
In fact, the public is invited to put points on Google Map Maker or OpenStreetMap. PhilHealth will be combining the data and hosting it on its website. I'm pretty sure you can do that with OSM data (with attribution); I'm not sure about the Google licensing.
- Philippine Information Agency
Middle Georgia got an EPA grant to do lead testing via Head Start programs among other things. The other things:
The goals of the grant are to increase testing in the district’s 10 rural counties from 9 percent to at least 25 percent within a year; to educate primary care providers about lead risks and testing requirements; and to evaluate a geographic information system risk model in Bibb County that will identify high-risk neighborhoods and the children who live in them.
- Macon.com
A recent report [pdf] on health inequities in the San Joaquin Valley gives new meaning to the real estate mantra: location, location, location.
The report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and Fresno State's Central Valley Health Policy Institute found that location plays a very real role in health -- so real in fact that life expectancy rates can vary by as much as 21 years in the valley, depending on the ZIP code.
- California HealthLine
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/20 at 04:51 AM |
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by Adena Schutzberg on 03/14 at 04:08 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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