It’s called Avego and is state-funded:
The pilot program allows 250 drivers with GPS-enabled smartphones to offer the empty seats in their vehicles to 750 riders along the SR 520 highway, in real time, as they travel. Avego pairs passengers and drivers through a system using iPhones and other mobile devices.
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To encourage participation, Avego will reward go520 drivers with a $30 gas card monthly, plus travel reimbursements, for participating in the program 20 or more times each month. Drivers will also receive an Avego iPhone accessory pack (retail value $35). Riders will receive up to $30 per month in Avego credit to use towards real-time ridesharing journeys. In addition to these financial benefits, drivers and riders will be able to reduce commuting time by making use of the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) ramps and lanes.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/31 at 09:55 AM |
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If you are working toward transparency on your local municipality website, the Illinois Policy Institute offers 10 guidelines to help cover the bases. Clearly these are needed because the top players that were audited in the state got only about 50 out of 100 points!
- Patch.com (Downer’s Grove, Illinois)
To help navigate this terrain, staff members in the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) developed NYCityMap, a Web-based interactive mapping application that offers a one-stop information shop for those on the prowl. And the cost to utilize this tool? Nada, zip, zilch — it’s free.
It uses GeoServer and Dojo.
- DigitalCommunities
John Morgan III, a professor in the Towson (Maryland) department of geography and environmental planning, has introduced a new map to provide information on the cause of a natural disaster, terrorist attack or other emergencies. Maryland safeMAP, a graphical interface map will provide the public with relevant geographical information for use in the case of an emergency. Next up? Expanding it beyond Maryland.
- The Tower Light
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/29 at 07:26 AM |
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A reader posed the question that we articulate this way: “Why are data taken for granted in LBS hype? What happens when you remove the map?” Our editors think that is a great question and explore it in the context of navigation apps, weather and traffic apps, social apps and augmented reality.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 08/31 at 01:00 AM |
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This week as the world is abuzz about Apple’s latest device, the iPad, we look at a potential apple area of interest: mapping. There are hints that apple is assembling policies and ingredients for a mapping play, but what else does it need to fully implement its solution? And what would make an Apple incursion into mapping uniquely compelling? And when might it arrive?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/06 at 01:00 AM |
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In mid-March Twitter rolled out the second part of its geolocation functionality. Now in addition to being available for developers via its API, users could share location information from the twitter.com website. That’s when the world learned that Twitter had tapped geodata company Maponics to provide the “place” information for those tweets. On March 24 Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke to Maponics CEO Darrin Clement about the value of context in locaiton-based services, how Maponics was working with Twitter, the state of geographic basemaps and the potential uses of real-time geodata.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/02 at 01:00 AM |
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