Fearsquare takes your recent FourSquare check-ins and cross-references these with the UK Police Crime Statistics database. Showing you street level crime for each individual check-in.
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The FearSquare application takes a list of your ten most recent FourSquare check-ins and cross-references these with the UK Police Crime Statistics database. In this way, we can show people how many crimes were committed, during a recent one-month period, in the locations where they checked-in.
via +Marshall Kirkpatrick
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/07 at 05:18 AM |
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Wilson's Creek National Battlefield [MO] is commemorating its 150th anniversary this year - but defense officials say the civil war battleground offers timeless lessons in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) -lessons that can be applied today. ...[NGA] Agents spend three days at the battlefield and almost like a Monday morning quarterback - they ask how things would be different if armies then had this kind of technology.
- KSPR
Dr. Charlette "Cookie" Watkins, a Director at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, spoke to Defence IQ about the power of GIS and social media.
The idea of using social networks of geospatial enthusiasts to assess large areas of the earth for academic reasons has huge potential in the future. The recent example that comes to mind is the National Geographic sponsored event to find Genghis Khan's tomb using commercial satellite imagery and an army of geospatial volunteers on the internet. They had a virtual workforce that could be quickly trained to look for and identify simple clues that more experienced analysts could take a deeper look at. This is only a glimpse of the power of the social environment of the internet.
- DefenceIQ
Currently, two [NGA] Geospatial Analysts from Stuttgart, Germany are mapping out the terrain for African Lion 2012 in southern Morocco. AL-12 is a bi-lateral exercise between U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Africa, the Utah National Guard, and the Kingdom of Morocco. It's the 8th annual African Lion exercise in the country.
The 10-day exercise includes ground, amphibious and aerial training for approximately 800 Marines, 400 Army Reservists and 900 Moroccan military. It’s spread across four geographically varied locations, to include flat deserts, vast mountain ranges, and miles and miles of coastline.
- http://www.dvidshub.net/news/86809/national-geospatial-intelligence-agency-mapping-africa-one-country-time">DVIDS Hub
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/18 at 03:00 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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Chicago Magazine offers a look at the patterns of astroturfed (fake grassroots campaigns) and real ones. The patterns seem to clearly show which is which.
- Chicago Magazine
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/29 at 05:43 AM |
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The founder and CEO of Plancast Mark Hendrickson decided to stop working on the effort full time and wrote a detailed post mortem in January. The service was about sharing your plans with others. Here's what he said about how geography mattered. This reads like the post mortem of many other social network startups that didn't make it.
Geographic Limitations
Geographic specificity is another inherent limitation to a plan’s value. Unlike virtually all other content types (with the exception of check-ins), plans provide most of their value to others when those users live or can travel near enough to join.
I may share plans for a ton of great events in San Francisco, but few to none of my friends who live outside of the Bay Area are going to care. In fact, they’ll find it annoying to witness something they’ll miss out on. Sure, they might appreciate simply knowing what I’m up to, but the value to that kind of surveillance is rather modest all by itself.
This is especially problematic when trying to expand the service into new locations. New users will have a hard time finding enough local friends who are either on the service and sharing their plans already, or those who are willing to join them on a new service upon invitation. People who encounter the service from non-urban locations have the hardest time, since there aren’t many events going on in their area in general, let alone posted to Plancast. Trying to view all events simply listed within their location or categories of interest yields little for them to enjoy.
- TechCrunch
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/16 at 03:00 AM |
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