An interesting milestone is about to happen in the US. Somewhere on or about October 17th, the US population will have surpased 300,000,000 people. The US is the third most populous country on the planet (behind China and India). The last big milestone was 200 million, which we hit in 1967, and then 100 million [...]
Gothamist Labs has a GoogleMaps mashup of near real-time incident data from NewYork City called Gothamist Maps, using emergency call data. I spent a few minute just looking the calls since lunchtime, and it’s crazy. Via Tech_Space
So, I didn’t get a chance to post this until now, but I wanted to say a few words about Ken Kutaragi’s Sony keynote address a week ago at the Tokyo Games conference. Along with lots of other points about the new PS3 gaming console, he slid in an announcement about a Global Mapping System [...]
There is apparently references in the new version of iPhoto (6.0.5) suggets potential integration into Google Maps. An Apple patent went in previously for a device that could include GPS, force sensing (roll, pitch, yaw) and other sensors that would make a very nice LBS device at least hardware-wise. iPhoto 6.0.5 Google Maps Integration And [...]
