Month: October 2006
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300,000,000 Served
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 […]
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Gothamist Maps – a little too real
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 […]
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PSP, PS3, and Sony’s Global Mapping System Vision
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 […]
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Will there be an Apple mapping device
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, […]
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EarthAlbum – GoogleMaps with Flickr and YouTube
I haven’t posted about a Google Maps mashup in quite awhile, but I read about EarthAlbum over on the GoogleMapsMania blog and had to check it out. It mashes up […]
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Cartography, general, Human Geography
5,000 Years of Rule in the Middle East
With the Iraq war very current for the US, especially in the media, it sometimes helps to take a bit of an historical view of the region. Simply put, the […]
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GIS and multi-core computers
I saw the posts by Rob and James a couple of weeks ago about multicore and 64 bit but was too sick to kick in at the time. Now that […]
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OGC Interoperability Day on Wednesday
This week in Tyson’s Corners, VA, the Open Geospatial Consortium has been holding its Technical Meeting, and tomorrow is the OGC Interoperability Day, with demos, panel discussion, and lots of […]
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general, General, GeographyBlogs
EarthSim for the classroom
For those educators out there in the audience, you might be interested in VirtualGlobes promotional give-away of a one-year subscription to EarthSim. I wasn’t aware that EarthSim existed until yesterday, […]
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Netflix offers $1 million prize for a better way to recommend movies
For those of you who don’t know, Netflix is the online DVD movie rental company that now sport 5.2 million subscribers. They are looking for ways to improve their movie […]
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