Archive for March 31st, 2008




First Bird’s Eye imagery, now Fish-Eye views

Mar 31st, 2008 | By

Japanese company ALPSLAB has come up with a new function for zooming in to an area on its online mapping interface – a “Fish-Eye” view that acts like a magnifying glass being held over a particular area on the map without having to zoom the whole way. I tried it out (after taking several minutes [...]

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New Poll, Old Poll

Mar 31st, 2008 | By

So today we start a new poll with the request “Pick your favorite name” as a way to get your perspective on what to call the spatial data that is being created by users as part of the Web 2.0 phenomena. The choices we give (which are not all inclusive) are: Social mapping Crowd source [...]

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