China TransInfo Technology Corp. announced a couple of days ago that they will be developing an Olympic Games Traffic GIS Application System for Beijing’s Traffic Management Bureau. Although there are already traffic management systems in place apparently, Beijing is looking to be able track and manage street-level traffic in near real-time. Given Beijing’s general traffic [...]
I think it is safe to say that if you have ever traveled, you have probably seen a Where magazine or guide in the lobby or in the rack of travel documents and brochures of your hotel. It appears that the folks behind Where are taking the online plunge into travel guides with their site [...]
We sat down with the folks from LightPole to discuss their mobile app and Movable Type integration. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format
Looks like Microsoft is really going “hands on” (hehe… I crack myself up!) Check out the list from Gizmodo: There will be a OSX-like dock, though how OS X-like is yet to be seen. Multi-touch gestures in photogalleries like two-finger zoom, flicking, and panning. Think of the photo app on the Microsoft Surface table. Multi-touch [...]
Information has begun to roll out about the companies that have received support from the iPhone venture capital funding announced back in January…all two of them so far. Whrrl, a project from Pelago, is one of the first funded via the iPhone VC and is a location based social mapping site that focuses on rating [...]
Our question for you this time around in the polls is what desktop Operating System do you prefer to use. I am a multi-OS guy, Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 2003) at work and MacOS X at home and Ubuntu waiting to be installed on a virtual machine. But I am well aware that this is [...]
An overview of Poly9′s offerings from our hallway conversation at Where 2.0 Click here to download the episode in MP3 format
Created with DHL shipping company and the help of GPS! It spans nearly every continent and shows a pretty elaborate path. While this might seem flippant, I think it shows an important intersection of technology and art. Anyone familiar with ancient maps can see the obvious art there, but I can’t say I’ve ever thought [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 149 May 25, 2008 Main Topic:Interview with Jaron Waldman of Placebase Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
NASA will be hosting the NASA mars landing video on today, Sunday the 25th. I’m betting that they’ll have it archived for reviewing shortly thereafter. If you’re a space junky like me, you’ll be torn between an afternoon showing of everyone’s favorite archaeologist and this!
