MountainTownTrails.com is a website where cyclists can download GPS tracks and maps, mostly for the Rocky Mountains area. Here is a link to the article: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/sports/article/0,1299,DRMN_2_4017135,00.html And a link to the MountainTownTrails.com website: http://mountaintowntrails.com/
ClickZ article on Mapping Mash-ups and marketing
Here is a good short article on the power of mapping mash-ups in branding and marketing by Clickz.com http://www.clickz.com/experts/brand/brand/print.php/3528921
smugMaps
The photo sharing site Smugmug, Inc. announced the launch of smugMaps, which allows users to combine photos and maps. Here is a link to the press release on Geocommunity http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2005/aug/22/news4.html and a link to the smugMaps website http://maps.smugmug.com/
How Hot is Aerial Mapping Technology?
This article from GeoCommunity’s Spatial News will tell you…. http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2005/aug/18/news5.html
Via Virtual Earth
Via Virtual Earth is a site for those interested in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth, and includes developer tips, articles, a Site Gallery, Blog, and other features. Via Virtual Earth
Boost Mobile introduces GPS-based games
On Monday, Boost Mobile launched their new GPS-based games, Swordfish and Torpedo Bay by Blister Entertainment. According to the article, “Starting today, Boost customers are the first and only mobile phone users in the nation to be able to download and play location-based GPS (Global Positioning System) games on their wireless phones.” http://www.lbszone.com/content/view/265/2/
Big Roman Dig GIS
This is an article from Geoplace about the Time Team and its use of GIS to map Roman sites in Britain http://www.geoplace.com/daily/news.asp?a=563314
2006 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
For those of you interested in the cutting-edge tech-side of GIS and other geospatial technologies, the Call for Participation has gone out for the 2006 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. According to the conference website: “The O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference frames the ideas, projects, and technologies that the alpha geeks are thinking about, hacking on, and
Bell Canada launches Seek & Find
If you thought your parents had uncanny ways of knowing what you were up to, check out how parents in Canada can now monitor their kids’ locations in near real-time on a map using Bell Canada’s Seek & Find which uses the embedded GPS capability of their cell phones and the Internet. http://www.lbszone.com/content/view/252/2/
World land use top environmental issue (Jul 21, 2005)
In the July issue of Science magazine, a group of leading scientists, including geographers, argue that global land use is now a top environmental issue. Here is the link to a summary of the article: http://www.news.wisc.edu/11357.html
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