WebMapping
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Flickr and GeoFences
Flickr has added a pretty cool new feature to their API set – Geofences. The idea is based upon the increasing concern over privacy, particularly spatial privacy. In the past […]
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ESRIUC, GIS_Software, WebMapping
ESRI 2011 UC Live Blog
Esri UC 2011 Live Blog We’re about to get underway at the 2011 ESRI UC. We’re getting the opening Rocky-esque montage of GIS in action. Jack takes the stage and […]
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Cool Stuff, Education, ESRIUC, Events, WebMapping
ESRI EDuc Plenary Session – ArcGIS Online Improvements
At the ESRI Education User Conference Plenary this morning a few things struck me as significant for GIS use in the classroom. Bern Szukalski reviewed some of the ArcGIS.com revisions […]
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HealthMap
The Globe and Mail has an interesting article today on a site called HealthMap, created by epidemiologists at the Children’s Hospital Boston which uses participatory GIS and other information mined […]
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Data, VirtualWorlds, WebMapping
“Local Information is The Final Frontier”
That’s a great quote from Google Maps product manager Manik Gupta! What led him to say such a thing is that Google is now opening their map to user input. […]
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Bime and maps
I came across an interesting demo video on YouTube today for a web-based analytics tool named Bime. While I haven’t had a chance to sit down and delve into the […]
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Sustainable Seafood App
There are many restaurant apps around that rely on users to input location on their locale or sites they visit to create a national or international database. The most recent […]
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general, General, Human Geography, WebMapping
Mapping Facebook
Mapping social networks isn’t anything new, but I find this lovely map of Facebook users in the BBC to be incredibly striking. First, because it’s obviously beautiful. Second, because you […]
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AugmentedReality, general, GeographyAwareness, WebMapping
If Google Maps Were Real
Mashable (perhaps one of the cooler sites I visit each day) has a nifty story about an artist who drew Google Maps icons as if they existed in the real […]
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The State of Mapping APIs.
Adam DuVander over at O’Reilly has written a decent summation article on the current state of mapping apis in the world. It’s a short read and highlights some issues, but I think […]
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