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Education, general, LBS, Remote Sensing
GITA’s Location for Education – a great program for teachers
I was glancing through my issue of GITA’s Conference News that came today and I noticed a little writeup about the expansion of GITA’s “Location for Education” program, which allows […]
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Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Project
Starting next month, stores in the Ginza district in Tokyo will be beaming coupons, special notices, and other information to shoppers and passers-by through the use of RFID tags and […]
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Click a Map, Call that Business
Min Zeng over at the Google Maps team posted an interesting blog post/feature announcement. They’ve added a feature where you can store your phone number in your google account, search […]
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UK town tests Augmented Reality system for local planning
The town of Burnley Wood in the UK has become a test bed for a new system that will help local residents visualize how proposed development will change what their […]
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general, LBS, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping
National Geographic’s Digital Places Special News Series
If you haven’t read them already, you should definitely check out the articles in National Geographic’s Digital Places Special News Series. They cover topics relating to Second Life, to mobile […]
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SLAM – Microsoft’s foray into mobile social networking
Microsoft has a new prototype mobile application called Slam (Social, Location, Annotation, Mobile) that lets users send messages and photos back and forth to members of a group, or “slam” […]
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Location based police
Listener Eric pointed out a news item that discusses how police in the Dutch city of Groningen will be testing a handheld-based computer system which will allow them to access […]
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BBC NEWS | Norwich pioneers free city wi-fi
The city of Norwich in the UK has set up a city-wide wi-fi that is open to the public at 256kbs and open to municipal employees at 1Mbs. One of […]
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Satellite Navigation for the visually impaired
ESA News has a really interesting article about a prototype satellite navigation system for the visually impaired that was successfully tested in Madrid, Spain. The system uses a mobile phone […]
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Mapping the Earth in Near Real-Time
One of the projects Microsoft researchers are working on is called SenseWeb, and Technology Review has a nice article that gives an overview of SenseWeb which, when incorporated into Windows […]
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