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This morning I ran 6.6306 miles. The first mile was very much downhill but the 6th mile was a very steep uphill climb. During the run I burnt 937 calories*. This is all good news**. What is even better news is that I know all of this information without having spent a single [...] Surely I am not the only person that, once in a while, thinks “I’d like to go somewhere next week, I wonder what my options are?“. Yet all of the holiday/travel websites I have ever used are based around you knowing which airport you are departing from and where you want to go. I’m generally flexible on [...] Google Maps is now exclusively using TeleAtlas as it’s mapping data provider, dropping all previous information supplied from NavTeq. This appears to have resulted in a noticeable increase in errors according to reports from The Map Room and The Earth is Square. The G1 phone has today been officially unveiled in the United States and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were present at the launch. Essentially a 3G phone that has been optimised for Google services like mail and maps it is available on the T-Mobile network and requires signing up for a two-year contract. The phone [...] Mikel Maron and Andrew Turner went to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York and talked about Where 2.0 (and Burning Man). Their presentations are below (View notes from Kris Jordan). Trends And Technologies In Where2.0 – Web2 Expo New Yorkhttp://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=web2expo-nyc-trends-and-technologies-in-where2-1221763079973470-8&stripped_title=trends-and-technologies-in-where20-web2-expo-new-york-presentation Burning Man Earth at Web 2.0 [...] Seeing a recent post from The Map Room reminded me that I had neglected to finish an earlier post I had started about MapTube, a website for sharing maps created with the GMapCreator software, released by University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). The main principle of MapTube is that shared maps can be [...] The future is localHoward Owens argues that the internet is making us more local and this is where the future lies. Virtual Earth 6.2 Coming September 22ndSome details of Microsoft’s upcoming release which includes a host of enhancements and also claims expanded mobile support and international features. Announcing: OpenLayers 2.7The OpenLayers development team has launched a new [...] Nikon’s Digital SLR GeotaggerAnother technological step closer to getting geolocation information into an image’s EXIF data at the point of capture. Mapping Hurricane GustavLots of blog posts and information on the mapping of Hurricane Gustav and here is a good round up by The Map Room. Cartography is dead, long live the map makersMary Spence has sparked [...] From BBC News ->
Internet mapping is wiping the rich geography and history of Britain off the map, the president of the British Cartographic Society has said. Mary Spence said internet maps such as Google and Multimap were good for driving but left out crucial data people need to understand a landscape. Mrs Spence [...] |
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