I’ve just spent the last few days in London rushing around the place, not really having a clue where I was going. Meaning that most of the time I’d rather jump into a cab than take the tube. Well that and the heat, the Underground is hot, taxis have Air Conditioning. Also I generally don’t [...]
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After the last post I’ve been thinking about Ants* a lot, but more of that later (later time-wise not post-wise), in the mean time I missed this post from Fast Company a couple of days ago … iPhone Augmented Reality Which, while not being earth shatteringly insightful does add to the build up of interest [...]
Last night I was mulling over the new iPhone and 3.0OS stuff, and then Brady goes and covers most of it anyway: What the iPhone 3GS and 3.0 OS Means for Geo Devs. Really the two elements I was most interested in were the Compass for pretty much the reasons Brady (damn him!) states … [...]
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Radar points out that you can now get a ‘Lite’ (my word not theirs) version of Google Earth as a plug-in for IE and FF on Windows only (boo!), more information over here. Which is, you know great. More-so this is the really exciting part, for me anyway … Google Earth, as an application is [...]
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There’s been a bit of coverage about Google’s new addition to maps.google.com, with VentureBeat probably adding the most opinion about it. Google’s video has it pretty much covered … … Ok, so just a touch deeper at what I think is going on here. Google snapped up the rather wonderful Panoramio a while back, a [...]
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Apparently some genius “sees huge potential as more people become aware of GPS and geotagging.” Carrying on, “That mainly comes down to GPS devices in cars and mobile phones raising people’s awareness of location-based services,” he said. “It wasn’t really in people’s consciousness even a year ago. … We’re very much at the beginnings.” You [...]
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In which you wire people up to a combined Galvanic Skin Response sensor, GPS unit and data logger and send them out into the urban wilderness…. The examples in the screengrab below include peaks at “Creepy backally”, “Odeon looking at an ex girlfriend’s house” and “Saw cyclist almost get hit”.
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Ok, I admit, I’m a sucker for Virtual Globes.
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However I find this interesting because I’m a bit of a Garmin fan and heck I’m a bit of a API fan too.Garmin® Publishes API Library and Opens Communication Between Third Party Websites and Garmin GPS Devices, which is the usual blah blah stuff.Yet, we have the Device Communications bit, which, once the user has downloaded the Garmin Plugin allows websites to pull and push data to a connected GPS unit, see ‘ere…. The theory goes that the Garmin Plugin could pick up the geotagging from the GeoPressMT Plugin and allow the user to download the location of the blogpost to a GPS unit.The part I’m not so impressed about is the “cross-platform” part of this…”Allow visitors, who have the free cross-platform/browser Garmin Communicator plugin installed on their computer to transfer waypoint, route, track log, fitness and map data between their Garmin device and your website.”…which is cross-platform if you exclude the Mac (and linux etc.).
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