Single Sentence Synopsis: Buildings could offer WiFi photo uploading service, in return for keeping the photos taken of them. This post is the second part in a trilogy, but also the part that’s been bouncing around in my mind the most. So in Star Wars saga style, I’m writing the middle part first. I’ll get [...]
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by there own words (I know this because I’m copy and pasting it from here) is:”Ito! is a UK registered company providing web-based mapping, movies and data management services for the transport professional and for the transport user.”Which is all great, but it doesn’t sounds like the type of thing that allows them to get away with lovely lovely images like this …I can totally recommend going to have a look at pages 9 and 10 of their gallery.
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Tom and Mike release Oakland Crimespotting, the rather fancy Virtual Earth map/data/visualising thing that they (Stamen) do so well.What you cant see here is all the useful fade and highlighting effects that take place as you move your cursor around, giving you handy information…. When we’ve all had enough experience with mapping data, which has already been going on forever, then we may know how to ask smarter questions.Example: A few years ago, I may not have thought to ask if the house I was about to buy was on a flood plane.
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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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Maps and data you can download, use, all without rate limits or money.Ed Parsons is speaking, yes the Ed Parsons from Google, yes, that Google…. Even if he doesn’t link back from his images on his blog to Flickr.Others I can totally recommend going there just so you can corner them and ask them lots of questions are; Mikel Maron, Tim Waters, William Cartwright and Andrew Turner.
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Steve over at OpenGeoData says “You can now transform OSM data in to KML, the format used by google earth”Shown above is a KMZ file for the Isle of Wight, which has pretty good open data coverage. Good to see OSM going from strength to strength and slowly taking over the world.
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If anyone has any suggestions of good, short-ish, child friendly, walks that’ll get decent GPS coverage and has suitable landmarks we can match-up with on a map drop me a line. Better still if you already have a KML file for Google Earth plotted out, or can point me to a website that has walks around San Francisco plotted on a map.Upcoming: Ocean Beach Geo Walk (Sunday 21st 11:30am)Upcoming: Photowalking With The Scoble Show (Sunday 21st 1:00pm)Now there’s no excuse for staying in the house on Sunday (unless it rains) with two to pick from.And hopefully future walks won’t overlap and I’ll get to do both.
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Anyone who’s done a couple of geocaches will know what I mean, I dug around in the damp undergrowth to find a tupperware box full of slightly rusty hairclips, 4 hair bands, a couple of plastic keyrings, some germ riddled mini soft toy and a soggy ‘calling card’ from ‘Five go Mad in Dorset and Timmy to Dog – Bagged this Cache’…. Some time after that, there’ll be a handful of ‘Here be Dragons’ unmapped areas, and as we know, people will fall over themselves to be the first to trudge down some backwater lane, in the rain, on a Sunday, preferably with a pub at the end.
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