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googlemapsapi: Read about preps we’re making to index Maps API sites: GeoDev Blog post: “Finding mashups: Needle in a haystack?” – http://bit.ly/7q0MEe
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AOL which will be sprung from Time Warner at the beginning of next month laid off 1/3 of its workers and reports indicate it’s putting its ICQ messaging service and perhaps MapQuest up for sale. Among the possible buyer sugge (Read More)
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It is now already a tradition that some guys at the university of Austin, Texas release a GIS related song on GIS day. This year the song is titled Tied together (with GIS) and is adapted from “Come together” by the BeatlesTh (Read More)
Cartographers' Guild:
i use photoshop cs3 almost exclusively when making maps. I've dabbled with ill a bit, but have much better results from ps. I do not use ArcGIS or any other mapping programs (besides maps.google) for reference. But is there s (Read More)
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ImWaitingHereI’m Waiting Here is a Google Map based service that you can use to easily point where you are and what are you doing. You can then share this point with your Facebook friends. Using the map you can also see other (Read More)
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PublicEarth ‘Wiki for Places’PublicEarth is a’wikipedia for places’ that can be extended by users. Using Google Maps to display ‘crowdsourced’ Points of Interest [POI] locations.Guests can view the data in a read-only format (Read More)
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Tracks on a MapThis Google Map shows the locations of bands that have uploaded tracks to SoundCloud and even lets you listen to the tracks directly from the map.The tracks can be selected by genre of music. Selecting to view (Read More)
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googlemapsapi: Traveling to Korea? Time Magazine’s “Seoul: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours” piece uses @googlemapsapi – http://bit.ly/49cfLW (Click Map View)
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NextStop APINextstop is an online travel guide and social recommendation website that makes extensive use of Google Maps. I was very impressed with nextstop when I first reviewed the site back in May.Here’s what I said in the (Read More)
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A few weeks ago, we launched Building Maker, a new way to model buildings in 3D for Google Earth. Since then, we’ve been excited by the community’s enthusiastic response and today, we’re announcing that eight new cities can n (Read More)
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googlemapsapi: Where’s the bus in Boston? @App_Engine and open transit data result in a great @GoogleMapsAPI mashup: http://is.gd/4Xo1i [via @GlobeMetro]
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observer.guardian.co.uk:
PM to open access to 2,000 data sets in victory for Guardian's Free our Data campaignThe government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardian's thr (Read More)
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As you saw in our previous post about Italy , we were quite amazed with the exceptional heavy use of the chit chat by Italians. In some chit chats we’ve noted threads with up to 30 responses. Here’s the explanation provided b (Read More)
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GlympseMy guess is that most people aren’t prepared to allow location tracking websites to have blanket coverage of their movements. Many services try to solve this issue by allowing the user to set the granularity of the loc (Read More)
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Since 1888, the National Geographic Society has worked to build andspread geographic knowledge. Geography Awareness Week began in 1987 asa celebration of the importance of geography in our lives. Every year,National Geographi (Read More)
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Samsung Behold II which we made official a while ago was announced by T-Mobile this last week. Also known as SGH-t939, the new 3G enabled phone runs on Google’s Android OS and adds Samsung TouchWiz user interface for easy cus (Read More)
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Vanity Fair points to Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009, an exhibition at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwartzman building that runs until June 26, 2010 (exhibition details here). Drawing on The New York Pu (Read More)
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MashUpAustraliaThe MashupAustralia competition is now closed. There has been an amazing 78 entries and the vast majority of the entries involve maps. Over at the All Things Spatial blog Arek has started to review all the map (Read More)
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The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology in Kansas City, Missouri gets a mention in the travel section of the New York Times (in an article on rare book collections that are accessible to the public) for (Read More)
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With the impending release of the much anticipated teen vampire romance, Twilight: New Moon, the Bing team has put together The Virtual Twilight Tour, a blood-sucking fun application for you to view an exclusive Twilight vide (Read More)