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Tag: geo
If wanted, you may provide a name to a Geohash location, by appending the name to the Geohash itself after a colon. Any underlines in the name will be replaced by spaces, and the name will be displayed in geohash.org, and also used as the default title for GPX downloads and when sending it to Garmin GPS receivers. Here is an example
fun. can you find a hash that is a word and points somewhere interesting?
i seriously just wrote to the EPA to make their data available in an open format. i guess we can kiss that goodbye now.
baby steps towards UGC. the T&C are funny: submissions have to be accurate and relevant
We want to make it so GeoServers that people stand up are automatically searchable from Google Maps and Google Earth.
The primary objective of Tripod is to revolutionise access to the enormous body of visual media. Applying an innovative multidisciplinary approach Tripod will utilize largely untapped but vast, accurate and regularly updated sources of semantic information to create groundbreaking intuitive search services, enabling users to effortlessly and accurately gain access to the image they seek from this ever expanding resource.
Based on geo clues, IR and other methods.
chris holmes, one of the developers of geoserver, has become very interesting to read recently, re: collaborative mapping, standards, etc
jabber extension for geo
SDI’s take years, if not decades, before they are ‘fully operational’. In less than 2 and half years Google has built a better ‘SDI’ than anyone else in the world.
i love disrupting industries asleep at the wheel.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 