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Tag: locative
We aim to collect all of the news and civic goings-on that have happened recently in your city, and make it simple for you to keep track of news in particular areas. We’re a geographic filter — a “news feed” for your neighborhood, or, yes, even your block.
holovatys next mashup
2008-01-25: nice job. hopefully nice visualization like this will increase government transparency. like, why is the crime data several months old?
creating a map of city neighborhoods based on the collective opinions of internet users.
cell id triangulation comes to google maps mobile
After reading comments and looking at the overall architecture view of the framework, I decided to investigate the android.location API a little more closely. The first item is interesting because it would allow you to conserve battery life and, I assume, toggle between (free) GPS positionning and perhaps (not so free) cell-tower triangulation. The second item is where the interesting stuff can happen. Imagine an application that knows the location of all your friends and the location of their favorite spots along with the permission associated to all those locations. When you are moving around the mobile application on the device could register some intents (by obtaining specific lat/long information from a dedicated server) to alert you of interesting places but also of nearby friends.
As a person enters and exits these zones, an author using Wherigo Builder can create rules that generate media events on the device. The author can also create virtual objects and characters that “live” within the zone for the person to interact with.
2 google maps integrations. a good start.
You sign up for the service with your skills and focus, take a GPS reading and then just hang out. If you are looking for someone for 3 hours to man a cash register, you just send the request and within minutes, you have a list of people available.
The logistics field has a number of companies that are the equivalent of “quants” in finance that squeeze optimizations out of this data; a tiny improvement in efficiency can mean $10Ms of profit.
Open Aerial Map is a non-profit, open access, meeting place for the aerial imaging community. It exists to provide a freely available image map of the world created solely by community contribution, and to facilitate the free exchange of imagery, technology, and ideas. In order to provide an unrestricted, free, an unbiased view of the world, OpenAerialMap encourages the free exchange of aerial imagery, without restriction on its use.
that & gps data & lots of people = free maps for the world.
Data communications networks currently support PNT capabilities by carrying PNT aiding and augmentation data, GIS data, etc.; however, opportunities exist to exploit the synergy between RF-based PNT and communications by leveraging communications capabilities to provide PNT capabilities directly. This is consistent with the multiphenomenology vector of employing diverse sources and information paths, and would increase PNT robustness by offering services outside of traditional radionavigation spectrum. Leadership and initiative is needed to avoid stove-piped solutions, and detailed assessments regarding specific solutions are needed, so the US should establish a community of experts to pursue synergies between communications and PNT. Initially, the US should study the lessons learned from existing PNT/Communications fusion efforts, such as cellular and WiFi networks, iGPS, tactical radio networks, E911, the Air Force Satellite Control Network, and NASA‘s SCA to help determine what provides the best options for both systems and their users.
this might a common clock and reference frame encoded on all broadcast signals, and compatibility with indoor systems (such as WiFi)- if you get a signal from anything you get some location info.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 