australia japan get street view amazing australia is now smothered in blue street view lines in google maps including some of the most outoftheway places you can imagine......
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im incredibly thrilled to share the news that mapufacture my company cofounded with mikel will be joining fortiusone. mikel and seanshare their thoughts on brainoff and the geocommons blog and here is the official press release. building mapufacture has been an incredible experience. what started out as a project to demonstrate an index of a new format called georss grew into a company that effect...
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we are incredibly thrilled to share the news that fortiusone is acquiring mapufacture. you can read more about the news at highearthorbit the fortiusone blog and brain off. here is the official press release. we have a history of working closely with the team at fortiusone. together we share a common vision of building the pieces of the geoweb with free accessible data and easy to use geospatial ...
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the video on the disastertech presentation by mikel maron and jesse robins at where 2.0 is an interesting insight into innovation in disaster response. also interesting is the issues mentioned of getting geeky innovations into mainstream disasterrelief operations or as they say making technology count. absolutely true but as paul currion mentions this factor must and should be taken into mind as w...
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disastertechat where 2.0 mikel akasa mirage62 hardware unknown catalyst new report on women intechnology telle whitney the kindle gets 5000 more titles thanks to simon shuster michael santo nasa funds toy snowmobile project at georgiatechto monitor wattsupwiththat lamptron noise reduction kit rhys......
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brain off mikel maron building digital technology for our planet put an intriguing blog post on yuris night openstreetmap codeheres a quick excerpt yuris night was really really really rad. it happened over 3 weeks ago. really overdue for a write up of our exhibit then. yuris night access at nasa ames was limited to the expanse of undifferentiated tarmac outside one of the hangers. a quite i...
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geographic naming continued excellent thoughtful post by mikel on the problem of geographic naming on internet maps as for cyprus like wokingham in osm we still need to do it sea level rise mashup interesting way to visualise the potential impacts of sea level rise from an organisation called global warming art who are themselves an interesting example of the product of the impact of democratisi...
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engineers without fears collaboration tools stags ive been thinking about different collaboration tools for various groups recently and i was pondering on some of the different factors you need to consider and i came up with this tags collaboration tools scaling scalability six apart wrestles the socialmedia dragon the social cnet news.com tags 6a mt blogging facebook how do we...
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i frequently get emails asking me about visualising collections of gps traces as an animation. the openstreetmap community is way ahead of me on this one and has a tool called party render to create animations of mapping activity. heres one that mikel just pointed out from a recent mapping party in mumbai......
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a couple of days ago i wanted a fresh change to the wallpaper on my computer and used this photo of roshnii. it was taken in lalbagh gardens bangalore. a few days prior i had sent the photo to mikel. hes currently mapping india with openstreetmap and i asked him to send me the latitude and longitude of the tree if he saw it... he replied that hed been there a couple of days earlier and had h...
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the undp eastern europe and central asia bureau had a major relaunch of their environment and energy website for a major ministerial meeting in belgrade last october. maps were a big feature. and those maps were produced by mapufacture inc in part utilising mapufacture.com. there were two main tasks. a system to geotag undp environment projects and a pretty map display. we decided to do both decou...
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ok after some prevaricating ive added the geopress plugin by andrew turner mikel maron and updated this blog with the coordinates of all of the previously mapped posts. i now have a georss feed. this means that anything i locate in this way you can see in google or yahoo maps. just take a look at my feed in google maps i have about 30 posts on the map. as far as i know i am the first architecture...
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