Archive for the ‘Geography’ Category
BlogLoc (Still a Working Title)
All right. As I said in one of my last posts, I really want one of those maps on my blog’s sidebar where I can share my current geographical location, directly from my GPS-enabled mobile phone. I also said that there are several tracking services out there that give you a mobile client and an […]
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Nice link to remember: geocoder + reverse geocoder alternatives to the Google Maps API. Includes commercial APIs along with free ones. Coverage for many of the services is restricted to across the pond, though.
Filed under: Geocoder, Geography, Geospatial Web, Maphacking, Reverse Geocoder | Leave a Comment
Garmin nüvifone
Just in time for the Congress formerly known as 3GSM: Personal navigation products manufacturer Garmin has announced in a press release this week the nüvifone – a GPS-enabled 3.5G smartphone. Release 3rd quarter 2008. Maps and POI data preloaded for North America, Eastern and Western Europe (I always considered Austria Central Europe – hey!); spoken […]
Filed under: 3GSM, Gadgets, Garmin, Geek, Geography, Geospatial Web, Google, GPS, Mobile, Mobile World Congress, nuvifone, Technology | Leave a Comment
It’s done. This week I handed in the first (yet unofficial, but complete) version of my thesis entitled “Mobilizing the Geospatial Web: A Framework for Spatially Aware Mobile Web Applications”, in which I take a somewhat different (geeky, but different) perspective on the future of LBS, neogeo and everything. Ten Chapters with lots of pictures […]
Filed under: Framework for Spatially Aware Mobile Web Applications, Geek, Geography, Geospatial Web, LBS, Location, Mobile, Mobile Web, Mobilizing the Geospatial Web, Point to Discover, Research, Spatially Aware, Thesis | Leave a Comment
Vienna 360
Stumbled across this only recently: 360 cities mashes up Google Maps with 360 degrees panoramic images from various cities (including Vienna), using Quicktime VR. Hmmm… I’m ALMOST tempted to say ‘I could’ve done that myself!’, but ok – I do have to admit their version looks slightly better than the hack I did some weeks […]
Filed under: CleVR, Geek, Geography, Location, Maphacking, Mashups, Street View, Vienna, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment
Great article on the convergence between second-life-like metaverses and their ‘real-world’ virtual globe counterparts! My favourite quote being: And many computer professionals think the idea of a "Second Earth" mashup is so cool that it’s inevitable, whether or or not it will offer any immediate way to make money. Hey – that pretty much sums […]
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Google Earth Football
Another great mini-game for Google Earth! Developed by Google Earth Hacks: Google Earth Football. The game is played inside a virtual KML stadium and it makes cool use of network links and a radioFolder menu to control the game moves. (There’s also a quick run-down of how the the game works internally for the nosy […]
Filed under: Development, Gaming, Geek, Geography, Geospatial Web, Google, Google Earth, Location, Maphacking, Technology | Leave a Comment
I’ll be speaking at the WWW2007 conference in Banff, Canada next week, presenting some of our work from the Point to Discover project. It’s in the Pervasive Web and Mobility session on Thursday. So check by and say hi if you happen to be there!
Filed under: Development, Geek, Geography, Geospatial Web, GPS, LBS, Location, Maphacking, Mobile, p2d, Point to Discover, Research, Technology, Web, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment
During my daytime job, I have stumbled across many definitions of what’s a Location Based Service and what’s not – most of them including the requirement that in order to qualify as ‘location based’, the service must determine the user’s location automatically in some way, e.g. via the mobile network operator, a GPS device, known […]
Filed under: Development, FON, FONFinder, Geek, Geography, LBS, Location, Mashups, Mobile, Mobile Social Networks, Phone, Technology, Twitter, Web, Web 2.0 | 12 Comments
Without much further ado – I’m releasing my newest geek-project into the wild: a first version of the FONFinder can now be seen and tried at fonfinder.mobi. UPDATE: I’ve started to collect and track issues, bugs and feature requests here. Drop me a comment if there’s something you want to let me know! For those […]
Filed under: Development, FON, FONFinder, Geek, Geography, LBS, Location, Maphacking, Mashups, Mobile, Phone, Technology, Web, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments
