| Great use of data “We’re house-hunting. And for me, like most coders, house-hunting involves lots and lots and lots of screen-scraping. As well as crawling Rightmove listings, I’ve been looking at transport and house-price data. [ continue reading train stations and house prices ] The United Kingdom Explained from C. G. P. Grey on Vimeo. Have some problems with this – not least being Northern Ireland coloured orange 8 March 2011  |  | category: empires flux, location+, maps & mapping, one world, the state we're in, tribal  | comments are closed  Harry Beck’s map continues to inspire. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» European E-Road System as a Subway Diagram | Cameron Booth: .) 28 January 2011 | | category: art, location+, maps & mapping, transport, travel | comments are closed The biggest rocket ever to launch from the US West Coast has lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The 72m-high Delta IV Heavy was carrying a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The Delta IV Heavy features three core boosters strapped side by side. Each has a Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne-built RS-68 engine. These motors burn a tonne of propellant every second and produce 2,900 kiloNewtons (650,000lbs) of thrust at lift-off. Dating hedges from subjective evidence Certain “indicator” plants can provide clues to the origin of a hedge, e.g. Bluebell (Hyacinthoides nonscriptus) , dogs mercury (Mecurialis perennis) and primrose (Primula vulgaris) are all species occurring in or at the edge of woodland. There existence in hedges strongly suggests a woodland origin that possibly dates back to the assarts of the 12th – 14th century. On the other hand we need to not overlook the possibility of secondary colonisation at a later date, especially in the case of bluebells that are sometimes escapees from gardens and waste piles. (CLICK HERE [ continue reading Hedgerow Dating – (I love stuff like this) ] Not as slick as Arcade Fire and HTML5 but shows the merging continues. Does Flash have the scale to compete? The UK online trailer for Sega’s new Vanquish game cleverly uses Google Maps Street View to let viewers see their own houses being attacked.To view the trailer you have to enter a valid UK postcode. If you don’t know any UK postcodes you can try SW1A 0AA, which is the postcode for the Houses of Parliament. The Street View scene comes at the end of the trailer and (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss Street View used in Game [ continue reading Street View used in Game Trailer -Updated ] PHOTOS FROM MOEL-DDU. Paris Peripherique Street View MovieGMapify has created another video using Street View images. This one shows the whole of the Paris Peripherique. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss Friday Fun with Google Maps: .) Goodness knows where all this is leading to. The mapping revolution is barely six years old. What will be on offer 10 years hence? Maybe it will be live satellite imaging, so you can see when a car leaves a parking space in the next road, or try to track down Osama bin Laden from your mobile phone. The prospect of anyone in the world being able to make their own contribution to a map – thanks to free access to satellite positioning techniques – is awesome, but so is the downside. Some of the fears emerged at a [ continue reading We no longer go to maps, they come to us ] 16 September 2010 | | category: Google, location+, maps & mapping, social media tools, the state we're in | comments are closed … some dinosaurs flatly refuse to serve the public good. Chief among them is National Rail Enquiries, owned by the Association of Train Operating Companies, which continues to reject calls to open up its feeds — despite collecting huge taxpayer subsidies. When I asked why, a press officer said “it just isn’t practical to make [services] entirely open to developers” as data was constantly being updated and the system would face “extra strain”. Nonsense: it’s simply an excuse to maximise revenues by charging for data that should be freely available. In response, our new “open” prime minister should threaten [ continue reading Wired impatient with National Rail Enquiries ] Vice Admiral William Bligh FRS RN was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift by the mutineers in the Bounty’s launch. Fifteen years after theBounty mutiny, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales in Australia, with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps, resulting in the so-called Rum Rebellion. After his exoneration by the Court Martial inquiry into the loss of [ continue reading William Bligh ] Well this is rich isn’t it? “If the app stops you having one ‘bad’ accident” – what is the sliding-scale and what would be accidental!! SHAME ON YOU TUAW – AND APPLE© FOR ALLOWING IT ON iTunes. Is Text’nDrive Pro worth $19.99? If you avoid even one traffic citation for “texting while driving,” you’d probably come out ahead. If the app keeps you from having a bad accident while you’re distracted by your iPhone, then it’s worth every penny you pay for it, and more. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TUAW review: Email while driving with Text’nDrive Pro [ continue reading be an ARSE and email while driving with Text’nDrive Pro for iPhone (!!! you what?) ] 20 August 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, cycling, location+, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, social media tools, the state we're in, transport, travel | comments are closed Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Type in your postcode or a place name to get started. 17 August 2010 | | category: location+, maps & mapping, Nerds, the state we're in | comments are closed It’s the coolest social networking tool in the world. But is the geo-location app Foursquare a stalker’s dream? Just how easy it is to uncover the intimate details of a complete stranger’s life? But with such power comes responsibility and there are growing concerns that Foursquare is proving to be a “stalker’s dream”. Sure, you might earn yourself a “free” decaf latte when you check in five times at a coffee shop, but at what price to your privacy? Last month, a coding expert called Jesper Andersenmanaged to capture the details of 875,000 check-ins in San Francisco– currently, the [ continue reading How I became a Foursquare cyberstalker ] 23 July 2010 | | category: location+, maps & mapping, social media tools, the state we're in | comments are closed One of Wales’ “elite” peaks has grown in stature after an official measurement to verify its height. It was feared Tryfan, in Snowdonia, could have fallen short of the 3,000ft (914m) elite mountain status needed to keep as one of Wales’ 14 highest peaks. But enthusiasts who scaled it with GPS equipment found the [ continue reading survey adds 8ft to Tryfan mountain’s height ] This map shows all trains (yellow pins) on the London Underground network in approximately real time (screenshot). Click the stations for a local map of that station. I have a (per-station) National Rail version, and a bookmarkable train times planner. Live map of London Underground trains. 24 June 2010 | | category: location+, maps & mapping, transport, travel | one comment - (comments are closed) iPhone/iPad users: the new version of iTunes showing up on your computer right about now has new, non-negotiable terms of service. If you install it, you “agree” to allow Apple to collect precise information about your location in real time and use it, sell it, or give it away. Apple promises that its location data is “collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you.” Of course, AOL thought that the search data it released was anonymous and didn’t personally identify people, either. They were wrong. New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your “precise, real-time [ continue reading New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your ‘precise, real-time location’ ] 22 June 2010 | | category: Apple, iPad, iPhone, location+, maps & mapping, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed This video is part of the Mammoths and Mastadons exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago, and was the Long Short for our Seminar with Nils Gilman. It’s a reverse time lapse put together by Greg Mercer and Emily Ward (editing), and David Quednau (animation). Unwinding 20,000 years of a modern American city and frontier outposts, Native American settlements and the last ice age, we arrive in their world and resurrect them in film. Perhaps most interesting is that this film is not the only place mammoths can now come alive, but also as Stewart points [ continue reading Mammoth Time Lapse ] 20 June 2010 | | category: film, location+, nothing new under the sun, one world | comments are closed Every WiFi wireless router – the device that links most computer owners to the internet – in every home has been entered into a Google database. The project had remained secret until an inquiry in Germany earlier this month in which Google was forced to admit that it “mistakenly” downloaded data packets, which may have included fragments of emails and other data, from unsecured wireless networks where they were not protected by a password. The information was collected by radio aerials on their Street View cars, which have now photographed almost [ continue reading Google has mapped every WiFi network in Britain ] 2 June 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, Google, iPhone, location+, maps & mapping, the state we're in | comments are closed I could spend hours looking at the entire Flickr set of images. Correction, I have spent hours looking at the entire Flickr set of images; hence my original blog post on these lovely images. This rendition of geotagged photos from the Flickr and Picasa APIs is recognisably London but seems more akin to the London of one of Neil Gaiman’s novels than anything you’d find in Stanfords in London’s Covent Garden. Map? Art? Both? – OpenGeoData. [ continue reading Map? Art? Both? – OpenGeoData ] TweetDeck, the popular Adobe Air desktop app for social networks (though an HTML5 version is on the way), has now integrated Foursquare into its latest release. The move represents the latest from the startup to grab the “social dashboard” crown against the likes of Seesmic and others, although Tweetdeck seems to be heading towards a kind of “Pro User” space more than anything else. Now, adding your Foursquare account into Tweetdeck adds a location column. This has the handy benefit that Foursquare tweets can now be filtered out of your “All Friends” twitter column. A lot of people [ continue reading Tweetdeck Adds Location Column, Integrates Foursquare ] In Borraccia!In Borraccia! is an Italian campaign to reduce the consumption of plastic water bottles. As part of its campaign In Borraccia! is promoting these three Google Maps that promote the use of tap water over bottled water. AltreconomiaThis Google Maps mashup shows restaurants in Italy that serve tap water so you don’t have to pay for expensive bottled water.The map includes quick links (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss Using Google Maps Against Bottled Water: .) [ continue reading Using Google Maps Against Bottled Water ] The Island satirises the London-centric view of the English capital and its commuter towns as independent from the rest of the country. The artist, a Londoner with a love of his native city, offers up a huge range of local and personal information in words and symbols. Walter speaks in the dialect of today, focusing on what he deems interesting or mundane. More Here. Copyright © Stephen Walter Inkjet print : BL Maps CC.6.a.30 Prints on sale from TAG Fine Arts There is a lot of action surrounding Foursquare right now. And CEO and co-founder Dennis Crowley has a tough decision to make. It’s already been widely reported that Yahoo is seriously pursuing a Foursquare acquisition, but now we’re hearing that at least two other companies are in talks or have been in talks recently with the location-based startup as well. And they’re big ones: Facebook and Microsoft. Facebook, from what we’re hearing, has been talking to Foursquare about a range of possibilities in recent weeks, but seems to have cooled on the idea of an outright acquisition. Microsoft, meanwhile, [ continue reading Facebook And Microsoft Check-In With Foursquare. Will Crowley Sell? ] 23 April 2010 | | category: facebook, Google, location+, maps & mapping, social media tools | comments are closed With last week’s declaration by Twitter that it intends to start identifying places based on the coordinates of geo-coded Tweets, the location land rush is in full swing. A long list of companies including Twitter, Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, SimpleGeo, Loopt, and Citysearch are far along in creating separate databases of places mapped to their geo-coordinates. Mapping businesses, in particular, to the GPS locations near where people are checking in, Tweeting from or pegging a photo is the first step to be able to show them geo-targeted ads, which could help fuel local mobile online advertising in a [ continue reading it’s time for an open database of places ] Sure, Yahoo! may be considering buying Foursquare—in the same way I’m also considering dating Lady Gaga. Both are being considered very carefully, I assure you. The problem is, you need both sides to agree to a sale—and Dennis Crowley is a man on a mission. Whatever you think about Foursquare or the valuation, you have to remember that this is a guy who has essentially been thinking about this app for 8 years, if not more. Beginning with the launch of Dodgeball as his ITP project, Dennis has been obsessed with the mobile location space for years, and Foursquare [ continue reading Why the Foursquare acquisition story makes no sense ] To celebrate the launch of the iPad, design consultancy and technology research lab MAYA created a simple iPad application that can be worn by a cyclist as a back mounted display. The display acts as your own personal bike indicator, letting the traffic as well as any cyclist behind you know your intentions ahead of time. Called the MAYA Sprocket, the app uses the iPad’s accelerometer to perform a few basic functions. The app can detect whether you are going to stop or slow down, then trigger a “Stopping” sign that [ continue reading turn your iPad into a bike indicator ] 18 April 2010 | | category: Apple, can't make it up!, clothes, cycling, iPad, location+, maps & mapping, transport, travel | comments are closed Daylight savings time was introduced to save energy, but it turns out it actually does the opposite. The economist Matthew Kotchen looked at how the 2006 switch to daylight savings time in certain Indiana counties affected electricity use: The result of the study showed that electricity use went up in the counties adopting daylight saving time in 2006, costing $8.6 million more in household electricity bills. The conclusion reached by Kotchen and Grant was that while the lighting costs were reduced in the afternoons by daylight saving, the greater heating costs in the mornings, and more use of [ continue reading Daylight Savings and Energy Wastings ] |  
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