San Francisco-based Nikki Gunn Rodenbeck of Soft Cities creates personalized fleece blankets and cotton "mapkins" napkins from customized OpenStreetMap.org... 
Technology is helping cities control everything from traffic to disease. But who should control the technology? 
A century ago the Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. Mapping travelers’ hometowns reveals the immigrant status of most third-class passengers, who also suffered the highest fatality rate. 
Take a look at these Street View views of the Amazon Basin from the post at Google Lat Long . Pretty slick. I like the view ahead and the view from behind with the wake. As my friend, Alex, says: Can't wait for underwater Street View . Take a look at some of Garmin's earliest products, as collected by one of their senior engineering technicians, Frank W. 
On the Bostoncentricity of literature, or what "our first man of letters" has to do with Poe. 
Maxis will finally be creating a new entry in the popular SimCity franchise in 2013, promising new features such as full 3D graphics, internet-connected cities that can affect one another, and even "curvy roads"... 
Imagine a group of military leaders standing around a table staring at a pile of spreadsheets. Would that army win the battle? Via Geocrusader80 The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and cl... 
Curious about learning more about #IronSheep? Check out the #geowebchat happening Tuesday, March 6th at 12 pm PST, 3 pm EST. The debrief will be in addition to the discussion: Geoweb vs GIScience: two tribes or a field in tension? 
So...I guess Garmin is a little popular with this community. 
Before there was a PalmPilot, there was a palm. |
FeLion Studios, an ironmonger with style, has made a set of 48 interlocking “Made in America” skillets, in the shape of each of the continental states. Creative display of world population density. What if the world's population were reduced to 100 people community?
Reminicent of the picture book, "If the World were a Village" by David Smith, this video attempts to make large statistics more meaningful to young learners. For more information see: http://www.miniature-earth.com/ Via Seth Dixon, Ph.D., M. Roman This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007. Via M. Roman 
"In her recent keynote address, the new director of the Nation Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Letitia Long, unveiled her new vision, which recognizes certain realities of the operating environment and implicitly touches upon profound implications for the GEOINT analytical community. This unveiling suggests the need for a deeper look at the environment, those implications, and the obstacles to successful implementation." Via Geocrusader80 
An interactive map of the celebrity recolonization of Africa. This is the data SimpleGeo collected from the eight geolocated data providers (FourSquare, Gowalla, Twitter, Flickr, Bump, Brightkite, BlockChalk, and Fwix) during the South by SouthWest Interactive Festival last year. Mobile is not a new trend and it's probably only the beginning. Via axelletess, Jimun Gimm 
The TreeKIT project aims to make it easier for residents to help care for neighborhood trees... Augmented Reality Skiing (kind of) - Put a dashboard in your ski goggles with your speed, elevation, location, record video, and even text. SWEEET!!
Might want to turn your speakers down; this video is pumped with some cheesy techno. Now all we need is some snow.... 
To better understand how emergency responders can leverage social media tools, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is holding the $40,000 CLIQR Quest Challenge. Perhaps Ushahidi, Crowdmap, OSM can play a role in the solution?
via AHDN Newswire 
Look! In the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life! wtfqrcodes: “ Ladies and Gentlemen, the WTF-est of WTF QR codes.
Just imagine all the idiots on the beach with their phones in the air trying to capture it....hahahaha...
via @sharondea and @andrewgrill |
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