Google Maps has debuted its 3D landmarks, including a 3D represenataion of the Sydney Opera House. Makes me feel so dang patriotic, I may cry. PC World has all the details.
I recently came across a site that has a map of record shops across the world. Given my loves of maps and music, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to post it here. If you have a favourite record shop that isn’t on the map, you can add it yourself.
GIM International have an interview with Open Street Maps founder, Steve Coast. Well worth a read.
The Register have an article outlining the need for a new emergency broadband network in Queensland, after radio ‘black spots’ hindered flood relief efforts. The current intended 400Mhz band won’t provide enough throughput for large data transfers, however, which would be beneficial to GIS and other intelligence tasks.
Google Maps Mania have a post that shows a Street View-like site for Hannover in Germany, but, instead of still images, the user can zoom, pan, and explore full-motion video, instead. Very clever. There are also similar products in Switzerland, Vietnam, and Dubai.
Spatial Sustain talk of an open source field data collection tool, developed from Google’s Android operating system, called the “open data kit”. The system is being put to work in many developing nations for mapping and data collection efforts, including in Mexico, Tanzania, and Brazil.
Kate Chapman has put a paper she wrote on “Democratising Spatial” that re-defines decision-makers (specifically, those that require spatial information) as ‘everyone.’
