The rise of smartphones means that sophisticated spatial technology is no longer restricted to field workers and geo-professionals. Maps and location-based technologies are becoming as useful for someone buying a coffee as they are for someone prospecting for oil. The cost of location-aware devices is falling, data is a commodity […]
Victoria: location-based alerts a success during bushfires
By Spatial Source on 22 January, 2013A recently launched, location-based Emergency Alert system has “performed well” in Victoria during this month’s bushfires.
An open data portal for Queensland
By Spatial Source on 22 January, 2013The state government of Queensland recently launched an open data portal, Queensland Government Data, which gives the public free access to 73 datasets, under categories such as government, public safety, education, transportation and health. ‘Public safety’, for example, contains datasets on crime statistics from the police department, requests for help to State Emergency Service, and […]
EU citizens to collect data to help shape policy
By Spatial Source on 22 January, 2013A new collaborative European project seeks to empower citizens to collect and contribute data for use in policy formation and governance. The €8.5 million, 4 year, COBWEB (Citizen OBservatory WEB) project will develop an “observatory framework” that will make it easier for citizens to collect environmental data suitable for use in research, decision making and […]
LED lights to aid in indoor navigation
By Spatial Source on 22 January, 2013Researchers from Boston University have invented a unique way of using LED lights to transmit location information to mobile devices within buildings. Researchers Dan Ryan and Aaron Ganick’s start-up, ByteLight, is based entirely around proprietary software that can accurately map the inside of buildings using only LED lighting to transmit location information. So, with the […]
NASA prepares for launch of next Landsat
By Spatial Source on 22 January, 2013NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch February 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mission, LDCM will add to the longest continuous data record of Earth's surface as viewed from space. LDCM is the eighth satellite in the Landsat series, […]
OGC energy mapping GovFuture webinar
By Spatial Source on 22 January, 2013The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), in cooperation with Directions Media, is organising an OGC GovFuture webinar providing insight into how Canadian organisations are using open standards to support planning, design, implementation, measurement, and visualisation of Integrated Community Energy Solutions (ICES). This free, one-hour webinar will be held on Tuesday 29 January 2013 at 3.00 p.m. […]
Best of the Blogs 22 January 2013
By Spatial Source on 22 January, 2013What a Summer, eh? The world is definitely getting hotter, and, as such, the Bureau of Meteorology has had to redesign their temperature map, so as to include a higher maximum possible temperature, as you can see in this now iconic image. Wired have an interesting take on the matter, noticing that, as temperatures move […]
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