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Obama asks a question at 2012 National Geographic Bee

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:28:24 -0500

The president praised the value of geography and then asked a question during the finals of the 2012 National Geographic Bee, Courtesy of National Geographic Channel.

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Why is Geo-literacy Important? - National Geographic

Fri, 11 May 2012 18:57:40 -0500

National Geographic Education staff ask why geo-literacy is important.

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What is Geo-literacy? - National Geographic

Fri, 11 May 2012 18:45:11 -0500

National Geographic Education staffers discuss the meaning of the term.

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Nokia City Lens for Nokia Lumia: Augmented Reality Browser (Beta)

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:36:53 -0500

Nokia City Lens (http://nokia.ly/Im17jr) instantly connects you to all of the places you're looking for?and even more importantly?gets you there exactly when and how you want to. Now available on Nokia Betalabs. Just landed in town and looking for a good restaurant? Interested in checking out the local museum or theater? Time to hit the nearest transit station to catch a ride uptown? No longer is finding your chosen destination a hassle?whether you're in a new city or your hometown. Now you can simply launch Nokia City Lens on your phone to easily find all the places you want to go. City Lens instantly reveals what you're looking for on your phone's camera display, no matter if it's down the street or just around the corner. You simply tap your chosen destination on your screen to conveniently access walking directions, make a reservation, or learn more detailed information about the locale.

More about: augmented reality, gps, location-based services, lumia, nokia

Augmented Reality Sandbox with Real-Time Water Flow Simulation

Mon, 07 May 2012 06:44:02 -0500

Video of a sandbox equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface. The sandbox lets virtual water flow over the surface using a GPU-based simulation of the Saint-Venant set of shallow water equations. We (the UC Davis W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences, http://www.keckcaves.org) built this for an NSF-funded project on informal science education. These AR sandboxes will be set up as hands-on exhibits in science museums, such as the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) or Lawrence Hall of Science. Project home page: http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox

More about: augmented reality, education, kinect, topographic modeling, water modeling

SAP BusinessObjects Geospatial Demo

Tue, 01 May 2012 14:35:56 -0500

Day 1 keynote presented at the 2011 ASUG SBOUC in Orlando, Florida - Learn more at http://blogs.sap.com/analytics.

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Nokia research: Delivering indoor location-based information using TV spectrum ‘white spaces’

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:08:56 -0500

Senior Manager, Scott Probasco, is at the Imperial War Museum in Cambridge, England demonstrating a 3 year Nokia research project into using TV 'white spaces' for indoor positioning.

More about: indoor positioning, nokia, tv

Build Location Intelligence into Your Applications - Esri

ESRI Staff — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:08:20 -0500

Garry Burgess, Bob Hazelton, Tony Howser, and Chris Wilcox show how to add demographic, lifestyle, and community information into apps or websites.

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Jump into 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:36:53 -0500

You can now access photo tours which stitch together user contributed photos from around the world to give you a 3D photo scene of a place.

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Iron Sheep! A GIS Map Hacking Event

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:23:03 -0500

Matt Zook, Ate Poorthuis, and Monica Stephens explain the exciting event they hosted in Manhattan, Iron Sheep. Loosely based off the popular television show, Iron Chef, Iron Sheep was a map hacking event where instead of editable ingredients, teams are given geo-coded data and asked to create "tasty" maps in a fraction of the time a geographer might normally have. Bon Appetit! For more information please visit as.uky.edu or floatingsheep.org

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Location Intelligence & Oracle Spatial User Conference: Introduction

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:29:59 -0500

Here is an introduction to Directions Magazine's Location Intelligence and the Oracle Spatial User Conference. Directions Magazine and Oracle are collaborating to offer consecutive events over two days in Washington, DC. First, on May 22, the LI Conference will offer a multi-track program exploring the latest industry trends. Then, on May 23, the Oracle Spatial User Conference will offer a day of technical deep dives and use case sessions around Oracle's spatial technologies. Attendees may attend either event on its own, or both together. Held in an exclusive venue in Washington, DC, both events will include tracks of value to senior management, C-level directors, as well as developers. For more information and the complete agenda, go to: http://www.locationintelligence.net

More about: business intelligence, location intelligence, location technology, location-based services, oracle spatial

Qubulus Property Analytics & Indoor Positioning

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:59:52 -0500

Indoor Positioning company Qubulus is bringing the idea of web analytics to the physical world: mobility patterns, transitional flows and geo fencing to drive visitor conversion.

More about: business gis, gps, indoor positioning, lbs, location intelligence, location technology

Over 15,000 Records Broken as March 2012 Becomes Warmest on Record - NOAA

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:49:21 -0500

According to NOAA scientists at the National Climatic Data Center (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/), record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record for the contiguous United States, a record that dates back to 1895. This animation shows the locations of each of the 7,755 daytime and 7,517 nighttime records (or tied records) in sequence over the 31 days in March.

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Project Glass: One day… (Google’s AR Glasses)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:32:39 -0500

We believe technology should work for you ? to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don't. A team within our Google[x] group started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment. Follow along with us at http://g.co/projectglass as we share some of our ideas and stories. We'd love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?

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Indoor Evacuation Simulation with OpenStreetMap (IndoorOSM) data

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:15:59 -0500

This video demonstrates a multi-agent traffic simulation for the scenario of an emergency indoor evacuation. As a simulation framework MATSim (http://www.matsim.org) is utilized. The required files (network, agents etc.) are automatically generated from volunteered geographic information (VGI) of OpenStreetMap. The data in OSM is mapped according to the IndoorOSM mapping proposal (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IndoorOSM). The use case buildings consists of four floors with three bigger (lecture) rooms and several offices. The scenario assumes that the building is fully occupied, that is all lecture rooms and offices are occupied, which results in a total number of 313 agents. All agents are routed to one single building exit, thus the scenario describes a organized and structured evacuation. 100 simulation iterations have been conducted, whereby this video features iterations zero, 50 and 100. http://giscience.uni-hd.de

More about: indoor mapping, open data, osm

Welcome to BusinessWebMap

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:06:52 -0500

BusinessWebMap is an online subscription service that maps data from Sage ACT!, Excel, Google Docs, Intuit QuickBooks Online, Saleforce.com, and most CRM applications.

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What can you do with geography?

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:20:29 -0500

Google put together this video. "We all know that geography is important; but what can you do with it? As students across the country prepare for the 2012 National Geographic Bee, we've explored how geography is used in the real world, from disaster response to military intelligence and even polar exploration. We wish all competitors good luck in this year's competition! "

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Nokia’s “Where Platform”

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:00:07 -0500

Interview with Christof Hellmis, Nokia's Vice President Map Platform, explaining the advancements in Nokia?s location business.

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What is the OGC?

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:49:31 -0500

The OGC is an international consortium of more than 435 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled

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Location Intelligence for Government - Decision First Consulting

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:40:24 -0500

This is a webinar that covers Location Intelligence for Government.

More about: federal government, local government, location intelligence, location technology, state government