Anything Geospatial from a GIS user for GISusers and Technology Professionals

GORequest for iPhone the Government outreach mobile app enables citizens to communicate with local governments and report items of concern… Nice!  About the app… See a pothole that needs filling? Barking dog driving you crazy? Graffiti making a mess of your neighborhood? Tap right into your city and report the issue fast with GORequest for the iPhone! Just open the app, select your issue, and take a picture - the app knows the location and who can fix it for you. No more time-consuming trips or phone calls.

This application takes crowd-sourcing to a new level and is particularly interesting as there’s a number of local government agencies that are taking part. Users begin by setting their local area, for example, some of the local governments that are participating include: Anaheim, CA, Arvada, CO, Queen creek AZ, Thornton, Co and many others. Once the user has established which agency they wish to report to they then can use the application to geolocate and report an issue or concern. For example, report some graffiti. the post is geolocated with the user’s location and then he can optionally provide additional information like a photo, comments, and contact information.

GOrequest is available from the iTunes store… hopefully versions supporting Andoid and Blackberry may appear in the future.

A little bit of fun showing off just a few of the cool, location-aware social things you can do with the iPhone 3GS or other smartphone (Android mobile or Symbian etc…) enjoy and turn up your speakers!

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Naturally, us Geo geeks have known for a long time that location is key to any app… well, now the rest of the World seems to agree… great to see this kind of validation! Enjoy this vid from Austin and SXSW event featuring Mashable founder Pete Cashmore. Source: Mashable love it… “the distribution channel is the audience” What’s big at SXSW… Mobile, Social and Location!

Another fine demo of an Augmented Reality enabled iPhone app being used by the progressive team at BART. Unlike other 2D apps, this application displays all lines of San Francisco Transit in 3D arrows, including: BART, Caltrain, Muni Streetcar and bus stops. Load the app holding it flat and all lines will appear. Tilt the phone upwards to see the stops nearest to you and what direction they are in relation to where you are standing. Recall BART recently also partnered with Junio for more AR

Ever been to a PodCamp or similar un-conference? If not and you’re into community, sharing, learning, technology, social media, or just having a good time with some great people, think about attending one in your area (try searching twitter, eventful, meet-up etc…) enjoy the pics!

There’s no question that kids love Google Earth… heck, who wouldn’t? So, it follows that using Google Earth in the classroom is a fantastic learning tool. Here’s a resource offering up 50 ideas, broken down by age group, for using Google Earth in the classroom - see details here

Here’s the deal… Soon, you will be able to embed our Twitter Maps functionality into your own web site. This means you can be cool by having a Bing Map on your web site, blog, favorite social networking site with the Tweets you care about - and its free. Note, to use this service you need to be zoomed out to your area of interest and tweets you’re looking for need to be geolocated. Four steps are needed: (via Bing Community Blog)

1. Select the map location either fixed (centered on a specific point) or anywhere (moves the map as the Tweets come in).
2. Specify the dimensions of your map (height and width).
3. Add search filters. These will be carried into the embed form if you’ve specified them to filter only tweets that meet your search criteria.
4. Copy/paste HTML into your web page.

With the hip, SXSW event taking place this week in Austin, Texas pretty much every social-location check-in developer has rolled out a new iPhone app this week. For the user/aka. techno geek, needing to keep in touch with their social media streams there’s a plethora of choices available. This short spotlight looks at a number of social apps recently updated including foursquare, GoWalla, Yelp, WHERE, Tweetsii and others. See more details here

This is fabulous… BART using Augmented Reality via the Junaio platform to help riders grab the information they need… awesome!! Junaio’s free app let’s users see digital content such as text or graphics overlaid on real objects on their mobile phone.