Here’s the skinny… using your mobile phone or PDA, along with your GPS receiver, you can record and view your movements in detail on Google Earth or Google Maps. You can even use the free service for live tracking using Google Earth or Google Maps. What’s needed? Download of the required 3dtracking application, as well as use of the website, is completely free (and there are no future plans to charge for this either. Ever according to (Roydon Michael, Managing Director – 3dtracking Ltd). From Roydon… “The web server also retains all the data you’ve ever recorded and submitted, so you can always go back and view your older recorded data at any time“. For more info see the FAQ or instructions on the website at http://www.3dtracking.net.
Archives for January 16, 2006
sys-con Reader’s choice awards for SOA, Web Services, Java, and XML Technologies
Best Application Server for SOA / Web Services
Best Web Services Platform
Best Web Services Integration Tool
sys-con Reader’s choice awards for SOA, Web Services, Java, and XML Technologies
Best Application Server for SOA / Web Services
Best Web Services Platform
Best Web Services Integration Tool
More on MSNIndia, virtual earth, and Digital Geographics
Looking a bit deeper at some PR that Microsoft issued last week (see http://www.lbszone.com/content/view/678/2/), part of the project billed at MSRIndia (Microsoft Research India) involves developing a web-based map of India with multi-lingual and community features – the project looks pretty interesting and detailed. A topic are in the Project’s areas of research include something ther refer to as Digital Geographics – analysis, and visualization of digitized geographic information (see http://research.microsoft.com/research/dgr/). The project will look to expand purpose driven navigation and the integration of maps and blogs (ie. integrating virtual earth and MSN spaces) – more on this can be found in this blog billed as “the loblog” http://loblog.viavirtualearth.com/loblog/. Finally, in the project’s career area I noticed a position titled Researcher Digital Geographics. You academics interested in getting in on the research may find this of interest. For more about MSRIndia jump to http://research.microsoft.com/india/
See also http://research.microsoft.com/virtualindia/
Multi-tasking with football, google video, and webpronews
I’m now well into my 5th hour of watching football today and have been multi-tasking as well by searching out blogs and items of interest. Additionally, I’ve been beefing up the migration of my weblog over to the my.opera community (the blog is being mirrored there until I decide to go one way or the other). Between yelling and screaming, crying (my Colts went down today but oh, what a come back!… condolences go out to Lynn Allen, Autodesk evangelist who is likely heart-broken today by the devastating loss in Indy) responding to emails, and making a call to New Zealand, I’ve also stumbled onto a few very cool things… one – Google video (http://video.google.com) a cool service from Google that enables registered users to post video, tag them with keywords, etc… could be a very cool way to share your tutorials, product demos, vodcasts, or what have you… search using”gis” for a test video I uploaded using images from the ESRI user conference… I seem some great opportunities with this nifty app. Finally, in searching for “myself” i stumbled onto some material I published which has been picked up by WebProNews without realizing it (see http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20060111SearchforMapServices.html)! Pretty neat and definitely shows you the power of exponential growth in traffic on the web… aslo confirms the benefits of getting mentioned in the blog or at GISuser.com. Later… go Sea Hawks! Note: it’s always a good idea to google “yourself” to see what’s out there… it’s amazing what you can find;0)