Pileus is an umbrella connected to the Internet to make walking in rainy days fun. Pileus has a large screen on the top surface, a built-in camera, a motion sensor, GPS, and a digital compass, and it provides two main functions; A Social Photo-sharing and A 3D Map Navigation. The photo function is connected to a major web service “Flickr”. A user can take photo with a camera on the umbrella, and pictures are uploaded to Flickr in two minutes with context tags via a wireless Internet connection. User can also enjoy theirselves watching photo-streams downloaded from Flickr (and video-stream from YouTube on an advanced proto) with simple operation of wrist snapping. See http://www.pileus.net/ – can’t you just imagine this selling in hot cakes in rainy cities like Seattle and San Fran!
Archives for May 16, 2007
Canadian Association of Geographers, Geography Awareness week and GIS Day – an update
The Canadian Association of Geographers is developing a national program to increase geography awareness in every region. According to Dr. Barry Wellar, Director of Geography Awareness Week for the Canadian Association of Geographers, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa, this is a major achievement and GAW 2007 in Canada is going to differ greatly from the majority of other GAW efforts. Dr. Wellar has shared with me some details of plans for the week, scheduled as usual for November (this year Nov 12-16). He notes… “since GIS is central to each of the Themes, the GIS topic not only has its own day, it also gets serious coverage during the other Days in an applications way that will be greatly appreciated by many Canadians.” November 12 is Weather and Climate Day, November 13 is Water Day, November 14 is GIS Day, November 15 is Transportation Day, and November 16 is Food and Health Day. Each Day is on a topic that directly affects all Canadians. For more on GAW see http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/11629/
TerraLook – was Protected Area Archive
TerraLook provides access to satellite images for users that lack prior experience with remote sensing or Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. It does this by combining collections of images on user-defined themes with a set of simple visualization and analysis tools, allowing the user to explore the data and employ it for useful purposes. The images include recent high-resolution ASTER images, plus Landsat images from several historical periods going back to the early ’70s. Such historical data supports change analysis. See http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/terralook.asp see also http://edc2.usgs.gov/terralook/
Arkansas Geostor 5
Are you famiiliar with the arkansas Geostor? If not then jump here and grab a ton of data including DRGs, DEM, TONS of Imagery and much more… http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/Portal/ftpaccess.htm
Washington 10-meter DEM Locator
Need Washington State DEMs? Try this fine 10m DEM locator http://www.reo.gov/reo/data/DEM_Files/wash.htm