Brent Jones on needing accurate data and who has the most accurate data, the surveyor, the engineer, or the guy with the smartphone? A nice, quick historical look at technology, accuracy, and measurement devices. Brent asks, “What happens when the accuracy of your phone is better than your basemap?” Some great references to building an information/data network, improving accuracy, adn using the power of the crowd. Source: Esri Videos
Archives for April 6, 2011
Android App Helps American Heart Association Get People Walking
A clever addition to the Android Market just in time for Get Walking Day… free Walking Paths app enables users to find, tag and “like” more than 2,500 American Heart Association-designated walking paths across the country, or even create and save favorite walking paths using the GPS function as they walk. The app is available now for GPS-enabled Android smartphones – in time for the fifth annual National Start! Walking Day on April 6, when the American Heart Association calls on all Americans to find 30 minutes in their day to walk to improve their heart health. The app will be available for iPhone and iPad users via iTunes on May 1.
Oscar Movie Trivia On A Map
Oh man, I just love maps, and I really dig it when I see the mainstream business world take advantage of a maps and mapping technology to tell their story. Case in point, Venere Travel has used an attractive map to share a story about the Top 10 locations where Oscar winning movies were filmed. Each movie is tagged to a location on a World map and interesting movie trivia and facts are provided for each film. A clever and highly under-used way to tell a story… nice job! This is also a fine example of how small companies, consultants and other mapping/GIS professionals can leverage their talents into some fun work! Cool looking map too… See
Top 10 Oscar Movies: Fun Facts & Trivia
Interested in seeing more amazing Maps? See this awesome Map Gallery
Tools to Help GeoTag Your Digital Photos and Videos
There’s no question that sharing media is on the minds of many.. indeed you could almost say that sharing your digital media (photos and videos) is a requirement of any business trying to tell their story. Billions of photos are circulating, however, many still without any relevant and useful geolocation information associated. For businesses, its important to try and remember that by including some level of geotagging and georeferencing along with a photo that enhanced sharing can be experienced, particularly via local search tools and web services designed to take advantage of such information – case in point, photos uploaded to Google’s Picasa service that are geoferenced will often appear in search results for that region. So, how to include Geo location info within photos? Smartphone users will need to consult advanced settings to ensure GPS tagging is enabled, however, there’s also a number of add on apps and tools that can be handy. the following are just a few useful tools:
- ExifExtractor With ExifExtractor you get the option to get access to all Exif information of your digital photos and implement them to GIS independent data formats
- GPS-Photo Link enables photographers to accurately map the locations of photos taken either with a standard digital camera and hand-held GPS receiver or with a GPS-enabled camera
- EveryTrail is a community website where members upload GPS data and photos to create visual interactive trip reports of their travel experiences. A simple way to tag and share your trips
- GeoTagger OnDemand uses MetaCarta’s proprietary natural language processing and Geographic Data Module (“GDM”) technology to indentify and disambiguate geographic references and resolve the geographic meaning
- Red Hen Systems Since 1994, Red Hen Systems has been developing patented hardware and software for collecting geo-referenced video and photo data in the field
See More Geotagging Tools here
