I’m a huge fan of mobile technology and a firm believer that there’s opportunities-a-plenty awaiting savvy developers. Here’s one man’s story of how he hit a homer with his idea. Indeed there’s no Geo story here, however, with the huge interest in Geo technologies and location-aware mobile services there’s plenty of room for similar tales to come out of our industry in the near future.. .think mobile and think big! Enjoy this story from Joel Comm (@JoelComm) developer of iVote and iFart for iPhone.
Archives for March 8, 2010
Microsoft Bing Maps Gets a Huge Imagery update
This update via our friends with the Microsoft Bing team as the service gets another huge update to the imagery archive… Last month we pushed out our largest amount of new imagery EVER in terms of square kilometers. This month, we’re blowing THAT record out of the water. You thought 1 million+ sq. km. was large? How about 6.7 million square kilometers! The big winners? Aerial: The Russian Federation, Australia, Mexico and most places in the US where we had black and white imagery. Bird’s Eye: Sweden. See Details below. If you want to find out the exact regions of the updates have a look here. For an animated tour visited the Bing Maps World Tour and as always check out Chris Pendleton’s blog.
Details of the latest birdseye/oblique imagery:
|
Country |
Area (SqKm) |
|
Austria |
238 |
|
Belgium |
898 |
|
Denmark |
718 |
|
Finland |
1,634 |
|
France |
2,001 |
|
Germany |
8,484 |
|
Greece |
931 |
|
Ireland |
1,340 |
|
Italy |
4,392 |
|
Netherlands |
1,709 |
|
Norway |
2,425 |
|
Portugal |
2,184 |
|
Romania |
1,534 |
|
Spain |
5,143 |
|
Sweden |
6,747 |
|
Switzerland |
424 |
|
United Kingdom |
13,094 |
|
United States |
56,007 |
10 More Favorite Geo Tweets
Once again, here’s a small sampling from the Geo Twitter-sphere and 10 favorite tweets… enjoy!
- FrankSchuil – Foursquare Just Made Your Location History A Lot More Interesting
- tweetmeme – 8 Great Spotify Hints, Tips and Tricks
- mmahaffie – In Minnesota, “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” they discovered that it’s actually 15,000 when they applied GIS to the question
- DonMeltz – Quick History of Remote Sensing (a 51 “page” slideument)
- mike_elgan – 10 Twitter types to know, love and hate
- ESRILibrary – The #WorldCup is coming, check out #Soccer & #GIS
- loic – How To Use Google Voice To Blog Over The Phone
- DailyMobile – Developers by Steve Ballmer
- geodelic – Geodelic featured in Pinpointing the Future of Geo APIs
- photojojo – How real photographers drink coffee