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Maps

Fun with Foursquare

August 24, 2010 Maps

The visualization below was built in 48 hours using the FourSquare API.

Ian Kennedy’s Foursquare by WeePlaces.com.
A video of the global view, posted it on Vimeo, and posted it below.

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Location, Location, Location

September 17, 2009 Advertising

Great article in Ad Age about the significance of location-aware phones made the rounds yesterday. It’s not about the ‘text a Starbucks coupon when you walk by” type use case, it’s about engagement and brand utility.
“Everybody’s got a website, but nobody has a mobile experience right now,” he said. “Next year, probably the end of [...]

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Geo-tagging without tears

November 14, 2008 Maps

If you have a camera that writes geo data to the photo’s EXIF header – flickr’s new Import EXIF GPS preference is the simplest way to geo-tag your data. I like the way the preference text is written too.

Thanks very much!

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Garmin to provide directions to your friends

August 24, 2008 Maps

Image via Wikipedia
Congratulations to my buddy Walt Doyle! His company, publishes the Facebook app, Buddy Beacon, which you use to broadcast your physical location to your friends. They’ve got and iPhone app and, just recently, they announced a partnership with Garmin to provide an overlay to Garmin’s GPS maps so you can see where [...]

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Realtime Map Tracking

August 24, 2007 Maps

Maybe it’s the air traffic controller in me but there’s something oddly compelling about watching little dots move across the screen when you know they represent objects in the physical world.
TechCrunch posts about Bill from BitGravity is streaming his driving trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles over a live video stream showing the traffic [...]

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Grim Visualizations : Crime Mashups 2.0

August 18, 2007 Maps

We all remember the Chicago Crime Map which took Chicago police reports and overlayed it on top of Google Maps. For many, this was their first exposure into the world of mashups and to a large extent opened everyone’s eyes to the benefits of opening up your data. That was 2005. Now the UED crowd [...]

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Zillow Heat Maps

April 4, 2007 Maps

I was just checking out Zillow’s new redesign and noticed something I hadn’t seen before. The Zillow Heat Map layer shows you relative price per square foot over a region. Check the box in the upper-right of the map view and zoon out to city level to see it in action.
Was that there before or [...]

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Tag Maps

January 24, 2007 Maps

Introducing Tag Maps, the latest shiny toy out of the Yahoo! Research Labs. Basically they’ve pulled in the geo-coding information from flickr and extracted tags to clump together a people-powered view of the world on Yahoo Maps. Be sure to also check out Night Explorer and Trip Explorer for different views of the world.
Badges you [...]

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Google Maps in your Pants?

November 30, 2006 Advertising

Oh my God – this is so bad it’s funny. Dave Cassel of 10 Zen Monkeys deconstructs a radio spot on the GPS-enabled Helio that features a jingle refrain that’s going to stick with me a long time. I don’t think this was what Google was thinking when they set out to “organize the world’s [...]

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flickr images in space and time

August 28, 2006 Maps

I was going to hold off on the Yay! Yay! Yahoo! posts for awhile after such a long string of them but then flickr took it’s wraps off it’s maps integration and I couldn’t resist. If you haven’t had a chance to play around with this, check it out. From your flickr account you can [...]

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