A reminder from the Service at Sea crew that the drawing for the Puerto Vallarta Villa will be one week from tonight! They are encouraging office pools like the one Breece Robertson has organized with the GIS team at The Trust for Public Lands - they are challenging other groups to beat their $300 donation! The winner will be able to host eight people in this beautiful home. Your donation goes to our programs quickly and effectively.
Donate at: serviceatsea.org/donate/make-a-donation/
A note from Drew Stephens... Thanks to those that have already supported our efforts to get GIS technology into the hands of people who are making a difference in the world. In Mexico, our work with the Sierra Madre Alliance got started this month, and is going very well. We will feature a report in the next newsletter, along with a final raffle reminder. See http://www.sierramadrealliance.org/
See also http://www.serviceatsea.org/
January 25, 2008
January 23, 2008
Your own Google map in seconds
Sure, there's tons of ways to easily create and embed a Google map of your location on your website, however, Google earth hacks has made it even faster and simpler. Simply jump to the site, enter a few details (like your business name and address, then grab the code and paste into your blog or website - example below shows map of NGS Society
View in Google Earth -- Download Google Earth
Powered by YourMap from Google Earth Hacks.
Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks February Meetup
Here's details of an event of interest next month... Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks - 2008/01/23 14:18
Event Fee: Free
Web site: http://web.meetup.com/49/
Event date: Tuesday February 19, 2008 @ 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Event location: Menlo Park, CA
Description: We are thrilled to present a very special group from NASA Ames Research Center – World Wind! Our Meetup group is about sharing, teaching, learning, and networking around current and future web-based geospatial and social networking technology. You belong if you are an entrepreneur, VC, developer, social-networker, programmer, visionary, geographer, geologist, explorer, Internet-user, voyeur, or anyone else interested in Web 2.0 mapping and social networks. We welcome all and exclude no one. The format of this Meetup is as follows: introductions, discussion of current events or current technology as it relates to web 2.0 mapping and social networks, presentation(s), 60-second audience announcements, and of course, networking
Event Fee: Free
Web site: http://web.meetup.com/49/
Event date: Tuesday February 19, 2008 @ 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Event location: Menlo Park, CA
Description: We are thrilled to present a very special group from NASA Ames Research Center – World Wind! Our Meetup group is about sharing, teaching, learning, and networking around current and future web-based geospatial and social networking technology. You belong if you are an entrepreneur, VC, developer, social-networker, programmer, visionary, geographer, geologist, explorer, Internet-user, voyeur, or anyone else interested in Web 2.0 mapping and social networks. We welcome all and exclude no one. The format of this Meetup is as follows: introductions, discussion of current events or current technology as it relates to web 2.0 mapping and social networks, presentation(s), 60-second audience announcements, and of course, networking
January 22, 2008
Can't DIGG... here's some alternatives
Just noticed DIGG is down for some maintenance.. in the interim the DIGG crew has suggested a few alternatives for killing some time!
- Grow-a-Brain
- Escher and the Droste effect
- TechCrunch
- Rush
- khaaan!
- Hockey Rodent
- Black Crowes
- Top Left Pixel
- potrerohillsf.com
- GeeksOn
- I Love Bacon
- Revision3
- yelp
- Cautionary Tales of Swords
- paidContent.org
- Purple & Brown
- MovieLens
- The Sartorialist
- xkcd
- Zimride
- SuicideGirls
- Atom Films
- They Might Be Giants
- BBC News
- The Bastard Prince
- MadSciNet
- RouterGod
- woot!
- pearljam.com
- Eve of Understanding
- Kuro5hin
- Machine Thinking
- Digg the Blog
January 21, 2008
A geocoding alternative with LocaPoint
An interesting new geolocation system comes to us from Japan via LocaPoint.. for example, Fort Collins CO can be located via the following: LocaPoint: SW3.FK6.NN3.XC8
From the website... LocaPoint is the state-of-the-art location pointer code that can express any location of the world, only with 12 letters.
SW8.HQ9.CS6.PQ8 Statue of Liberty
SD9.XC4.FE1.CV4 Tokyo Tower
UL4.MZ7.FP3.TU4 London Eye
See http://www.locapoint.com/ or loaPoint yourself on a map at
http://www.locapoint.com/map/map.html
From the website... LocaPoint is the state-of-the-art location pointer code that can express any location of the world, only with 12 letters.
SW8.HQ9.CS6.PQ8 Statue of Liberty
SD9.XC4.FE1.CV4 Tokyo Tower
UL4.MZ7.FP3.TU4 London Eye
See http://www.locapoint.com/ or loaPoint yourself on a map at
http://www.locapoint.com/map/map.html
Support Your team in the Super Bowl with a Schmap Map Widget
Ok, I picked the Chargers and Packers yesterday (nice job Glenn!) so now I'm on the Giant's bandwagon for Super Bowl. If you want a cool map widget for the Giants or Patriots then check out Schmap and grab yourself one... these guys have great stuff! See http://www.schmap.com/widgets/nfl
Loopt - the first location aware developer program??
A reader brought this one to my attention and I have to admit I had to read over it a couple of times myself before deciding to post it... I'm still not exactly sure of the meaning! Last wee Loopt, a social-mapping and communication service, announced a new closed, Beta developer program. This next sentence is what had me wondering about the exact meaning... “We are thrilled to offer the first live location developer program that ushers in a new generation of context-sensitive mobile services,” said Sam Altman, CEO and co-Founder of Loopt. So, is it the first Loopt live location developer program or the first live location developer program? Also, what exactly is a live location developer program?? I know for a fact there are other devzones and developer programs that leverage the users' "live" location so this one has me wondering.
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