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Forbes: iPhone Gyroscope To Rev Up Location Apps
Friday, June 25, 2010For developers who work with location data, the iPhone 4’s most exciting feature is one of its most hidden: the gyroscope.
Scoble: CloudMade: Helping Developers get into the Location World
Thursday, June 24, 2010The location-based service world is white hot right now, with companies like Foursquare and Loopt making announcements nearly every week. But how can you add some of these cool new location features to your own apps? See the interview here
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Gizmodo: 19th Century Tech Makes A Smarter iPhone
Tuesday, June 15, 2010Rarely has 19th-century technology stirred an audience of 21st-century technophiles as it did last week when Apple revealed that the next-generation iPhone will pack a gyroscope. But will this new sensor be, in Jobs’s words, “just perfect for gaming”? More..
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New Scientist: Innovation: 19th-century tech makes a smarter iPhone
Monday, June 14, 2010Rarely has 19th-century technology stirred an audience of 21st-century technophiles as it did last week when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs revealed that the next-generation iPhone will pack a gyroscope. But will this new sensor be, in Jobs’s words, “just perfect for gaming”?
LA Times: Digital map of the world is the product of a large-scale volunteer effort
Wednesday, June 9, 2010With the help of more than 240,000 volunteer cartographers worldwide, OpenStreetMap is trying to create an Internet map of every street in every city and village on the planet. Read more..
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San Jose Mercury News: Now bike riders have their own smart-phone navigation systems
Sunday, June 6, 2010Navigational systems that guide drivers from Point A to Point B, either with a GPS device or a smartphone, are now considered essential by many car drivers. So why not bike riders? Read more…
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TechCrunch: Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos
Thursday, June 3, 2010It’s January 2012 and you’ve just gotten your new Android 3.0-based phone. You’re going on a road trip so you start up the newly-released Foursquare. Gone are the checkins of 2010. Now you tell it where you’re going. This time we’re headed to Harrah’s at Stateline, Nevada. But this is no Foursquare you’ve ever seen [...]
CNN: OpenStreetMap: Crowdsourcing the world, a street at a time
Wednesday, June 2, 2010Wikipedia’s “crowdsourced knowledge” model has created a spectacular resource, but everyone knows the big caveat: If the data’s important, don’t trust the online encyclopedia without verifying it first.
So how well would a similar crowdsourcing model work for a detailed street-level map of the world? Read more..
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Ars Technica: OpenStreetMap: Crowd-sourcing the world, a street at a time
Monday, May 31, 2010Wikipedia’s “crowdsourced knowledge” model has created a spectacular resource, but everyone knows the big caveat: if the data’s important, don’t trust the online encyclopedia without verifying it first. So how well would a similar crowdsourcing model work for a detailed street-level map of the world? More…
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San Jose Mercury News: Volunteers Create New Digital Maps
Sunday, April 11, 2010When Brian “Beej” Hall first heard about an audacious volunteer effort to create an Internet map of every street and path in every city and village on the planet, he was hooked. At the time, the nascent effort had only a few American members, and the U.S. map was essentially a digital terra incognita. [...]