fredag den 29. januar 2010

10 More Must-have Google Chrome Extensions


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Google Wave Notifier provides quick access to your Google Wave account and displays the number of unread waves you have.

LastPass is a password manager that remembers your usernames and passwords, and lets you add notes about each account, too. It also imports databases from many of the password manager apps available today.

GMail Checker displays the number of new emails in your GMail account.

RSS Subscription Extension is one of the most handy extensions you’ll see — you’re able to subscribe to any site













Read more: http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/01/25/10-more-must-have-google-chrome-extensions

A 2050 Tourist Map Of The Picadilly Line In London


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What will London look like at mid-century? According to this futuristic London Undergroundmap, it will be full of geothermal plants and algae factories that double as housing towers. Plus Tripods and giant mushrooms. We've got the full map below.

Artist Nils Norman created this map for future tourists in London as part of the Picadilly Line's 100th anniversary, and it was featured recently on Strange Maps. Strange Maps offers a thorough account of how the city has changed in 40 years, and explains (in part): [...]



Read more: http://io9.com/5453432/a-2050-tourist-map-of-the-picadilly-line-in-london

torsdag den 28. januar 2010

Welcome to the OS OpenSpace API


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The OS OpenSpace API is free to access and lets developers create amazing web applications and online projects with Ordnance Survey maps.

But OS OpenSpace API is not just for developers.

Although the API uses JavaScript to make web pages more interactive, anyone can create an application by following our sample code and tutorials.

Get Ordnance Survey maps on your website to enhance the service and customer experience.

  • Register
  • Developer area
  • Forum
OS OpenSpace API screen shot

Example of OS OpenSpace API displaying Ordnance Survey data


Read more: http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/

onsdag den 27. januar 2010

Tegnefilm om cloud computing


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Begrebsforvirring tager mødetid
Det er baggrunden for at Rene Løhde, ansvarlig for Microsofts Azure-platform i Danmark, har lavet en pædagogisk tegnefilm om cloud computing og relaterede begreber. [...]



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Mapping Now: Dynamic Realtime Maps and Other Pictures


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Maps are never pefect representations of reality, and increasingly they’re out of date before they’re finished. Complicating matters, mapping of live phenomena (geospatial or otherwise) is becoming more and more prevelant, and even expected. Looking back to earlier representations of movement can help us figure out how to represent the fluid spaces that mapping is moving in to. From Launch Pad, O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Burlingame, CA.

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Read more: http://www.educationgis.com/2010/01/mapping-now-dynamic-realtime-maps-and.html

Spejlverdener på nettet


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Harddisken uge 4, 2010: Spejlverdener på nettet

Skrevet af: Anders Høeg Nissen, 15:53 27. januar 2010

kort_danmark2Hør udsendelsen

På mange måder er vi med korttjenester, online billedarkiver og så videre godt igang med at lave en slags parallelunivers – ikke en virtuel verden som World of Warcraft-spillene eller 3D-universer som Second Life, men en spejlverden af information der i en eller anden grad er knyttet sommen med geografiske data om steder, firmaer, bygninger og mennesker i den fysiske verden.

Harddisken ser i denne uge nærmere på disse kort og informationslag. Man kan høre mere om Kort og Matrikelstyrelsens højdemodel af Danmark, komme med på tur i den tyske online-verden Twinity, der har bygget 3D-modeller af blandt andet Berlin og London, og så kan man høre mere om Googles strategi og planer for korttjenester, med fokus på mobilerne.

Bagefter fortæller gadgetkongen Nikolaj Sonne om iPhone-programmer der har gjort både hans skiferier og hans nattesøvn nemmere, og bagefter er der it-nyheder, denne gang med opfølgning på historien om konflikten mellem Google og Kina.

Til sidst tager vi til München, hvor Danmark har et af sine såkaldte Innovations-centre – handels-forposter der skal sætte fokus på at skabe samarbejder mellem dansk, teknologisk knowhow og firmaer i de lande centrene ligger.

LINKS:

David Gelernter’s Mirror Worlds – intro hos Google Books

Twinity – virkelige, virtuelle onlinebyer

Danmarks Højdemodel hos Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen

Google Earth

Google Maps

InnovationCenter Denmark i München


Read more: http://www.dr.dk/php/drmu/wpmu/harddisken/blog/2010/01/27/harddisken-uge-4-2010-spejlverdener-pa-nettet/

New Silverlight Client for Facebook


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This application brings together the many compelling platform capabilities of Silverlight 4 into a rich out-of-browser application in the familiar context of Facebook.

Enjoy the photos, feeds, events, friends’ walls, and inbox mail from your Facebook account in an appealing and user-friendly environment.

Note: Silverlight Client for Facebook is a Silverlight 4 developer preview application. When Silverlight 4 is finally released you may be required to uninstall and re-install the plugin.

In order to install Silverlight Client for Facebook, you will need to install the Silverlight 4 beta first.
After installing, return to this page.
Install Silverlight 4 Beta for Windows
Install Silverlight 4 Beta for Mac OSX

OR


Read more: http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/apps/facebookclient/

Visualizing empires


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Largest book in the world goes on show for the first time


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Klencke Atlas, which is 350 years old, will be displayed as part of British Library exhibition on maps

Klencke Atlas

The Klencke Atlas has never been publicly displayed with its pages open before. Photograph: British Library

It takes six people to lift it and has been recorded as the largest book in the world, yet the splendid Klencke Atlas, presented to Charles II on his restoration and now 350 years old, has never been publicly displayed with its pages open. That glaring omission is to be rectified, it was announced by the British Library today, when it will be displayed as one of the stars of its big summer exhibition about maps.

The summer show will feature about 100 maps, considered some of the greatest in the world, with three-quarters of them going on display for the first time.

At the exhibition's core will be wall maps, many of them huge, which tell a story that is much more than geography. Many of them, said the library's head of map collections, Peter Barber: "Hold their own with great works of art." [...]


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/26/klencke-atlas-british-library-exhibition

mandag den 25. januar 2010

A History of Location Based Technology


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Read more: http://www.blackbookmag.com/ee/images/uploads/GPS-history-lg1.jpg

Konference om adgang til offentlige data


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Offentlige Data I Spil Konference

IT- og Telestyrelsen inviterer til konference om adgang til offentlige data.

Konferencen henvender sig til både offentlige myndigheder og institutioner og til private virksomheder og organisationer.

Tilmelding sker på Digitaliser.dk


Erhvervsmæssig værdi, innovation, transparens, bedre offentlig service

Det private erhvervsliv kan bruge offentlige data som råstof for udvikling af nye intelligente digitale produkter og services med erhvervsmæssig værdi. Samtidig kan data udnyttes på nye måder til at styrke indsigt, transparens og den demokratiske proces. Offentlig information kan gøres ’smartere’ gennem udvikling af nye former for sammenstilling og præsentation af data, og der vil kunne tilbydes flere intelligente og effektive løsninger til selvbetjening og indberetning. Erfaringer fra Storbritannien og USA viser, at det absolut ikke skorter på gode idéer til ny og innovativ anvendelse af offentlige data.

Masser af data

I denne sammenhæng har Danmark den store fordel at have været langt fremme med indsamling af data og digitalisering gennem mange år, hvilket betyder, at den danske offentlige sektor besidder store mængder værdifulde data, som nu kan sættes i spil.

Behov for ensartet praksis

Det er dog en væsentlig barriere, at der i dag ikke findes en ensartet praksis på området. Det betyder blandt andet, at mange virksomheder og iværksættere ikke ved, at de værdifulde data findes, og at mange offentlige myndigheder ikke er bevidste om værdien af deres data. Samtidig er der blandt de offentlige myndigheder stor forskel på, om virksomheder og iværksættere kan få adgang til data og - hvis de kan – på hvor nemt det er, hvad det evt. koster, og på hvilke betingelser data kan anvendes. Juridiske og privacy-mæssige udfordringer skal håndteres, og den eksisterende forretningsmodel, hvor myndigheder har indtægtsdækket virksomhed på salg af deres data, skal indtænkes.

Initiativet ’Offentlige Data I Spil’

IT- og Telestyrelsen har derfor igangsat initiativet Offentlige Data I Spil, for at lave et koncept for, hvordan man som virksomhed eller iværksætter kan få adgang til offentlige data på en ensartet måde, så man får én indgang til at anvende offentlige data, hvor de juridiske, økonomiske og praktiske aspekter bliver håndteret under ét.

Konferencen

På konferencen kan du se konkrete eksempler på innovation med udgangspunkt i offentlige data, høre om forretningspotentialet og om internationale erfaringer med at sætte offentlige data i spil. Hør blandt andet Peter Corbett, som var arkitekten bag den amerikanske datainitiativ Apps for Democracy, og hør fra danske myndigheder som allerede har taget initiativer på området. Oplev desuden kulminationen på projektkonkurrencen om offentlige data, når videnskabsminister Helge Sander afslører vinderprojekterne.

Tid: Torsdag den 4. februar 2010

Sted: CPH Conference i DGI Byen, Tietgensgade 65 i det centrale København.

Tilmelding: Digitaliser.dk

Links: Program for konferencen: http://digitaliser.dk/news/449202

Om initiativet 'Offentlige Data I Spil' og Digitalisér.dk-gruppen om initiativet: http://digitaliser.dk/group/237756/profile

Read more: http://digitaliser.dk/news/436339

Kongens Nytorv - København - Street View og Google Earth plugin


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Read more: http://www.microformats.dk/kort/diverse/kbnytorv.html

søndag den 24. januar 2010

Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs


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We're happy to announce that over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you'll be able to upload and access your files from any computer -- all you need is an Internet connection.

Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year. This makes it easy to backup more of your key files online, from large graphics and raw photos to unedited home videos taken on your smartphone. You might even be able to replace the USB drive you reserved for those files that are too big to send over email.

Combined with shared folders, you can store, organize, and collaborate on files more easily using Google Docs. For example, if you are in a club or PTA working on large graphic files for posters or a newsletter, you can upload them to a shared folder for collaborators to view, download, and print.

You can also search for document files you've uploaded or that have been shared with you just like you do with your Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs. And you'll be able to view many common document file types with the Google Docs viewer.

To learn how businesses can take advantage of this new functionality, check out the post on the Enterprise Blog.

As always, we’d love your feedback and if you have any questions, please check out our help page. This feature will be enabled for your account over the next couple of weeks — look for the bubble notification when you sign in to Google Docs.


Read more: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/01/upload-and-store-your-files-in-cloud.html

ESRI 2010 Mashup Challenge


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Create an innovative mashup using ArcGIS Online and Web Mapping APIs for the chance to win one of four cash prizes. Awards will be based on originality, creativity, and analytic process.

Cash Prizes

1st Place: $10,000
2nd Place: $5,000
3rd Place: $2,500
4th Place: $2,500


Terms and Conditions [PDF]

  1. Build a mashup using ArcGIS Online and ESRI Web Mapping APIs
  2. Shoot a video of your application and post it on YouTube
  3. Submit your mashup. Deadline: March 5, 2010

Click image to launch application

This mashup provides up-to-date information on earthquake activity throughout the world. Events are ranked by size and color, allowing a quick visual reference of their severity. Description
Source: USGS

Submit Your Mashup























































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ArcBruTile display tiles from OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps, Google Maps and Geodan GeoServer in ArcGIS Desktop


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ArcBruTile supports:
  • all projections;
  • client side caching.
Examples:
Local data can be combined with tiles from ArcBruTile, here we see United Nations Haiti Basemap Data from ArcGIS Online combined with the actual OpenStreetMap for Haiti.
haiti.png

ArcBruTile supports all projections, here we see the world from Bing Maps in the Dutch projection:
arcbrutile_projections.png

Google Maps is also supported:
gmaps.png

Why ArcBruTile is developed:
Because ArcGIS, one of the most popular desktop GIS program around, lacks support for non-ESRI tile services, especially the increasingly popular OpenStreetMap maps. And because we're bored searching for the always slow or lost or broken disk/service with actual map reference data :-)
ArcBruTile also solves the projections problem: all tiles are transformed on the fly to the desired projection if needed. ArcBruTile makes it very easy to combine data
with different projections.


Read more: http://arcbrutile.codeplex.com/

MapsGeek.com is a free website designed to allow anyone to easily create thematic maps


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Equipped with a powerful blend of features, MapsGeek will guide you in the map's making and let you publish this map on your website, blog to illustrate your articles. Create, import or select your layers, add your data, tune the display and you're done !


Live data maps

Fri Jan 22, 2010 at 19:59

A grand new feature on MapsGeek today: the live mapping. In two words, the live mapping allow you to include the data to be mapped directly into the url used to call the map from your website! This allow data present on your website to be mapped live! Have a look at our example. Live mapping is available for everyone from the map interface for all geometrical layers.


The following map is generated live from this page. It shows the countries MapsGeek users are from. This page gathers the information, builds the URL and display the map.

Generating the script to build this map

The URL has to contain the following information :

  • The map parameter, which is gvux92r58surqfkx for this map, you'll find this information on the Map Interface
  • The l1 parameter, the live layer id, 1023 in our case, again found on the Map Interface
  • The dl1 parameter, the data for the layer, generated by this page and using the following format: object1:value1;object2:value2;...
This page is written in PHP, here is the full script to generate this map:
// The base URL containing the map and l1 parameters and introducing the dl1
$url = "http://www.mapsgeek.com/live.php?map=gvux92r58surqfkx&l1=1023&dl1=";

// The query to gather the information
$query = "select COUNTRY, count(USERS) NBU from USERS group by COUNTRY";
$dbresult= mysql_query($query, $connection_to_database);

// The loop building the dl1 parameter
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($dbresult, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
$obj = urlencode($row[COUNTRY]); //Encoding the country name, storing in $obj
$val = $row[nbu]; //Storing the number of users into $val
$url .= "$obj:$val;"; //Adding the $obj (country), followed by ':', the $val (number of users), ended by ';'
}

// Displaying the url obtained inside an image tag (and a link to mapsgeek page also)
print("");

?>


The URL obtained is :

http://www.mapsgeek.com/live.php?map=gvux92r58surqfkx&l1=1023&dl1=Argentina:2;Australia:5;Austria:1;Barbados:1;Belgium:6;Bolivia:1;Brazil:1;Bulgaria:1;Cameroon:1;Canada:9;China:1;Croatia:1;Czech+Republic:1;Ecuador:1;Faroe+Islands:1;Finland:1;France:75;Germany:3;Hungary:3;India:7;Indonesia:2;Ireland:1;Italy:7;Kuwait:1;Malaysia:1;Mali:1;Martinique:1;Mayotte:1;Mexico:1;Montserrat:1;Morocco:1;Netherlands:4;Nicaragua:1;Norway:1;Pakistan:1;Philippines:1;Portugal:2;Russia:1;Serbia:1;Spain:1;Switzerland:1;United+Kingdom:15;United+States:107;Venezuela:1;


Read more: http://www.mapsgeek.com/