Google Lat Long Blog: In Africa, citizen cartographers tell their stories through their maps

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Google Lat Long Blog: In Africa, citizen cartographers tell their stories through their maps

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Google Lat Long Blog: Earthquake motivates New Zealanders to model their town

Last week, local volunteers in Christchurch and Dunedin New Zealand invested a day of their time learning how to create 3D models using Google SketchUp. The workshops focused on learning how to geo-model, a process that involves creating 3D models of buildings from photographs for display in Google Earth.

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Facebook Places added Deals to their location checkins

I know I'm a little bit late on this one, but about 2 weeks ago Facebook added a deals feature to Places. The deals feature allows retailers to put up deals to people checking in at their establishment. The deals come in 4 different varieties individ

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Google Geonews: Google Using Their Basemaps for 10 More Countries, More on Costa Rica and Nicaragua Boundary, Spatial Queries in Fusion Tables, and much more

Here's recent Google-related geonews.

From the official sources:

• Google changed its basemap data for ten countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa and Switzerland. Google already switched to their own data for the U.S. and Canada in the not so distant past.
• Following a previous entry Costa Rica and Nicaragua boundary in Google Maps, Google Lat Long and Ogle Earth discuss the matter
• Google Maps tiles have been significantly updated for Japan
• There's contest for SketchUp 3D modelers
• You can now perform spatial queries in Fusion Tables

From other sources:

• An entry on using SketchUp to model interiors
• An excellent flight simulator for Google Earth
• Here's an entry on the state of the Berlin Wall, as seen using the Google Earth Plugin
• An online tool for Satellite Tracks And Visibility In Google Maps
• We mentioned BatchGeo a few times in the past, via APB I learned that BatchGeo was forced to disable extracting geocoded coordinates because it's a violation of Google's Terms of Service. We rarely saw similar enforcements as far as I can remember.

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Slashgeo: Google Geonews: Google Using Their Basemaps for 10 More Countries, More on Costa Rica and Nicaragua Boundary, Spatial Queries in Fusion Tables, and much more

Here's recent Google-related geonews.

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Location-based services – Only 4% ofadults check in to give their location (Textio)

[sf chronicle] So just how competitive is it to become mayor? Only 4 percent of online adults “check in” with location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla, a report said Thursday. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project also found that on any given day, just 1 percent of Internet users use them. [...]

Source : Textio

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Google Voice and FaceTime – Why the Carriers Are Losing Their Voice

Lately it seems like there is endless news around messaging, VoIP and video calling. Apple recently announced they’d added FaceTime support for the Mac, and had shipped 19 million FaceTime-enabled iOS devices since June. Google Voice also made headlines last week for an outage, but I think the bigger news associated with that downtime is how fast they’ve been growing. And there’s been a flurry of startup activity around messaging and communication as well, such as the super innovative GroupMe releasing an Android App. The resounding theme from all these seemingly disparate announcements is that messaging, voice, video, and chatting applications are on fire. Sure, we all use social media, but it sure hasn’t dampened people’s affinity for texting or making a call.

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Comment on Are QR Codes Ready for Their Close-Up? by Chris Parente

Thanks for the balanced reporting -- there's been so much negativity about barcodes lately, from the "why hasn't it exploded yet" crowd. Here's an interesting post -- a blog published by Neustar disagreeing with a negative QR comment made by CTIA: http://bit.ly/d9GWRE

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/10/19/are-qr-codes-ready-for-their-close-up/#comment-302079

Google Makes It Easier For Users to See and Modify Their Location Settings

Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. announced today on The Official Google Blog that they're making it much easier for users to control their Location settings on the search results page. Google Associate Product Manager Mack Lu explains tha

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Comment on iOS and Android Devices Continue Their Assault on Enterprise by Who Will Be Affected if Windows Phone Thrives?: Mobile «

[...] In Motion. RIM is already seeing its once-dominant hold on the enterprise slip, and BlackBerry 6.0 has failed to live up to claims [...]

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