Showing posts with label Data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Data. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Have you mapped your data today?


Jeg har i flere omgange postuleret at 80% af al information har en geografisk reference ... og at de resterende 20% er information hvortil denne endnu ikke er identificeret ... Når nogen nu postulerer at 95% af al data har en geografisk egenskab betyder det blot at vi nærmer os målet ...
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When delivering session I've often said that 80% of all data have a spatial reference ... for the remaining 20% we just haven't yet identified the spatial reference ... Stating that 95% have spatial reference just indicates that we're getting closer ...
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Are you connecting your data to a map? You should. Attractive and easy to understand, map-based presentations often make patterns more obvious than charts and graphs do. Many organizations are discovering the power of geographic information systems to incorporate location-specific data into effective visual presentations.

Recently, I learned that 20 years ago specialists were asserting that 80% of all data contains geographical references. That sounded high, so I asked Stuart Hamilton, GIS program director at the College of William and Mary, to clarify. His estimate: 95% is more accurate today. New technology is partially responsible, including cell phones, GPS devices and electronic toll collectors. [...]


Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/350588/Have_You_Mapped_Your_Data_Today_

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Follow Team HTC - Columbia on Google Maps



HTC hjerte banker for Google ...
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Pro cycling on the map like never before ...
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Experience the Tour de France like never before. Track all nine riders from Team HTC - Columbia and see their exact locations and real-time telemetry data. Check out the live map below:




Read more: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/mytrackstour/

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Beat the Traffic 3D® Broadcast Traffic Reporting


Fremtidens trafik vil bestå af enheder som kæmper for at beregne den bedste rute fra A til B via bedste punkter C og D og ...
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Cool graphics, cool animations, and cool visulizations ... What would traffic be like if all had all information?
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Beat the Traffic's award-winning, high-definition traffic system provides an easy-to-use, 3D mapping environment designed to highlight traffic information for viewers.
The Beat the Traffic 3D mapping application produces clear, customizable, information-rich animations.
Inspired from flight simulation technology, the Beat the Traffic-3D live-to-air system produces clear, customizable, information-rich animations. There is no pre-rendering involved yet the fluidity of the animation is not compromised. Traffic flow and incidents are visualized using intuitive animations, incorporating familiar three-dimensional icons. An intuitive, easy to use web-based control panel allows you to customize and override the automated data. [...]


Read more: http://www.trianglesoftware.com/3d_mapping.aspx

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Live train map for the London Underground


Real time live data på et kort er bare fascinerende ...
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Real time live data on a map is just fascinating ...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data Through the Eyes of Experts


Skønheden i data skal ofte ses igennem øjnene på dem som kan ...
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The hidden beauty of data seen through the eyes of the gifted ...
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Visualization is the graphic presentation of data -- portrayals meant to reveal complex information at a glance. Think of the familiar map of the New York City subway system, or a diagram of the human brain. Successful visualizations are beautiful not only for their aesthetic design, but also for elegant layers of detail that efficiently generate insight and new understanding.This book examines the methods of two dozen visualization experts who approach their projects from a variety of perspectives -- as artists, designers, commentators, scientists, analysts, statisticians, and more. Together they demonstrate how visualization can help us make sense of the world. Explore the importance of storytelling with a simple visualization exercise Learn how color conveys information that our brains recognize before we're fully aware of it Discover how the books we buy and the people we associate with reveal clues to our deeper selves Recognize a method to the madness of air travel with a visualization of civilian air traffic Find out how researchers investigate unknown phenomena, from initial sketches to published papers.

Contributors include:Nick Bilton,Michael E. Driscoll,Danyel Fisher,Jessica Hagy,Gregor Hochmuth,Todd Holloway,Noah Iliinsky,Eddie Jabbour,Valdean Klump,Aaron Koblin,Robert Kosara,Valdis Krebs,JoAnn Kuchera-Morin,Adam Perer,Anders Persson,Maximilian Schich,Matthias Shapiro,Julie Steele,Moritz Stefaner,Jer Thorp,Andrew Vande Moere,Fernanda Viega,Martin Wattenberg,and Michael Young.


With GISRoam iPad take your ESRI Shapefiles with you.


iPad er på mange måder The missing link ... også når det gælder GIS i marken ...
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iPad could very well be the missing link between laptops and mobile phones when it comes to working with GIS data in the field ...
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With GISRoam iPad take your ESRI Shapefiles with you.

GISRoam’s iPad Free App Features:

  • Create new shape features using the GPS (Polygon, Line, and Point features) in new or existing Shapefile
  • Display current GPS position with Shapefile overlays
  • Edit existing attribution on Shapefiles and add new attributes while you roam
  • Perform powerful feature searches based on attribution
  • Find the Lat/Long positions on the map
  • Find the distance between two points or along a series of points
  • Edit and display large Shapefile layers with small memory footprint
  • Google Maps provides background maps

Note one cannot save collected/edited shapefiles or add new shapefiles to the Free GISRoam App without having a Webconnect account which is available in the GISRoam In App Store.

GISRoam’s iPad Webconnect Fee Plug-in Features: Getting Shapefile on and off the iPad with webconnect.

  • Webconnect is a cloud based storage, synchronization, and automated projections conversion application built specifically for the GISRoam application to address common GIS problems
  • Download entire new shapefiles and only changes to shapefiles already on the GISRoam client
  • Upload only the changes to the shapefiles saving bandwidth and time
  • Reproject shapefiles between thousands of Shapefiles projections using the standard .prj file
  • Revert changes you made in the shapefiles to those on the server as backup to errors.
  • Synchronize shapefiles between iPad and desktop computer from any web browser using WiFi or 3G networks today.

Download iPad GISRoam:

GISRoam iPad client application is now available on the Apple App Store for FREE.

Cogent3D is currently taking contracts to customize, brand, and build new iPad GIS applications, so if you have a requirement not being filled by one of our commercial products talk to us about building one to your requirements. email us at: Contact@Cogent3D.com.


Read more: http://gisroam.com/?page_id=52

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Transport for London Data Released


På arbejdet lavede vi for sjov en Layar app med alle busstoppesteder i landet ... Forestil dig at du kan pege på et stoppested med din mobiltelefon og få oplysninger om afgangstider ... Og ikke blot de stoppesteder indenfor synsfeltet ...
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At work for fun we made a Layar app to show bus stops in all of Denmark ... Point your phone at the bus stop and get time schedules and more ...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Consistent and Seamless National Land Cover Map Unveiled


USA united ...
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Nice ...
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The U.S. Geological Survey has released the Gap Analysis Program (GAP) national land cover dataset of the entire continental United States as both a data download and online viewer. The mission of the program is to “keep common species common” by identifying quality habitat to support wildlife. The effort effectively creates a baseline for biodiversity [...]


Read more: http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/landcoverviewer.html

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Locals and Tourists


Billeder lyver ikke ...
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Get the picture?
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Some people interpreted the Geotaggers' World Atlas maps to be maps of tourism. This set is an attempt to figure out if that is really true. Some cities (for example Las Vegas and Venice) do seem to be photographed almost entirely by tourists. Others seem to have many pictures taken in piaces that tourists don't visit.

Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).

Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).

Yellow points are pictures where it can't be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven't taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all.

The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken by locals.

Blue pictures are by locals. Red pictures are by tourists. Yellow pictures might be by either.



Read more: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Pin your history to the world


I Odense har vi FynskeBilleder.dk ... StreetView integration ville være en naturlig forlængelse af den i forvejen fantastiske side ...
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In Odense we have FynskeBilleder.dk showing old photos from around the city. Now we have got Streetview an obvious next step would be to pin all the photos to the world ...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Map your data with the Maps API and Fusion Tables


Punkter på et kort er BARE ikke nok ... Nej, gem i stedet data i FusionTables og vis dem på Google Map ... En dag (snart?) vil data fra ESRI/MapInfo bo i skyen og blive vist på Google ... Ét kort - mange kilder ...
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A few points on a map is so NOT enough ... Store data in FusionTables and visualized in GM ... One day (soon?) ESRI /MapInfo GIS data in the Cloud will too ... One map - many sources ...
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If you have ever tried to plot a very large number of overlays on an API map you have probably reached a point at which the performance of your application begins to suffer. With one hundred or so markers, most browsers cope just fine, and clustering solutions like Fluster can help support more. But if you have thousands of overlays that you wish to show, rendering them individually can be problematic.

The Maps API v3 now offers two solutions to this problem. If you have a large volume of geospatial data that can be served as KML, the KmlLayer class can render up to 50,000 features as an overlay that does not impact performance on any browser. To support data sets that are structured as tables, such as a database or spreadsheet, we have also now added the FusionTablesLayer class for rendering data stored in Google Fusion Tables.

Google Fusion Tables is a fascinating new experimental Google Research project offering storage, search, and management of large structured data sets in the cloud. Up to 100MB of data can be stored per table, and each row in a table can have an associated location, line, or polygon feature. Using the FusionTablesLayer class you can render features on an API map as a clickable overlay. When a feature is clicked, the application can access a copy of the complete row of data associated with the feature.

Fusion Tables also supports an SQL like query language, which you can use to filter the features shown on a map. The below map visualises mountain biking trails uploaded to Fusion Tables by mtbguru.com. The slider allows you to filter trails by their length, and the trails shown on the map are updated accordingly. If you click on a trail a custom dialog is shown which indicates the elevation profile for the trail concerned.



The FusionTablesLayer also supports rendering data sets as a heatmap. The below map of beaches in Brazil illustrates the benefit of this. When rendered as point features it is difficult to tell the relative density of the beaches without zooming in further. However once you switch to displaying the data as a heatmap the high density of beaches west of Rio de Janeiro becomes immediately clear.



The combination of Fusion Tables with the Maps API makes it easy to host large sets of data in the cloud, and visualise them in your Maps API application. It is quick and simple to get up and running with Fusion Tables, and the addition of the FusionTableLayer class to Maps API v3 enables Maps applications to be tightly coupled with data hosted in Fusion Tables. Give it a try, and let us know what you think of this experiment in the Groups!



Read more: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/05/map-your-data-with-maps-api-and-fusion.html

Dit liv i tal


Er det en evig søgen efter udødelighed ... eller blot en måde at føle sig levende på? Del alt med dine omgivelser ellers kan man (andre) ikke mærke at jeg lever ...

The Truman Show med modsat fortegn ...

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Only Danish ...
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Mål dig selv. Den store dille i San Francisco området lige nu er at indsamle data om sig selv ved hjælp af teknologi som mobiltelefoner og skridttællere. En gang om måneden mødes cirka 100 mennesker og diskuterer deres data, som de undervejs har delt over nettet. Er privatlivet dødt? Når vi samler og deler data om vores meget personlige forhold – ja, faktisk også om vores gener – så rejser spørgsmålet om privatlivets fred sig også. Hvor går grænsen?

Fortæl historien om dit liv med tal i stedet for ord. Fra vandreture med GPS til vægt og DNA – det hele kan bruges!

Det er budskabet fra gruppen the quantified self – det kvantificerede selv – der med base i San Francisco har bredt sig ud over hele USA.

Hver måned mødes en gruppe mennesker, der forsker i sig selv og diskuterer deres resultater. Harddisken har mødt to af stifterne – Gary Wolf og Kevin Kelly – for at finde ud af, hvorfor det pludselig er blevet interessant at bruge teknologi til at indsamle data om ens hverdagsliv og dele disse data med andre mennesker.

Er privatlivet dødt?

Når vi samler og deler data om vores meget personlige forhold – ja, faktisk også om vores gener – så rejser spørgsmålet om privatlivets fred sig også. Hvor går grænsen? Er der overhovedet nogen grænse for hvad vi kan dele og med hvem? Det kigger vi på blandt andet i forbindelse med Facebook og den nyeste ballade om deres indstillinger for privatliv.

Måske er vi allerede langt forbi det der med privatlivet. Den tyske futurist Christian Heller mener i hvert fald, at vi allerede befinder os i en situation med post-privatliv.


Read more: http://www.dr.dk/harddisken

Friday, May 28, 2010

Iraq and Afghanistan casualities, home and away


En krig med mange faldne ... eller et fald med mange krige ...
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Each live lost may one day either be one more reason for hope or one more reason for hopelessness ...
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In a collaboration between CNN and Stamen Design, Home and Away offers a sobering view into casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, since 2001.

On the left is a map that shows hometown locations, and on the right is a map of casualty locations. The two maps are linked such that you see where people are from and where they served. Linked filters on the bottom show distributions of age, location, and date. Select or search for an individual to see further details. Friends and family are also able to submit fond memories of fallen loved ones.

Altogether, the interactive provides a connection between the data and the people behind it. See the full piece on CNN.


Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/index.html

Sunday, May 16, 2010

How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?


Hvor lang tid vil det tage inden olien er væk igen ...
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How long will it take for the oil to disappear ...
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Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion continues to leak into the Gulf Coast. Official estimates state a rate of 200,000 gallons a day, while some private estimates think it could be over a million gallons each day. The spill covers an area of over 2,500 square miles, and shows no signs of slowing down.

2,500 square miles is a large number, but how big is that, really? It's very difficult for us to imagine something that large, and it's doubly hard to grasp the true size when it sits over the vast ocean surface.

To help understand the scale of this ecological disaster, I built a page using the Google Earth Browser Plug-in that will let you see the oil spill in comparison to something everyone has a good grasp on: the size of your own home town. Also, you can compare the oil spill to some very large cities around the world -- is it bigger than San Francisco, New York, London? You'll be surprised at what 2,500 square miles really means.

And it's still growing.


See it here: http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill. If you’re interested in learning more from Google or our data providers, you may want to check out these following sites:

Read more: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-big-is-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill.html