Have you mapped your data today?

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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. [...]

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

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Follow Team HTC - Columbia on Google Maps

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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:

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

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Extra! Extra! Google News redesigned to be more customizable and shareable

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Kun engelsk ...

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Why mention Google News on a GIS blog? Well, the introductory lines are true in many ways and if you change the word news with the word GIS you may get even more truth ...

There’s an old saying that all GIS is local. But all GIS is personal too—we connect with it in different ways depending on our interests, where we live, what we do and a lot of other factors.

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There’s an old saying that all news is local. But all news is personal too—we connect with it in different ways depending on our interests, where we live, what we do and a lot of other factors. Today we’re revamping the Google News homepage with several changes designed to make the news that you see more relevant to you. We’re also trying to better highlight interesting stories you didn’t know existed and to make it easier for you to share stories through social networks.

Before:

After:

The new heart of the homepage is something we call “News for you”: a stream of headlines automatically tailored to your interests. You can help us get it right by using the “Edit personalization” box to specify how much you’re interested in Business, Health, Entertainment, Sports or any subject you want to add (whether it’s the Supreme Court, the World Cup or synthetic biology). You can choose to view the stories by Section view or List view, and reveal more headlines by hovering over the headline with your mouse. We’ll remember your preferences each time you log in. If you don’t want customized Google News, hit “Reset personalization" to clear all personalization preferences. If you haven't previously customized and would prefer not to, simply save and close the “Edit personalization” box. You can always go back and change it later.

To give you more control over the news that you see, we’re now allowing you to choose which news sources you’d like to see more or less often. You can do so in News Settings. These sources will rank higher or lower for you (but not for anyone else) in Google News search results and story clusters. We’ve also added keyboard shortcuts for easier navigation, like in Gmail or Google Reader. When you’re in Google News, hit the question mark key to pop up a full list of shortcuts.

There are the subjects that interest you and then there’s the major news of the day. To make it easy for you to find the big stories like Hurricane Alex, we’re adding links to topics that many outlets are covering. You’ll find these topics in the Top Stories section on the left side of the homepage as well as in linked keywords above headlines. Clicking on a topic link takes you to a list of related coverage that you can add to your news stream. You can change your preferences any time in “Edit personalization.”


We’re also more prominently displaying the Spotlight section, which features stories of more lasting interest than breaking news and has been one of our most popular sections since we introduced it last fall. And then there’s local news; we’re now highlighting weather and headlines about your city or neighborhood in their own section, which you can edit with whichever location you want to follow.

Finally, you can now easily share story clusters with other people via Buzz, Reader, Facebook or Twitter. Just select the drop-down menu marked by an arrow on the top-right of each story cluster. In the drop-down, you can also choose to see more or less of the first news source.


The redesigned Google News homepage is rolling out today in the English-language edition in the U.S., and we plan to expand it to all editions in the coming months. We’re making the ability to choose which sources you’ll see more or less often available in all English-language editions worldwide and plan to expand it soon.

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Read more: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/extra-extra-google-news-redesigned-to.html

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Africa is BIG

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Afrikas størrelse både fysisk og politisk er aldrig kommet til rette i de mentale opfattelser vi har af det store kontinent mod syd ...

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Map projections really have distorted our view of the real world ...

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Get a laugh on your way from Tokyo to New York

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Prøv dette på maps.google.com:

1) Rutevejledning

2) Angiv 'Tokyo, Japan' som start

3) Angiv 'New York, USA' som slut

4) Hent rutevejledning

Check punkt nummer 24 og 38 på listen ...

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Try this on maps.google.com:

1) Choose 'Get directions'

2) Type 'Tokyo, Japan' as starting point

3) Type 'New York, USA' as destination

4) Go ahead ...

Now check out no. 24 and no. 38 ...

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Vis stort kort

Locals and Tourists

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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.

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

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Visualizing the BP Oil Spill Disaster

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Hvor mange supertankere skal der til for at rumme den mængde olie?

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Oh, yes it's big ...

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An explosion on the BP operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed eleven crew members on April 20, 2010m sparking the greatest environmental disaster in United States history. In combination with the Texas City Refinery Explosion and the Prudohoe Bay Oil Spill, this marks the third serious incident involving BP in the United States in the last five years. Current estimates put the amount of oil being discharged from the broken well at above 1,050,000 US gallons per day! There are over 400 different species of animals living in the area affected by the spill. 253 sea turtles and 29 dolphins have been found dead within the spill area (NOAA).

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

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Dit liv i tal

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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?

Oprindelig lydkilde (harddisken_100526.mp3)

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.

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

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Making Mapping an Accessory to a Crime

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Anvend online kort i forbindelse med planlægning af indbrud eller terrorisme vil ive dig hhv. 1 eller 10 år ekstra i spjældet ...

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In short: using maps for burglarization or terrorism will add either 1 or 10 years to your sentence ...

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Read more: http://gislounge.com/mapping-during-a-crime/

Via: GIS Lounge

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Iraq and Afghanistan casualities, home and away

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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.

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

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Whose Map is it? new mapping by artists - Next exhibition

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FYI

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The visualization of information can by creative minds be transformed into art and great experiences ...

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02 Jun – 24 Jul 2010
Coming in June 2010: International artists subvert the socio-political structures and cultural hierarchies that traditionally inform mapmaking

Nine contemporary international artists question the underlying structures and hierarchies that inform traditional mapmaking. They provide individual insights that inscribe new, often omitted perspectives onto the map.

Film, installation, print and audio are used to challenge the authority of the map and explore wider social and political issues. Whose Map is it? includes three new commissions by Gayle Chong Kwan, Susan Stockwell and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, alongside recent work by Milena Bonilla, Alexandra Handal, Bouchra Khalili, Otobong Nkanga, Esther Polak and Oraib Toukan.

For centuries artists have been drawn to the subject of maps to examine self- positioning and global geographies. The artists in Whose Map is it? continue this process by challenging the objective nature of the map. The exhibition opens a dialogue about contemporary experiences of space, and the meaning of the map today.

Maps are part of debates around subjects such as resources, territoriality, identity and migration. Globalisation has changed how we see the world and the two dimensional map no longer represents the rapidly changing trans-national, multi-authored world that we live in. Our ideas of the map have also changed as a result of increasing access to GIS (Geographical Information System) and new technologies such as GPS (Global Positioning System).

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Read more: http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/2010/whose_map_is_it

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Men are better at map reading, but women are superior at remembering routes, study finds

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Altid et populært diskussionsemne ... Mændene drejer på rettet og kvinderne fortæller hvilken vej de skal dreje ...

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They are often accused of being poor navigators because they can't read maps as well as their male counterparts. But women are actually less likely than men to get lost because they are better at recalling routes, new research has shown.

Although men will be better able to use a map, the fairer sex can often can get to their destination quicker on subsequent journies because they remember landmarks.

The study looked at a group of men and women from a Mexican village who were sent to gather mushrooms fitted with satellite positioning systems and heart rate monitors.

Different talents: Men are better at map reading, but women shine when it comes to remembering routes

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1270534/Men-better-map-reading-women-superior-remembering-routes-study-finds.html

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What’s More Accurate Than GPS? Photographs

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The Matrix is forth coming ... Eller noget andet sludder i den retning ...

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A global point cloud? Google Street View and others have plenty of data to reverse engineer reality ... Using 'standard' positioning techniques as a first step you'll probably get a quick and functionel millimeter location accuracy ...

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Locations identified within the 10 or 20 meters possible by GPS today are far too inaccurate — we need to know where we are we are right down to the millimeter! That was the gauntlet thrown down by Michael Liebhold, distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future, speaking at aGigaOM Pro Bunker Session on locationat the GigaOM office this week. With millimeter accuracy, augmented reality — digital information overlaid on a real-time view of the world — will actually become possible. “Right now we have all this toy AR,” said Liebhold. “This is useless.” [...]

Intrigued as to how soon millimeter accuracy might happen and what it could enable? Here’s the video:

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Read more: http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/whats-more-accurate-than-gps-photographs/

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The Taj and Beer for Data Program

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The Taj in Jalalabad, Afghanistan is indeed an oddity. Not only is it the only bar in eastern Afghanistan, it is also the location where an ingenious "Beer for Data" program began. Put simply, if visitors to the bar have useful data (gps plots, imagery, technology white papers...) they can trade this information for a beer. This is the best method for information sharing between NGOs I've ever heard of.

This video is part of a much longer interview of Smari McCarthy by Vinay Gupta. The complete video can be found here: http://blip.tv/file/1701435

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Read more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuayC90hvJk&feature=player_embedded

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India has more Cell Phones than Toilets

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4 mobiler og kun 1 toilet ... Indiske tilstande en kendsgerning ...

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4 mobile phones and only 1 toilet ... Just like at my place ...

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Far more people in India have access to a cell phone than to a toilet and improved sanitation, according to UN experts who published a 9-point prescription for achieving the world's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for sanitation by 2015 on April 14.

They also urge the world community to set a new target beyond the MDG (which calls for a 50 percent improvement in access to adequate sanitation by 2015) to the achievement of 100 percent coverage by 2025.

Recent UN research in India, the world's second most populous country, shows roughly 366 million people (31 percent of the population) had access to improved sanitation in 2008. Other data, meanwhile, shows 545 million cell phones are now connected to service in India's emerging economy. The number of cell phones per 100 people has exploded from 0.35 in year 2000-01 to about 45 today.

Worldwide some 1.1 billion people defecate in the open. And data show progress in creating access to toilets and sanitation lags far behind world MDG targets, even as mobile phone connections continue to a predicted 1 billion inIndia by 2015. Says Zafar Adeel, Director of United Nations University's Canada-based think-tank for water, the Institute for Water, Environment and Health: "It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones, about half cannot afford the basic necessity and dignity of a toilet."

The new UNU report cites a rough cost of $300 to build a toilet, including labour, materials and advice. Worldwide, an estimated $358 billion is needed between now and 2015 to reach the MDG for sanitation -- some of this funding is already mobilized at national and international levels.

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Read more: http://technology-nuggets.blogspot.com/2010/04/india-has-more-cell-phones-than-toilets.html

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