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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Mapping Now: Dynamic Realtime Maps and Other Pictures

Vi lever i en levende verden ...
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We live in a living world ...
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Maps are never pefect representations of reality, and increasingly they’re out of date before they’re finished.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

Mit favoritprogram på P1 ...
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Only Danish ...
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Harddisken uge 4, 2010: Spejlverdener på nettet
Skrevet af: Anders Høeg Nissen, 15:53 27. januar 2010
Hør 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

Facebook på steroider ... Savner adgang til grupper ... MMmmm og applikationer ... mmmhh noget hø hvis I vil høre min mening ...
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GUI is king ... Silverlight rocks ... but this app sucks ... No access to groups or apps ... Nice but not needed ...
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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.

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

Visualizing empires

Den hurtige udgave ... For øjeblikket er godnatlæsningen for den ældste (7) verdenshistorien for børn ... Sjov læsning som her er vist på en ny og spændende måde ...
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The quick version ... At the moment I'm reading the world history as bedtime story for my eldest (7) ... This info-graphy-visionalization certainly is a great supplement ...
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Read more: http://mondeguinho.com/master/visual-experimentations/visualizing-empires

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

Gad vide hvordan hylde ser ud ...
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And then you should see the shelf ...
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Klencke Atlas, which is 350 years old, will be displayed as part of British Library exhibition on maps

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