Location-based Services

PHL Crime Mapper: open data in action article  One hour to make CartoDB Philly Flu shot map map Making Mapping Easy: A New Editor for OpenStreetMap The Guardian maps US gun law - with only a little geography: Gun laws in the US, state by state – interactive map...

GaiaSup API: GaiaSup is a spatial engine that developers can use to build location-based services or geospatial applications. GaiaSup allows developers to store and retrieve spatial coordinates that are managed by an in-memory spatial database. This allows data to be processed and retrieved...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation now hosts a map of unidentified bank robbery suspects. It uses geotagged security camera photos of bank robbery suspects and includes their nicknames for easier searching. While articles I read called the map a "Google Map" in fact it uses OpenLayers and you...

With the California Legislature back in session, the California Technology Agency’s Office of Geographic Information Systems has launched a new geocoding tool to help Californians find their state legislative representatives. Using the California Enterprise Geocoding Service, in partnership...

This is perhaps another way to explain the power of social media. Location technology does not seem to have played a bit role. Natalie from New Haven, CT, lost her right hand mitten. After looking for it to no avail she posted it to SeeClickFix (the "report an issue in your city" app). A day...

Geography key to making friends: (1) proximity; (2) repeated, unplanned interactions; (3) setting that lowers guard - New York Times Advertise your business on EveryBlock, Chicago only for now. @UrbanLaunchpad is putting riders with GPS on Dhaka busses to map routes.  Farhad Manjoo...

Auburn City Council Exponare API: Exponare is a service that links geographic information from a range of databases and applications and displays this information in one map interface. This particular implementation of Exponare is hosted and used by the Auburn City Council, which is located in...

A new study (lots of math, only one map) by researchers within the Social Cognitive Network Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute drew on data from Gowalla. It finds that despite connections to individuals far and wide, people are most likely to have friends that...

From the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) comes word of a device that will locate and track your luggage. The small, credit card-sized device called TrakDot (manufactured by GlobaTrac) is packed with your luggage and will alert you as to it's location, especially if you're in Bangor and your...

First (of many expected) "how to save credits" posts for AGOL Atlas Van Lines map of state to state migration in 2012 ex-Nokia folks kickstarting Leikr, OSM-powered GPS sports watch National Museum of Surveying Closed TechCrunch reports the rumor it reported about Apple's...