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The fourth annual Rocket City Geospatial Conference (RCG) attracts local and state government professionals and businesses that utilize digital mapping technology and geographic information systems (GIS) for applications such as environmental protection, economic development, urban planning and critical infrastructure management. Of particular regional interest this year will be the applications of geospatial technology to the clean up and mitigation efforts associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Layar is an augmented reality browser for Android and iPhone. Soon on Nokia. This latest video shows daily scenarios' of how Layar is used: to find a place to eat, to get to know the city through history, to play games and to see which bands is playing where now. This video also premiers Floaticons, the cool 3D objects which we all can use to express ourselves in this new world of Augmented Reality.
Google I/O 2010 - Unleash your map data: Cloud computing for geospatial applications with the Google Maps API.
Autodesk describes Project Butterfly as "Google Docs for AutoCAD"... a completely online edit and collaboration tool in which you can share DWG and DXF files with other users. No need to download or install any software. Project Butterfly shares files directly on the web and other users need only an account with Project Butterfly, which is currently in an open beta mode. Directions Magazine's Editor in chief Joe Francica provides both the details and a quick demo.
Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) interviews Dennis Crowley of Foursquare and Alexa Andrzejewski, founder of Foodspotting.
Demonstration of graduation project, in which 2D barcodes are used to calibrate the user's position in a mobile AR system. The gravitational and compassing sensors of the device take over after the initial calibration, to calculate exactly where the user is looking at inside the augmented panorama. Augmented objects like images, video and sounds can then be attached. The calibration technique using a 2d barcode is intuitively done, and user generated content can then be created for a certain QR-Code location, so when a different user scans the same tag, the content will be downloaded. The main target is social networking Augmented Reality, and locative data sharing. Graduation Project for Kyushu University, Interaction Design Lab, Department of Design Strategy. UPDATE: Accepted in Siggraph LA, 2010, Poster Sessions.
Ward Chapin, chief information officer of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games gave the keynote speech at GITA's Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The keynote was delivered on April 26, 2010.
What's different about the 2010 Decennial U.S. Census? While we've all received the 10 question survey from the Census Bureau, there is one big change this year...the "long form" is gone! So, if you were one of the lucky ones in the past that had to complete a more lengthy form that allowed the Census Bureau to collect more specific demographics, you will be disappointed. In 2010, the American Community Survey (ACS) officially replaces the long form. In this episode of DMTV, we look at how the ACS will be conducted for 2010 and beyond.
The National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence, the GeoTech Center, is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Advanced Technology Education (ATE) center that was started in 2008. Directions Media's Editor in Chief, Joe Francica, interviews Dr. Phillip Davis, the center's director, about the center and its involvement in developing the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) for the U.S. Department of Labor. The GTCM is an effort to define the core competencies of the geospatial professional to support curriculum development at colleges and universities, and to promote workforce development. The GeoTech Center, then, is a vital link in helping prepare students to become the next generation of geospatial professionals and to meet the demands of a growing industry in geospatial technology.
Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map
The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.
In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:
With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.
In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:
So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.
She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.
The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:
And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.
I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.
- via reader Jim and Poynter
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