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That was GIS Day 2005 We hope you all enjoyed GIS Day 2005, and look forward to more enjoying it in 2006. Here's a the information that we found about locations and events for 2005. Hopefully for 2006, our list will be bigger (and a bit earlier in getting out).
Internet Mapping is the new black News.com has an interesting article about internet mapping and "mashups" that are revolutionizing the internet. As part of their series called "Taking back the Web", News.com discusses the numerous different uses for internet mapping sites and how these different mashups, most involving Google Maps, are igniting whole new economies. In particular the article discusses the potential to target local advertising based on searches of maps for things like local restaurants. In addition, there are numerous links to mashups of all kinds.
Happy GIS Day!Today is GIS Day! When you look around at the information around you, take stock in what has been put together through GIS systems, and imagine how much more there could be if we processed more with them. Articles like It's about so much more than just maps in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel show that the world is starting to take notice.
AA New Zealand puts Kiwi maps online AA New Zealand has now launched a service called AA Smartmaps which provides an online mapping service for the far away nation. The service is provided by New Zealand company GeoSmart, that makes a wide range of digital map data services, including GIS data, driving data, and satellite images for New Zealand.
Risk-style game using Google MapsAn enterprising developer has used Google Maps as the basis for an implementation of Risk (a gamer originally from Hasbro). Play right now is limited to person vs. computer, but the author is working on a PvP version (person versus person).
Google releases Google Maps for mobile phonesApparently the folks at Google just don't sleep as evidenced by the release of Google Maps for mobile phones today. While Yahoo Maps and others were busy playing catch up, the folks in Googleville, CA were taking their amazingly popular web-mapping application and making it work for mobile phones. As of now it only works for phones that support Java applications and unless you have an unlimited data plan it may run up your phone bill. However after toying around with it for a little while, it has some cool functionality. Read more about the specs and a brief review after the jump.
Where do they get road data, daddy?Cnet News has an interesting article about how Tele atlas creates their road databases. Interestingly, they state in the article that its not their fault if you get the wrong directions, rather its a data refresh problem not an data error. Anyway, for anyone who has ever wondered how they create their database this is a short but interesting read.
Yahoo Maps! fires back at GoogleWith all of the talk about Google Maps, you'd think they were the only game in town. On the contrary, Yahoo! on wednesday, put into beta a new version of Yahoo! Maps that has some new and nifty features for users, especially in the area of viewing. More after the Jump.
World news usage mapAkamai, one of the largest traffic pushers on the net (they push traffic locally for web sites that want to get the word out but don't want to have to put servers in every hosting center just to be fast), has a very cool page which displays the Net Usage Index, an indicator of how many people are using the internet for news information based on the sites that they serve for new organizations.
Gangland Map
UIUC has a Gangland Map on the UIUC Library website that was done in 1931 and shows the various gangs involved in the famous gang wars, their respective territories. More about the library's online offerings after the Jump.
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