Geography
In celebration of GIS Day, I have begun Geocoding all of my place-related posts using the Geopress Wordpress plugin. Once Outside.in gets things together on their mapping site, these Geocoded posts should be plotted here, on Tightgrid’s blogmap.
I’ll keep you updated.
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Indian business blog Trak.in reviews three mapping services’ coverage of the subcontinent. They look at Yahoo, RouteGuru and MapMyIndia. Creating roadmaps of India is challenging “given the unorganized and inconsistent naming standards of the Indian roads” or the lack of road names in the first place.
When asked to provide directions from point A to point [...]
Using home-grown technology, a Chinese firm has upstaged the likes of Google and Microsoft with a mapping service featuring 360-degree street-level imaging of extraordinarily high resolution.
The Sydney Morning Herald covers City8’s entrance to the online mapping fray [web site and a sample street level view]. The catch? City8 has been around since 2005 and has [...]
From YouTube’s Google Channel: Urban Sensing, Social Networking, And The Third Thing.
A business improvement district in New York has teamed with the city to stick large, compass-like decals on the sidewalk.
The Carbon Trust has created a surface map of CO2 emissions across the United Kingdom. There’s more discussion here.
The New York Times: “Home buyers in predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods in New York City were more likely to get their mortgages last year from a subprime lender than home buyers in white neighborhoods with similar income levels.” The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy found that the “10 neighborhoods with the [...]
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