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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Research and Markets announced this week the addition of the “GeoFencing: Enabling Location-Based Reminders, Ads, Promotions, Proactive Apps, Security & More”report to their offering.
What is GeoFencing? It is an application that runs automatically on your smartphone so that when you get near a relevant location, that location or vendor can target their services to you the user and to the location.
If you use your smartphone calendar and to-do list, GeoFencing will let you know you are passing a store that sells the item on your to-do list that you need. If you’re a retailer then GeoFending will run your shop’s app while a user is passing the store in that location, signaling him/her with an appropriate product suggestion. It is also good for advertisers, parents, for social networking, for interoffice communication, always letting you know of what or who nearby might be appropriate for you to talk to.
There are a number of hurdles yet to be scaled for GeoFencing, such as the fact that running the phone GPS might drain the device’s battery. Also, timing and the range of the GPS are factors.
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Tags: GeoFencing, geospatial, GIS, GPS, Research and Markets, smartphones
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Remote sensing aficionados will be pleased to know that Astrium Services is launching their Pléiades 1B on Friday, 30 November 2012 at 11:02 pm Kourou local time (Saturday, 1 December 2:02 UTC). Pleiades 1B is the second satellite in the Pléiades constellation and will be orbited by a Soyuz launcher from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. Arianespace at www.arianespace.tv will be the official broadcasters of the launch.
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Tags: Astrium Services, geospatial, GIS, Pleiades constellation, remote sensing, satellites
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Friday, November 16th, 2012
The California Department of Transportation (DOT) consulting to Caltrans, is using StreetMapper to survey more than 7,000 bridges in California. StreetMapper is a mobile mapping system that in this case is being used by survey technology company Terrametrix who was contracted by Caltrans to do the survey.
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Tags: bridge height surveys, Caltrans, geospatial, GIS, mapping, mobile mapping, StreetMapper
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
The primary markets for geospatial solutions for Bentley software appear to be utilities and civil. As the data that can be put into a building information model becomes more complex and analytical, the need to incorporate some level of analytics and spatial information becomes greater.
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Tags: Bentley Systems, geospatial, GIS, mapping, mobile, sewer, utilities, water and storm
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
Google released a “Superstorm Sandy” CrisisMap on Oct. 25 some days before Hurricane Sandy made landfall, complete with roadwork advisories, fuel inventory statuses, power outage information and more.
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Tags: Apple Maps, crisis mapping, crisis response, geospatial, GIS, Google Maps, Hurricane Sandy, mapping, relief efforts
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Monday, November 5th, 2012
The Project: 512 Paths to the White House by Mike Bostock, The New York Times
This is a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a visualization by The New York Times:
“The space of electoral college calculators is fairly well-trodden, so at first it seemed hard to do something new. The big problem here is the combinatorial explosion (2^n): even if you consider only nine states, you have 512 possible outcomes! So, you don’t offer much insight by simply enumerating outcomes or allowing undirected exploration. The challenge is to preserve minute details (micro) while providing an effective visual summary (macro).
We settled on a binary tree early on, but it wasn’t until Shan had the idea of collapsing parts of the tree into “decision” nodes that the design clicked. By pruning subtrees below the 270-vote threshold, you reduce the complexity substantially. More importantly, you get a much faster sense of what matters: who wins! And from there it was “just” a matter of implementation and refinement.
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Tags: binary tree, election map, geospatial, mapping, New York Times, White House
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
The Superstom Sandy arrived at an inopportune time (not that there is an opportune time) that affected voter turnout in the 2012 US presidential election. Esri has created a map that explores precinct-level data from the 2008 election overlaid on FEMA impact zones for the disaster. Darker shaded counties indicate areas that were most damaged by the storm.
http://www.esri.com/news/maps/2012/superstorm-sandy/election-map.html
Tags: disaster, election, ESRI, FEMA, Hurricane Sandy, mapping
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