Tag: mapping
Offline maps app Maps.me goes free!
Japan's Terra Motors to make map-making electric scooter with iPhone connection
In terms of maps and location services, we all have it pretty good, with the ability to find ourselves as long as there's a mobile signal. But less mapped areas such as South East Asia, don't have such easy access…
Dubai, Saigon, Hanoi and Geneva get "street view" mapping, no thanks to Google…
Hoping to take a virtual tour of Dubai, Saigon, Hanoi or Geneva from the comfort of your computer desk? Well that hasn't been possible, as they are just a few of the many cities yet to be given the Google…
Avoid getting lost to snow blindness with the ViewRanger "off-road" sat nav
If you're feeling a bit "Ray Mears" and are planning on braving the great outdoors despite the chilly weather, you might want to consider taking the ViewRanger "off-raod" sat nav with you. Running on any S60 Smartphone and now coming…
New York goes photorealistic in Google Earth
Now isn’t that pretty? It’s how New York looks in Google Earth. Every building on Manhattan Island has now been meticulously mapped out and covered with photographic textures. It joins LA, San Francisco, and Berlin. When’s London due, eh?
Want to fly around the Big Apple yourself? Simply download Google Earth, fly to New York City, and turn on the 3D buildings layer. Then give it a minute to download the data, and Bob’s your uncle. You’ll need to buy him a Christmas present. Click over the jump for a ‘before’ picture of how the city looked in January last year.
Last.fm mashup maps every artist ever
This beautiful cloud represents the entirety of music. Every single artist tracked by Last.fm is marked as a point on the map, and ‘similar’ artists are connected by a grey line. The size of each point reflects the popularity of the artist, and different colours represent different genres.
It’s the creation of Budapest University PhD candidate Nepusz Tamas, who hammered Last.FM’s servers for over a week with a request every five seconds. Unfortunately, the only way to interact with the map is to pinpoint your favourite bands, and you can’t zoom in, but it’s still a beautiful representation of the world’s listening habits.
Reconstructing the structure of the world-wide music scene with Last.fm (via Listening Post)
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Google Earth now on the iPhone
Rejoice – fans of geocaching. Google Earth is now available on Apple’s iPhone. Several Google apps are already available on the platform, and the inbuilt mapping application uses Google maps data, but until now there was no access to Google’s archive of 3D terrain data. That’s just changed…
Guess what The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium is up to these days?
It is sequencing the DNA of a potato.
The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium, who we would very much like to work for, reckons it will have the white potato perfectly sequenced by 2010, which will help with things like making them grow in the apocalyptic desert wastelands of the future.
It’s not an easy task – even something as seemingly simple as a potato is made up of 840 million DNA pairs. One pair tells it how thick the skin is. One pair tells it what leaves to grow. Another pair is in charge of telling it to grow the potatoes underground instead of on branches…
Nokia will use Navteq technology for pedestrian navigation, tagging, photos and videos
Nokia has said that it plans to use the mapping technology from recently acquired company Navteq to develop the mapping applications it can offer to its handset users. An area it believes is "totally underdeveloped" is pedestrian location-based services. having…
ViaMichelin now offers Top Table and MyVillage information and listings
ViaMichelin has announced two new partnerships which will expand its online listings and information service at ViaMichelin.com. Deals with TopTable.co.uk and MyVillage.co.uk will allow users to see location, contact, menu and price information for over 2,500 toptable restaurants across the…
