http://www.maploser.com On a quest to find out where. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:08:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I'm off on a 2 and a half week trip with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in Haiti. After the earthquake in January OpenStreetMap proved to be an invaluable basemap of Haiti. Initially all of the edits were occurring remotely from all over the world. The community within ... http://www.maploser.com/?p=274 Back in October I spoke at Ignite DC #2 about MappingDC and OpenStreetMap.  An Ignite event structure is 16 speakers who each speak for 5 minutes with auto-rotating slides. This was my first time participating in Ignite as a speaker and it was great to talk about mapping. ... http://www.maploser.com/?p=267 Since the earthquake occurred in Haiti I've been fortunate to be involved with a tremendous group of people. I've unfortunately been too busy working with that group to write about it at all. Sitting on a plane has fortunately given me the opportunity to reflect and be able ... http://www.maploser.com/?p=265 Today I received notification that the problem I reported on Google Maps was corrected.  You can now route through White's Ferry between Leesburg and Martinsburg, MD.  Below is the response I received: Google Maps has been updated to correct the problem you reported. You can see the update here, and if ... http://www.maploser.com/?p=236 Today Layar became available for the iPhone.  Previous to this Layar was the only application that made me truly jealous of those that had Android devices.  Described as a "Layar Reality Browser" I think that it is a major step in transferring augmented reality from a toy into a useful ... http://www.maploser.com/?p=221 I received notification from Google today that I was right.  We'll see when the update actually occurs: Hi Kate, Your Google Maps problem report has been reviewed, and you were right! We'll update the map within a month and email you when you can see the change. Report history Problem ID: 0xbca26e97c9d22b08 Your report: ... http://www.maploser.com/?p=217 I spent some time look around Google Maps since they stopped using Teleatlas in the United States this week.  Essentially I poked around looking for errors that are usually in the street vendor data.  Mostly these are minor errors such as a single line segment misspelled.   The problems usually ... http://www.maploser.com/?p=213 I'm somewhat interested to see what comes out of Adobe's announcement this week of the ability to build iPhone applications with ActionScript.  This isn't actual Flash support on the iPhone but somewhat intriguing anyway.  There are many businesses that utilize Flash for the mapping portion of their site such as ... http://www.maploser.com/?p=210 Sunday at WhereCampPDX was Locative Games. I played PacManhattan and did some geocaching.  I had heard of PacManhattan before, but playing is believing.  Essentially it is PacMan, but played in the real world with real people as both PacMan and the ghosts.  All of the ghosts wore rain ponchos to ... http://www.maploser.com/?p=205 Yesterday was the unconference session portion of WhereCampPDX.  Meaning that there were sessions.  I lead a discussion on OpenStreetMap in the United States.  It was the first time people have worded questions to me in the form of "What does the OpenStreetMap think about...."  Getting across the free flowing community ... http://www.maploser.com/?p=200