Archive for October, 2009

Layar for the iPhone

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 tool.  Utilizing GPS and compass [...]

October 14, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: augmented reality  One Comment

Update to my Google Maps Error Report

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: It does not appear that [...]

October 10, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: routing  2 Comments

Routing with the new Google Maps Data

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 appear to have originated with [...]

October 8, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Map Commentary, OSM, routing  5 Comments

Action Script on the iPhone Good News for GeoNerds?

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 UMapper and my employer’s site [...]

October 6, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: mobile mapping  One Comment

WhereCampPDX Locative Games Day

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 look more ghostlike.  Below is [...]

October 5, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: unconferences  2 Comments

WhereCampPDX Unconference Session Day Summary

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 was somewhat difficult to explain [...]

October 4, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: unconferences  4 Comments

GeoNerds in the Wave

Yesterday Google released Wave to 100,000 people to preview.  Previously I had sandbox access, but was looking forward to widerspread release so I would have more people to play with in the waves.
This first thing I did was to create a public geonerd wave.

At the time of this screenshot you can see I’m a little [...]

October 1, 2009   Posted in: Wave  2 Comments