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Author Archives: John Reiser
Google’s historic aerials have shuffled dates.
Before Google Earth 5 had come out, I had commented to a few people that the dates for the aerial photos (which used to be displayed in the bottom center of the screen) were way off for New Jersey. The … Continue reading
Posted in Aerial Photography, Data, Google, Google Earth, Web Mapping
Tagged Aerial Photography, Google Earth, Google Maps, new jersey, Oops, Technology
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Tweets Mapped During Super Bowl
The New York Times has a great interactive map showing Twitter activity during the Super Bowl. I absolutely love what the New York Times has been doing.
Latest Google Earth has historic aerial photography
Digital Urban has a writeup of one of the newest, perhaps most exciting feature to be added to Google Earth. Historic aerial photography! For many places around the globe, you now have access to previous aerial photography, as far back … Continue reading
Posted in Aerial Photography, Google, Google Earth, New Jersey State Atlas, Planning, Technology, Web Mapping
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App designed to steal apps stolen
Gizmodo has an interesting exchange between one of their bloggers and the developer of an iPhone App that’s designed to help you steal other iPhone apps. He’s upset that Gizmodo linked to a cracked version, not his official version. Oh, … Continue reading
Posted in Mac OS X, Technology
Tagged cracked, iPhone App, irony
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Google hits deer, posts pictures on web
A Google Street View car hit a deer while imaging a road in upstate New York. You can still see the deer in the driveway in this Street View. The Register has the pictures of the incident. The pictures have … Continue reading
Posted in Cars, Google, Google Earth, Technology, Web Mapping
Tagged Google, Google Maps, Redacted, street view
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Wired on Open-Source Planning
Atanas sent me a link to this article on Wired about the Open Planning Project. I think the Open Planning Project is a great group and GeoServer is a cool application, however I think Wired missed the point. They quote … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Technology, Web Mapping
Tagged Community Visioning, Geoserver, GIS, open source, Planning
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Michael Batty on the Growth of Cities
Over on Digital Urban, Professor Michael Batty discusses the limits of city growth. I had the opportunity to meet Professor Batty after a talk he gave at Rutgers.
Posted in Planning
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Unsold cars requiring more and more space
Automobile manufacturers are cutting back on production as they cannot sell what they have on hand. This results in the staging areas at the ports becoming crowded with new cars that have nowhere to go. I find this ironic (in … Continue reading
Posted in Cars, In the News, Planning, Transportation
Tagged america, Cars, sprawl
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Location-Based Services on the BlackBerry Platform
I just recently picked up a BlackBerry Bold. I admit, I’m a CrackBerry addict; I’m an even bigger fan now that I know their browser has a GPS location object that is accessible through JavaScript. I have a sample set … Continue reading
Posted in New Jersey State Atlas, Technology
Tagged blackberry, gps, javascript, mobile, national grid, nj state atlas, usng
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