OK, so tested Google, Bing, Yahoo, ESRI, Openlayers and MapServer mashups on the iPad, and much like on the iPhone, the slippy drag-and-droll interface doesn’t work. Except for one mashup. Take a guess?
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TECH 101 – Mashups For Planning Mobile Webinar Related:  5 comments  Database, Education, GIS, GISBlog, Geography, IMS, LBS, Mashup, OSGeo, Planning, Programming, Service, Social, Technology, Virtual Globe, Web  add, api, cowley, create, data, demo, earth, edu, Education, esri, evans, geo, georeference, GIS, gisblog.org, google, harsh, howto, image, javascript, jennifer, kml, map, marker, mash-up, Mashup, microsoft, opensource, osu, placemark, Planning, prakash, program, Service, Social, spatial, spreadsheet, Technology, Web, web2, webinar, wms, yahoo Category 1: The award for the ‘Best Use of Technology to Improve a Plan or Planning Process’ goes to Marc Schlossberg‘s (University of Oregon) ‘Engaging Citizens in Active Transportation Planning with Mobile GIS‘ for its creative use of technology in improving planning processes. Category 2: The award for the ‘Best Use of Technology for Public Participation’ goes . . . → Read More: Technology Division of the American Planning Association (APA) Awards for 2010 * Part 1 Related: “Big-City Rush Hour Blues Now Afflict Smaller Cities: 36 hours. That’s the additional time the average U.S. urban traveler spends on the road per year because of rush-hour congestion, according to the Texas Transportation Institute. What’s more, commuters in medium-size cities now face about the same delays that residents of “very large” cities experienced a quarter-century . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Rural Clusters and Relative Rurality Top 10 most congested metro areas: Related: America’s 10 Most Miserable Cities Related: CO2 emissions per capita: Carbon dioxide emissions in metric tons per capita Population: Midyear estimates of the resident population Related: Nearly 6 months after starting work on a Touch mapping project for kiosk deployment running Windows 7 RC on a HP TouchSmart, it sure is good to see touch taking-off. Slowly but surely: * Gateway One ZX6810-01 And yes, I used 3rd-party x64 drivers to turn it from single-touch to double-touch. So . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: A Touch of Play Interesting post @ Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Technology #Cartoon: Halloween . . . → Read More: Technology #Cartoon: Halloween Those investors who are rushing to their brokers for a piece of TeleNav’s IPO (TeleNav GPS Navigator needs extra cash to fight Google Map Navigation, or prep itself for a buyout), note that TeleNav (read LBS) has nothing to do with TeleAtlas of TomTom (read . . . → Read More: #TeleKinesis Wolfram|Alpha is an Answer Engine for the scientifically-minded, as opposed to a Search Engine: It takes your query, implied or otherwise, that critical step further by selecting from its list of matches, the one objective description, image etc, and lays them out in context. Not that Google never attempts definitive answers [chord], but when it does, . . . → Read More: Taking Wolfram|Alpha on an Alpha Run Selected Influenza A(H1N1) Maps Related: We are looking for a Senior Mobile Developer, GIS or otherwise, in the Washington DC Metro. Given the niche, pass it along to qualified professionals or contact me with your . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Job Oracle -> Sun -> MySQL Positioning Timeline * Oracle buys PeopleSoft (2004) * Oracle buys Siebel (2005) * Oracle . . . → Read More: Backdoor Buyer http://www.planning.org/divisions/tech/education/ http://techdivisionwebinars.eventbrite.com/ Related: First impressions after testing Microsoft’s Surface Table: It is a coffee-table sized hardware running Windows Vista and allowing collaborative interaction from up to 4-6 participants. The number of hand-gestures it can recognize is obviously higher than that of a standard touch-screen which can typically handle only a single tap and drag, and maybe multi-touch. On the other . . . → Read More: A Touch of Play Given the niche, pass it along to qualified professionals or contact me with your resume: Well, I have switched from b2evolution to WordPress CMS. And thanks to Apache’s mod_rewrite, I was able to keep all my old links intact. Here’s how: ### wordpress: http://www.spatiallink.org/gistools/discuss/weblogs/blogs/pi.php?m=200807 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} . . . → Read More: b2evolution 2 wordpress Although I am still on the fence on GISP given the relative lackluster, what APA has done with AICP‘s CM could give it some shine when it comes to creating a provider ecosystem. To quickly fill you in: Last year at its Leadership Meetings, APA launched the CM program for AICP. In short, it required professional planners . . . → Read More: GISP and AICP In reference to PerryGeo’s generosity comments, I have benefited from similar help. And the more I talk about it with other outdoor enthusiasts, the more I feel that that may just be a common trait of those professionals who get to work outdoors, especially the always helpful park service staff. The pace is relaxed, the rhythm . . . → Read More: Our Environment GEMMO is a massively multiplayer online game [MMOG or MMO] for Google Earth that allows you to “explore the world as you collect gold, fight evil monsters and try to collect the crystals that are guarded in major cities [19 so far] across the planet” without any additional software to download. Given the gathering whispers of . . . → Read More: Google Earth [GE] Hacks Quotes from the recent Net Neutrality Hearings: David L. Cohen, Vice-President, Comcast- ‘…on a “very limited basis” Comcast was delaying traffic in limited areas when there is heavy traffic.’”Don’t let the rhetoric of some of the critics scare you- there is nothing wrong with network management. Every network is managed.” Tim Wu, Professor, Columbia Law School- “I have . . . → Read More: Follow Up [2]: Debating Net Neutrality: A Nutshell I started the year with this ‘Time Management‘ video by Randy Pausch. You may know him from ‘The Last Lecture‘. His introduction is by Gabe- my website mentor at UVA Computer Science Web Team. A must-watch if you haven’t already. – π Related: • Medium Maximization: “A medium, for example, points or money, is a token people receive as the immediate reward of their effort. It has no value in and of itself, but it can be traded for a desired outcome. Experiments demonstrate that, when people are faced with options entailing different outcomes, the presence of a medium . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: The Power of Ten 1,000 CONTACTS > 100 VISITORS > 10 SIGN-UPS > 1 ACTIVE USER – π Related: Planning departments, especially those of smaller cities, have long hesitated because of technology, budgetary and other constraints to engage their constituents through web-based mapping tools. Part of the reason is simply an uneasiness with Web 2.0-esque mapping technologies. Well, these days they have less to worry about. That is, if they don’t mind piggy-backing on corporate giants. Recently, . . . → Read More: Mash-ups as Planning Tools BBC News | Special Reports: “Weather disasters ‘getting worse’” Related: Paul Ramsey points to Danny de Vries‘s take on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial [FOSS4G] 2007: “What we saw was a young and passionate movement not-so-subtly showcasing their dedication for open-source as a tool by which to challenge corporate, or closed-source, IT monopolies in the geospatial domain.” I want to underline the ‘showcasing’ part. It is . . . → Read More: Why Contribute What if Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft? Related: As the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance takes shape, I have been testing dominant WAP browsers on my 2-year old touchscreen PocketPC. This resulting post should narrow down the choices for those who follow: Deep Fish by Microsoft appears to be the most promising of the lot. Unfortunately, it is in a strict testing phase and no . . . → Read More: Mobile Browsers Try this page to compare Ruby‘s and Python‘s language elegance side-by-side. Spoiler Warning: There is a winner! To get you started: –π Related: I was a little surprised to find MapServer listed on Nessus- the network vulnerability scanner website chugging along on Apache/PHP: Its mention points to greater usage than earlier anticipated. So if even AGG- its Google-esque 5.0 rendering backend is not enough, here‘s another reason for -4.10.3 users to upgrade: Synopsis: Question: Choices: Answer: Bush Official Goes Nuclear in Net Neut Row. The Register. 2007 Related: Top 3 Contributions Over $2,000 from the Big 3:
Source: Related: –π Related: An impressive summary of presentations, but my professional favorite would be ‘IBM DB2 Express-C: A Free Database for Open Source Spatial and XML Development’. Although something tells me that something else might be the crowd favorite. On DB2 Express-C: It went free soon after its counter-weights Oracle XE and SQL Server XE last year, but its press . . . → Read More: My Pick of FOSS4G 2007 Presentation Submissions This GCN article titled ‘Geospatial and the elite: Old-school geographic information systems still dig deep on mapping and analyses’ points to a tortuous debate within the traditional GIS industry, and the new industry push to remodel itself as solely an “enterprise class” industry while it continues to loose ground to an increasing domestication or democratization of . . . → Read More: Elite Systems Research Institute, Inc. [ESRI] et al As I returned from the American Planning Association‘s 2007 National Planning Conference in Philadelphia, I rummaged through some past papers and chanced upon an offer letter that I have been unable to let go of. Thomas Jefferson or William Penn? When I look back to why I chose UVA over UPenn, the cost of living at Charlottesville v. . . . → Read More: Cost of Living and Higher Education The US Economic Development Administration [EDA], in conjunction with the State of Indiana, has recently released an interesting research titled “The Role of Regional Clusters: Unlocking Rural Competitiveness” [2007] on the benefits of regionalism in rural America. One of the primary objectives of this research is to help rural America find its competitive edge in our rapidly . . . → Read More: Rural Clusters and Relative Rurality This week I had the opportunity to listen to the Google Guys. Having earlier missed a similar opportunity for Jack Dangermond due to schedule conflicts, I made sure I was present at this seminar. On display were the GE Enterprise solutions- Fusion, Server and Enterprise Client. With GE Enterprise, you can sign into multiple servers, grab the . . . → Read More: Google Earth [GE] @ Work Here are four “events” from 2006 that I consider as evolutionary milestones of our burgeoning SIS industry: E2- ESRI finally catches up to GE. Almost Former senator Stafford of Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, familiar to anyone requesting, managing and mapping disaster grants under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program [HMGP] AKA Buyout Program, dies at 93. –π Related: Following on the heels of E2, Google recently consolidated GE’s usergroups through some interesting collaborations with Wikipedia and Panoramio. These follow earlier deals with UNEP, NASA, USGS, ESA, Discovery, National Geographic et al. These steps slowly push one other software- ESRI’s ArcGlobe, part of the ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension, further away from all that is important. ArcGlobe . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: ESRI Ketchup! “FEMA Told to Resume Storm Aid” Related: After months of wild speculations and foot-dragging, ESRI finally released ArcGIS Explorer- twice as big as Google Earth and a shade shy. Here is why: Google Earth [googleearth.exe] ESRI ArcGIS Explorer [E2.exe] Both show comparable spatial data displays . . . → Read More: ESRI Ketchup! As the Secretary/Treasurer of the Technology Division of APA, I recently had the opportunity to interview Ric Stephens, our Immediate Past Editor: π: So what got you into planning and publishing/editing? After . . . → Read More: Interview: Ric Stephens, Immediate Past Editor, Technology Division of the American Planning Association [APA] Here’s one of many reasons: “… And then the strange people of Asia- the Tartars, who are such splendid horsemen; the Arabs, who travel over the deserts upon camels, and at night stop and tell stories to each other; and the Hindoos, who burn their widows and drown their children, thinking these things are pleasing to God; . . . → Read More: Why do you like Geography? “Storm Surge Is Flood, Judge Says” Related: One of the pleasures of my current job is the annual opportunity to interact with professionals from around the world, thanks to the International Visitor Leadership Program. During these interactions, I share with the visiting delegations how regional government works in West Virginia. Mayoral Delegation from the Republic of Tajikistan, 2006 Public and Private Sector Delegation from the . . . → Read More: International Outreach According to TheStree.com, American Online recently bought Truveo. Note that this was predicted by Technology . . . → Read More: Follow Up [2]: Top 10 Technology Trends for 2006 ["comment"] More crystal ball gazing: A tough year ahead for Sony ["fate deserved, although XBox would probably hurt more"] 1. First there were WiFi hotspots, then hot zones ["even more so"] Yet more evidence of acceptance of Google Maps and through it, of spatial relevance, by established publications: A Guide to Commuting and Readers’ Stories In a related development, Microsoft continues to play catch-up with Google by acquiring GeoTango. However, with its “3D Internet Visualization- a truly open and web services-oriented solution”, . . . → Read More: Follow Up [4]: Graphic Software An intriguing article that may help those interested in best meeting project expectations in a team-setting. Here is my take on that- for rewards, it is often best if expectations are lower than the actual; for punishments, it is often best if expectations are higher than the actual; so that in both cases, the resulting momentum . . . → Read More: Brain Hypnosis “Building a Better Boom … The Internet is exciting again, and once again folks are rushing in. In some categories – like search or social networking, for example – there are scores of start-ups vying for pretty much the same market, and it’s certain that, just like last time, most of them will fail. But regardless of all . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Memorandum Excerpt, Alleged From: Bill Gates “… Ten years ago this December, I wrote a memo entitled The Internet Tidal Wave which described how the internet was going to forever change the landscape of computing… Five years ago we focused our strategy on .NET . . . → Read More: Memorandum Excerpt, Alleged: Internet Software Services It’s time to move these to del.icio.us: http://labs.google.com/ Google’s showcase http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/googlemaps/ks_gm.cfm SDE+GMap http://opensource.nokia.com/ Nokia in opensource WAP http://www.webstyleguide.com/ Web style guide http://robin.sourceforge.net/ Browser-based desktop This week Yahoo released its own take on online mapping. Its new service includes both Flash and AJAX APIs coupled with the ability to geocode. If you think about it, sooner or later this had to happen- developers finally mustering the courage to embrace arty Macromedia Flash for distributing spatial information in a big way, like Geocentric. . . . → Read More: Follow Up [3]: Graphic Software “Rethinking Flood Insurance” [09/21/2005]: A timely but poorly-researched editorial in The Washington Post on the levee problems plaguing the National Flood Insurance Program. As much as some may cringe to what they see as their tax-dollars being spent on bail out, the often-omitted fact remains that many New Orleanians were not required by the National Flood Insurance . . . → Read More: Follow Up [2]: Katrina Links WIKI Expounding on my earlier post on this disaster management and planning, the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 had laid down . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Katrina Links Katrina While on this disaster as one watches events unfold, it becomes clear that an infuriating management style marked by a “hands-off” approach that is prone to making excuses for ignored red flags can only get rewarded for ideological and rhetorical reasons rather than merit. And . . . → Read More: Katrina Links On the eve of the launch of Virtual Earth, as Microsoft plays catch-up with Google‘s high-rate of innovation, here’s a transcript of some tete-a-tete: [Sometime before 2000] Now that I would update the DFIRM WIKI more frequently, I added a lock this past weekend to prevent simultaneous editing. And after being hit by abuse through automated comments, basic verification was also added while still allowing relatively hassle-free editing. At some point, I may submit these improvements back . . . → Read More: WIKI: Edit Lock Schema The definition of GIS has evolved from ‘Geographic Information System’ to ‘Geospatial Information System’. It is time that it takes the next logical step to ‘Spatial Information System’. My earlier post wrestled, well not quiet, for a truer understanding of “GIS” given the advent of non-traditional spatial software. Since then I have been convinced that spatial . . . → Read More: A Rose by Any Other Name “As we become aware of the ethical implications of design, not only with respect to buildings, but in every aspect of human endeavour, they reflect changes in the historical concept of who or what has rights. When you study the history of rights, you begin with the Magna Carta which was about the rights of white, . . . → Read More: Declaration of Interdependence Website dodgeball: Mobile Social Software The primary objective of this blog is to mull over industry trends and abstract ideas relevant to the profession, not to regurgitate “operational details”. However, this post may bend that rule. For those not in the know, a webpage does a lot of behind-the-scene work before it spits-out text on the screen. Here’s a summary of what . . . → Read More: Half-life of a Webpage Two companies whose product GUI I enjoy interfacing with- Adobe and Macromedia, announced their merger earlier this month. Both their flagship products have become industry-standards in exchanging documents and creating experience-rich applications across platforms. The largely unused spatial potential within Macromedia Flash combined with the increasingly widespread use of Adobe PDF/SVG maps and the sprouting of some . . . → Read More: Follow Up [2]: Graphic Software A quick note on the happenings at Google: Yesterday, Google added satellite imagery to its mapping. For speedy displays, 256px*256px JPEG image-tiles scanned at different zoom-levels and each weighing around 30 KB, coupled with some nifty AJAX come handy. Such a drag-and-drool tiling paradigm, although practised for some time now by website developers to load large images, . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Map Viewer and Google It is good to know that some professionals concur with the views expressed in my earlier post on the potential for graphic software, like Macromedia Flash. One comment links to an impressive demonstration of this largely . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Graphic Software My pick of technology-related headlines from The New York Times Page One 1851-2002: Nutshell: “‘Substituting tax-increase with state lottery’ [Policy - Director/Manager/Planner] as a means to generate additional revenue. Here, it becomes important to first find the ‘percentage of non-gamblers/gamblers/disinterested in the effected constituency’ [Information - Spatial Analyst] because ‘opposition to such a move is more likely to come from non-gamblers’ [Theory - Planner]“. Nutshell adapted from [Skinner, B. Beyond . . . → Read More: Making Public Policy: A Nutshell Below is a simple inquiry into how natural check could kick-in from a market stand-point to curtail a growing population. Although, a more interesting inquiry would have been “when” would it kick-in? First, a sample population was divided into 3 basic groups- consumers, laborers and producers. Then the general effect of each on the other because of . . . → Read More: Population π NOAA: Tsunami Research Program What is the most effective method to spread the digital wave, especially of the spatial kind, in rural communities and developing countries? The following links offer some fodder, although Korea left the company of developing nations some time ago. A lot of talk has centered around the potential of wireless to bridge the digital chasm between . . . → Read More: Wanted: Proactive Policies The discussion “So …How About That Election Coverage?” at Directions Magazine makes you think about graphic software, like Macromedia Flash, that cater to small-time spatial needs. Such graphic software, minus the topology and advanced query benefits, function well as basic spatial tools and comfortably serve data over the web with a “fair” amount of interactivity. Does this make . . . → Read More: Graphic Software As the year-end inches closer, let us look at one significant industry trend: Interesting blog on Life With Alacrity about Social Software. For the ignoramus, crudely put Social Software or Groupware or Collaborative Software is software that facilitates group interaction. Often, there is “no overt coordination with the group functioning as an aggregation of interested individuals” rather than as a cohesive unit. Two intriguing perspectives on the internet from the . . . → Read More: Social Software Interesting web-based map viewer- very snazzy. Now only if the download was quicker. In related news, Google acquires Keyhole: a company promising a similar 3D interface. Right now, if you google an address, Google provides links to its 2D maps from Yahoo!Maps and MapQuest. Google also provides possible address matches and map links if you type in . . . → Read More: Map Viewer and Google |
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