What is special about Geospatial?

There are already some videos about Where 2.0 conference online. To view these go to: http://where.blip.tv

One very interesting talk is from Adrian Holovaty, who was talking about: “Everyblock: A Newsfeed for your Block”.

In the end of his presentation he encuraged the audience: “Roll your own maps”. With standard maps like Google Maps, Yahoo Maps you get a lot of stuff but maybe you don’t really need this for your own map application. Additional you have no contol over:

• color
• fonts
• text size
• behavior over zoom levels
• road widths
• languages

of your maps. If you publishing a website you maybe use templates but you want to have full control to design you own cooperative identity. Why do we accept ‘no control’ for our maps? Personalisation become increasingly importance - also for maps. Therefore I thik this will change.

Further details on this topic: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/takecontrolofyourmaps

Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.

Eye-Fi has presented new WiFi-Cards in the size of a SD-card. There are models names Eye-Fi Explore, Home and Share. The Modle Exe-Fi Explore costs about 130 US-Dollar. This card saves the approximate location of the place where the picture was taken - without GPS.

The georeference works with the service of Skyhook and therefore worksonly near WiFi Hotspot, where the location is known. This techniques is already used from Apple (e.g. iPod touch). The problem with this technique is the coverage. It works quite well in city with a lot of georeferenced WiFi Hotspot but on the countyside there currently are some limitations. In the USA Wayprot services can be used for upload. In the price of the cards there is a an one year free usage of this service included.