Recently Google Updated their Google Charts API. Now there are some new chart types available. These new chart types and the new unlimited API calls for the Chart API makes this API even more useful.
Interesting is the new chart type Map. this chart type allows you to color countries of the world. For the map cou can choose either a world map or maps from the continents. For more information check the official google sites.
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The portal swisstrains.ch is trying to provide real time train poistions on the internet. It is planned to record the locations of the trains via GPS and visualize the location on Google Maps.
Currently the site is in ALPHA-phase, we keep on developing. The current view is based on the Swiss traintimetable, and does not yet show the actual GPS-positions of the trains. But, as Swiss trains are almost always on time, most of the time the position is accurate.
In near Future this is a good tool especially if these can be visualized on your mobile phone. I think this is very usefull for Location Based Services (LBS) and Location Based Decision Support (LBDS).
[via www.swisstrains.ch]
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Spatial applications arise from a strong tradition of of the importance of spatial information and techniques to represent our place or other phenomena in our world. Maps are the basic concept to achive this.
Maps are informative.
Maps are directive.
Maps are aesthetic.
Maps are a lot of things.
Maps are changing…
In the era of the internet and new Web 2.0 techniques the question arise how much is the unterstanding about spatial information changing? What’s new in mapping? Is it a little or a lot? It think it is a lot and a little.
Hockenberry has a great presentation on this entitled with Design of Spatial Applications.
[via Hockenberry, MIT]
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Spend 30 seconds for this clip and test your awareness;
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Biside high resolution aerial photos of the provinicial capitals of Austria Herold.at provides enhanced photos for Wiener Neustadt, Wels, Villach, Kitzbühel, Steyr, Hartberg, Linz-Umgebung, Leoben und Kufstein. This was communicated by the Herold company on Tuesday.
They assert that their service is ahead of others in Austria:
“Damit beweisen wir einmal mehr, dass wir bei Luftbildaufnahmen von Österreich eindeutig die Nase vorne haben”, so Herold-CEO Thomas Friess.
The high resolution photos were taken on October 2007 with an altitude of 2500 meters. It is not possible to recognize any peole on the records.
Simmilar to other services like Google Maps, Yahoo Maps or Live Maps the user can choose between “map“, “satellite” or “hybrid” view. Additional Points of Interests (POI), like ATMs, hotels, parking areas, post offices, restaurants or gas stations can be visualized.
[via derStandard]
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