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Rural areas are home to most of the nearly 100 closed post offices in the last five years. That can mean that residents need to drive 15 more miles to the nearest facility. One elderly man died en route to the next closes post office during a snow st…Read more

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I’ve noted that every paper of any size has, in the past few years, run and article about how Tele Atlas, NAVTEQ or now Google and other organizations are collecting street level data. The new crop of obligatory articles are about local startups …Read more

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The Philippine Chamber of Real Estate and Builders Association’s (CREBA) CREBALAND, its technical arm, announced the the Philippines “first fully-automated Web GIS parcellary mapping service,” It’s known as MapSys.Ph [site down as I write this] and “…Read more

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Google have released Street View imagery in Norway and Finland. There also seems to have been lots more Street View imagery added in Canada, the USA, and Mexico._________________

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The clip below details a visualisation of municipality of Skopje (Macedonia) in 2014.

The St. Konstantin and Elena church and Alexa nder the Great monument are part of the Skopje 2014 project which envisages the transformation of the central district of the city:

The visualisation is in stark contrast to the most of the renders and animations we feature here on du and in many ways that is a good thing, indeed by the end of the clip with the rousing music we were quite getting into it. That said, we cant comment on the soundness of the plan – take a look at Macedonia: Online Rebellion Against “Skopje 2014? Plan for full details on the reaction so far.

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Parlez-Vous Français? Well, if you do and you want to learn how to build applications using The Bing Maps Platform have I got a book for you. Yesterday, at Microsoft Tech Days France, I met Nicolas Boonaert who is the author of the first and only book about Bing Maps, “Bing Maps – Guide complet de la cartographie interactive (Broché).” Now, this is not to be confused with my good friend Chandu Thota’s book “Programming MapPoint in .NET” or Microsoft Research’s (and former MapPoint Technical Evangelist) B.J. Holtgrewe’s “MapPoint for Dummies.” Boonaert’s book is a great read for anyone interested in developing anything in Bing Maps including 3D, AJAX, Silverlight and Mobile. He even touches a bit on licensing. From the

Amazon.com France web site: “Ce livre sur Bing Maps (anciennement Virtual Earth) s’adresse à des développeurs débutants à confirmés, curieux de la cartographie interactive et des nouvelles technologies orientées Web. Le livre couvre l’ensemble des possibilités de l’API Bing Maps for Entreprise de Microsoft, à travers des cas concrets, rencontrés en entreprise, pratiques et réutilisables. Ces exemples illustrent comment intégrer des données géolocalisées de manière simple mais proposent aussi des fonctionnalités de recherche interactive et surtout, intègrent les dernières technologies pour un rendu multimédia riche. La richesse de ces cas d’utilisation permet au lecteur de bien cerner l’importance que peut prendre la cartographie dans les développements orientés web, les RIA, les périphériques mobiles et même les interfaces de demain comme la table Microsoft Surface. Les exemples proposés sont particulièrement adaptés au langage C# dans la plate-forme .NET. Le code source est en téléchargement sur cette page. Les chapitres du livre : Introduction – Historique et évolutions – Description technique de Bing Maps – Bing Maps et le contrôle JavaScript – Bing Maps et Silverlight – Le service web Bing Maps 1.0 – La mobilité et le service Bing Maps – Un service interopérable – Projets libres – Analyse concurrentielle : Microsoft Bing Maps et les autres APIs.”

Definitely worth the 39 euro price tag.

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Remember when President Obama announced support for a national smart grid? Well, we’re seeing some of this money being put to good use on the National Grid web site in the form of smart grid data visualization using The Bing Maps Platform. In partnership with iFactor Consulting, The National Grid now has 5 areas (Massachusetts, Nantucket, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Upstate New York) online outlining coverage areas and pinpoint outage issues in a simple to use application.

In a mail from Brad Selio,” National Grid US recently completed the release of a new section of their website, called Outage Central. The functionality on this site is powered by iFactor Consulting’s Storm Center product, and delivers real-time power outage information to customers, the media, and emergency officials. The interactive outage maps on the site are built using Microsoft Bing Maps, providing a powerful, easy to use mapping experience which detailed data coverage throughout the service territory. The solution also features interactive forms which allow a user to check current outage status and report power problems. These forms are built using the ASP.NET 3.5 platform from Microsoft, which powers both the presentation and application layers for this functionality.”

National Grid is an international electricity and gas company and one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world. We play a vital role in delivering gas and electricity to many millions of people across Great Britain and northeastern US in an efficient, reliable and safe manner. National Grid owns the high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales and operates the system across Great Britain. It also owns and operates the high pressure gas transmission system in Britain and its distribution business delivers gas to 11 million homes and businesses. In the US, National Grid delivers electricity to approximately 3.3 million customers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, and manages the electricity network on Long Island under an agreement with the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). National Grid owns over 4,000 megawatts of contracted electricity generation that provides power to over one million LIPA customers. National grid is also the largest distributor of natural gas in the northeastern US, serving approximately 3.4 million customers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island.

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Last week sometime we told you guys we were giving away some free promo codes for Kapten GPS navigation system for the iPhone. Well we had 15 promo codes and only 22 of you took the time to leave a comment and enter the drawing. So instead of picking winners for the GPS navigation system app we decided to choose the 7 losers using our random integer generator. So here are those losers that unfortunately did not win anything. The rest 15 of you! We know who you are we’ll email you your promo codes! Thanks for participating.

And if you want to learn more about the Kapten for iPhone check out their page here. Their specialty is that it is a multi-transport GPS navigation system; meaning it can tell you to drive somewhere, make you hop on the bus, and then tell you which direction to walk.

Brought to you by your GPS navigation site NaviGadget.

Kapten iPhone GPS navigation app winners

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Last week Apple provided further direction to its developer community regarding the implementation of location-based ads in apps destined for its App Store. The LBS apps must “provide beneficial information,” and will not be accepted if they use “loc…Read more

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The Winter Olympics start this weekend and there’s no shortage of ways to enjoy them. That includes via map mashups showing facilities, parking and the path of the torch relay. All thanks to the Google Maps API and Microsoft’s Bing Maps API.

Microsoft’s Vancouver office even put together a contest for its developers to create useful visitor applications. Among the half dozen entries are the parking finder shown below and MoBuddy, a mobile social networking app that was awarded the gold medal.

The official site of the olympic games gets in on the fun, too. It uses a Google flash map to track the olympic torch.

The Google Lat Long blog planned ahead. It talked to Vancouver experts, including the premier of British Columbia. In December it shared the favorite places of notable Vancouverites in a series of My Maps.

Transparent Map ComparisonsImagine a world where Google Maps had cycle routes!This map mashup allows you to compare Google Maps with OpenStreetMaps. It is possible to select from Google Street maps, satellite imagery, topographic maps and Yahoo Maps as a base layer and then view various OpenStreetMap layers superimposed on top.The map includes a transparency slider so it is possible to adjust the

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Google has just pushed out a ton of new imagery in StreetView, including:

Norway: All new
Finland: All new
Canada: More added, primarily in Saskatchewan and Alberta, possibly more in Quebec and Ontario.
Mexico: Various locations
USA: Alaska

It’s quite likely that other imagery has been added as well, but we haven’t discovered it yet.

A couple of highlights from the imagery so far:

Helsinki Cathedral, Finland

The Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway

If you find any other areas that have new StreetView imagery in this update, please leave a comment and let us know.

Nod to ‘Munden’ at Google Earth Hacks for being the first to discover the new imagery.

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We have had a smashing imagery release with more than 130,000 square kilometres of Bird’s Eye Imagery and for the first time featuring Romania.

Additionally we released more than 1.2 million square kilometre of ortho-imagery split into:

• Satellite Imagery at 60 cm resolution,
• a complete refresh of Portugal with Aerial Imagery at 50 cm resolution,
• the Vancouver area with Aerial Imagery at 30 cm resolution

The updated regions are mapped here.

And for the fans of Microsoft Live Labs Pivot: you’ll find the collection here.

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The Geobloggers website noticed today that Google have started using Flickr photographs in Street View.When you open Street View in Google Maps the ‘User Photos’ option often appears in the top right hand corner. If you select this option you can view photographs of the same view from Panoramio, Picasa and now from Flickr.The User Photos option includes a neat ‘Photosynth’ type experience

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• Satellite Imaging Provides Glimpse Into Past, Future Problems – AOL News
  An article about Tom Sever, NASA’s recently-retired staff archeologist.

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