Mobile GIS
Using GPS to Turn a Hill into a Mountain
Graham Jackson and John Barnard, along with Myrddyn Phillips, are hillwalkers who use GPS equipment to re-measure hills designated by the Ordnance Survey to be just under the 2,000 foot minimum to be classified as a mountain.
Geosocial Exergames
A new International Journal of Health Geographics Editorial by Kamel Boulos and Yang discusses how mobile exergames for GPS (global positioning system)-enabled smartphones and mini-tablets can take players outdoors, in the open air, unlike console exergames (such as those using Kinect). The rise in popularity of geosocial exergames coincides with the increase in GPS-enabled devices and ways to [...]
Take Me Home, GPS Shoes
Never get lost again with these GPS shoes. Know of someone with the worst sense of direction? Well, there is good news for those who frequently get lost while they are out on walks around town – there is a new pair of shoes that will always be able to guide them home. Artist and [...]
Geolocation Nightmare – When Cell Phones Lie About Location
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has a story about geolocation gone wrong. Two years ago, the retired 59-year old Wayne Dobson started to have to deal with strangers knocking on his door, demanding that he give them their missing phone back. Police have been called on him, he has received letters from people begging him to [...]
Wearable Cartography – Portable Mapping System
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a portal mapping system that transmits remotely a digital map of the wearer’s environment. The concept behind the technology is known as simultaneous localization and mapping or SLAM and previously had only been applied to mapping by robots. The device was conceived as a way to [...]