OpenStreetMap: Grassroots Mapping
OpenStreetMap was founded with the goal of creating and providing free geographic data to whoever wants it. With an army of 5,000 volunteers who hit … Read more
Thanskgiving and Christmas Travel According to Foursquare
Foursquare has released a map showing travel via plane, train, and automobile covering the heavy travel season between October and December of 2010. Airplane travel … Read more
A Quarter of Adult Americans Use Location-Based Services
A new survey by the Pew Internet and American Life project has found that 28% of Americans use mobile and social location-based services (LBS). The … Read more
Spatial History of Foursquare
Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of Foursquare, has a brief walking history of the early days of the location-based social site. A lot of bars and … Read more
Geospatial Redux: ESRI Changes Its Pronunciation, Foursquare Coming to Bing Maps, ESRI Mashup Winners Announced
ESRI Changes Its Pronunciation Apparently the name I’ve been mispronouncing for over sixteen years is now the correct pronunciation. James Fee first reported on the … Read more