Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Every day, countless people use Google Maps or other online mapping services to figure out how to walk or drive from one place to another. But for the 185 million people in wheelchairs around the globe, stairs and other uneven surfaces are constant obstacles in their daily lives. One year ago this month, 31-year-old social entrepreneur
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
A prominent lava flow descends the eastern flank of Kizimen Volcano, located in the Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) in this false-color satellite image acquired on September 4, 2011 (top). An image of the peak from September 6, 2009 (lower), shows the extent of the changes that have occurred since Kizimen began erupting in late 2010. Read More
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Rotterdam’s public transport company RET is planning to use facial recognition technology to make sure people who have been banned from using the city’s trams don’t sneak on anyway, local television station RTV Rijnmond reports. RET is planning to install cameras in every compartment on the tram 2 route to test the system. Read More
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Sheffield shines out as the soar-away winner of the solar stakes in the UK, with more solar power generation added in the city per household than in any other British city, according to a league table published on Monday. Northern cities have been the unexpected winners from the boom in renewable energy that has followed
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Heard of e-governance, e-commerce, e-banking, e–learning: but many of us might not be knowing G-governance. “G-governance” or good governance is a relatively new term that is often used to describe the desired objective of a nation-state’s political development. The principles of good governance, however, are not new. Good governance is, in short, efficient administrative set-up
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Councilor President Elipe said Mindanao has the longest period of dry season and has less rain and typhoons compared to Luzon and Visayas. He said harnessing solar power in the island can complement existing coal-fired plants and hydro energy in Mindanao to take advantage of the Renewable Energy Act. “If we are able to harness and apply
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Land Information of New Zealand has made available a great set of 1:50,000 scale Topographic Maps. I downloaded all 455 of the maps covering the main island of New Zealand and coverted them to a seamless Google Earth overlay. The quality and resolution of the source images has been retained, so they might load a
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
The world’s newest carbon trading scheme could be linked to its largest carbon market if negotiations between Australia and the EU prove successful. Australia’s top 500 carbon emitters will be forced to pay $23 per tonne from July next year until a full carbon trading system is introduced in 2015 under controversial plans announced by prime minister Julia
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Samsung has released an app called High Fidelity Position that would add support for the Russian positioning system GLONASS for improved location accuracy on the company’s Windows Phone handsets. The app, available for free in Windows Phone Marketplace, would help Samsung Windows Phone 7 obtain more reliable location position through the use of both the
Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Cloud computing furnishes technological capabilities – commonly maintained off-premise that are delivered on demand as a service via the Internet. American Sentinel University Professor Gabriel Schmidbauer says cloud computing makes setting up the GIS system simpler, because the system is built into the servers. “Basically, you don’t have to go through the very rigorous process of
