After the user is prompted for his or her address, the Google Maps API fetches and incorporates dynamic maps and street view data of the user's hometown into the animated content of the video itself.
One of uses best known to the general public will be on their phones and computers through Google, which incorporates Landsat data into its Earth and Maps applications.
The Department of Energy, as part of its efforts to promote clean energy, launched OpenEI.org, containing dozens of clean energy resources and data sets, including maps of worldwide solar and wind potential, information on climate zones, and energy best practices.
While there are unresolved questions over privacy, who owns the data behind digital maps and whether people can opt in - or out - of appearing on them, they will "redefine what we do" says Prof Brotton.
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Business men and women like the Lumia 920T in China, because of Office, good maps and location data City Lens and GPS, and good virus protection firmware built in the phone.
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Fire death reports are pulled together with census data, ordinance survey maps, historic trends, and Mosaic data (consumer profiling) among other sources.
Their crowdsourced method of gathering traffic and maps related data points is brilliant.
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After all, Google has been solving the problem of creating accurate mapping data for much longer and Google Maps is a far better service.
He tracked the muggers' footprints on sand dunes over the course of several weeks, to get data for the maps, and established a pattern that helped police predict the attacks, so that they could lie in wait.
Instead of sifting through streams of tweets and Foursquare checkins to figure out a person's haunts and schedule, Riot collates data for users and displays it in everything from maps (saved in .kml files) and charts.
Shlomo Angel, an urban planning expert at New York University, gathered historical and census data from hundreds of cities, digitised thousands of maps and had computers count millions of pixels on satellite pictures.
Knowledge Graph will show search results in a new way, integrated with maps and other data.
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By virtue of the new model and remote sensing data fresh floodplain maps may be prepared, replacing the present one.
Pamela Fox, a 22-year-old computer science grad student who builds Amazon mashups for fun, recently did a mashup of maps and corporate data for Chevron as a class project--crunching what would be a weeks-long project into one hour of mashing.
These then link to a web-based dashboard where survey data can be tracked on Google Maps and Google Earth, according to Water for People.
That, in turn, has set off a race among companies like SpotCrime to turn crime data into mash-ups of maps and analytics, producing charts and graphs in Web-friendly formats.
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TEDx Silicon Valley featured speakers ranging from LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and PayPal founder Peter Thiel to neo-geographer Di-Ann Eisnor (she makes maps that reflect social data) and Victor Tsaran, who is blind and runs Yahoo!'
They have 7000 employees working on their maps, gathering data on their own and incorporating data from users worldwide.
The street mapping aspect of the new iOS Maps app pulls in data from Yelp and from what we can tell, Open Street Map.
He said he also uses maps, photographs and property ownership data, including specifications of the buildings on a property, its purchase date and price.
Google, for its part, got higher marks from the EFF for its Transparency Report site that maps and tracks government requests for data.
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Glen Jones of Intierra RMG, a company that provides sources of data, analysis, consulting, reports and mineral information maps to the mining industry, believes there is a significant amount of risk in the sector today.
Focus areas listed in the jobs descriptions cover nearly every aspect of mobile development, including data synchronization, social networking, cloud services, search and maps, mobile commerce and improvements to the Windows Phone 7 applications platform.
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For example, a telephony API gives you the power of the phone network without the need to purchase expensive hardware, a mapping API makes it possible for you to build customized, dynamic maps without signing contracts with data providers, and a payments API lets you accept payments without having to worry about complying with complex financial regulations, etc.
The color displays show the usual data--airspeed, climb rate, moving maps--and some new twists, such as graphic depiction of aircraft systems.
Visualizing product availability data on heat maps, Locu compared the availability of beers PBR and Bud Light, the latter of which is the most widely consumed beer in America.
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To have good maps you need lots and lots of user-generated data.
In the prior versions of iOS, which powers the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, Apple did offer a Maps app with data from Google.
It would also be useful for them to indicate the age of data on their maps so that users can make some decisions about quality and usage.
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