I recently had the opportunity to attend a local hackday event, this local event here in Victoria planned by OpenDataBC was just one such event of many that took place in locations around the World.
ArcGIS How To Hack Tip – A Fast, Simple ArcGIS Map Mashup of Flickr Photos and Foursquare Checkins
Here’s a simple how to tutorial on working with the free ArcGIS.com to easily import KML or RSS data from Flickr and foursquare into ArcGIS to create your own custom map mashup
Study Finds Smartphones Are Most Popular Home Device, and Growing Scapegoat in Many Social Situation
A New Yahoo! Mobile/Razorfish Study Finds Smartphones Are Most Popular Home Device, and Growing Scapegoat in Many Social Situations
mqVibe First Look – MapQuest Maps Neighborhoods Provides a Social Sharing Experience With mqVibe
Today, mapquest has rolled out their much anticipated social network mqvibe. Much different than what I was expecting (I was thinking of another facebook or twitter-like experience – that based on all the speculation on teh web) and I have to say so far I’m very impressed!
Social Media Tip – Create A Custom, Daily or Weekly paper.li to Enhance Your Social Presence
Here’s a short tutorial and description of the way cool paper.li service, a useful social media add-on that creates a custom paper/newsletter from your Twitter account and can also harvest data from RSS feeds and facebook.
Video Presentation – Social Media in Local Government and GIS (from MISABC)
Recall, I recently posted a few details of a local conference here in the capital of British Columbia – MISABC. I had the pleasure of delivering a talk on the use of social media in local government, with a focus on the GIS department and GIS/Geo user.
East View Procures and Hosts Mexican Vector Data for University of Arizona
East View Procures and Hosts Mexican Vector Data for University of Arizona’s Map Library and GIS Department
SuperGeo Updates Task-oriented Mobile GIS – SuperField 3
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, today announced that SuperField 3, the light weight mobile GIS application, is updated and released worldwide. SuperField 3 is designed as a task-oriented mobile GIS and seen as the finest GIS solution for surveyors to easily manipulate and collect spatial data. SuperField 3 […]
How To Get More Checkin Rewards and Foursquare Deals On your Business Trip or Vacation
Via the foursquare blog, we hear that there are now over 500,000 businesses registered on foursquare. This means you have thousands of opportunities to checkin and get deals.
The Canada Federal Election foursquare checkin GeoPollster Map shows Liberal – Tories near dead heat
It’s federal election day in Canada and if you listen to foursquare users it appears that the Liberals are leading the Conservatives by the smallest margin (less than 1%)