twittervision and twittermap show new tweets wherever they appear on the map, TwitterWhere let’s you follow tweets at a specific location, and Ask500People has nothing to do with Twitter but does show you global opinion. Live. While you watch (so they say, anyway).

Posted March 10, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: communication, geography, twitter, web20. Be the first one.

Here’s an interesting GeoPlace.com article on open source GIS tools, including GIS extensions to PosgreSQL and MySQL. Via The Map Room.

tags: geo world, geocode, geocoding, geographic information system, geography, geolocation, gis, gis development, gis guide, gis tools, map room, mapping, mysql, open source, open source gis, open source tools

Posted September 27, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: geo world, geocode, geocoding, geographic information system, geography, geolocation, gis, gis development, gis guide, gis tools, map room, mapping, mysql, open source, open source gis, open source tools. Be the first one.

Who doesn’t love tagging? No, tagging as in annotating, not graffiti. Anyway, Rixome is the latest among a bunch of plans/projects to enable tagging of geographic spaces/real-life environments.
The good people at We Make Money Not Art had this in their post:
rixome is a network and a tool that turns mobile screens into windows that show [...]

Posted June 27, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: art student, folksonomy, forward thinking, geography, geolocation, geotag, geotagging, laptop screen, mobile, mobile phone, new media, pda, public dimensions, social environments, spoken message, tag, tagged environments, tagging, tags, urban environments. Be the first one.