Nothing frustrates a commuter more than hitting traffic congestion on the way to work. And nothing's more maddening to a commercial truck driver than seeing the navigation system report normal traffic on the interstate while he's stalled and wasting $4-plus-per-gallon diesel fuel for a half-hour as police clear a traffic accident. Such are the tribulations triggered by poor traffic information. This article, by TrafficCasts's co-founder Connie Li, discusses the need for multiple data sources to address the challenge.
Oops | July 23, 10:23 AM
An Internet-based map store put out a press release offering custom drive time maps. The selling point: they save gas. There's no real explanation of how they'd be used for that purpose and I can't think of any.
Update 3:26 pm: Based on the comments below I realize I didn't define drive time maps. That was an error. Here's… More…
July 23, 8:55 AM
I was surprised to see the county was using what are refered to as Tiger data for E-911. In testing they were not found to be very good. Further, the company that provided them (not named in a Review article) was not responsive enough. Thus, the county will move NAVTEQ data. Cost: More…
July 23, 8:40 AM
Yeah, yeah, CLIF BARS, SHOTS, etc., endurance athletes seem to either love or hate them. (I confess liking the Shot Blocks, though I'm now favoring the woman friendly Luna Moons just because they are smaller.) This is the second year of the company's Two Mile Challenge, which urges people to use a bike for trips of 2 miles or less. These trips make up 40% of all car trips. Further, 90% of two mile trips are made by car! (Yikes, I say after just returning from 25 miles on my bik… More…
July 22
"MISO" stands for Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle, the big enterprise players in the market today. All have a toe or more in GIS, but all also have a tie to ESRI. What's the state of those relationship ... More...
July 18
Did you ever wonder how websites use those tidbits of information you may leave on their websites, such as a ZIP Code or your age range? This article from Nielsen Claritas explains how with just a bit ... More...
July 18
The Geospatial Web Services workshop at Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham held June 16-17th, 2008 had an interesting twist: a live webcast. More than 300 viewers followed the pre ... More...
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