Other Technology
- Global Situational Awareness
- Google Earth apparently isn’t enough for the military. Defence contractor DRS Technologies was demonstrating this military-grade touchscreen geospatial interface — the correct term is apparently “global situational awareness” — at a recent Navy League conference; this video features engineer…
- Very Very Small Maps of Hong Kong
- How small can a map be and still be legible? ZoomMap.org, a spinoff of the Hong Kong-based Universal Publications Ltd., is publishing some very small maps indeed. Douglas Li of ZoomMap writes: [W]e create and publish miniature maps —…
- Panamap, Formerly Dynamap, Available Soon
- It’s been a long time, but the mapping technology that was first presented under the name Dynamap in 2004 has finally left the realm of vapourware and will very shortly result in a shipping product. Well, two products, but…
- Haptic Weather Maps
- Turkish researchers are applying haptics to weather maps, allowing map users to “feel” climate data represented on the map, the New Scientist reported last March: The system converts climate data into forces that a person can feel using a haptic…
- Kenwood’s Pen Navigation System
- Kenwood announced a pen navigation system at the Tokyo Motor Show: details are sparse (see also Coolest Gadgets and Engadget), but it seems to involve a pen that, when scanned over a paper map, transmits data wirelessly to a…
- Augmented Maps: Combining Tech and Paper
- Brandon writes in about this New Scientist article about “augmented maps,” where real-time information is projected onto paper maps: This was an interesting article on combining multimedia and advanced technologies with hard copy maps for emergency situations. Having been involved…
- Urban Mapping (Was: Dynamap)
- John Resig points us to this article in Directions about Urban Mapping’s neato Cracker Jack-box mapping technology — which was covered here a year ago when it was called “Dynamap”. (The old site is completely gone, and they haven’t forwarded…
- MountMaps
- Have you ever wondered what would happen if a topo map mated with a pop-up book? No, you probably haven’t; you’re not that strange. I don’t know where these guys got the idea to make pop-up topographical maps for…
- The Dynamap
- Here’s something neat: Urban Mapping’s “Dynamap” technology, which uses interlaced images to show different maps depending on the angle at which the surface is viewed. In this case, Manhattan’s streets, neighbourhoods and subway systems. There’s an instructive Flash demo. About…
