Demo of Mapicurious on the Dash GPS

Get Mapicurious LBS on your Dash GPS

Mapicurious has released the Mapicuriosities search service on the Dash GPS.

Find a large selection of content entered on Mapicurious.com directly from your Dash GPS. Great for explorers who need to know what is around you.

If you have trouble finding or using the service, send us an email.

Thanks,

Maps

Real Housewives of Atlanta Map

Just to answer fans of the show -

"Yes, we will have a map about the show."

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Maps

Need a Map? We need only USD $100 and some information....

Many people have great map ideas but no time to create them. Hopefully a Mapicurious staffer can lend a hand.

Give us as little as a theme....
- I want a map of ski slopes in Vermont
- I want to know where the soccer fields are in Seattle

And we will create your map. Your data will then be ready to viewed in Google Earth, your GPS, your cell phone, your Dash GPS.

How else to use your map:
1. Highlight your business
2. Map your favorite eateries
3. Map a movie or book you have read
4. Plot vacation plans
5. Create a record of your recent vacation to share with friends

Starting July 1, 2008 we offer map making on your behalf for a fee:

1. Give us an overall theme and title for your map.

2. Give us up to 25 locations with any amount of detail: Name, Street, City, State, Zip, Country, picture, movie, and/or your comments

3. Send us USD $100 via PayPal.

4. We will produce a map hosted on Mapicurious.com, our partner services, and you will have your information in portable form (KML).

We have a lot of talented Mapicurious staffers to make impressive maps - take advantage while you can.

Businesses - Have a list of addresses to be coded and plotted on a map? Check with us on details, and we will convert to usable map data for a nominal fee.

Thanks,

Maps

Mapicurious mentioned in Moultrie, Georgia

Read about UGA's Archway Project, and see how they use Mapicurious to document and highlight points of interest in the Moultrie area.

Link to Article

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Maps

Mapicuriosities on your cell phone!

A little news from the ranch:

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080603005802&newsLang=en

Mapicurious has a goal to deliver your geographic data to you in the real world. Why just post it on a web site?

Mapicuriosities is our cell phone application that runs on the free WHERE platform. Visit WHERE.com and download their application onto your GPS enabled cell phone. Works on Motorola, LG, Samsung, BlackBerry, Nokia, and other handsets.

The application lets you see what Mapicurious.com has on the site based on your current location. You can even add points from this application directly to any one of your maps!

Send us feedback. Our Map Makers/Managers know that we are very helpful getting you started with mapping.

Thanks,

Maps

GeoRel - Could we make this a new standard?

Has anyone ever thought to re-purpose the rel attribute in HTML and RSS to contain Geo data?

On face value, rel = relationship and placing lat lng inside the rel attribute relates the content spatially.

Now browsers and RSS readers can simply show links based on their distance order from the reader. Using this with a location service (FireEagle, etc), the browser/reader could assess relevance and relationship geographically.

The main advantages are easy and lightweight representation of geospatial relationships in the semantic web. Should be both machine and human readable.

It could support existing formats - Simple GeoRSS, Latitude and Longitude, KML (provide link to KML file)

Here are some link examples below based on Mapicurious data. Look at properties for each link to see the "rel" tag in use.

1. Basic Lat Lng (lat lng separated by space and pairs by comma for paths and polygons)

California Football Players 2006
Chick-Fil-A in Southern California
Hof's Hut - Southern California Tradition

2. L:

California Football Players 2006
Hof's Hut - Southern California Tradition

3. Geohash

California Football Players 2006
Chick-Fil-A in Southern California
Hof's Hut - Southern California Tradition

4. Georeference:

California Football Players 2006
Chick-Fil-A in Southern California
Hof's Hut - Southern California Tradition



Simple Use Cases:

Mapping web site - Overlay links directly on a map based on GeoRel data. Show geographically relevant links to map content to user, based on user's location (including distance calculations).

News site - Arrange links based on geospatial relevance.

RSS Reader - Filter links to content based on location from reader.