The new Firefox 3.5 with integrated location awareness is now available and it's got support in Platial's search tool already. With a location aware browser (a gears enabled browser will also work) you will see a little crosshairs logo beside the search button, click this to autofill the 'where' field with your current lat/long, or address.
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We are so sorry this is taking such a long time. We aren't going anywhere and we are waiting for dns. (24 hours now) I know some of you may feel that this length of time is unforgivable but we assure you, we're doing everything we can to get your maps back straight away.
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Richard Wiseman, psychologist, magician, and author of The Luck Factor, Quirkology and 59 Seconds, is just wrapping up what must surely be the first ever experiment on psychic power, remote viewing, and location awareness on twitter.
The experiment went as follows. Once a day, Wiseman would go to some undisclosed location. Once he was there, he'd announce this fact, and ask people for their general perceptions about the place. Then, 30 minutes later, he'd post 5 photos of places. Participants were asked to pick which one he was at. An hour later, he's disclose the actual location.
He's undoubtedly going to take some time to crunch the numbers before releasing the findings, but I can't wait to see what came of it.
Within the universe of psychic ability, I wonder if 'location awareness' is already a designated specialty, and if physical proximity (or perhaps social proximity online) might have any impact of success rates? I don't think 'current location' was on Wiseman's demographic survey, but he could surely analyze the social graph after the fact for proximity.
We just pushed an update that creates a huge chunk of real estate on all of our javascript maps.
The change consists of converting the old bulky banner ads from below the map into sleek little geographically sensitive ads inside the map. The result is 140 new vertical pixels of map area, not just on our site, but on all remote maps.
Good practices in participatory mapping A review prepared for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) provides a comprehensive look at various methodologies, uses, case studies and best practices in participatory mapping. Dense with information and an important read.
We need to be more proactive about supporting these kinds of efforts when our goals are so clearly aligned...
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