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geospatial

Twitter unveils geotagging

November 23, 2009

Twitter officially released its Geotagging API last week.

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Twitter to make geolocation data available

August 31, 2009

Twitter users will soon be able to tag their messages with geographic information and developers will be able to incorporate location data into new applications via a geolocation API.

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Breaking down the silos that isolate ridership data

March 17, 2009

In Passenger Transport, Curtis Pierce writes about the challenges of managing the streams of operational data available to transit agencies and presents some best practices.  An example: By merging CAD/AVL data with farebox data, a large bus operator can eliminate the problem of revenue that could not be assigned to a specific route because of [...]

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Free publication: Geospatial information for crisis response

February 3, 2009

Government Technology reports on Geospatial Systems That Support Emergency and Disaster Operations, a new publication that presents a series of case studies showing how  local governments use geospatial information to respond to emergencies.  The report, published by  Public Technology Institute and the Geospatial Information & Technology Association, is available for download free of charge until February [...]

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