Milliways: Play the legendary game
Once upon a time, I used to love playing infocoms classic interpretation of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the brilliant waxy.org, brings news of the unfinished sequel Milliways, which has been found, and is playable !!
Location aware twitter comes to the iPhone
I just don’t see the point of twitter, but it’s now location aware with the soon to be released Twinkle application, location has the potential to add something to social networking for sure..
A Satnav that avoids Manchester
Ah.. the old sterotypes… Still a Satnav, that plugs into crime data is under development by Honda in Japan, traffic data and weather were the obvious first steps in integrating other GI data onto these devices, soon perhaps we will see the whole range of geodemographics available as we drive around.
Walking Hotspot
Sometime you come across an application that is just cool, like walkinghotspot, an application to turn your 3G wifi phone into a mobile wifi hotspot.
Written and submitted from Vancouver Airport, BC, using its free public 802.11 network
With the continued concern over the election held last weekend, the Sokwanle site which has been mapping the election conditions in Zimbabwe, is an important example of our the new tools of the geoweb have allowed new communities of users to map what is important to them. The politicisation of mapping is not new and maps have been used to make political points for as long as there have been maps, but now the process is open to all, not just governments.