In honor of Arcade Fire's Grammy win last night for album of the year, here's a link to their video/interactive map app for song 'We Used to Wait' from The Suburbs. You'll have to download Google Chrome to experience "The Wilderness Downtown" but it's worth the couple of seconds it'll take to do it. As mashable.com put it, "it's basically one big ball of HTML5/Google … [Read more...]
Map Your Music Memories
The Grammys and Music Is Life, Life is Music have launched a new mobile app that allows you to tag locations on a map with a music marker - could be the club you're going to see a show at later this weekend, the place you heard a song for the first time, or any other music-related comment or memory. From the Grammys blog: "You can share your tag by posting to your … [Read more...]
USC student uses crowdsourcing to map billboard locations
From Directions Magazine's All Points Blog, "A Ph.D. Candidate in spatial science at USC, Elisabeth Sedano, has developed a Website that tracks and maps the visual eyesores in hopes of creating LA's first database of billboard locations. The project uses crowdsourcing to capture the data." … [Read more...]
iBucknell mobile app now available on iTunes
Prof. Rick Zaccone and student Aurimas Liutikas '12 developed iBucknell, a new mobile app with a campus map, phone directory, news and menus. Click here to read about the project and here for the free download from itunes. … [Read more...]
Egypt Events Map
Follow the events unfolding in Egypt in real-time by using the Egypt Events Map to track social media posts in the region. The interactive map app is hosted by ESRI and provides live feeds from Twitter, YouTube and Flicker. … [Read more...]