Wikimapia does not distribute their data with an open license. Even if they did, every single drop of their data was derived from Google Maps satellite and map data, breaking the Google terms of use. I imagine if you tried to do anything serious with Wikimapia data you would get slapped by Google.
This is incorrect. OpenStreetMap changed licenses midway through 2012 from CC BY-SA to Open Database License. Apple has not confirmed that they're using OSM data, but if they are they would most likely be using OSM data that was obtained before the license change and is thus CC BY-SA. As far as I understand it both licenses allow data to be distributed "behind DRM".
What gives you the impression you can't mark dentist/doctors offices or fix street names?
For example, click on the street whose name you want to fix. On the left column you should see a list of attributes for that street. You can change it there and click Save. Done!
dancomfort, can you shoot me an e-mail at my username at yahoo.com? I'd like to hear more about the rollout from someone involved with it, as I am interested in trying to start a similar thing in a small Iowa town. Thanks!
AT&T did this because the entire business model for a retail wireless phone store is to sell accessories while you're waiting for the activation process. That's how they trained us at RadioShack, and I'm sure that's how they trained them at AT&T/Cingular stores.
When I drove past an AT&T store here, the "sales associates" were standing outside with the security lady. I heard one of them say "I get the next customer, ok?" Obviously, they're working on commission, so the sales associates in the AT&T store have a strong incentive to keep you in the store as long as possible to sell you as much as possible.
When I worked at RadioShack, I got a small chunk of cash added to my paycheck every time someone bought a phone, but I got a larger wad of cash for 1 accessory, even larger at 2. The holy grail was 3 accessories, when I got the most money. I don't remember what the actual dollar values were, but I went out dinner at very nice places with the accessory bonuses I got.
Check out this page for the "energetic particles" count in the atmosphere. Basically, you have a decent chance of seeing Northern Lights if you are being covered by a yellow or red pixel.
Active noise canceling works by playing the exact "opposite" of the sound that is heard directly outside of the earmuff so that the sound cancels out. Even if it cancels out the background noise at 90dB or whatever, it still has to shove 90dB-loud sound into your ear to do it.
If you're trying to get around hearing loss, it won't help. Ear plugs work by reducing the amplitude of the sound that gets to your inner ear, preventing your inner ear from the severe vibrations that cause hearing loss.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. The whole "privacy debate" thing isn't about people wanting to feel like their information is private -- they know that it isn't once they put it on Facebook -- they want to have the feeling that they are intimately connected with their network of peers.
I agree with you -- the feeds that are now on Facebook removed that intimate connection that Facebook gave and is exactly why there are 70,000 Facebook users joining groups to "hate the changes". But when you think about it, they are joining these groups because they want to build another intimate connection...
The fee is most definitely not required for this specific application. Your client could have used the technology for a branch locator with no problem -- it has been done numerous times before and there are plenty of tutorials on how to do it.
The fee is required for sites that want to do more than 50,000 hits a day (to the map server) or want to put the map somewhere that is not publicly accessible (as the current API requires).
So does this mean that when I get an SMS pushed to me by the DHS via my cell carrier that I'll get charged $0.10 for the feature, or will it be a free-of-charge alert?
I hit the Google page at least 100 times a day and over the past year it has never taken more than half a second to appear. The times that it was slower than 300-400ms were when my net connection at school was being flooded by virus attacks.
Maybe your location has something to do with it? Have you tried connecting with multiple net connections?
Computers rarely make mistakes. If they did, when you double clicked on explorer.exe, you'd get calc.exe sometimes and notepad.exe sometimes.
The operator or programmer or scientist is the one who is mistaken. They're relying on very vague data to set up a computer model and then predict the future. You can't do that.
My robotics class here at school used a few Vex kits and accessories to build robots. We came out with three cool robots that all were quite successful in 3 weeks. Check out pictures here:
Also, we spent a lot of time making custom sensors and modifying the ones that Vex gave us. They are all very easy to get in to and examine (like this one) and interface with (like the switch debouncer that I made). Although the metal parts are just a little "different" then everything else, meaning you have to machine or buy new pieces, some Lego pieces will mesh with the Vex pieces quite nicely (as in this home-made shaft encoder).
RadioShack still has the 100 in 1 and 200 in 1 electronic kits. Usually they're hidden in the back-left of the store near the sound stuff.
When I worked at RadioShack for a year, I would say that 80% of our customers were those who came in and walked straight back to the electronics drawers and nabbed a few componenets and walked straight up to the cashier to buy them. Admittedly, these were the customers that RS was definitely not trying to sell to (they wouldn't buy cellphones and usually they wouldn't buy accessories for the products they originally bought -- both of which are what make RS money).
Yea, but if enough people didn't vote for it, it would quickly move away from being something that was bad to something that was good. The argument "Senator X voted to open this country to terrorists!" would move to "Senator X voted to protect his constituent's rights!"
Reminds me of those High School popularity contests...
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Wikimapia does not distribute their data with an open license. Even if they did, every single drop of their data was derived from Google Maps satellite and map data, breaking the Google terms of use. I imagine if you tried to do anything serious with Wikimapia data you would get slapped by Google.
This is incorrect. OpenStreetMap changed licenses midway through 2012 from CC BY-SA to Open Database License. Apple has not confirmed that they're using OSM data, but if they are they would most likely be using OSM data that was obtained before the license change and is thus CC BY-SA. As far as I understand it both licenses allow data to be distributed "behind DRM".
What gives you the impression you can't mark dentist/doctors offices or fix street names? For example, click on the street whose name you want to fix. On the left column you should see a list of attributes for that street. You can change it there and click Save. Done!
Or maybe his show is a thinly disguise advertisement for his campaign?
A computer science grad school?
dancomfort, can you shoot me an e-mail at my username at yahoo.com? I'd like to hear more about the rollout from someone involved with it, as I am interested in trying to start a similar thing in a small Iowa town. Thanks!
AT&T did this because the entire business model for a retail wireless phone store is to sell accessories while you're waiting for the activation process. That's how they trained us at RadioShack, and I'm sure that's how they trained them at AT&T/Cingular stores.
When I drove past an AT&T store here, the "sales associates" were standing outside with the security lady. I heard one of them say "I get the next customer, ok?" Obviously, they're working on commission, so the sales associates in the AT&T store have a strong incentive to keep you in the store as long as possible to sell you as much as possible.
When I worked at RadioShack, I got a small chunk of cash added to my paycheck every time someone bought a phone, but I got a larger wad of cash for 1 accessory, even larger at 2. The holy grail was 3 accessories, when I got the most money. I don't remember what the actual dollar values were, but I went out dinner at very nice places with the accessory bonuses I got.
What if the NSA pointed one of their old drifting recon birds the wrong way and refocused it a few million light years from here?
I realize the optics aren't set up to do far-field imaging, but maybe it'd be cheaper and quicker than waiting to fix the Hubble?
Check out this page for the "energetic particles" count in the atmosphere. Basically, you have a decent chance of seeing Northern Lights if you are being covered by a yellow or red pixel.
Check out mologogo.com. They wrote a simple little java app that does this exact same thing. Plus, it's free.
Sorry guys, I was wrong.
Learned something new today, though. I appreciate the constructive feedback I've gotten.
Active noise canceling works by playing the exact "opposite" of the sound that is heard directly outside of the earmuff so that the sound cancels out. Even if it cancels out the background noise at 90dB or whatever, it still has to shove 90dB-loud sound into your ear to do it.
If you're trying to get around hearing loss, it won't help. Ear plugs work by reducing the amplitude of the sound that gets to your inner ear, preventing your inner ear from the severe vibrations that cause hearing loss.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. The whole "privacy debate" thing isn't about people wanting to feel like their information is private -- they know that it isn't once they put it on Facebook -- they want to have the feeling that they are intimately connected with their network of peers.
I agree with you -- the feeds that are now on Facebook removed that intimate connection that Facebook gave and is exactly why there are 70,000 Facebook users joining groups to "hate the changes". But when you think about it, they are joining these groups because they want to build another intimate connection...
I just counted today and the Mapki that I run has had 650 map projects or mashups listed.
The fee is most definitely not required for this specific application. Your client could have used the technology for a branch locator with no problem -- it has been done numerous times before and there are plenty of tutorials on how to do it.
The fee is required for sites that want to do more than 50,000 hits a day (to the map server) or want to put the map somewhere that is not publicly accessible (as the current API requires).
Ian (from http://mapki.com/
So does this mean that when I get an SMS pushed to me by the DHS via my cell carrier that I'll get charged $0.10 for the feature, or will it be a free-of-charge alert?
I hit the Google page at least 100 times a day and over the past year it has never taken more than half a second to appear. The times that it was slower than 300-400ms were when my net connection at school was being flooded by virus attacks.
Maybe your location has something to do with it? Have you tried connecting with multiple net connections?
Computers rarely make mistakes. If they did, when you double clicked on explorer.exe, you'd get calc.exe sometimes and notepad.exe sometimes.
The operator or programmer or scientist is the one who is mistaken. They're relying on very vague data to set up a computer model and then predict the future. You can't do that.
My robotics class here at school used a few Vex kits and accessories to build robots. We came out with three cool robots that all were quite successful in 3 weeks. Check out pictures here:
http://flickr.com/photos/yellowbkpk/tags/vex/
Also, we spent a lot of time making custom sensors and modifying the ones that Vex gave us. They are all very easy to get in to and examine (like this one) and interface with (like the switch debouncer that I made). Although the metal parts are just a little "different" then everything else, meaning you have to machine or buy new pieces, some Lego pieces will mesh with the Vex pieces quite nicely (as in this home-made shaft encoder).
RadioShack still has the 100 in 1 and 200 in 1 electronic kits. Usually they're hidden in the back-left of the store near the sound stuff.
When I worked at RadioShack for a year, I would say that 80% of our customers were those who came in and walked straight back to the electronics drawers and nabbed a few componenets and walked straight up to the cashier to buy them. Admittedly, these were the customers that RS was definitely not trying to sell to (they wouldn't buy cellphones and usually they wouldn't buy accessories for the products they originally bought -- both of which are what make RS money).
I will be voting for him based on that (and several other pro-citizen measures) as I live in WI.
Yea, but if enough people didn't vote for it, it would quickly move away from being something that was bad to something that was good. The argument "Senator X voted to open this country to terrorists!" would move to "Senator X voted to protect his constituent's rights!"
Reminds me of those High School popularity contests...
Just because everyone around you has an ID card doesn't mean that you (or the airline (or the government)) knows who you are traveling with.
I go to college where at least 1/3rd of the student body has no problem with a fake ID...
Check out http://mapki.com/santa2005/ for a Google Maps API version, too.
Last year I saw on the news about people getting trampled on Cyber Monday, so I just stayed home (Slashdot, Fark, etc.).