http://geoviu.com/blog Information & news on a map Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:58:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a mapping service, we are always on the lookout for other websites that display information on a map. It's always very inspiring to see how others use geolocalisation and community-driven content to build innovative and useful solutions. Nomao is an interesting service that we've discovered recently. Their website allows you ... http://geoviu.com/blog/?p=124 And back again after 3 months of hard work on the Geoviu Beta version! First of all, as you might have noticed since July 23rd, you can find Geoviu at the following address: www.geoviu.com. Geoviu is currently fully operational considering only its basic possibilities for now: showing the daily news from ... http://geoviu.com/blog/?p=128 As with the iPhone SDK v3.0, another future plateform we will aim at is obviously Facebook. We will create an application, easier than the original Geoviu website and than the iPhone application of course, to quickly enable the user, in just one glance, to view the most important news around the world at that ... http://geoviu.com/blog/?p=104 Apple just recently announced the iPhone 3.0 Operating System - although users can't upgrade to the new OS yet, developers already have the opportunity to start working with the new SDK (Software Development Kit). Apple presented an impressive list of no less than 100 new features, and we already have ... http://geoviu.com/blog/?p=89 Fairtrade certification is a product certification system that allows consumers to "identify products that meet agreed environmental, labour and development standards". The first Fairtrade labelling initiative was the Max Havelaar labelling on Mexican coffee, which started in 1988. The initiative has grown quickly over the past 20 years, and Fairtrade ... http://geoviu.com/blog/?p=81 As you may have already understood: we are Google fans. We use Google search engine (to browse the web), Gmail (to organize our mails, chats, tasks), Google Calendars (to organize our time and share our calendars), Google Maps (to find our itineraries) and now Google Maps API to build our ... http://geoviu.com/blog/?p=66 For those who haven't yet heard about it, Google Street View is a service that provides panoramic views (360°) taken from the streets of many big cities in the world. The service was launched in May 2007, and orginally only featured cities in the US. Now the platform has expanded ... http://geoviu.com/blog/?p=56 It's now time for a brief overview on the new greentechs ! As written on the previous post, nowadays important firms are developping technologies which are more and more respectfull to the environment. This week, let's take a look at Apple's new orientation with the new 'green' MacBook Air. Its main eco-friendly ... http://geoviu.com/blog/?p=30 Thematic mapping really appeals to us because it aims at displaying global data, as opposed to specific locations. An excellent application of this idea can be found at thematicmapping.org, which offers an engine that plots statistical data on a map. The primary data source of the website is UNdata, and the map ... http://geoviu.com/blog/?p=32 The idea started in summer 2008 The "green planet" concept being taken more and more seriously all around the globe, we were thinking of a new way to inform people on the actual world status, in real time.  This is how the Geoviu concept was born. It took almost a year to ... http://geoviu.com/blog/?p=16