Archive for March, 2009

Fairtrade, Fairfriends

In: Sustainability

31 Mar 2009

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 certified sales now amount to [...]

New Google Latitude: the Geo Community

In: Other maps

27 Mar 2009

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 website.
You may ask where I’m [...]

New Google Street Views

In: Other maps

22 Mar 2009

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 to include some of these [...]

Green Technologies

In: Sustainability

19 Mar 2009

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 keypoints are the following:
-recyclable aluminum [...]

Thematic mapping

In: Other maps

17 Mar 2009

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 used for final display is [...]

Geoviu Weekly Report

In: About Geoviu

12 Mar 2009

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 really start working on the [...]

Welcome to the Geoviu Blog

In: About Geoviu

10 Mar 2009

Welcome to the Geoviu Blog. Even though Geoviu is planned to launch in the summer of 2009, we would like to use this blog right away to give you further details on the development of this new platform. We will also post articles on our view of mapping technologies and the market for maps on [...]


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Geoviu is a website currently in beta. Our goal is to provide an innovative way of skimming through news articles and acquiring a general feel of what is happening around the world. We allow users to view information & news on an interactive map: articles are organized in categories and switching from global to local events is made easy with our map zoom levels. Stay tuned for future developments!

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