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Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms

Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:19pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: gps

From the weird news department, we have a case of geohashing gone wrong. Not quite sure this is GIS related, but here is the summary from SlashDot. "Geohashing, an obscure xkcd pastime which involves going to random coordinates generated by md5 hashing, the date, and the opening status of the stock market, appears to have just gotten far more interesting. The official wiki reports a warning for other geohashers intending to go to the spot designated for June 14th in the San Francisco area, as several avid fans of xkcd were met by an angry rancher and firearms."
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GPS Based Racing Games

Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:16pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: gps

SlashDot is currently discussing an article which attempts to use GPS data collected from real racing cars, and ingest them into video games to allow gamers to race against real race car drivers. From their summary : "The BBC has a story about a company aiming to pit gamers against the professionals. iOpener Media has a patented system that sucks in real-time GPS data from racing events and pumps it out to compatible games consoles and PCs. This means you can race in real-time against the like of Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen. The company also claims to have an AI that solves the problem of overtaking and crashes." For more information and the community reactions, please visit the slashdot article link above.
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Virtual Earth Usage Increasing

Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:08pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: microsoft

It appears that Virtual Earth is gaining/outpacing Google Earth in the professional adoption arena. We have two more examples of this in the news this week. The Earth Is Square reports that CNN who first adopted Google Earth, is now adopting Virtual Earth. Ogle Earth also reports that China Central Television (CCTV) is using Virtual Earth to show off the locations of the Euro2008 stadiums in Switzerland and Austria, and is planning to use the same tool for the Olympics in China. Visit the links to get more information.
Read more of this story at Slashgeo.

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