ubiquitous data collection
"I want to opt out of Google's Sattelite View"
| Sun, 2009-10-04 18:58 — David Herron |
The other night a friend said that. She wants to be in her back yard in any state of (un-)dress and not worry about peeping googlebots in the sky or for that matter the neighbors. It's clearly an invasion of expected privacy when satellite services take pictures of every square inch of the planet. So let's ponder this for a moment..
Traffic mapping for more efficient cities
| Thu, 2009-09-03 11:37 — David Herron |
While looking at A look at the Waze crowdsourced traffic mapping service turned up some other services with similar purposes. Let's take a look at a few of them.
As mentioned in the prior article Google Maps has traffic conditions reported on their maps. However this is only available for major highways, and only in selected cities.
