Subject: ‘crowdsourcing’
November 25, 2009 Waze Adds Road Goodies and PrizesGPS, Location Based ServicesWaze, which relies on crowdsourcing to build its traffic and road navigation data, has started a ‘Holiday High Points Challenge’ to encourage users to drive in areas where map problems have been identified. Like the game PacMan, drivers can “eat up” presents, hammers and cherries for points as they drive around certain areas. The top ... read more November 17, 2009 ESRI Launches a GIS WikiCommunityESRI has launched a wiki today at http://wiki.gis.com. The effort is fairly new and the wiki hasn’t been promoted much yet by ESRI, I found out about the wiki from a Tweet by @mikehogan who works at ESRI. A visit to the GIS.com home page doesn’t reveal the existence of this wiki. I would assume that’s ... read more August 15, 2009 Crowdsourcing traffic and roadsFree GIS, GPS, Location Based ServicesWaze has a free social mobile application that uses real-time input from local drivers to update traffic conditions for other users. Currently, those with iPhone and Android phones can download the free application. When the application is left open on their phones, real-time GPS information about the speed of the vehicle is relayed to other ... read more |
