La Chine se lance dans la cartographie en ligne

Le Bureau de Surveillance et de Cartographie chinois (SBSM) vient de dévoiler "Carte du monde", une... carte du monde en ligne, approuvée et produite par l'administration qui, selon un officiel, "va rapidement devenir une marque chinoise reconnue pour les services de cartographie en ligne fiables."

The future of Augmented-Reality Maps

OK, I love TED Talks, in fact I could spend my days watching their talks. In other words, I need an avatar to take care of the mundane things of life such as going to work while I can actually do interesting things! In the meantime, fresh from the TED2010 conference: here is an amazing talk by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, in which he demonstrates how Photosynth software is transforming cartography into a user experience: first by stitching static photos together to create zoomable, navigatable spaces, then with superimposed video for a swear-you-are-there experience.