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Find-a-map-r este un serviciu Twitter based care îţi răspunde la orice request de adresă [oraş, stradă, număr] pe care îl formulezi ca reply la http://twitter.com/findmap. Răspunsul către cel ce a făcut requestul nu este chiar automat, pentru că reply-ul cu rezltatul final vine de la cel care a gândit jucăria, Andrei Gheorghe.

De ce ai face un astfel de request via un cont de Twitter când ai la dispoziţie Yahoo!Maps?

Pentru că, pe Yahoo!Maps, un link la pagina cu rezultatul căutării este foarte lung. În schimb, @findamap trimite rezultatul căutării la Find-a-map-r, totul reducându-se la un link mai scurt către o imagine PNG cu poziţionarea pe hartă a adresei. Această adresă este trimisă mai departe de către Andrei, care sper, să nu obosească la un moment dat, iar voi să vă rătăciţi :) .

Şi în plus de asta este fun :) .

Din câte am înţeles eu din discuţiile de pe Twitter, în primă fază se folosesc mai multe geocodere, dar Yahoo!Maps este cel mai relevant.

[via Marius Deak pe Twitter]

Later Update: mashup între Google Street View şi Twitter.

Deşi Mihai (citiţi aici unul din posturile scrise de el pentru DG 2.0) mă atenţionase de ceva timp de noile facilităţi ale Live Map-ului de la Microsoft, am tot tărăgănat să scriu despre din varii motive. Nu-i nici o problemă, au scris alţii despre subiect, după cum urmează:

Mult mai ok decât norc.ro sau Wikimapia, deşi nu sunt cele mai bune produse de comparat.

Launched in 2005, vrbrasov.ro is based on 360 VR immersive panoramas. The visitors could visit through virtual reality Braşov City, Bran Castle, Bucegi Mountains, Făgăraş Fortress, Sâmbăta Monastery, Sighişoara and Timiş.

Also they could chose to visit (in VR mode, of course) accommodation & shopping places, restaurants, cultural destinations etc. in order to take a decision where to eat, where to stay over night or where to shop etc. All of this objectives are presented through a short text description and panoramas, and are located on the city’s virtual map.

In order to view this panoramas you need to install Quicktime Player and DevalVR plug-in.

Blog: http://vrbrasov.blogspot.com/

Let me know if you know other virtual maps of the Romanian cities.

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Tourist Informator, Busteni

Recently, one of my colleagues told me about the tourist info kiosk in Buşteni. Finally, I figured out, that the one in Braşov is part of the same network like the one in Buşteni. You can see a few pictures of the tourist info kiosk on Zodia penei’s Blog.

The tourist info kiosk called tourist informator provides city maps and info about places where to eat, where to stay over night, where to go (tourist attractions) or info about different kind of events. The hotel reservations could be made free of charge using the phone hanged near to the touch-screen, in 3 minutes time limit. Also, the tourists could take pictures of them self and send them to their friends via e-mail.

Soon, we will see one or more tourist info kiosks in Bucharest.

To find more about the tourist informator visit this website: www.tourist-informator.info

Photo: Mihaela Pană

If you don’t know yet, the September edition of National Geographic Romania magazine has a map of the Alps Region as a bonus, this event following the one in May when the magazine celebrated 4 years in Romania and offered as a bonus four maps of Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal and Central Europe. Also, starting from may, all the magazine numbers had as bonus old magazine numbers.

Recently, searching on the Internet, I’ve discovered a study regarding the utility of mobile technology in tourism activities. Barry Brown and Matthew Chalmers, the authors of the study, put together the old (paper maps and guides) and new technologies (GPS, PDA, digital cameras and, why not, Internet kiosks [via]) tourist are using to organize their visits/travels in different places and their importance of pre and post-visiting (through travelogues, photo albums, video recordings etc.) activities. Of course, they paid some attention to each category’s advantages and disadvantages.

The study is called Tourism and mobile technology and you can download it from here (.pdf)

Personally, I’ve discovered the utility of mobile technologies some years ago, during my trip in Ciucas Mountains, when I’ve had the opportunity to use a digital map and easily establish the course of our trip from the point we should firstly end it.

If you have a compatible mobile phone, you can download from here a mobile guide of Busteni and then, you can test the application and its usefulness.

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