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Streetview Hack of the Day: Animate Segments of the Road
April 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
We've all double-clicked our way down a road or two in Google Streetview, trying to get a stitched-up sense of a neighborhood or a landscape. I'm happy to say that tactic will soon seem as antiquated as visiting the place itself. The Labs division of Toronto-based UX team Teehan + ...
Imagine a Digital Library in Every Bus or Train
March 12, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
There's never a wasted moment when you have a smartphone, for better or for worse. Even underground users can patronize the "virtual supermarket," billboards that helps you make a shopping list later delivered to your door. A group of students at the Miami Ad School envision putting that technology to ...
New York's Real-Time Snow Plow Map to Get its First Major Test This Weekend
February 8, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
PlowNYC, the interactive map that allows New York City residents to watch their army of plow-nosed garbage trucks deploy through the city in real time, will have its first test this weekend. Unveiled during last year's mild winter, it has yet to receive the same publicity as a similar program ...
Fortress America: How the U.S. designs its embassies
September 17, 2012 The U.S. Embassy in Cairo is an unusual building. For one thing, it’s over 10 stories high -- most embassies are much shorter. For another, it’s right in the middle of downtown Cairo, in a posh area called Garden City, a stone’s throw from the Nile and a short walk ...
