CoPilot GPS – Plan and explore with free offline maps and directions. NOW includes Middle East Maps!
As featured on Engadget & CNET
CoPilot GPS is the powerful new free offline route planning and local exploring app from the developers of award-winning CoPilot Live navigation. Works in over 250 Android devices!
Panoramio’s creators are Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar. We are friends since secondary school and we come from two small towns in the South East of Spain. Panoramio was acquired by Google on July 2007
[weaver_iframe src=’https://www.panoramio.com/wapi/template/photo_list.html?user=765680&width=600&height=450&list_size=8&position=bottom&bgcolor=%23C0E0FF’ frameborder=”0″ width=600 height=450 scrolling=”no” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″] Location Scout R. Richard Hobbs at Panoramio
Panoramio is a geolocation-oriented photo sharing website. Accepted photos uploaded to the site can be accessed as a layer in Google Earth and Google Maps, with new photos being added at the end of every month. The site’s goal is to allow Google Earth users to learn more about a given area by viewing the photos that other users have taken at that place. The website is available in several languages.
The headquarters of Panoramio are located in Zurich in the office building of the Swiss Google.
Aardvark Maps
Location Scout Resource: Aardvark Map
Aardvark Map is a free solution to provide Google Maps-based maps possible to contain multiple annotated markers. this could be a useful tool for a location scout or location manager that needs to provide information to production as to where locations exist, possibly particularly with regard to proximation to one another with logistics in mind.
Once you create your map, Aardvark Map provides code via the iframe html tag that can be used to place the map on a website:
Aardvark Map is a free, easy-to-use mapping facility that works with Google Maps to allow you to add maps to websites, emails or forum posts. It requires no programming knowledge or expertise and it will take you just a few minutes to create a map.
Location Scout Plazes
Location Scout Plazes: Where am I? NOTE: Plazes is now Here (dot com)
At Nokia, we’ve been building world-class mapping and drive navigation services for years. Now, we’re proud to announce our new generation of personal mapping experiences with a great new name: HERE.
Old Plazes:
kewl zoom map 🙂 Plazes is an online social technology to let you “check in” (publicize your physical / geographic location) anywhere in the world using your smartphone or computer; your location can be entered manually or you can allow your computer’s public ip or your smartphone’s gps place you using FireEagle. Facebook, Google Places, Google Plus, Twitter, FourSquare and many other online social destinations have similar capabilities as well. One or the other could be handy tools for a location scout in various circumstances or situations.
Plazes | Location Scout R. Richard Hobbs | nyc.locationscout.us Profile
Plazes | Location Scout R. Richard Hobbs | nyc.locationscout.us Atom Feed
CrunchBase – Plazes
Plazes allows you to find out what others are up to and see what’s happening at different locations. Users share where they currently are, what they’re doing and post future plans. Posting this information can be done on Plazes.com or by mobile phone (via text messaging). Users can also join groups to stay connected with their favorite people and Plazes.
Plazes Blog Feed
Outside.in Story Maps
Location Scout outside.in | StoryMap
The Story Map doesnt work anymore. That kinda sux 🙁
Still, as a location scout or location manager, you may need to find news (i.e.ongoing construction, traffic, local government…) about a location (i.e. New York City…)
Below is an interactive map (no longer works 🙁 containing excerpts of news stories about location scouts and location managers world-wide, as syndicated by Google News, Yahoo News and Bing News.
Google News is a free news aggregator provided and operated by Google Inc, selecting most up-to-date information from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm.
Launched in September 2002, the service was tagged as a beta test for over three years until January 2006. The initial idea was developed by Krishna Bharat.
Bing News (previously Live Search News) is a part of Microsoft’s Bing search engine. It is a search engine and aggregator specifically for news articles through a variety of trusted and credible internet news sources, including New York Times, Washington Post and Reuters.
