The Chicago Transportation Authority (CTA) has been facing severe budget crunches and possible reductions in service for many years now. Each year the CTA must go through many contortions to keep operating and finally they are very seriously facing drastic cut-backs in service including elimination of weekend service and express service along many lines. I […]

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WindyChat has opened their Chicago Photos section, this has pictures of buildings under construction as well as other photos such as the Chicago marathon. Two buildings under construction right now with photos include the Aqua and the Spire building. The Spire has variously been called the Fordham Spire, the Calavatra Spire, and the Chicago Spire. […]

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Microsoft is offering a free chance to pass the Virtual Earth certification test while it is in beta for the next few weeks, more details here - Virtual Earth test . This is actually a good way to prepare for the test because it lets you see all the test questions! There is no real time […]

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Microsoft 3D views are catching up with Google. Google bought “Google Earth” from Keyhole and acquired the 3D building technology a few years ago, Google Earth runs as an application on a desktop but it needs an internet connection as none (?) of the data is actually stored locally.
Microsoft’s 3D views don’t store locally either, […]

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In the last post we talked about some of Microsoft technology for locating users.
As you can see, we use Microsoft Virtual Earth maps for MapVisitors.
However, we couldn’t use their geocoder because it runs on the client side in Javascript, and I couldn’t figure out how that would work with our architecture, because we only want […]

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There are many ways to locate people’s geographical information just by looking at their IP address, but Microsoft “Locate Me” feature uses a pretty interesting and novel technique that I hadn’t heard about before.
Actually I’m pretty sure they license this database, so I shouldn’t give all the credit to Microsoft, but they user the MAC […]

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The following is a list of sites who generate the most hits on our service:
http://www.mp2kmag.com/ & http://www.mapforums.com/
Long time visitors will recognize both of those as our own sites
http://www.anselme.homestead.com/
This has been a long time user of our service
http://greekgreek.mylivepage.com
This is a more recent user.
Let us know if you are using the MapVisitors service and what […]

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San Francisco is not only a great city to walk around but also features many nice hiking trails close to town. There are good short walks at both Corona Heights and Buena Vista Parks that gain elevation quickly and afford good views of the city and bay. The Coastal Trail runs 1200 miles of the […]

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There’s a new widget from the team at Amung.us: A mapping plug-in, maps.amung.us, that you can add to your site to show you where your site’s visitors are coming from, updated in real time. At first it looks to be more fun than useful, but underneath the widget, Amung.us collects interesting stats. You need only […]

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Not sure we have you mapped correctly? Our primary source of data is http://www.hostip.info.

If they do not know where you are or have you placed incorrectly, it is likely our service is mapping you incorrectly as well.
Go to their site http://www.hostip.info. On the upper right it will say whether they are detecting your IP address and […]

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