Comments on: Using Location-Aware Gadgets http://www.livingdowntowndesmoines.com/2008/11/using-location-aware-gadgets/ Share your experience with others Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:40:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: MulderDSM http://www.livingdowntowndesmoines.com/2008/11/using-location-aware-gadgets/comment-page-1/#comment-390 MulderDSM Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:19:25 +0000 http://www.livingdowntowndesmoines.com/?p=2614#comment-390 Here are some more that were just released. iLive.at - If you’re a resident of DC interested in learning more about your neighborhood, or if you’re looking to move to the city, this application serves up essential data pertaining to area businesses and crime reports and things of that nature. It’s well designed, intuitive, and quite detailed in the information it delivers to users. http://www.ilive.at/Public/LocInfo.aspx D.C. Pedestrian - Logic would have it that sources in the capital would have better grasp on the production of walking directions. Here’s one realization of that very idea. http://www.dcpedestrian.com/ Achieve D.C. - School performance statistics and poverty levels juxtaposed against one another. http://achievedc.mapkist.com/ DC Bikes - Your Guide to Biking in DC - Similar to D.C. Pedestrian but specific to biking. This involves numerous data points, from crime to metro stations, etc. http://www.outsideindc.com/bikes Here are some more that were just released.

iLive.at – If you’re a resident of DC interested in learning more about your neighborhood, or if you’re looking to move to the city, this application serves up essential data pertaining to area businesses and crime reports and things of that nature. It’s well designed, intuitive, and quite detailed in the information it delivers to users.
http://www.ilive.at/Public/LocInfo.aspx

D.C. Pedestrian – Logic would have it that sources in the capital would have better grasp on the production of walking directions. Here’s one realization of that very idea.
http://www.dcpedestrian.com/

Achieve D.C. – School performance statistics and poverty levels juxtaposed against one another.
http://achievedc.mapkist.com/

DC Bikes – Your Guide to Biking in DC – Similar to D.C. Pedestrian but specific to biking. This involves numerous data points, from crime to metro stations, etc.
http://www.outsideindc.com/bikes

]]> By: Pete Jones http://www.livingdowntowndesmoines.com/2008/11/using-location-aware-gadgets/comment-page-1/#comment-388 Pete Jones Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:30:50 +0000 http://www.livingdowntowndesmoines.com/?p=2614#comment-388 Larry - I know the DCA is working to expand their marketing message with Social Medai, but I don't think they are quite this advanced yet. It would be cool if they could like up downtowndesmoines.com with functions like Metromix and other do to provide you the same information as they have tons of info on their website specific to Des Moines. I still limit my involvement with Metromix since it is a site hosted out of Chicago and not local, like the DCA site. But, it is functional, so I get it. Larry – I know the DCA is working to expand their marketing message with Social Medai, but I don’t think they are quite this advanced yet. It would be cool if they could like up downtowndesmoines.com with functions like Metromix and other do to provide you the same information as they have tons of info on their website specific to Des Moines. I still limit my involvement with Metromix since it is a site hosted out of Chicago and not local, like the DCA site. But, it is functional, so I get it.

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