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mapping illegal horse tracks with OpenStreetMap

One of the most interesting things about OSM is the fact that it allows you to “map the reality”, map the ground-truth, not what the State-run maps tells you it’s there, but what is actually there. Recently, on 10. January, an illegal horse racing, in a sort of clandestine racetrack was blocked by the military [...]

Stweet

I’m not particularly involved in Tweeter, I’m seldom following some friends, but never twitted once. This über-mashup is really reality-augmenting: Stweet, a drop-down menu allows you to choose between some twitter-ready cities around the world. Rome is one of them.

Ann Arbor Participation

The City of Ann Arbor has created a nice Google Maps Mashup which enables you to select a given street and send a service request to the Town Hall. You basically select a request type from a drop-down menu, fill out some fields and hit the send button. A great service from a municipality.