Foursquare, which I thought was still a location sharing app but is a…
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Foursquare open sources location data
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Unregulated location data industry
For The Markup, continuing their reports on data privacy, Alfred Ng and Jon…
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Your location for sale
Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people’s phones. Then that…
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U.S. military buys location data from apps
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
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Can’t find Iran on a map
Based on a Morning Consult/Politico survey, most people don’t know where Iran is:…
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When geolocation makes everyone think you stole their phone
People show up unannounced at John and his mother Ann’s home in South…
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Apps gather your location and then sell the data
The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps…
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Avoid busy times at local businesses with Google
Waiting in line stinks. I purposely go to the grocery store during off-times…
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Explorations of People Movements
A new data source gave rise to a different set of visualization projects. We see people.
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Explore where you’ve been with Visits
Visits, a research project by Alice Thudt, Dominikus Baur, and Sheelagh Carpendale from…
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Meshu makes physical objects with your location
Location data typically stays within the realm of online maps and digital check-ins,…
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Personal map of 2.5m GPS data points, 3.5 years in the making
Aaron Parecki, co-creator of location platform Geoloqi, has collected his location every few…
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Own and securely store your location with OpenPaths
There are a lot of ways to collect your location, whether it’s for…
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Record your movements with AntiMap
AntiMap is an open source toolset that lets you record movements with your…
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Geo API from Infochimps brings you closer to mapping fun
Mostly because of the popularity of smartphones, location data is all the rage…
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Map your location – that your iPhone secretly records
Researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden have found that the iPhone records cell…