Videos tagged with Geo

Google I/O 2010 - A beginner's guide to Android Android 101 Reto Meier This session will introduce some of the basic concepts involved in Android development. Starting with an overview of the SDK APIs available to developers, we will work through some simple code examples that explore some of the more common user features including using sensors, maps, and geolocation. For all I/O 2010 sessions...

Patrick Dubroy Android apps have more memory available to them than ever before, but are you sure you're using it wisely? This talk will cover the memory management changes in Gingerbread and Honeycomb (concurrent GC, heap-allocated bitmaps, "largeHeap" option) and explore tools and techniques for profiling the memory usage of Android apps.

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Eric Gelinas spoke about the challenges involved in building interfaces for geotagging and mapping. Using examples from Flickr and other sites, he covered the dos and don'ts of building geo interfaces and shared what he learned while building Flickr's geotagging UI.

SimpleGeo provides hosted services for location-aware applications, one of which is a cloud spatial database. One can make puns and jokes about "a cloud within a cloud" until blue in the face, but the reality of the matter is that accomplishing such a thing is a non-trivial technical endeavor. Designing for failure is a hard requirement by definition, which turns out to be a blessing in disguis...

Google I/O 2010 - Fireside chat with the Geo team Fireside Chats, Geo Thor Mitchell, Peter Birch, Matt Holden, Ben Appleton, Bart Locanthi, Thatcher Ulrich Here's your opportunity to pick the brains of the people behind the Maps, Earth, and Maps Data APIs! We'll take a quick walk through the milestones of the last year, and then open it up to your questions. Don't miss your opportunity to get t...

Google I/O 2010 - Fireside chat with the Geo team Fireside Chats, Geo Thor Mitchell, Peter Birch, Matt Holden, Ben Appleton, Bart Locanthi, Thatcher Ulrich Here's your opportunity to pick the brains of the people behind the Maps, Earth, and Maps Data APIs! We'll take a quick walk through the milestones of the last year, and then open it up to your questions. Don't miss your opportunity to get t...

The World's Information in ContextMichael T. Jones (Google)Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful is made both more accessible and more useful when that information is delivered in a geographic context. Michael will review the ways Google's Geo team works to accomplish this in Google's own Websites, on more than 100,000 other websites,...

How to Index your Geo dataLior Ron, Mano Marks (Google)Come and learn how to index the Geo data on your site (KML, GeoRSS), how to create a custom geo search on your site for your users, and how to access other geo data from the web using the local search API. Basic knowledge of KML is helpful, but not a must.

Hosting your Geo Data, an Overview of Design OptionsMano Marks (Google)In this session, we will talk about various options for hosting your Geo data, including Google App Engine. We will outline different design patterns, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each, and show code samples. Specifically, we will look at storing Geo data as static files, in databases, and extracting Geo ...

How to Index your Geo dataLior Ron, Mano Marks (Google)Come and learn how to index the Geo data on your site (KML, GeoRSS), how to create a custom geo search on your site for your users, and how to access other geo data from the web using the local search API. Basic knowledge of KML is helpful, but not a must.