The Impact Of Geolocation On The Modern World

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of the word geography, is “land.” However, there is much more to geography than this one singular word. Geography is the study of land on Earth, its physical features, and its atmosphere. Geography is how humans affect the environment. It is what carved and shaped history, and can alter the future in just a snap of the fingers. Geography is a way to travel around the world, multiple times without even having to leave your seat. It is the ultimate difference between many subjects, such as winning or losing, happiness and sadness, or even the common difference between life and death. To many people, geography is a part of everyday life, even though we don’t seem to notice it. We use geography to get to school and work. We use it to find the nearest McDonalds, and to even find out about the weather forecast of the day. Yet, for others, geography is what they live and breathe. Tim Marshall falls into that category as the author of “Prisoners of Geography,” who dedicates much of his time to further analyze the intricate study of geography. In his bestseller, Tim explains to us the allure of ten different regions in the world, while also bringing light to the little harmful events in each region, which could potentially lead to world calamity.

“Why Geography Matters More Than Ever,” was written by Harm De Blij. It was published August 17th 2012 by Oxford University Press, USA with 354 pages in it.

Although we are in a globalized and interconnected world, through mobile telephony, Internet and other gadgets of information technology, this does not mean that for people is a subsidiary or merely instrumental place where they want to live or work. It is perhaps one of the most important decisions. If it were indifferent location, on the assumption of a flat world by technology mobility, we would not be attending urban concentration that is occurring around large cities and that results in 2011 more than half of the population lives in cities and it is anticipated that by 2050 do about 70% of humanity.

Location is one of the biggest privacy issues we are dealing with today. Social media is the biggest example of having issues with location. When downloading or updating any app notifications pop up and most people just agree to them and not actually read it. “...When users attempt to download apps or media from the

Since the advent of humanity, nature has always proved to provide us with sustenance and opportunities for adventure. Yet, it was not only the lack of funds for urban adventure that drew millions of millennials into the woods. In May of 2000, GPS had a revolutionary improvement. This advancement of the global positioning system allowed users to engage and control selective availability, enabling them to pinpoint their exact location and other select locations. The White House stated that, anyone could use GPS to isolate, "the location of items left behind for later recovery.” Thus, sparking the origin of

My social location has been changed in the past year because of my translation to high school to college. I am nineteen years old, I am from Spanish decent and I am middle class. The translation to college was having many more opportunities to do what I want and having time for it.

Does physical or human geography have more of an impact on lives? The question has been asked by many geographers and there are many strong examples for both sides. Human geography plays a greater role in human development by changing the way people act by being more obedient and having freedom and having a cultures that are unique , while physical geography is the outside environment. The outside environment is not as important since humans are sheltered in homes.

Geocaching is a game in which players search for hidden objects by using GPS coordinates that are posted on the internet. Gamers travel to different places around the world in order to find the object. The hidden objects can be located anywhere from a cemetery to a major highway. Many controversies have begun to arise due to the fact that the objects are being hidden in private properties.

The response teams can use social media to prioritize rescue and aid efforts with the help of descriptions and data that can show what regions are most affected.

This relates to the impact of geography in the aspect of cities’ housing, as well as land use. Simply put, there just isn’t enough land the way it is. There are over 200,000 vacant houses, yet there are rising numbers of homeless. It just does not add up. What Lowe Guardians plans on doing is using the space to its fullest potential. They are getting people that are in search of an affordable home, in their pods. These pods are placed in the abandoned buildings and warehouses, to make use of the land. Which, is solving the problem of the lack of living space, as well as restoring the vacant living quarters.

The dynamic characteristics of twitter messages have the potential to provide GIS scientists with a great research opportunity to analyze the diffusion of events such as disease outbreaks, environmental changes, and social movements. This could be achieved by digitally collecting tweets that contain geo-tagged data. However, the percentage of geo-tagged data is extremely small comparing to non geo-tagged data. On the other side, the non geo-tagged tweets often contain chaotic data noise such as automated robots that affect the accuracy of the tweet content. For this matter, it is essential to analyze and understand the differences between geo-tagged and non geo-tagged tweets.

The video gaming industry is one of trending newness media among social and mobile media, and became a rival to other entertainment industries such as music and film on generating revenue which eventually is a segment of our global economy. According to Kline, Dyer-Witheford, and De Peuter (2003) states that digital games are considered as ‘ideal commodities’ of post-Fordist and global information capitalism. Along with Games, using global positioning system (GPS) created a new genre of entertainment, which sets up on the city streets and inside of the buildings. The users are equipped with wearable interfaces or smart mobile devices, and migrate through the city, collecting, conquering, and battling each other. This phenomenon indicates that

SMARTCANE has found huge response from the NGOs’; however, their product is very basic and doesn’t come in custom designed and with other features. After reviewing the online blogs and feedback, our company has identified that our GPS feature is very helpful for the targeted customers when compared to others in the industry.

The Global Positioning System The global positioning system (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system, consisting of a network of 24 orbiting satellites travelling on six different orbital paths. These satellites, referred to as NAVSTAR satellites, are constantly moving, making two complete orbits around earth per day. The first GPS satellite was launched in February, 1978.

[CE 1.1] This is a career episode which details my experiences and knowledge gained while working on developing a GPS enabled device for a recreational sport called Geocaching as part of my unit of study Embedded system design during my final semester. I worked on this project along with my team mates with whom I shared common interests in the field of my desire. I was guided by my lecturer Dr. Jason White during the whole period of this particular development.