Mapillary: mapping the world with crowd sourced photographs
Mapillary is leveraging crowds to collect street level images and stitching them together into an enormous 3-D map to help make the world more accessible to everyone.
GIS
Starbucks: Brewing up a data storm!
Starbucks’ use of data from geographic information systems (GIS) allows the coffee chain to optimize store location, perhaps explaining why it’s feasible to have four Starbucks stores within a 1-mile radius in Harvard Square!