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Monday, October 1. 2007

Podcast: Exploring Nokia's Acquisition of NAVTEQ

On Monday, Finnish Nokia announced its plan to acquire Chicago-basd map provider NAVTEQ. Speculations were rampant after TomTom announced its plan to acquire "the other" global map data provider, Tele Atlas, earlier this year. Editors Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg listened to leaders from both companies offer their reasoning for their excitement for the newly expanded Nokia in an investor call and offer their insights into the announcement and its impact. The podcast was recorded on Oct 1 and is 11 minutes long.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Microsoft, Traffic, Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business at 13:26 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Nokia Deal Having Impact on Garmin

Though markets aren't perfect, the news of Nokia acquiring NAVTEQ has had an immediate impact on Garmin (GRMN) in which investors appear to be suggesting that it missed an opportunity. At mid-day, the stock is down over 10% and TheStreet.com thinks that GRMN will pay more for the street data and finds itself left out of a market where their competitor, TomTom now has sole possession of one side of the duopoly, Tele Atlas. TheStreet.com thinks the big issue is the new market for pedestrian navigation, which Nokia itself made very clear in its conference call this morning. I think that may be a red herring and the bigger play is for in-vehicle systems at least that's where the margins will be higher. In fact, I see the issue for Nokia is that they see an opportunity to control more of the communication electronics for in-vehicle systems starting with navigation and continuing to cellular and Wi-Fi - based applications. Regarless, Nokia is shining a spotlight on LBS applications as a strategic part of its business.

Posted by Joe Francica in LBS at 11:56 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

GeoWeb Term Gains Momentum

The term is all over PC World's blog entry reviewing a panel on location and the Web at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference last week.

I think the post is about this session: Second Earth: Virtual Worlds, Amazing Maps, and the Future of the Metaverse though it doesn't seem to be on the topic of geotagging, where the post focusses. One tidbit from Google's John Hanke:

Hanke says Google has begun to try to index all GeoTagged content on the Web. So far, he says, Google has cataloged several million pieces of content.

I don't really know what that means!

Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 07:42 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

National Applications Office Will Have to Wait

The new National Applications Office (part of the Dept. of Homeland Security) set to launch today, which would have given civilian agencies access to detailed military imagery, will have to wait. hat's word from DHS spokesperson Andrew Lluberes , who explained that the wait will allow time to address congressional concerns about privacy.

There's also a push to use more commercial satellite imagery instead of the classified materials. I'm sure the two commercial companies would like that!

- Congressional Record

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing at 07:12 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

India Plans SatNav

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) plans the seven satellite constellation, the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). It should be available in 2011/12.

- SatNews.com

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Satellite Navigation at 07:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Too Many Accidents? Blame Sat Nav

The Citizen (UK) covers warnings about the fallability of satnav devices. Nothing new. But,

The warning comes after an RAC Foundation study found that the north west is the worst region in the country for commuter casualties.

The region was found to be worst for collision rate per head of population, has above average travel to work times and above average UK CO2 emissions per head of population.

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PC Pete Sculphur of the road policing unit based in Accrington, said that it was not possible to trace whether accidents were caused by in-car technology.

But the article goes on to quote him saying many people probably don't admit accidents were caused by attending to the devices or being distracted by them due to embarassment.

As usual, all complaints about inaccuracies get back to data:

Spokesman for sat nav manufacturer Garmin, Ted Gartner, insisted their sat-nav devices are accurate but admitted that glitches may exist in the electronic maps programmed into each unit.

By the way Garmin does offer a form on which to report errors here. I wonder if users (1) know it exists (2) can find it on the site (it's not accessible via main page) or (3) would bother to fill it out.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Satellite Navigation at 06:48 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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