Is your street in the wrong place on your personal navigation device (PND)or maybe not there at all? Did you see a McDonald’s restaurant that’s located on the wrong side of the road? Users of TomTom’s PNDs can now make changes to the street network database from their in-vehicle PND and upload changes to TomTom via the Internet. Editor-in-chief Joe Francica interviews Tim Flight, editor of GPS Review, who has been doing independent analysis on TomTom’s MapShare program to see how soon updates are making it into the hands of consumers.
The podcast will provide insightful information about how data is updated, captured and reported to TomTom and whether TomTom is sharing this information with Tele Atlas, who provides the company with digital street centerline information.
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The podcast was recorded on January 22, 2008 and runs for 14 minutes.
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by Joe Francica on 01/30 at 02:14 AM |
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The press release notes the company will sponsor Slipstream Sports LLC, “an elite cycling team that prides itself on using talent, training and technology in taking on the world’s best competition.” With many Olympic hopefuls, dedication to using technology and lots of drug testing, the team may be the only U.S. team at the Tour de France this year. It’s a good tie in for Garmin: cyclists will use it’s Edge on their bikes and support vehicles will sport the Nuvi. I’ll note very low penetration of GPS devices in my recreational cycling club; perhaps this’ll help.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/29 at 06:57 AM |
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USGS is in the news this week as learned that Landsat 5 is back in business after a battery scare and the National Research Council offered some specific recommendations for the USGS’ research agenda. Joe Francica examine these issues and their implication for remote sensing and The National Map, among other things.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/29 at 01:00 AM |
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You may have heard that Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive is launching a new daily online publication: “The Root.” Per the press release it “blends intelligent, thought-provoking discussion of issues from a variety of black perspectives and a round-up of news from around the world with an interactive genealogical section, creating a unique online destination devoted to the black experience.” But, it’s more than a magazine:
“The Root” hosts an interactive section to trace genealogy and heritage, enabling users to participate in a genealogy test through AfricanDNA.com, co-owned by FamilyTreeDNA. Readers will also have the opportunity to build and map family trees using software developed by Avencia.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/28 at 07:04 AM |
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The Google Lat Long blog noted a new viewer so anyone can watch changes the company’s map database, in something like real time. While it’s fun to watch the little bubbles pop up (you zoom around the map as do; most I saw were about an hour old), I’m thinking of questions I’d like to ask about the edits:
Who’s doing them?
What’s getting moved most - residences? businesses?
Do certain geographies get more edits?
Do edits jump at certain times of day? Times of year?
What’s the relationship of the geography of the editor to the geography being edited?
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/28 at 06:00 AM |
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