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To my amazement there are very few folks following the where2008 thread on Twitter. Just 70. Perhaps folks are all all on the backchannel IRC? (IRC channel #where2008 on irc.freenode.net)
I guess this is reinforcing my sense of Twitter use in our community which is confirmed, thus far, by the current poll.
The BBC reports that the National Trust is mapping every plant in its gardens using a handheld device supplied by Magellan. Magellan tells us that gardeners of the National Trust are using their MobileMapper CX with DigiTerra Explorer software. Watch the video of how they will do it.
It’ll be announced this morning at Where, but there’s a blog post about first set of apps. Only a few are particularly spatial - WeatherBug weater, Caldwell Banker home search and speed traps from Trapster. As TechCrunch notes, it’s odd that to get info on the API you must send e-mail rather than say read all the details then apply for a code or something. I guess Dash hasn’t been watching how the rest of the tech community is doing APIs.
The word came today from the EU. Basically the Commission said there was no reason fear unfair strategies:
“The Commission found that the merged company would be unlikely to pursue these strategies because its ability to restrict access to digital maps ... would be limited by the presence of an upstream competitor, Navteq,” it said.
The new company “would have no incentive to restrict access to digital maps because the sales of digital maps lost by Tele Atlas would not be compensated by additional sales of personal navigation devices,” it said.
Everyone remembers Greenwich, the town in Connecticut that went through a FOIA and several lawsuits only to lose its bid refuse sharing GIS data with a consultant. Now, even as we all ponder the goings on Google and ESRI and their vision to make geospatial data more findable and potentially useable over the Web, the court cases continue.
