LightPole Wants You to Know…

This is old news (May 13 is the blog post announcing the plugin) but LightPole wants us (and you) to try out a plug-in for Moveable Type blogging platform. (We use Seredipity, so we won’t be testing it.)

As you may have heard, LightPole, Inc., a mobile application service provider focused on the “Long Tail” publishing market, co-developed a Movable Type plug-in with SixApart that allows Movable Type bloggers to geo-tag their entries, add and manage related points of interest (POIs) and publish feeds that can be used to create LightPole channels – seamlessly delivering content to their readers’ mobile phones. We thought it might be particularly compelling to you and encourage you to give it a try.

The GeoType Plug-In for Movable Type allows you to associate locations with blog entries. It creates locations for each blog entry, which are pushpin points that appear on a single map. Also, a map can be shown which displays all of the locations for the entire blog. Locations can be found using addresses or by scrolling the map, so you do not need to find or lookup the coordinates for your location like many other plug-ins force you to do. The plug-in also allows for these blog entries to be published to mobile devices using the LightPole Publishing System.

To download the plug-in point to your browser click here: http://plugins.movabletype.org/geotype/.

For additional instruction, check out the documentation at http://blog.lightpole.net/plugins/docs/index.html

If you are already a LightPole user, great. If not, go to http://www.lightpole.net/user/signup to sign-up for free and get these benefits and more.

Microsoft Debuts Behind the Maps Series

From reader Tim:

In case your scanning didn’t nab this… a great 40 minute piece on what MSFT is doing with Vexcel technology.

The site explains this is the first in a series in a post from Mark Brown:

Welcome to the inaugural episode of a new video series called, “Behind The Maps”. In this series we’ll explore all of the technology that makes up Virtual Earth and meet the scientists and engineers who bring Virtual Earth to life.

In this episode we go to Graz, Austria and meet Michael Gruber who invented the UltraCam aerial camera and Bernhard Reitinger who created our UltraMap software. We’ll spend some time getting the details on this camera and software and get an up close look at both.

TomTom CEO: We’ll sell 15 million devices in 2008

Reuters reports:

The chief executive of navigation device maker TomTom NV (TOM2.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) expects to sell 15 million navigation devices in 2008 despite difficult economic conditions, Dutch daily De Telegraaf reported on Saturday.

Harold Goddijn knows of the economic downturn and rising gas prices, but feels confident. I’m surprised the GPS vendors haven’t already started marketing the devices as money-savers to consumers.

ESRI Podcast Series: ArcGIS Desktop 9.3

In this podcast sponsored by ESRI, Bruce Harold, ArcGIS Desktop product manager at ESRI, gives a summary of what users can expect in the upcoming ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 release. Bruce discusses some of the productivity enhancements as well as improvements in cartographic tools, geoprocessing, and graphics support.

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