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Despite all the hoopla, GPS-enabled mobile games have not exploded. But Wayfinder, a GPS services provider, says the time has come and they will enable the great games. How? By providing an API to their gaming platform to forum members on September 30.
[on the future] - One is that Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN) will become a hardware company and the second is something he’s banking on?that Apple’s ( NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone will evolve from a niche device to one that gains double-digit market share.
- [on what distinguishes Whrrl] “Foot-streaming” is the reason why Holden believes that they can demand high rates for their ads. Foot-streaming is the act of tracking where people go using GPS: “You are able to say people?who go to these places?also go to these places.” Sound familiar? Amazon does that all the time, by showing people what other people buy when they buy a particular book. “This has never been done in the physical world.”
- [on competitors] Loopt is like candy because you can see where your friends are, and with Yelp, likely only 1 percent of the audience is really engaged, he says.
Steve Poizner is currently the insurance commissioner for California. Before that we knew him as founder Strategic Mapping and SnapTrak. Word is he may run for governor in 2010. For now, though, he’s pushing for an option for insurance that would be tied to actual mileage, one that would ideally drop miles travelled and thus air pollution. Thirty other states already have this option. Oh, and no GPS is allowed; it would invade privacy. Odometer or other device readings would be used to confirm mileage.
I’m not sure I follow the logic:
The Environmental Defense Fund estimates that if 30 percent of Golden State drivers participate in this new form of voluntary coverage, the state could avoid 55 million tons of carbon dioxide between 2009 and 2020—the equivalent of taking 10 million cars off the road. This would save an estimated 5.5 billion gallons of gas and $40 billion dollars in car-related expenses.
Is the logic, “If I pay more to drive more, then I’ll drive less?” That’s working “somewhat” with the recent high gas prices. How can they know it’ll take 10 million cars off the road? Here in Massachusetts I get a break because I drive fewer than 5000 miles/year. How much lower would my rate be on such a plan (we don’t have one here). Would I drive even less? I doubt it, but I’m the first to say that lifestyle issues in my compact city are very different than those in much of California.
I can’t say I’d run into the latter term until today in the Ionia Sentinel-Standard (Michigan). The term is in the headline and throughout the “we’re getting Web-enabled GIS” story. Allied Information Solutions will create the system at a cost of $20,000 plus $5000/year maintenance. I wondered if the consultants, AIS use the term? I found two webpages that might relate to the company one was a placeholder listing three offices, the other was “under construction.”
So, I look at Clinton County’s site, noted in the article as being up and running with Web-enabled GIS. I found this page which uses the terms:
On-Line Mapping Service and On-Line Mapping. That said the text confirms “This is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) application brought to you by Clinton County, MI. It was designed by PlanSight LLC using ArcIMS.”
I’m thinking this won’t be sorted out anytime soon!
In this interview, we speak to Dan Wardman, Vice President for Information Management Software and Frank Butt, Manager, DB2 for z/OS Query Runtime, tech search and spatial support for IBM. Our topic is "The storage and management of spatial data on an IBM System z Mainframe". Spatial support is an important feature available for DB2 9 for z/OS as it provides the capability to store and retrieve spatial data from any application via standard SQL. We also discuss applications as well as IBM’s relationship with ESRI.
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