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Because apparently you can’t have a mapping solution without a social layer, Microsoft has been cooking up GeoLife for about a year and testing it out with 112 people. Participants upload their GPS tracks and use those as a base for sharing experiences, places of interest and social interaction.
GPS Business News has the story. Here’s the key quote from CEO Harold Goddijn, speaking today at the Fourth quarter conference call.
So what you will see coming out of Tele Atlas-TomTom is a set of tools and platforms to make it easy and fast to deploy location-based services in a variety of applications and contexts. That platform of development, you can see some of that if you go to our website and see our route planner. That is a branded expression of those platform tools, but you can expect further development in that space. We will make that type of development available in a white label to a wide variety of customers in the mobile space for them to develop specific applications.
So, instead of standalone solutions noted last year, the company will compete against the likes of deCarta, the recently spun off Autodesk Location Services among others. The big distinguisher? The TomTom offering will be tied to Tele Atlas data. As GPS Business notes, the company is very late to that space.
FCW reports on the effort, currently being discussed by several southern states. The idea is to allow states to share their own data across jurisdictions no matter their platform. As discussion get going David Boyd, director of DHS Science and Technology’s Command, Control and Interoperability Division reports technology is not the issue, it’s getting the players on the same page.
The whole article sounds like every OGC conversation I ever heard. I guess it’s good to see progress, but the term standards is not part of the current reporting. That said, I suspect it’s in the mix.
Virtual Alabama is built on Google Earth Enterprise; the technology for the pilot of gulf coast states was not detailed.
No, I didn’t come to that conclusion, some one far more savvy than I did: Josh Bernoff at Forrester Research. He breaks down all the PR e-mail he received in a two week period and provides some great tips for doing PR better, whether you do it yourself or through a third party.
Update 2/25/09: WorldCAD Access reports Cadalyst will live on, now as part of licensing deal to Longitude Media (very geographic!), lead by ex-CMP (they owned Cadence, a competitor) Seth Nichols. All involved will keep their jobs. Here’s the official statement.
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Tenlinks today reports that Questex Media will no longer publish the last remaining print publication focussed only on CAD, Cadalyst. The company will pay employees until the end of February. A team from the magazine is looking to buy the property and continue publishing. Questex is also the parent company of Geospatial Solutions, GPS World and Sensors.
