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Marc Prioleau, former VP of marketing for deCarta, has been appointed CEO of Cloudmade, a company started by the founders of OpenStreetMap. Cloudmade offers APIs for mobile and Internet applications.
Recall Microsoft sued TomTom, then TomTom countersued Microsoft.
Now, C|net reports they’ve settled into a five year agreement. TomTom will pay Microsoft some money to use the eight patents cited in that suit, but Microsoft will pay nothing to use TomTom’s. TomTom will removes some code (file management) over the next two years.
More at Reuters.
Editor in chief Joe Francica speaks with ESRI’s Rob Shanks, the senior product manager of ArcGIS Online. Rob came to ESRI in July 2007 after many years as the president and CEO of GlobeXplorer. The interview discusses the new agreement with Microsoft Corporation that gives ArcGIS users access to Microsoft Virtual as part of ArcGIS Online at the ArcGIS 9.3.1 product release. Shanks provides more details on how ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server users will be able to connect directly to Virtual Earth and quickly start their GIS projects with ready-to-use content.
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We did a podcast last year about how the Olympics are a teachable moment for geography. This week came news (NY Times) the IOC has decided to limit the torch relay will be run only in the hosting country from 2014 forward, though both Vancouver and London, the next Winter (2010) and Summer (2012) Game hosts, will arrange in country relays.
While that’s a bit disappointing from a “how the world is put together” standpoint, I’m hoping the media will focus more on the host country’s geography.
I’m sure many readers know of the Toronto Star’s regular feature “Map of the Week.” It’s put together by Web editor Patrick Cain and covers all kinds of topics for the Greater Toronto Area that are not necessarily related to stories in the paper. He even includes a “Nerd Box” to share some of the tech and presentation issues he faces.
A few thoughts:
- Why doesn’t every paper do this? Yes it takes some work, but the maps are immediate draws for the local community - no matter if they show car or bike accidents caused by cars or architecture parking tickets given. Can you help your local paper start such a feature and “do good for geography?”
- Wouldn’t Patrick (or his peers at other papers) be great speakers at your conference or on GIS Day or in your class?
- With the new administrations talk about more transparency, the time is right for even more maps in the media here in the U.S. but also worldwide.
- This has got to be a lot of work and the commitment to one a week is impressive. Great job!
- In a related effort, I can’t say enough about FortiusOne’s dataset of the day on its blog. Now, there’s no doubt the goal is to introduce its Finder and Maker tools to the world, but this is another regular effort (no daily, but regularly) to inform, engage the world through maps related to timely news topics. And, yes, I mention this because Finder! could be a great resource for data for Maps of Week.
