Friday, June 19. 2009

Garmin Linux Phones: One and Done

Remember the promise of the new Garmin phones? (Feb coverage in APB.) Remember how Garmin was to use Linux and even open sourced the OS for its regular nuvis (2008 coverage)?

Well, the Linux love affair is over at least on the phones, per C|net.

When asked about the potential of Garmin-Asus' current Linux platform for future devices, [regional director for Southeast Asia sales, Hektor] Tung revealed that this will be used only in the G60. Future smartphones will either come with Windows Mobile like the M20 or be based on the Google Android operating system.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source at 08:37 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

Thursday, June 18. 2009

Best Maps of Tehran? User Generated

Brady Forrest at O'Reilly Radar studies the map portal's maps of the area and concludes:

"Looking at the images below [ Yahoo, Mapquest, Google, and Bing] it becomes very clear that user-generated maps win in hard to reach places."

Flickr has even swapped out Yahoo Maps in favor OSM (something they've done before).

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Open Source, Microsoft, MapQuest at 07:58 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, June 9. 2009

Podcast: Spatial Databases: A Commodity?

This week's question: Is the spatial database a commodity? With all the big database players storing and querying spatial data and several open source offerings in the market, is spatial no longer special when in comes to the database world? Is it time to "stop getting excited" about the addition of spatial support and simply use the technology?


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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Microsoft, Oracle, Databases, Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business at 01:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

Thursday, June 4. 2009

Update: LA Times Offers Neighborhood Map for Its Own and Your Use

Word from the LA Times that the map has now "arrived" at least for now. It includes 113 neighborhoods. Here's the article that the Times offers on its blog to introduce the map and an article from editor Doug Smith.

Will every paper from a city of seasonable size undertake this sort of project?

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source at 07:58 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, June 3. 2009

BrightKite Blackberry App Goes Open Source

The app was written against the BrightKite API by a third party developer Chris Hallgren. He turned it open source to help make it flashier and better.

- ReadWriteWeb

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, LBS at 06:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |