The big winner of the event was RedBeacon which turns local search into “local companies bid for your work.” The company takes home $50,000 and about $1.3 million in partner advertising.
One of the two DemoPit winners (as voted on by attendees) was location-based app Chyngle. It’s is a peer-to-peer marketplace where “users interact with others within their Ultra-Local Environments (ULEs)—any large venue where a large number of people congregate, be it a hotel, motel, park, stadium, school, and so on.”
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/17 at 08:26 AM |
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Today deCarta (the company whose engine powered [updated per confirmation from deCarta below, was “powers”] things like Google Maps and currently powers other mapping site and many personal nav devices) announced beta support for OpenStreetMap data. Here’s the plan: The beta program offer data for just selected cities; a full release coming in October will support complete OSM coverage.
The data will be free (recall that deCarta does not sell data, but offers partner data - NAVTEQ/Tele Atas/etc. so it’s not losing anything on this deal) and available for server and client side use and through its developer program. “This includes self hosted solutions using deCarta’s Drill Down Server, deCarta’s Hosted Web Services, Personal Navigation Devices, and Mobile Phones. Developers will also be able to quickly prototype and demonstrate location-enabled applications using OSM content through deCarta’s Developer Zone available to developers at http://www.decarta.com.”
You can play with a demo here.
I could find no details about planned maintenance of the data - that is - how and how often it will be updated, but posed that to the company.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/17 at 08:07 AM |
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There’s a free and $2.99 version of the “professional-grade paint and drawing” program. Its counterpart on the desktop is Autodesk SketchBook Pro, a package you can buy at Amazon for $75 (list is $100). Data created in the mobile version can be opened on the desktop.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/17 at 07:49 AM |
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A Slidell (Louisiana) resident held a wine tasting event and a raffle to fund the purchase of Garmin GPS devices for the local fire department. The local Best Buy provided a discount to make the money go further and even installed the devices in the fire trucks.
- Tammany News
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/17 at 07:32 AM |
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Earlier this week former senior members of the CH2M HILL Enterprise Spatial Solutions group launched Spatial Development International (SpatialDev). “The sweet spot for our new start-up company is combining our traditional enterprise GIS implementation experience with our knowledge of emerging geospatial platforms,” per the site. I know of the team from its work on AgCommons and WhereCampAfrica.
via @David_Sonnen
On Wednesday, CH2M HILL sold its information-management division to Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on the IT industry. The company says it want to focus on its core business of engineering and construction.
- Denver Business Journal
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/17 at 07:20 AM |
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