Adena Schutzberg interviewed United Maps CIO and co-founder Stefan Knecht about the challenges of collected and conflating data across Europe (and the U.S.), the challenges of mapping public transit and why only a small percentage of cemeteries appear in most commercial datasets. This is the fourth in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders. This is the fourth in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 11/13 at 09:59 AM |
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This is for users, not mapgeeks…
Props to Greater [second “Greater” added per comment] Greater Washington for putting together a test to measure if the new WMATA (Metro) bus map is better than the old one.
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/13 at 07:36 AM |
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The state law is set to change come January and it may change if counties can charge for geospatial data and may open the licensing of that data.
NAVTEQ wants a copy of Whiteside County’s data. The company is happy to pay, but disputes the current licensing, which prevents it from sharing the data. The updated law may make the discussions moot.
Currently, many Illinois counties charge for online access to parcel data ($300/year rates are mentioned) and for copies of the database ($3000 - $5000 rates are mentioned). Whiteside uses Schneider’s Beacon application and some, but not all information on properties is free. The rest requires a $25/month fee for access.
I’m sure NAVTEQ and many other companies are waiting to see how the updated law is interpreted and implemented.
- TMC Net/Daily Gazette
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/13 at 07:01 AM |
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The company is Invitations by Ajalon Printing and Design, based in Santa Rosa, CA and the new employee, Dean Tisthammer, will work in the wedding invitation division. With Dean on board, invites will presumably include maps. He’s graduate in Geography from Sonoma State University.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/13 at 06:33 AM |
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The technology is from Telecordia and called dynamic discount tariffing.
It was launched in Africa in September. There MTN, Vodacom and Safaricom offer between 45 and 95% discounts. It’s now likely to be launched in India.
My question: how will you know the discounted areas? “Subscribers get information on the discounts through SMS or by an interactive voice response system.” I guess it’s just a form of “congestion pricing.”
- Business Line (via Plugged.In)
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/13 at 06:00 AM |
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