Friday, November 20. 2009

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Jay Tilley, Senior VP, Sanborn

Adena Schutzberg interviewed Jay Tilley, Sanborn's Senior Vice President about why 3D data is important and how the industry is overcoming challenges such as cost, data fusion and the integration of real time data. Tilley also speaks to the future growth of 3D data development and its use in augmented reality applications. This interview is part of a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing, 3D, 3D Perspective, Hallway Conversations at 17:33 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, November 10. 2009

Tele Atlas Signs Deal with Intermap

Intermap has a signed an agreement to provide terrain data to Tele Atlas. For what geographies? I asked Intermap:

...the contract includes our NEXTMap coverage area – NEXTMap USA covering the contiguous U.S. plus Hawaii and NEXTMap Europe – covering 21 Western European countries – complete country list is detailed on http://www.intermap.com/nextmap-europe.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in 3D Perspective at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Friday, November 6. 2009

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Maarten Oldenhof

Adena Schutzberg interviewed Automotive Navigation Data (AND) CEO Maarten Odelhof about the state of commercial geodata, the licensing challenges and the role the community can play in keeping data up-to-date. This is the third in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Geospatial Business, Tele Atlas, NAVTEQ, Data, Hallway Conversations at 10:39 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, October 27. 2009

Podcast: The State of Augmented Reality

What is augmented reality and how does it relate to geospatial technology? Is it "just cool" or are there real uses for it? Further, is there any money it? Our editors offer up definitions, uses and suggestions for geospatial companies waiting on the sidelines.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in LBS, Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business, Data at 06:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

Friday, October 9. 2009

Niche Maps, the New Biz Sector

I continue to argue that the place for data providers, except those ready to take on the world, is to find those niches not filled. Case in point: Ken Amsden of FirearmsMaps.com. As a beginning hunter he could not find maps of the legal hunting areas in California. He's parlayed that into a new product for hunters. The delivery? On SD cards for Garmin GPS devices.

- San Bernardino Sun

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Data at 08:40 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, September 22. 2009

Podcast: deCarta Supports OpenStreetMap

This past week's big news was deCarta's announcement of support for the crowdsourced OpenStreetMaps geographic data across its product line. What does that mean for other companies in the mapping tools space, the data space and for end users of these products?

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business, Tele Atlas, NAVTEQ, Data at 06:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |