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Thursday, October 15. 2009
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Update: Coming for the iPhone: Old Map App
Update: Just got the good word that the app has been renamed Historic Earth and is now available. Further, it's now a partnership with Historic Map Works, and accesses that organization's "exclusive collection of more than 30,000 geo-referenced maps."
[Marketing comment] Martin did his social media homework! His e-mail reminding me that I wrote about the app earlier was key in getting me to provide this update. A generic "we launched e-mail" may not have caught my attention.
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Wednesday, October 14. 2009
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OSM Mapathon in Atlanta Taps Local URISA, 4-H as Mappers
The BBC, not the Atlanta Journal Constitution, is making a big deal of OpenStreetMap's "mapathon" in Atlanta coming up this weekend. Among the leaders is Dr. Frank Howell from the Office of Research and Policy Analysis, who used to be a GIS professor, and new serves as Director of the volunteer GeoGeorgia Initiative. (Mission: to facilitate the growth of the geospatial industry in Georgia through training and the education of state and local governments to make geospatial data freely available to the public.) He hopes the city can "claim to the title of the most digitally mapped city by the new year."
Among the participating organizations: CloudMade, Gainesville State College, GeoGeorgia Initiative, Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), Georgia URISA, the Georgia GIS Coordinating Committee, Southeastern GeoTech Center, Georgia 4-H Clubs and REI.
I like that the timing of the event helps raise further questions about what Google will be doing with its crowdsourced data. We know exactly what OSM will be doing with its data. We'd love a "report from the field" from anyone who is participating!
- press release (pdf)
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Tuesday, October 13. 2009
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Podcast: Google Maps Changes US Base Data, Adds Parcels and Crowdsourcing
This past week Google prompted a flurry of discussion by announcing some changes to its data and functionality in Google Maps. There’s new data and new feedback tools and some anxiety in the geospatial world. Our editors separate fact from fiction and offer our take on the implications of these changes.
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Thursday, October 1. 2009
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Update: MotionX GPS App for iPhone - NAVTEQ Data and Low Cost
Updated 10/1: Title and text updated per comment from FullPower to note the app does not use OpenStreetMap (below).
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I'm trying hard not to get too wrapped up in all the iPhone nav apps, but I am interested in the reaction of the planet as each one appears. When the TomTom app came out for the iPhone the folks on Buzz Out Loud (BOL, the C|net podcast of indeterminate length) criticized the price and attributed it to the cost of the data (provided by Tele Atlas, which it owns). Now, InformationWeek previews MotionX-GPS for iPhone in part because of its low price $2.99 and $25 annual subscription.
The app uses deCarta tech and NAVTEQ data (from FAQ), so that's not what dropped the price. Another of the company's products does use OpenStreetMap.
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I had to dig a bit on the website, but it seems the app uses OpenStreetMap. (I'm a bit confused since GPS Business News says it uses NAVTEQ.) Also noteworthy: the company behind it is FullPower and headed by former Borland CEO Philippe Kahn. Gosh I loved Borland! My first real job, at a consulting firm, used Quattro. One of my colleagues, a programmer, won a big award for automating the processing of data from our Gas Chromatograph all in Quattro.
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Tuesday, September 29. 2009
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Flickr Connects to OSM
The full announcement is on the Flickr Code blog, but in essence the new connection means that developers can tag photos with their nodes and ways (points and polygons) over on OpenStreetMap. For now, the sample is quite simple. If you visit this Flickr image you can view the single "machine tag" under View Machine Tags (1) or click on the linked text for St. George's house under additional information and visit the OSM page for that node. It'll be interesting to see how developers use this connection.
More importantly, it's another indication that OSM is becoming a "must have" option for those developing today's online and mobile map-related apps, not matter what API they are using.
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Tuesday, September 22. 2009
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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?
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