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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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Thursday, September 17. 2009
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deCarta to Offer OpenStreetMap Data Across Product Line
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.
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Monday, September 14. 2009
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NZ's Second Biggest Power Company Removes Oracle, Goes SQL Server
New Zealand’s Powerco pretty much removed its Oracle instances in favor of Microsoft’s SQL Server. There were also changes in hardware, virtualization and a drop in the number of Citrix servers. The GIS moves over this week; hopefully after a user presentation at Tech Ed, we'll learn more about how the company was using Oracle and how it'll be using SQL Server for spatial data (or not). The company uses Televent Miner and Miner apps built on ESRI tech (source). The money saved: $390,000 a year.
Open source was not considered as the goal was to standardize to one system from a mixed Oracle/SQL Server solution.
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