CitySense is attempting to use real time location data from those who download its client software as well as GPS enabled cabs and other "sensors." The goal is a near real time thematic map of activity in the city.

Currently available as a free download for BlackBerry and iPhone handsets, Citysense displays what look like heat maps to show where the most human activity is going on at that moment, down to the street intersection; future releases of the product may make those locations even more detailed, but [CEO Greg] Skibiski said that's not yet decided due to the important issue of privacy concerns.

For now it's San Francisco only. The big question: what do you do once you see these heatmaps? You use Yelp or Socialight to find what must be attracting the hoards. As the CEO puts it, the app is not about meeting people, but meeting places.

Biz plan: "The company plans to profit primarily from business clients purchasing deeper data from the Macrosense platform; Citysense and all future consumer applications are intended to be strictly icing on the cake."

- c|net

This week Adena Schutzberg offers a condensed verison of the presentation she gave last week at the NYS Geospatial Summit, in Skenateles, NY. It focuses on the challenges of finding, accessing and moving Web-based content both geospatial and otherwise, and highlights some technologies and tools addressing those challenges. She also looks into the future and predicts what she expects to see in these areas in the coming months and years.

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The lead investor is Deutsche Telekom’s venture capital arm, the T-Mobile Venture Fund. Pelago was also the first to get funds from Apple's $1M fund for iPhone development.

- Venture Beat
- BusinessWeek

I was enjoying dinner last night with some other geospatial folks at a reception preceding tomorrow's New York State Geospatial Summit. The topic turned to Where 2.0 and the really great ideas there and how alas, perhaps 1 in 20 had a shot of "making it."

It made reading the tale of the death of Meetro, one of early location-based social network tools rather sad. But, it's a valuable read for anyone with startup fever.

It's nearly here, or so says Planet 9, the well-known creator of 3D city models. RayGun is GPS navigation and social networking application, now in 2D and soon to be in 3D.

With RayGun, you can create an avatar to represent yourself, and move around in the application. You can also share routes, text chat, share photos and video, and even talk to each your friends over VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

It won't be a product you can buy; the company hopes to license it phone suppliers and carriers for their products.

- Venture Beat

The editors look outward to find technologies that will impact how geospatial products and practices will change in the next 12 to 24 months. Some of the suggested technologies are already appearing in cutting edge products, others are not yet implemented in geospatial solutions, but we expect to see them soon.

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