The map and analysis from ifoAppleStore is here. Perhaps some geographers and demographers want to weigh in? Also, anyone know what tools Apple uses to locate these?

The ad is aimed at showing off the power of the iPhone: "The ad showed the internet navigation prowess of the iPhone, with images zooming in on a weather forecast for Cape Town and a map of how to get to Heathrow airport."

The complaints, two complaints, questioned the voice over: ""You never know which part of the internet you'll need ... which is why all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone." They claimed without Java and Flash support, this is not true. Apple responded saying it could not support ever possible 3rd party app and that it meant to suggest that access was available to websites, not to all functions. The Advertising Standards Authority felt it was misleading and ordered the ad removed. The sites shown in the ad, Apple confirmed, don't use Java or Flash.

- Guardian (include video of the ad)

C|net asks. Thus far: "yes." Mostly, I think they are looking for conspiracy stories about why we don't yet have that feature. The license forbids it, though no one knows quite why.

MSNBC has a look at the state of turn by turn directions on the iPhone (there are none yet) and highlights that their may soon be some from the usual suspects - Garmin, TomTom, Magellan and perhaps Apple. How soon?

Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies market analysts, said “in talking to some of the guys in the software community, they believe we’ll see voice turn-by-turn directions within the next three months” for the iPhone, and certainly "before the end of the year.”

I'm simplifying but that's a quick conclusion based on Xconomy's list of apps a full month after the iPhone 3D launch as it looked for apps from companies around its Seattle and Boston offices. The vast majority are geo related.

MISO are Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle, the big enterprise players in the market today. All have a toe or more in GIS, but all also have a tie to ESRI. What's the state of those relationships and what new players also want and need to hook up with the big E? Our editors explore these questions and toss in a few other letters, G, A and B into the alphabet soup.


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