All Points Blog

LBS RoundUp: Loopt Adds LBS Ads, Foursquare Teams with Zagat, GyPSii and Telmap

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:21:07 -0600

Even as Apple tries to "manage" apps that offer location-based ads (listen to today's podcast), Loopt has signed a deal with coupon start-up Mobile Spinach to offer just that sort of ads. Loopt, best known as a "friend finder" app made the statement ...Read more

VGI Tidbits

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:12:45 -0600

Two "can't just sit around" sort of people were concerned about Queenslands koala population. They've launched a grassroots organization, Koala Diaries, to keep an eye on the population. One aspect, Project Location seeks to answer: Just how many...Read more

The Philippines Launches National Parcel GIS

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0600

The Philippine Chamber of Real Estate and Builders Association's (CREBA) CREBALAND, its technical arm, announced the the Philippines "first fully-automated Web GIS parcellary mapping service," It's known as MapSys.Ph [site down as I write this] and "...Read more

The New Trend in Obligatory Geo Media Coverage

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0600

I've noted that every paper of any size has, in the past few years, run and article about how Tele Atlas, NAVTEQ or now Google and other organizations are collecting street level data. The new crop of obligatory articles are about local startups ...Read more

Post Office Closings Clustered in Rural/Poor Areas

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0600

Rural areas are home to most of the nearly 100 closed post offices in the last five years. That can mean that residents need to drive 15 more miles to the nearest facility. One elderly man died en route to the next closes post office during a snow st...Read more

Podcast: Apple to Gatekeep Location-based Ads

(Adena Schutzberg) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:00:00 -0600

Last week Apple provided further direction to its developer community regarding the implementation of location-based ads in apps destined for its App Store. The LBS apps must "provide beneficial information, and will not be accepted if they use "loc...Read more

Trimble Adds Indoor Mapping Tool to its Suite

(Adena Schutzberg) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:27:34 -0600

While there are not images of the new product called The Indoor Mobile Mapping Solution (expected to be widely available in Q2) it sounds like the company's version of PenBay Media's indoor mapping robots. (I'm not sure at all from the collateral if ...Read more

Update: NAVTEQ Shutting Down Phone Map App Nav4All that Uses NAVTEQ Data