Today [Monday] the city’s marketing, tourism and partnership organization NYC & Company launched the NYC Map mobile app in partnership with homegrown startup CityMaps, with plans to orchestrate an extensive marketing program to promote the app as the city’s de facto tour guide.
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Garmin will provide a fully integrated, factory-installed infotainment system for most American 2013 model year Suzuki vehicles. Garmin's infotainment system combines a 6.1-inch high-resolution touchscreen display with a full-featured infotainment platform, including AM/FM/CD radio, multi-media playback, backup camera support, Bluetooth® hands-free connectivity, Pandora radio...
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Fifty-eight percent of consumers who have a smart device use location-based applications, despite concerns about safety and use of their personal information for marketing purposes, according to a survey from nonprofit global information security association ISACA.
The survey was of 1000 U.S. residents over 18. Here's the full results.
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Skout, a location-based social network for meeting new people, has secured $22 million in new funding from Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/03 at 05:50 AM |
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To keep traffic from residential areas and to prevent drivers from getting lost, Garmin and Google have relocated it to route drivers to viewing areas.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 03/16 at 05:29 AM |
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The first new engineering building on the University of Tennessee campus in nearly 50 years — the $37.5 million Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science building — opens in January. A $12.5 million gift from Garmin co-founder and UT alum Min Kao made it possible.
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CampusTours Inc. today released a new Web site, http://www.CampusMaps.com, devoted to providing a comprehensive catalog of college and university campus maps. It links to many campus maps but the goal is to get you to use that company's services for your campus map/online tour.
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I love it when my two favorite disciplines (chemistry and geography) come together.
The Chemistry Map of Scotland is an interactive online tool which allows pupils across the country to post accounts of the effect of chemistry in their local area. ...The map has been organised by the Scottish Local Sections of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as part of the International Year of Chemistry in 2011.
The idea is for students to add data points in their local areas. Cool.
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Western Kentucky University Associate Professor of Geography Katie Algeo wrote "Historical GIS as a Platform for Public Memory at Mammoth Cave National Park" with graduate students Ann Epperson and Matthew Brunt. It was named 2011 Best Paper Award by the International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research.
Algeo, a cultural/historical geographer, has focused much of her research in recent years on the cultural geography of Mammoth Cave. The Mammoth Cave Historical Geographic Information Science project is dedicated to document and preserve the lives and memories of the area's pre-park residents.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/11 at 03:00 AM |
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Let's see if I have this straight. Garmin Connect (the result of the Garmin Acquisition of MotionBased in 2005, press release) used to be built on Google Maps. Then a year ago Garmin switched to Bing Maps. Then the community got mad, mostly pointing at the poor terrain views in Bing Maps. So, now, Garmin offers a choice, which it's suggested, means it must pay both companies for their enterprise licenses.
Clearly, changing the map really bothers people. My favorite planning app for runs, GMaps Pedometer now offers Google and OSM.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 12/05 at 06:01 AM |
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Details on lobbying payments by three of the Save Our GPS Coalition's big players are public:
Since January, Trimble has spent $840,000 in lobbying fees related to the LightSquared spectrum issue — including nearly $330,000 in the third quarter alone — according to records filed with the Senate. Most of Trimble’s lobbying on spectrum interference is through one of K Street’s leading firms, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, to whom Trimble has shelled out $620,000 this year. Garmin has retained Dow Lohnes, paying the firm $70,000 since March on GPS interference issues; John Deere has spent $964,000 on in-house lobbyists.
In other jockying for positions for the political fight...
LightSquared highlights that big wigs at Trimble sold off stock just after the FCC gave LightSquared contional approval. What's up that? asks LightSquared.
Wireless company LightSquared is arguing that the fact that senior executives of GPS-maker Trimble sold millions of dollars of stocks earlier this year shows that the executives knew their devices are at fault for interference problems with LightSquared's network.
The sales came within weeks of the Federal Communications Commission granting a conditional waiver to allow LightSquared to move forward with plans to provide wholesale wireless broadband service.
And, LightSquared points out that one of the goverment's own is a director and shareholder of Trimble.
LightSquared had been rushing around telling anyone who'll listen that Bradford Parkinson, vice chairman of the "Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory" – which provides federal advice on GPS matters – is also a director of, and shareholder in, Trimble. Trimble makes GPS kit, and stands to lose a great deal of money if it is forced to supply replacements to GPS users, or charge more for its products.
The Register points out the fellow kind of invented GPS and that his two hats is no secret to anyone.
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/01 at 06:54 AM |
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