PanoMap, based in Florida, filed a patent infringement case against Apple and Google last week. It's really about the display of data, not the capture and thus the allegations are against big users of these types of display.
The patent,
US No. 6,563,529, was filed back in 1999 and issued in 2003. There are a total of 28 claims in the patent, but the broadest of them essentially cover a mapping system that displays a wide map view in combination with a more detailed view of location specifics. The claims also require synchronization of the two views.
As I see it, the invention here is what I call "active overview maps" and I have to believe there may be prior art from desktop GIS, if not a sense of obviousness.
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/28 at 06:20 AM |
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Google is guilty of abusing its dominant position with Google Maps per a court in France. It was ordered to pay €500,000 in damages and interest to the plaintiff and a €15,000 euro fine against Bottin Cartographes. The company, until it was put out of business, offered online maps.
- GPS Biz News
February 1 is the cut-off for companies with onine mapping websites to have a license from the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. Google has applied for one, but does not yet have approval. That suggests its ok to keep running as is, but can't launch anything "new."
- China Daily
After Google launched its Ocean extension for Google Earth back in 2009, oddly well laid-out features on the floor of the Atlantic had been speculated by some to be evidence of the existence of Atlantis, the legendary ancient civilization said to have vanished into the sea thousands of years ago. Those theories have been sunk, though, with NOAA's sobering clarification on exactly what those features are: errors in sonar rendering caused by assembling multiple data sets together, which is exactly what Google Earth does to create a global picture of Earth's oceans. It's a fairly common problem — students at UC San Diego have spent the last three years removing those types of errors from the data by hand, and as of last week, "Atlantis" has been once again wiped off the map, so to speak.
- The Verge
In Korea, Google's December enhancements to Maps, including showing the insides of some 1000 stores in Seoul, has meant competitors had to scramble. They are adding more routing options, more data, easier to use icons on mobiles to try to compete.
- Korea Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/06 at 05:02 AM |
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A plane will be scanning the island to build a three-dimensional map that will allow the planning authority to monitor environmental changes over the years.
The photographic map will carry information such as on air and water quality and noise levels. All data will be available online for free, explained Saviour Formosa, who is heading an EU-funded environment project being carried out by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority.
I guess it's LiDAR + other sensors?
- Time of Malta
The Philippine government has made geo-hazard maps, which outline areas prone to natural disasters, publicly available in a bid to reduce vulnerability at community level.
They are jpegs.
- IRIN Asia
February 1 is the cut-off for companies with onine mapping websites to have a license from the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. Google has applied for one, but does not yet have approval. That suggests its ok to keep running as is, but can't launch anything "new."
- China Daily
Google is guilty of abusing its dominant position with Google Maps per a court in France. It was ordered to pay €500,000 in damages and interest to the plaintiff and a €15,000 euro fine against Bottin Cartographes. The company, until it was put out of business, offered online maps.
- GPS Biz News
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/02 at 04:40 AM |
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And one more fine from South Korea:
A South Korean regulatory body has fined Apple up to $3,000 fauthorized collection of data on iPhones.
In a statement obtained by AFP on Tuesday, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said, 'KCC decided to fine Apple Korea three million won for collecting location data despite the withdrawal of consent by some users."or the un
- PC Mag
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by Adena Schutzberg on 08/04 at 05:41 AM |
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A judge in Suffolk Superior Court (Massachusetts) denied Google's request for a dismissal of, or summary judge on, a case against it by Boston-based Skyhook. Google hoped the suit would go away before it really started but the judge was not convinced. The suit alleges "Google used its relationships with handset manufacturers to muscle Skyhook’s GPS software out of the market."
A second set of suits alleges Google infringed on Skyhook patents related to determining the location of devices via wi-fi signals. That was filed in Mass District Court and is pending.
- Mass High Tech
- MarketWatch
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/05 at 03:41 AM |
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