This week as the world is abuzz about Apple’s latest device, the iPad, we look at a potential apple area of interest: mapping. There are hints that apple is assembling policies and ingredients for a mapping play, but what else does it need to fully implement its solution? And what would make an Apple incursion into mapping uniquely compelling? And when might it arrive?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/06 at 01:00 AM |
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Last week Google announced it would use only Tele Atlas data for its mapping applications, effectively dropping NAVTEQ, now owned by Nokia. Is there a data war? Or perhaps a browser war? Also: Microsoft reveals its vision for a tagged real world even as a Japanese company shows off its implementation of that vision. Is it time for real world geotagging? Our editors tackle these questions in this week’s discussion.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 10/03 at 01:00 AM |
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Remember how when GIS was young we got very excited when the technology was noted in the mainstream media? Today it’s in nearly every local and regional paper, and interestingly, Google Earth need not be referenced. Some examples from the past few days:
Detention of Gujarat fishermen and their boats by Pakistan may soon become a thing of the past. The state government is all set to roll out a cutting edge security edifice that will not only prevent vessels from crossing into Pakistani waters, but also identify each and every fisherman on the sea.
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The hi-tech system will work on a combination of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) creating a geo-fence – a kind of virtual fencing along the IBL between India and Pakistan.
- Ahmedabad Newsline, India
The City of Dyersburg will again take advantage of the latest technology to address an age-old problem with the beginning of its pavement management program.
Using GIS and GPS technology, city officials will soon have information on street and sidewalk conditions throughout the city at their fingertips. The data can then be used to determine where problem areas like potholes, cracks and rough spots are and which streets to repair as funds allow.
The issue for some locals is that an out of town firm was contracted to do the mapping.
- State Gazette, TN
All week last week, volunteers and city employees armed with GIS mapping tools and tape measures counted, measured and made notes of every tree in three city parks.
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The workers identified the GPS location of each tree by latitude and longitude; identified individual tree species; measured tree height and circumference; measured the amount of shade provided by each tree; and evaluated the overall health of the trees.
- Tyler Morning Telegraph
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/27 at 07:03 AM |
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It was big week for news from a variety of sectors. Our editors take a look at Garmin’s announcement of its nav-phone, the Nuvifone, Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo! and the Ordnance Survey’s opening of its API for developers, OpenSpace.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 02/05 at 01:00 AM |
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Here’s the key quote for me from President and CEO of H3tec, Charles Christensen in the MarketingPilgrim blog post:
“I have been building and refining the H3 detector over the last eight years of experimentation. I started out building analog machines that weighed 200 lbs. This version of the detector is the fourteenth iteration of the device and it weighs less than 10 ounces. . . . The next version of the H3 detector will feature full mapping through GPS.”
He got the idea from Star Trek’s tricorder and the sensor, which detects substances up to two miles. These days apparently the company is talking to Google. The good news? The CEO likes “open:”
Christensen is also keeping the device open to other markets and devices: “I am now designing an ASIC chip set (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) that will be a miniaturized engine with APIs. . . . The APIs will be open to the world of designers so they can use the engine in any application and integrate this engine with existing devices, like the cell phone, weapons systems, and other hand held devices.”
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/04 at 08:15 AM |
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