VentureBeat Picks Five LBS Companies to Watch in 2009 (1)
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Some are the same old, same old: BrikeKite, Whrrl, Mexens Technology. One I'd never heard of: LBS gaming company Orbster. One, Sense Networks, has already made investors piles of money by allowing them to predict store revenues by tapping into traffic coming and going. Also noted: FaceBook and MySpace, which have yet to do anything with location, but which "would devastate the location-based social networking industry. No other social network is even close to achieving ...
Free Lecture on History etc. of Geocoding Wednesday in DC (1)
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This from Robert at the Library of Congress: December 3, 2008 at Noon Lecture: “Spaces of Calculation: Street Addressing and the Making of a Geo-coded World,” Reuben Rose-Redwood, Kluge Fellow, at 12:00 PM in Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. From the website (more info): Kluge Fellow Reuben Rose-Redwood will explore the cultural and political history of street addressing in the United States, from the late eighteenth century to the ...
UK Releases "Place Matters" Location Strategy for UK (1)
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The report had been held up, (I noted it in my coverage of AGI GeoCommunity exactly a month ago) but is now available free here. The press release explains there's a five point approach: The Location Strategy sets out a Five-Point Action Plan for public services that will help them to: - know what data we have and avoid duplicating it - use common reference data so we know we are talking about same places ...
Podast: Geo and the Economic Downturn (1)
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Whatever you choose to call the current economic situation, it's clearly impacting everything, worldwide in one way or another. This week we look into the crystal ball to think though the impact on the geospatial technology industry. More that one company in the industry has seen its stock not just fall but plummet; some are cutting jobs. But what about those in government positions? What about software vendors? Consultants? What's the prognosis for gadgets and ...
Three GLONASS Birds to Launch on Christmas Day (1)
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Russia will launch the three satellites into its navigation constellation on December 25 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia. (Santa should be back at the north pole by then, right?) - Novosti
GIS/Survey Companies Support Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum; Where are Infrastructure Software Vendors? (1)
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The 2nd Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum is coming up in December. It's not something of which I've ever heard. Here's what will happen: $400 billion worth of infrastructure projects, equivalent to 1% of world GDP, will be presented at the 2nd Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum. The 100 projects, to be presented by their sponsors to an audience of 500 executives from more than 40 countries, is an attempt to identify those projects that ...
Spending GIS Day with Boston Linux and Unix User Group (1)
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The presentation at the meeting held at MIT last night, on GIS Day, was about OpenStreetMap. No one seemed to know it was GIS Day, nor Geography Awareness Week. I didn't tell them, either. This was perhaps the geekiest bunch I'd shared a lecture hall with in quite a while (and I say that with affection). Many had a laptop open and typed during the entire talk; others had both a laptop and handheld in ...
NZ Firm Drops its Mapping Service for Google (1)
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TradeMe is currently offers its Smaps, a mapping app developed by Wellington firm ProjectX as a stand alone site and to power its TradeMe auction site. Smaps will shutdown December 1, and TradeMe will move to mapping built on Google's platform. A second site from the same company, TravelBug, already switched over. Smaps received high praise and stats, but the company wants to focus on its strengths. - Stuff.co.nz
Qualcomm/Skyhook Deal: Exit Strategy? (1)
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You probably saw the PR on Qualcomm's announcement yesterday that it would put Skyhook's locating technology into its location platform. Silicon Insider suggest if things work out it could be a fine exit strategy. Skyhook's funding comes from Bain Capital, RRE Ventures, and Intel Capital.
Remote sending via thrown "ball" camera (1)
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A Scottish company is developing the "grenade-like" device called the I-Ball (cute) which shoots realtime video after being thrown by hand or via a launcher, then again when it lands. The idea is to provide information on "what's ahead" to soldiers. The camera delivers 360 degree views wirelessly. IT Pro via Slashdot
Remote sensing via thrown "ball" camera (1)
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A Scottish company is developing the "grenade-like" device called the I-Ball (cute) which shoots realtime video after being thrown by hand or via a launcher, then again when it lands. The idea is to provide information on "what's ahead" to soldiers. The camera delivers 360 degree views wirelessly. IT Pro via Slashdot
A bit of GIS history - now offline (1)
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Reed Business Geo, Inc, which owns GIS Monitor [I founded and edited it for five years], has decided to remove its archives from the Web. "Because the GIS Monitor delivered timely news and updates on the state of the industry, the archives of the newsletter have not been migrated to the Professional Surveyor Magazine website." Earth Observation Magazine, EOM, [which I edited for a year, perhaps less] was also removed, for the same reason.
Geomagnetic sensor for "underground GPS" (1)
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Achi Steel, a steel company in Japan, is testing a new location solution that uses a geomagnetic sensor and an acceleration sensor to determine location underground. The first use? Navigation in underground shopping malls. On the drawing board: very accurate in-car navigation. - TechRadar
GIS Day Communications - How are we doing? (1)
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While one goal of GIS Day is to educate those can attend events on or around that day, another is to simply to get the term and some sense of its meaning/role into day to day parlance. How are we doing based on online content? The Plainfield Sun (suburban Chicago) offers an event notification, but with the headline "Event to spotlight new technology." There's no real discussion of what GIS is, in fact the acronym ...
FriendFeed Supports Geotagging/GeoRSS (1)
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First off, for those not yet using FriendFeed, it's a service that allows you to collect all the feeds, blogs, tweets, etc. of your friends in one big feed. You can also collect all of your feeds, blogs, tweets to publish in one feed. It's a service I use, mostly to be involved in the For Immediate Release FriendFeed Room. Anyway, VentureBeat found that the service rolled out support for geotagged posts and GeoRSS feeds. ...
Obama's "Houdini" Computer - Making Non-voters Disappear (2)
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Charles Lin, a starff writer for The Tech, MIT's newspaper, describes the technology at work behind the volunteer effort in New Hampshire. In addition to having motivated ground troops, the Obama campaign is incredibly technologically advanced. The Obama campaign’s computer is named “Houdini.” It has a list of every single registered Democrat, Barack-leaning independent, and Obamacan. Each voter shows up as a black dot on a Google Map. The campaign records statistics on each of ...
Follow the Presidential Election on Map Hawk, Twitter, delicious...Let's Watch the Media and their Gimmicks (1)
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During the U.S. presidential election coverage on Tuesday evening, I'll be watching how the media uses and abuses mapping technology. Follow along on the Map Hawk blog or on Twitter. Plus, any useful links to other articles I find will be on delicious.Already, we know that NBC will be projecting a map onto the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Center but unless you have a vertical camera...how will you see it? Seems like just a ...
Using Flickr Images to Define Geoboundaries (1)
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Dan Catt at geobloggers (he works at Yahoo, which owns Flickr ) has a neat post showing how now it's possible to query the Flickr API to return shapes (not shapefiles, though soon you will be able to get real shapefiles) of areas as defined by Flickr's geotagging via WOE ids. Huh? Aaron of the Flickr team explains: For every geotagged photo we store up to six Where On Earth (WOE) IDs. These are unique ...
TomTom Beats Expectations; Updates Loans for Tele Atlas Acquisition (1)
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TomTom reported operating profit just over analysts expectations for the third quarter, but the company cut expected profits for the year. Investors were worried about how the company would repay loans taken out to acquire Tele Atlas and TomTom allayed fears by renegotiating those deals. Share prices were basically flat on the news. - Reuters - results on Marketwatch (oddly NOT on TomTom's or TA's website)
