NAVTEQ Corporation today reported record revenue and operating income for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2006. Check out these numbers and tell me the execs aren’t seeing green! Revenue in the quarter rose 24% over the fourth quarter of 2005 to $180.7 million. Operating income grew 51% over the prior year to $62.8 million. Net income was up 55% over last year’s fourth quarter to $42.9 million. Earnings per diluted share grew 54% to $0.45, compared to $0.29 in the prior year’s quarter.… kaching!
Archives for February 8, 2007
Mashing Toronto with Google Maps
BlogTo has an interesting update today that highlights some 30 google maps mashups for the City of Toronto… developers have been busy implementing the API into their apps. The resource points us to a number of cool mashups including:
Restaurant Listings
Beer, Liquor, and Wine Store Locator
Coffee Shop Locator
Dim Sum Finder
Chocolatier Finder
TTC Subway and Go Train
TTC Subway, Bus, Streetcar, and Go
Parking Lots
Red Light Camera Locations
Public Library Locator
UofT Campus Building Finder
Ryerson Campus Building Finder
Live Music Venues
Golf Courses
Wireless Toronto
Toronto Star Gallery Tour
Virtual City
Envision Toronto
360capture
Restaurant Listings
Beer, Liquor, and Wine Store Locator
Coffee Shop Locator
Dim Sum Finder
Chocolatier Finder
TTC Subway and Go Train
TTC Subway, Bus, Streetcar, and Go
Parking Lots
Red Light Camera Locations
Public Library Locator
UofT Campus Building Finder
Ryerson Campus Building Finder
Live Music Venues
Golf Courses
Wireless Toronto
Toronto Star Gallery Tour
Virtual City
Envision Toronto
360capture
Online Survey – GIS for natural hazards
Lucy Stanbrough, a final year student at the University of Hertfordshire, is undertaking her dissertation into the use of online GIS for natural hazards. According to Stanbrough, to date there have been no studies that that aim to identify and compare content providers assessment and provision of user needs against actual user needs on a global multi-hazard level, which could provide a valuable piece of research in this burgeoning field. She’s looking to do a survey of users and content providers to determine what is currently available from provider’s verses what users to like to see made available. The Online GIS Users questionnaire should take more than 10-15 minutes to complete and the Online GIS Content Providers questionnaire no more than 30 minutes. Any details provided will be held in the strictest confidence and only non personal information will be used in the research findings. To take part in her survey jump to www.the-online-gis-survey.co.uk
Nokia introduces smart2go – aka. Nokia Maps – for Symbian OS S60 smartphones and Windows Mobile
This cool app is available to any of you who are lucky enough (and smart enough ;o) to use a Nokia S60 smartphone – I have mine! smart2go is a hybrid map solution: Map data from Tele-Atlas and Navteq can be downloaded directly via wireless network (e.g. GPRS/3G/WLAN) and stored on the devices memory card as needed. Users can then get directions, look up POIs, and get turn-by-turn routing. You can download the app starting in a few days or, if you plan on buying / investing in a cool N-series device down the road Nokia plans to pre-install the smart2go mapping and navigation application on all future Nokia Nseries multimedia computers under the name “Nokia Maps”. The application is also supported by Windows Mobile devices. See more on this at www.smart2go.com – for mopre about Symbian OS and N-Series devices I suggest you check out www.symbianone.com and also www.allaboutsymbian.com
A cool location-based Services (LBS) game at CTIA and $10k cash in prizes!
Loc-aid is planning something fun at CTIA which I’ll definitely be taking part in… the $10,000 dash for cash. Here’s some details about the contest (which reminds me somewhat of last year’s Pixi hunt – think Microsoft – held at Where 2.0) … The format of the game will be a two-stage treasure hunt, the first of which will be played using a Short Message Service (SMS) enabled cell phone. Players will be directed to specific locations in the Orange County Convention Center where they will answer trivia questions on their phone about the wireless industry and various applications – highlighting the universal appeal of the treasure hunt format. The second stage of the game will showcase LOC-AID’s award-winning Over-The-Air programming (OTA) application “LOC-AID Treasure” as well as advanced handsets and networks. The top ten winners from stage one will race to win the $10,000 grand prize. The game will be played within the city of Orlando and will leverage the advanced LBS and application capabilities of the newly released LG VX9900 phone. The $10,000 cash giveaway event will be available to all conference attendees as “Dash for Cash” and is co-sponsored by LG Electronics, Qualcomm, Intrado and NAVTEQ. More details on this on our LBSzone – see http://www.lbszone.com/content/view/1621/2/
ER mapper Image Compressor Webinar reminder
At 3pm (EST) on 7th March, ER Mapper will hold a web seminar launching the Image Compressor product. George Davis, ER Mapper Technical Manager, will host the seminar that will demonstrate the features of the Image Compressor. After the seminar, users will have the opportunity to discuss the Image Compressor with George on ER Mapper’s forum. A trial version of the new app will also be available for download from the company’s website – www.ermapper.com – more details on the app at http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/10784/ – about Image compressor – Set for release on the 7th March, ER Mapper Image Compressor is a cost-effective desktop application for high-speed JPEG 2000 or ECW image compression. A key feature of Image Compressor is its high-speed image compression to the open standard JPEG 2000 format.
measurements from your photos courtesy of iPhotoMeasure
A reader just sent me a tip on a way cool application that enables you to measure anything simply by using the app and a photo captured with any digital camera – even a cell phone. From the jkontherun weblog, a detailed description of the iPhotoMeasure application. Essentially, what you do is place a “digitarget” onto the scene that you’ll be capturing with the photo.. essentially calibrating the image scene. Then the application software uses the digitarget to calibrate, register, and provide accurate measurements of items in your scene… very cool! See the detailed write-up at http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2007/02/how_to_measure_.html – see the iPhotoMEasure app at http://www.iphotomeasure.com/index.asp