Archives for July 23, 2007

Webcast Tomorrow: Mobile GPS & the WHERE developer program

July 23, 2007 by gisuser

This from the developer of mobile Widgets, WHERE. Want to quickly learn the basics of building mobile GPS apps? Attend our webcast tomorrow to find out. We’ll give a brief overview of the mobile GPS industry and the basics of the WHERE developer program:
Meet the WHERE team
Get the basics on mobile location
Learn the challenges of mobile GPS development (phone porting, carrier agreements, etc)
Find out how the WHERE developer program can speed up the mobile GPS launch cycle
http://www.where.com/presentation

What kind of cell phone do you use?

July 23, 2007 by gisuser

I’m curious, for those of you that frequently use your cell phone for more than just calling, what kind of device do you use??

Terraserver digital orthoquad imagery tutorial

July 23, 2007 by gisuser

Kudos to Free Geography Tools for providing an excellent tutorial on downloading orthos for free using TerraServer – see HERE.. can you imagine that people actually still buy this kind of data, as well as older, non-most-recent data from the old-school online data providers (like the data depot yadayada)… bizzare! Great tutorial guys

Glad to see some useful apps for Google Street View!

July 23, 2007 by gisuser

I have a Google Street View widget loaded onto my iGoogle page… the widget simply rotates through “interesting” images captured via Google Street View and highlighted as cool by users. This image was front and center on my screen this morning… obviously there’s loads of people with way too much time on their hands as they can spend hours browsing the statues that are on AT&T Stadium in San Fran – picture was captured on 24 Willie Mays Avenue, San Fran. On the upside, the imagery being collected is definitely high quality and provides amazing details… maybe a little too much detail ;0)

Parsons on Tele Atlas, community mapping, and a comment on Dash Navigation

July 23, 2007 by gisuser

Interesting to see Ed Parson’s comments re the TomTom / Tele Atlas deal… Ed discusses the significance of community driven mapping… makes me wonder how the Dash Navigation demo roll out will work out once the Dash devices ship to the testers and a crew of some 2,000 “community mappers” will start driving their neighborhoods and enhancing the data product with community input. See http://www.edparsons.com/?p=503 / http://www.dash.net/ – PS: hey dash.. why didn’t you score the url dashnavigation.com?? See also this video from Dash http://www.dash.net/video.html

TomTom to buy Tele Atlas N.V.

July 23, 2007 by gisuser

Funny, just last night after looking over details of the Google, ImagAmerica purchase I was wonder ing which data provider (Tele Atlas, or Navteq) would Google likely buy… now today reports of TomTom’s planned buyout of Tele Atlas… TomTom N.V. intends to make a cash offer of € 21.25 per ordinary share for Tele Atlas N.V. The Offer Price represents a 32% premium over Tele Atlas’ average closing share price for the three months prior to 20 July 2007 – see www.teleatlas.com

Are You Geospatial? Take this quiz and see if a career in Geo or GIS is for you

July 23, 2007 by gisuser

I got tipped off about this quiz from the ESRI blogs (http://blogs.esri.com)…the Denver chapter of the Gee-Whiz – that’s GIWIZ is offering up a “are you geospatial” quiz. Take the quiz to see if a career in GIS is your cup of tea. I like this one… If you often find not one possible answer to a given question, but many.

You could be geospatial! Sound like me! See http://www.giwis.org/about-geospatial/quiz.asp

More on the Google purchase of orthoimagery provider, ImageAmerica

July 23, 2007 by gisuser

No doubt you’ve likely heard that Google has made another acquisition.. this time its a provider of high-quality ortho-imagery, ImageAmerica.. that’s spelled as one word. From the company’s press from a couple of years ago… ImageAmerica, a leading provider of high quality digital orthoimagery, has provided rapid access to up-to-date imagery of the Hurricane Katrina disaster area. Using the latest digital camera system, along with the ER Mapper’s ECW compression, ImageAmerica was able to deliver imagery to government emergency services teams for their coordinated relief efforts. This is a sample of what kind of projects the company has worked on in the past. Back in the day, I used to run loads of othro imagery project news announcements for the company… at that time the COO was a gentleman named Tom Maher…

Some info from the “About the company” section… Founded in 1998, ImageAmerica manufactures and operates the DDP series of digital mapping cameras and is a leading nationwide provider of high-resolution digital orthoimagery. Utilizing proven new technologies, ImageAmerica provides local government customers across the country 6-inch to 1-foot resolution, map accurate, countywide orthoimagery at a cost and in a time frame not previously available. New six-inch resolution imagery, collected with ImageAmerica’s patented Direct Digital Camera system, was conducted over a number of years for many cities and county governments.

According to past news releases the company was located at the following address:
ImageAmerica
200 S. Hanley RD, STE 1050
Clayton, MO 63105
314-726-4600
info@image-america.com
www.image-america.com

Word of Google’s purchase of ImageAmerica was first reported on the Google LatLong blog. See http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/07/imaging-america.html – No doubt this purchase will lend to support the offerings offered via Google Earth and Google’s other mapping products and services. Hey Tom.. .give me a ring if your still with the company ;0)

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