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GIS, Maps, Geo and Location Technology by @gletham

Archives for November 29, 2007

Take your Geolocated photos into Google Maps via Geo-RSS with ease!

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This may be old-school for some of you, others will appreciate this simple tip. If you use a GPS-enabled cameraphone (like the Nokia N95, N82, Nokia Navigator etc…) then you can easily post your photos to flickr or other online services (use a tool like Shozu to help with this). But did you know that Flickr creates a Geo-rSS feed from your photo stream? Even better, you can simply copy and paste your Geo-RSS feed location into the google maps search bar and voila… your photos are now available via Google maps to share with others, save to your mymaps or whatever the heck you want to do. Simply look at the bottom of your flickr page, you’ll see options like RSS, GeoFeed and KML – yes you can easily open your photos in Google Earth too! See my stream in Gmaps here.

useful links:
www.google.com/maps
www.flickr.com
www.shozu.com

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Take your N95 Geolocated photos into Google Maps via Geo-RSS with ease!

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This may be old-school for some of you, others will appreciate this simple tip. If you use a GPS-enabled cameraphone (like the Nokia N95, N82, Nokia Navigator etc…) then you can easily post your photos to flickr or other online services (use a tool like Shozu to help with this). But did you know that Flickr creates a Geo-rSS feed from your photo stream? Even better, you can simply copy and paste your Geo-RSS feed location into the google maps search bar and voila… your photos are now available via Google maps to share with others, save to your mymaps or whatever the heck you want to do. Simply look at the bottom of your flickr page, you’ll see options like RSS, GeoFeed and KML – yes you can easily open your photos in Google Earth too!

useful links:
www.google.com/maps
www.flickr.com
www.shozu.com

For more related info see also SymbianOne.com and LBSzone.com

AT&T CEO on Symbian smartphones in the US

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A great interview over at engadget has the CEO of AT&T on the hotseat. He apparently doesn’t hold back and is ticked off because the Europeans get all the cool devices months ahead of us and he cites devices that are full of flaws as another reason for devices like the N75 and E62 dragging their heels getting to market in the US. Sounds like a lame excuse to me… hey de la Vega, start stocking some freaking Symbian smartphones at AT&T will ya!! More on this over at symbianone or see the interview at Engadget

For more related info see also SymbianOne.com and LBSzone.com

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The Mobi3 project will create mobile phones using 3D modeling

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Dassault Systemes, DLA Piper, IBM, Nokia and SFR – brought together by IMS Entreprendre pour la Cite and the Engage Network – have launched Mobi3, a unique educational opportunity for middle school students. The companies have partnered with the French Ministry of Education to set up an innovative year-long syllabus for 120 young people from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Through the program, the students will participate in a team project and discover hands-on the technology, processes, people and careers linked to the creation of a mobile phone. As part of the program, student teams will create mobile phones using 3D modeling software as well as make proposals on how they would manage each phase of the phone’s lifecycle. At the end of year-long program, teams will present their projects to a jury of professionals from participating companies. See http://www.csreurope.org/ourevents/marketplace2007

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Some excellent late night reading… another Safe Software insider is here

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looking for a great read late nite read before you count sheep or maybe something to glance over while your sitting at Starbucks? If so the second edition of the Safe Insider newsletter is now available. Get the latest from Don, Dale and crew as they share a look at what’s coming with FMW in 2008, hear from the developers and power users and much more… once again nice job! The newsletter is available as a free download as a PDF. PS: don’t forget that the Free FME FDO Provider for AutoCAD Map 3D 2008 is also now available!

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Free ImageConnect (for ESRI, Autodesk, MapInfo users) trial from DigitalGlobe

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I see DigitalGlobe is inviting users and would-be-users to test out Image Connect forfr free until Dec 12. This free trial enables you to grab some great imagery, unwatermarked. What’s Image Connect.. think immediate access to high-res imagery from within your application… Access current, high resolution Earth images in your projects, instantly. ImageConnect is a dynamic image viewing plug-in for mapping software like ArcGIS®, MapInfo, and AutoDesk 3D , with the ability to access images by date, create large plots and perform job tracking – see the free download here

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Autodesk at 25 and the Autodesk Multi Touch Wall

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An interesting message came my way reminding me that Autodesk is celebrating their 25th year of innovation – I was aware of this and actually published a short 25 year anniversary feature a while back – see here. In the video, a designer, Doug Look, is shown depicting a conceptual prototype of Autodesk design software on a Jeff Han Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch Wall. The video reveals new ways to interact with large displays and multi-touch interfaces and inspires a discussion on what might become real in the not-so-distant future. Remember the first time you saw the cool touch table? Well, this is just that kind of wow technology… cool! This is the the kind of technology and innovation that we are told to expect to see roll out of the Autodesk Labs in the future – see http://labs.autodesk.com

Recall the Autodesk timeline:
Some cool milestones:

1982 – Autodesk starts with 16 employees
1984 – revenues top $1 million
1985 – ADSK goes public
1990 – Glenn Letham starts using AuoCAD r9 for pipeline mapping project (remember the dot prompt?) – OK – I slipped this one in!
1992 – Carol Bartz named CEO (you gotta love a woman CEO who will freely drop an occasional “F-bomb” when you least expect it!)
1993 – the First Autodesk University
1995 – Autodesk.com website launches
1996 – new division focused on visualization
2002 – Autodesk adds Revit to the portfolio
2005 – Autodesk wins Academy Award for technical acheivement
2006 – Carl Bass takes over at President/CEO
2007 – More than 8 million users
Now – focused on 3D!

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