GIS, Maps, Geo and Location Technology by @gletham
Just noticed that sightings of the new Blackberry Bold are surfacing… saw my first sighting John Mayer’s Blog! Simply put, the device is very sweet. It has a akin to the old Nokia E series devices and will likely take up all the room you have in your shirt pocket. The “bold” sports WiFi, GPS (+ Blackberry maps), amazingly sharp screen and apparently some sweet font rendering. See more at http://www.blackberry.com/blackberrybold
more cool technology from Where2.0 (ya I was there in row 1) was announced from Sean Gorman of Geocommons. Sean informed us about a new featuer currently being rolled out in Beta – Finder! Finder! extends teh functionality of Geocommons, the way cool crowdsoursing service used to serve and explore large structured Geo data sets. Using Finder! you can search common topics (I tried Sports facilities). Once found, you can then download as KML, SHP, or CSV file. Making it even more useful for the casual user, Finder! results can be easily viewed using Google Earth, Virtual Earth, or Google Maps – think Integration of your GIS data with the GeoWeb. Way to go Sean – see below for the gmap results of my search. See http://finder.geocommons.com/
