June 30, 2009 – Anything Geospatial

This from Skyhook wireless as Dell prepares to start (finally) rolling out laptops with pre-installed location-provisioning. This information comes via Skyhook wireless… The Dell Wireless 700 location solution includes the hybrid GPS and Wi-Fi Positioning location engine from Skyhook Wireless (www.skyhookwireless.com), the same engine deployed on tens of millions of Apple iPhones and iPod Touch devices. Initially two apps will be offered with the Dell Wireless 700 location solution: CoPilot and the Loki Dashboard. CoPilot is a fully functionally navigation application giving turn-by-turn driving directions as well as local search of key points of interest like. The Loki Dashboard is a web portal that uses the netbook’s location engine to customize widgets for news, weather, tweets, photos, events and people around you. Dell Wireless 700 location solution owners can easily access the Loki Dashboard via Internet Explorer on the netbook (dell.loki.com).See more over on the Dell blog

An event of interest while in San Diego at the ESRI UC… Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com) will be holding their Blue Marble User Group meeting on Tuesday, July 14th from 12:00-1:00 in Room 14A during the ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA. The User Group Meeting is open to current users of Blue Marble’s suite of data conversion solutions. Lunch will be provided at this working session, which will focus on creating a feedback list to include requests for feature function items to incorporate in our new products. The latest updates to Blue Marble’s Geographic Calculator and Geographic Transformer will also be on display. Attendees are asked to pre-register at http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/products/ugsignup.php to guarantee a space.