Archives for September 4, 2009

Wireless Developers Rent Yourself an iPhone 3G S for $10 a day

September 4, 2009 by gisuser

That’s right, a cool service from Wavefront Wireless in Vancouver, Canada provides developers with access to the latest “hot” devices, like the iPhone 3G S, G1 Android, Balckberry Storm or Bold and others. For a fee of $10 per day, you can test your app on an iPhone or other device, $25 per day will get you a device with a SIM and unlimited data usage. The daily fee also includes access to the Wavefront developer testing facilities as well as WiFi access and power – an interesting concept!

Wavefront has 200+ GSM and CDMA phones available for rental and testing purposes. See more HERE

A data reminder – the USGS seamless data server

September 4, 2009 by gisuser

Most users know about it (or should know about it), therefore, as a result it sometimes gets forgotten. Think of the seamless data distribution system as the grand-daddy of the USGS geospatial repositories… and then some! This site has complete coverage of the National Elevation Dataset that supercedes Digital Elevation Models, complete DOQQ coverage, over 30 TB of urban imagery, one-time coverage of full resolution Landsat imagery, and much more. Also, the data are seamless, so you can put a box around the data without having to figure out quadrangles and then having to assemble them all. Free downloads are available – up to 1.6 Gbytes of data in 100 MB files in one user request. Users have unlimited access to the interactive map and can make unlimited requests.The amount of coverage area depends on the number of products selected for download. For example, if NED 1 Arc Second is selected as the only product a user can download up to a 30 square degree area. Most recently Additional data formats are now available for all High Resolution Orthoimagery products See http://seamless.usgs.gov/

GPS and maps, key to new LaQuinta Inn iPhone App

September 4, 2009 by gisuser

Location, Location, Location… for iPhone developers location is where it’s at! There’s no question that developers that are savvy with skills in implementing location-aware provisioning in mobile apps are is HUGE demand and the ones that are reaping some huge benefits ($$). All you need to do is look at the latest Apps hitting the iTunes store and you’ll see what I mean. Just today LaQuinta Inns and Suites have released a new iPhone app… and being location-aware is key to the coolness of this app! Users can get much more than simple info on hotels although a handy hotels near me functionality is the starting point. Users also have access to driving directions to route you to a nearby hotel – nice! See more at www.LQ.com/iPhone

Shrink that long url for use on Twitter and other social services

September 4, 2009 by gisuser

With the popularity of Twitter a huge demand for url shortening services has resulted. There’s a number of useful apps and services that enable users to easily crunch a long url into a handy, small, user-friendly url. What’s very cool is that these services not only integrate with Twitter, but can also prove to be valuable for tracking results as well. Below are 15 popular url shrinking services that you might find useful: