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Two blogs in one…. “Nokia aiming to banish paper maps” & Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta (pre-release)

BBC News Technology
“Nokia expects to sell 35 million mobile phones equipped with GPS (Global Positioning System) in 2008″
Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta (pre-release)
What is new?

Pedestrian mode

Enhanced driving navigation mode

Satellite maps

Hybrid (satellite and important map features overlayed)

Vastly improved [...]

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Nokia Location Tagger
(georeferencing your phone camera photos)
“What is it all about? Nokia Location Tagger is a small application running on “selected” S60 3rd devices that allows you to tag pictures captured from Camera application with geographical coordinates from GPS. The tagging process itself is sometimes called geotagging or geocoding (see also this article [...]

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Nokia GPS Internal vs External
“The Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W is for you if you’re looking for a navigation solution to send you effortlessly on your way. The lightweight, slim design makes this technology a great travelling companion” (AND DON’T HAVE AN INTERNAL GPS BUILT TO YOUR MOBILE PHONE)

Nokia GPS Module - it’s [...]

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Track your Pizza from oven to door.
(when tracking becomes is a serious business!)
Domino’s Pizza Tracker™ are permitting people to check the progress of their order to the nearest 40 seconds. By using their telephone number, customers can see the name of the person who took their order. They can see at the same [...]

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Nokia Location Tagger
(georeferencing your phone camera photos)
“What is it all about? Nokia Location Tagger is a small application running on “selected” S60 3rd devices that allows you to tag pictures captured from Camera application with geographical coordinates from GPS. The tagging process itself is sometimes called geotagging or geocoding (see also this article [...]

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Testing the N82 with Sports Tracker (Beta)

Mapperz goes testing….N82 Sports Tracker (Beta) and Nokia Maps (phone, sports tracker software and bag generously supplied by WOM World)
http://www.womworld.com/nseries/category/n82/
Not going to go into details of build quality, looks or if it makes phone calls. There are plenty of other sites doing this.
Gets Go!
Sports Tracker enables the [...]

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Njection has a mashup showing Speedtraps around the world - you can add traps you know of to the database and surf those contributed by others. Seems like a good candidate for a mobile app or even better, a data feed into connected nav systems like the Garmin Nuvi. Switch into Birds Eye [...]

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I was in the Microsoft Company store getting some XBOX stuff for holiday gifts yesterday and saw a bunch of people in line ahead of me with Streets and Trips (known as Autoroute in Europe), presumably for the same reason Streets and Trips is the top selling mapping and trip planning software [...]

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Google Maps Mobile ‘My Location’
(with or without GPS - uses mobile/cell triangulation)
“See your location on the map, with or without GPS. Save time and tedious keystrokes finding where you are, what’s around you, and how to get there. Watch the video on the right to see how it works.”

Roughly how it works….
Here is [...]

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I was in the Microsoft Company store getting some XBOX stuff for holiday gifts yesterday and saw a bunch of people in line ahead of me with Streets and Trips (known as Autoroute in Europe), presumably for the same reason Streets and Trips is the top selling mapping and trip planning software [...]

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Sure, stories about drivers getting into trouble because they blindly obey their GPS navigation stories are fun, but, as I mentioned in a previous entry, you can’t help but wonder about the bigger picture — i.e., why is this happening? In today’s New York Times, an article that tries to address that question: [...]

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HTC, a manufacturer of Windows Mobile-based smartphones, Monday inaugurated the Touch Cruise with built-in GPS for navigation personnel and 3G technologies for high-speed Internet access. The Touch Cruise is the third smartphone to be launched by HTC, as part of its product line Touch, which includes the touch-screen [...]

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Google Maps coverage expands… 54 more countries covered.
Update 18/09/2007
Pamela Fox (Google Maps API Team) introduces Google Spreadsheets New Features that use your data (xml, html, csv, tsv, as well as RSS and Atom based)
In combination with the Google Maps API you can now view the new tiles via her mashup.

note1 - the Google [...]

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Mapserver 5.0.0 Released
“Beyond browsing GIS data, MapServer allows you create “geographic image maps”, that is, maps that can direct users to content”

Example Screenshot of Mapserver
New features in Mapserver Version 5.0.0:
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- MS RFC 19: Added Style and Label attribute binding
- MS RFC 21: Raster Colour Correction via colour lookup table
- MS RFC 27: Added [...]

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ArcWeb Explorer (Beta) 2.0
ArcWeb Explorer 2.0 application, which offers powerful Web map rendering with desktop-like functionality.

source: ESRI
The rotating map is a clever bit of code - the text flips (renders) itself when it goes beyond 180 degrees.

ArcWeb Explorer 2.0 Application

ArcWeb Explorer 2.0 Flex API

ArcWeb Explorer 2.0 JavaScript API

Exposes ArcWeb Services functionality through easy-to-use [...]

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