geo2web.com

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The new 3G iPhone’s GPS is only one of several location-finding methods. From Apple’s page:

iPhone 3G uses signals from GPS satellites, Wi-Fi hot spots, and cellular towers to get the most accurate location fast. If GPS is available, iPhone displays a blue GPS indicator. But if you’re inside — without a clear line of sight to a GPS satellite — iPhone finds you via Wi-Fi. If you’re not in range of a Wi-Fi hot spot, iPhone finds you using cellular towers. And the size of a location circle tells you how accurately iPhone is able to calculate that location: The smaller the circle, the more accurate the location.

Location-finding came to iPods Touch and the original iPhone in January: old iPhones can use cell towers, and everything can use Wi Fi, so everything using this platform has at least one option. This is no doubt handy for iPhone application developers using the Core Location framework: they presumably can be agnostic about how location information comes to their app.

Richard notes some potential uses; the iPhone’s camera supports geotagging.

Mapping applications for the iPhone apparently include TomTom’s navigation software and Loopt, which uses the Virtual Earth engine.

A lot of commentary is suggesting that mainstream GPS manufacturers are shitting themselves in the face of competition from the iPhone — the implication being that a dashboard-mounted iPhone, which could run all sorts of navigation software, would render a Garmin nüvi or suchlike redundant. I’m skeptical of such punditry. My impression is that the GPS marketplace is a lot more specialized than people think — handheld units don’t compete with dashboard navigation systems or geotaggers — so the dashboard systems will likely still be driving people into the river for many years to come.

Previously: On the iPhone and Its Lack of GPS; An Apple/Mac Roundup.

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Garmin Edge 705 GPS

Type-A training tweakers, metrics maniacs, peripatetic two-wheeled geo-cachers and the geographically challenged now have something to collectively rally around: the Garmin Edge 705. This latest fitness offering from the GPS giant has more than a little somethin’ somethin’ for the can’t stay put, always get lost, urban treasure hunting, serious bike training, [...]

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The company Nokia announced the release of the final version of navigational applications Nokia Maps 2.0. Since last February beta program has been downloaded 240000 times, said the company. The updated version of Nokia Maps includes several new features, such as media guides for cities, satellite maps, treatment for pedestrians and new interface. Download the [...]

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Nokia Maps 2.0 Goes Mainstream

Finally after many months of ‘Beta’ status the Nokia Maps 2.0 has made it available to the normal users.

So whats changed?
Well from version 1.0 lots but from the 2.0 beta version not very much (a few bugs)

A quick summary:
Car Navigation
Pedestrian navigation
Multimedia city guides

Car Navigation has navigation carousel with three pre-defined navigation views (navigation, arrow and bird-eye) with multi-stops route planner.

(Purchase required based on region 3 day, 1 month, 1 year subscriptions - there is a option for 3 days free trial - this now tied to the SIM card not the IMEI of the Phone - meaning if you change your phone you can keep you licence.)
SIM to SIM licence copying can be done.

Satellite images
Hybrid mode

**Note these two modes use either Wifi or GPRS for displaying the layer they DO NOT come with the MapLoader pre-installed onto a memory card.

Nokia Maps 2.0 uses digital vector data provided by Navteq and TeleAtlas
Either download directly to the nokia device or by using the Nokia Map Loader on a PC. Nokia Maps 2.0 and the current commercial version of the Nokia Maps Loader are freely available for selected devices.

Downloads
Nokia Maps 2.0
http://europe.nokia.com/A4984199
(select your device)

Nokia Map Loader v1.3.8 (for Vista/XP on the PC - use this to save money on data transfer fees)

If your feeling brave there is a new beta version of Nokia Maps 2.0

Created Feb. 11, 2008 but updated on May 08, 2008
nokia_maps_2.0_1803_3.1_u.sis
http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/applications

Other Nokia useful applications recently released.

Mapperz

Update of Nokia Maps 2.0 source:
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/9390.html

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Google Earth Plus, Pro and EC allow you to track your movements in real time via GPS. For example, you can view a live GPS track of your drive in a car on a laptop as you travel. To do this, you’ll need a GPS device connected to your computer.
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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)

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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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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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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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