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Privacy and Personal Geographic Data

Thursday, May 23rd 2013

At the Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location-enabled Society conference in Boston, Kirk Goldsberry, who is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard, gave a fascinatng presentation with the help of two of his students on the topic of personal geographic data and privacy. Geoff Zeiss provides a recap.

TruePosition Tackles Indoor Locating

Wednesday, May 22nd 2013

TruePosition released testing results of its indoor location technology in April. These tests put the company squarely into the Federal Communication Commission explorations of indoor locating for emergency response. Directions Magazine interviewed Rob Andersen, chief technology officer of TruePosition, about the company’s technology and plans for the future.

Search Across Many Data Sources From A Single Interface

Tuesday, May 7th 2013

Cloudmade explores how the CloudMade On-Dash and In-Dash platforms use the Hybrid and Mapsafe technologies to let users search through point of interest data from many different providers and see the results represented as a single item.  

Tweeting the AAGs: Do Geographers Geotag more than Everyone Else?

Monday, May 6th 2013

Now that we've all had a couple of weeks after the AAGs to relax and make fun of certain unnamed party-animals, we thought we would reflect on how the conference itself was reflected in the Twittersphere. With comments abound that there was more conference-related Twitter activity than ever before, we wanted to see if we couldn't uncover some more specific trends.

Ten Things You Need to Know About Indoor Positioning

Monday, May 6th 2013

Each year indoor positioning has created more buzz in the location-based services arena. Acquisitions and new developments suggest 2013 might be a breakthrough year for the technology. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg shares the basics on how it works and where it might be headed.

How to Use Geofencing Correctly

Wednesday, May 1st 2013

Indoor Location Analytics Boosts Retailers’ Merchandising and Marketing Information Arsenal

Monday, April 15th 2013

Indoor Location Analytics is enjoying explosive adoption in retail, logistics, airports, healthcare and other industries. Growth is driven by new technology, smartphone ubiquity and increased market awareness. Editor in Chief Joe Francica interviewed Jonathon Rosen, business development director for WirelessWERX, who described the technology needed to capture mobile consumer data and some of the surprising uses for those data.

New CloudMade Offerings Address Challenges of 2013’s Location-based Services

Wednesday, April 3rd 2013

CloudMade is best known for making OpenStreetMap a more valuable data platform for software developers. In February, the company enhanced its offerings to address the needs of today’s location-based services developers. Directions Magazine interviewed Nick Black, CloudMade co-founder and VP Product, to explore the CloudMade 2013 vision.

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