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Singapore Land Authority’s OneMap Offers Gov and NGOs Crowdsourcing Tools

Thursday, May 24th 2012

In the U.S. we are still waiting to see how we might use Geoplatform.gov, but in Singapore the Land Authority (SLA) not only has its own OneMap, but now it has beta tools for government departments and non-governmental organizations to collect data via crowdsourcing via that map. One of the first...

VentureBeat: Trimble Acquires Spime

Thursday, May 24th 2012

Spime? Spime specializes in GPS software platforms for use by smartphone app developers. Its MapMan LBS Platform integrates social and location services into GPS-enabled apps. Spime also offers a navigation service and map service under the names Northstar Nav and Northstar Map. Spime’s...

Presentations Can Make Great Sessions, But so Can Good Questions! #LI12

Tuesday, May 22nd 2012

I've been moderating sessions today at the Location Intelligence Conference. I'm very pleased all my speakers have stayed within their time; it makes my life so much easier. It also means we have time for a good number of questions. The session on Embedded Geospatial Capabilities in Enterprise...

#LI12 Plenary Recap: The State of the Art

Tuesday, May 22nd 2012

The OnStar Story Jeff Joyner from OnStar General Motors started the day looking at one of the earliest location-based services, OnStar. It all started back in 1995 with a project then called Beacon. It morphed from a $2000 add-on for Cadallic owners in 1996, that supported some nine calls per...

Patent Watch: Tracking People Via Cell without Compromising Privacy

Tuesday, May 22nd 2012

Jeremy Wood introduced readers to his method "for tracking cellphones to generate useful demographically-keyed data on the movement of people, without compromising anyone's privacy" back in 2009. Today his patent was granted; it's number 8185131. Will applications that use this methodology be...

Pew: 75% of Smartphone Users Get “Real Time” Location-based Information

Monday, May 14th 2012

Here's the overview of the report (html, questions): A new report finds that 74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to “check in” to certain locations or share their location with friends. Over the past year,...

Google Maps for Android Gets Indoor Walking Directions, Deals

Thursday, May 10th 2012

The indoor directions are quite limited; they are available in select airports, malls, and other businesses in the U.S. and Japan. These are the complexes Google announced maps for last November. As for the deals, they include both "now" and "later" deals - but only in the U.S.. Now, while...

Pachube Gets Acquired, Gets New Name, Gets Real

Wednesday, May 9th 2012

Pachube, a vision for integrating sensors to build the Internet of things (my understanding, its definition is below), was acquired by LogMein back last July. I missed that but did note the service back in 2008 (APB coverage). Today, the company now only announces a new spellable, pronounceable...

Crime Around You (UK only): Fearsquare.com

Monday, May 7th 2012

Fearsquare takes your recent FourSquare check-ins and cross-references these with the UK Police Crime Statistics database. Showing you street level crime for each individual check-in. Or in detail: The FearSquare application takes a list of your ten most recent FourSquare check-ins...

Update: SXSW LBS News - 3/6/12

Monday, May 7th 2012

Update: Friday Facebook announced it would acquire Glancee and its 20,000 current users. Per RWW "Glancee is a smartphone app that tells you when people with similar interests are in the same location as you." - Glancee - RWW --- original post 3/6/12 ---- The hot LBS apps per...

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