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Navigon released for Android Market – But be careful!

Mar 12, 2010 10:17am

NAVIGON is a well known car navigation manufacturer and has now released Mobile Navigator for Android. NAVIGON Mobile Navigator was released before also for the IPhone and Windows Mobile smart-phones. There are several navigation applications out now for Android but none of them can be used on a regular basis....

Twitter and the Map

Mar 9, 2010 10:38am

The microblogging site Twitter has emerged from a nice service to one to the biggest players for social networks. With only 140 employees and an estimated revenue of $400,000 in Q3 2009 the Californian company is on rank 12 of the most visited websites all over the world. The people behind...

Google learned from OpenStreetMap

Mar 2, 2010 11:49am

The Haiti earthquake disaster showed us the incredible contribution of the comunity for creating a detailed map in the area around Port-au-Prince. Apparently this was the initiation for Google to write following tweet: Google recently promoted their Map Maker tool to gather more community driven data (called volunteered geographic information VGI)....

Map Mashups can tell a story

Feb 28, 2010 3:11pm

ESRI recently announched the 2010map mashup challenge and invites developers to present a map mashup and tell the story behind their mashup. One interesting and creative example is the mapshup by Dave Bouwman – Visualizing Executive Compensation. The story behind this mashup: Executive Compensation packages are so large that they are...

March 2010 Open GIS Jobs

Feb 27, 2010 6:29am

I’ll introduce a new section on the “Geospatial Talk” blog called Jobs. Each month I’ll describe 5 GIS or Geo-related jobs around the world. This month selection includes: Senior GIS Programmer/Analyst (N/A, Anchorage, USA) Doctoral Research Assistent (University of Technology Vienna, Vienna, Austria) GIS Software Analyst / Developer (CMRC,Cobh, Ireland) Geospatial Analyst (Boeing, Saint...

Virtual journey on the Transiberian Railway

Feb 18, 2010 7:00am

The combination between Google Maps and YouTube allows you to make a virtual travel from Moscow to Vladivostok. The video is georeferenced and synchronized with the map. This feature allows you to navigate on the map an see the corresponding section in the video. Original text to the application: The great Trans Siberian Railway,...

Scale of the to-date known and mapped Universe

Feb 17, 2010 10:57am

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas...

New Topographic Map-Resource in Google/Microsoft tiling schema

Feb 11, 2010 6:03am

ArcGIS Online has migrated map tiling scheme of their map services to Google Maps and Microsoft Bing Maps well known tiling scheme. All ESRI Map resources can now overlayed and mashed-up with Google Map layers and Bing Map layers, because they use the same coordinate system, map DPI and tile...

Are ski slopes streets? Google says YES, they are.

Feb 9, 2010 12:01pm

We know Google mounts car with 360 degrees cameras and GPS to show us streets. We know Google also mounts bicycles with 360 degrees cameras and GPS to show us streets where cars are not allowed to drive. But now Google also mounts snowmobiles with 360 degrees cameras and GPS...

Google Maps with Multi-touch available in the Market

Feb 5, 2010 10:12am

Recently the new version of Google Maps show up in the Android Market and asks for an update. The current version is called 3.4 and includes Multi-touch as amazing new feature for Map navigation. Now it is really convenient to browse the map using following functions and gestures: double tap to...