Location Based Services
Google Earth anche come plugin per Firefox!
Google Maps pur costituendo una novità enorme nell’ambito dei servizi GIS di tipo consumer rappresenta orami un limite in quanto non consente (utilizzando il solo javascript) di utilizzare l’accelerazione 3D delle attuali schede grafiche. Perchè quindi non realizzare un plugin di Google Earth per Firefox (…e altri)? Finalmente infatti è arrivato!
Le possibilità date dal [...]
Newest Nokia mobile N95 will support GPS based positioning
Nokia unveils its fully featured last smartphone N95. Among other interesting feature:
- Integrated GPS and navigator
- Screen size 240×320 pixels (no-touchscreen yet!)
- Extended memory
- Portrait orienation also for display
Some N95 reviews:
The Register
AllAboutSymbian
SymbianFreak
Symbian.com
NokiaPress
Bye,
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Telcontar and Mapquest offer LBS developer program
Telcontar and Mapquest had started recently developer programs like Y! and Google for their map web services.
More info on respective web sites. Similar initiative from Via Michelin also.
IMO, Y! and Google open API suffers from the lack or geocoding and vector maps for Europe (but UK).
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Google Local J2ME application on Nokia N70
Overcoming all the confusion generally affecting Location Based Services and Applications on mobile terminals, the best first thing an ISP can do is to translate all desktop services towards mobiles.
A well known US centric location service is offered by Google Local has been developed in a J2ME version also. It [...]
2006: the year of LBS mass market launch?
According to this article by D H Williams on Direction Magazine, Location Based Services have to take off (really) in 2006 and 2007.Infacts, most of technical problems (common standards, terminal computation power and -above all- position accuracy) seem to be solved easily.
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