Location Based Services
August 19, 2008Lonely Planet Guides Available on NokiaLocation Based ServicesNow that Nokia has aquired Navteq, the phone maker will be selling maps and travel guides for download. Nokia Maps 2.0 provides vector data supplied by Navteq and TeleAtlas. Geographic data for over 200 countries are available, 70 of those countries have navigable data. Travel data will be supplied by Lonely Planet and will give ... read more June 22, 2008Making SenseFeatures, Location Based ServicesThe NY Times (registration required) has a profile on Sense Networks, a company that mines millions of location data points using a tool called Macrosense. This tool mines data using complex statistical algorithms in order to predict human movement. The article quotes Tony Jebara, one of the co-founds of Sense who says: “We can predict ... read more August 27, 2002National ITS Architecture PolicyLocation Based ServicesThe national ITS architecture policy is not technology specific but a directive to establish a common framework of ITS interoperability. The end goal is to achieve communication across the national among transit and transportation agencies for User-based services through the definition of functions and information exchanges read more... |
