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Teleatlas community updated maps

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(source press release) Tele Atlas Global Digital Map Database Delivers 1.25 Million Edits Sourced from Community Input More than 116,000 Kilometers of Road Geometry in the US and 25,000 Kilometers in Germany Validated and Realigned, Road Networks of Ireland and Turkey Further Defined Gent, Belgium, 28 September 2009 – Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, today released MultiNet® 2009.09, which includes 1.25 million validated edits sourced from community input from more than 30 countries. With this significant volume of community input incorporated, Tele Atlas continues to set the standard for accurate maps, dynamic content and routing intelligence that power the world’s leading location-based applications. MultiNet is the only digital map database that is constantly validated by the tens of millions of consumers who use it. The latest release of the database includes edits sourced from community input acr...
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Bhuvan - Indian geoportal launched

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Bhuvan portal has been launched in India it is a geoportal of Indian Space Research Organisation showcasing Indian Imaging Capabilities in Multi-sensor, Multi-platform and Multi-temporal domain. The portal gives a gateway to explore and discover virtual earth in 3D space with specific emphasis on Indian region. In journalist terms it was coined as an Indian version of Google earth.
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Summerreading on GEO 2.0

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Following links are interesting summerreading: If you don't know where to go in one week, Vancouver is the place at the Geowebconference: http://geowebconference.org/press-media/2009-blog/ Usability and the Geoweb, check out this blog: http://briannoyle.wordpress.com/ Location based services blog: http://bdnooz.com/ And start with creating your own touristic route at http://www.routeyou.com/ or get out there in real-world and enjoy!
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Personalised Citytrip Planner for the Flemish Art Cities is unique in the World

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Planning a city trip requires a lot of preparation: gather touristic information, selecting the most appropriate attractions and events, determining the best sequence of visiting taking into account opening hours and locations, etc. This is often a difficult and time consuming task. The ‘Citytrip Planner’ simplifies this process. On July, 7, the Flemish “Art cities” (Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, Leuven en Mechlin), together with the Centre for Industrial Management of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the research unit IT of KaHo Sint-Lieven Ghent and the company RouteYou from Ghent, launched the ‘Citytrip Planner’. This unique web site presents a personal city trip, fast and efficiently. How does it work? First, you enter some trip data (date of the trip, number of days, starting and ending point, start and end time, etc. ) and you answer some short questions to determine your interest profile. The Citytrip Planner immediately proposes a trip taking into account your interests, the trip ...
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Google city tours vs Routeyou

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Google labs has come out with a tourist city planner . I was excied to chedch it out. Well this application for sure pales with the Ghent based routeyou one in terms of feasibility and export functions. Wondering how to create a g reat city architecture walk in Brussels of Benjamin de Lestré de Fabribeckers , my grand-grandfather and contemporary of Victor Horta.
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Mobile Mash-up event from Mobile Monday Brussels 20/4/2009: registration still open

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Mobile Mash-up Mobile Monday Brussels community The Mobile Monday community gathers live in Brussels on Monday April 20th. Exchange your views on mobile mash-up with the following speakers: Android Mobile Mash-up and Life Folder application in a technical perspective Friedger Müfke - OpenIntents Location Based Mash-ups in a marketing perspective Johan Lemmens - Service2Media Eurostar Girlygeekshopping Mash-up case Flickr, Twitter and Google Maps Caroline Maerten - Rolling Talks Customer engagement in a mobile world Jürgen Coetsiers - the creative stores Discuss afterwards whilst having a drink thanks to location sponsor the creative stores Free entrance www.mobilemonday.be to register for this event. Location : Diamant Center, Bd. A. Reyers 80 - 1030 Brussels map and details on www.diamant.be
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iyouit localised mobile life blog from NTT Docomo labs

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NTT Docomolabs Europe is launching in betatest a mobile life mobile blog. Test out yourself at http://www.iyouit.eu Instalaltion went smooth, and interaction with GPS receiver and camera as well; in my profile I lkike the 'mood factor' and the fact that i can add moods, etc... the mapfunction is quite precise and intergrated with Nokia maps (share of POs) I wallked in and out of a restaurant at the end of my street; still wondering about usefullness...
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Predictions 2009 on the geoweb

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My friend Rudi from m-trends has put up a list of predictions about mobile, and one of them is about location that will disappear. Indeed, just like time has disappeared because of its omni-presence, internet connectivity disappeared because of its omni-presence, so will location awareness do: it is something embedded that provides a value add-on, but in itself does not bring much value. I believe Rudi is right at some point, although I see still some more area of growth, more at least than the Swiss watch industry related to time.
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