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by Matt Ball on October 6, 2011
The MIT Media Lab has been using smartphones to collect data on people’s habits and opinions for research projects for several years. The group is now releasing their smartphone data collection and visualization system as a free open-source download for anyone interested. The software called Funf has both an Android-based phone component that exposes sensor [...]
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by Matt Ball on October 4, 2011
TomTom is launching an enterprise-focused geospatial service called TomTom Geospatial for Oracle as announced at OpenWorld 2011. The service will offer geocoding, vehicle routing and mapping information, all hosted on Oracle’s 11g database. Oracle customers will be able to easily integrate TomTom’s map and routing data into new and existing business applications. This new business [...]
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by Matt Ball on August 25, 2011
New market research on the global magnetic sensor market show steady growth that is projected to reach $3.2 billion by 2017. Magnetic sensors are used for position, speed, and as record heads for disk drives, but the largest growth area is for e-compassing for in-car navigation and GPS-enabled handheld devices. The growth rate for these [...]
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by Matt Ball on August 24, 2011
The OpenTripPlanner (OTP) project is an international effort to create a multimodal trip planning and analysis tool. This free and open source software is optimized for use with open data sources and standards such as OpenStreetMap and the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) for transit system data. OTP was established in the summer of 2009 [...]
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by Matt Ball on August 22, 2011
UniStrong, the market leader in navigation devices in China, is poised to prosper at the country’s navigation industry matures, and as the country’s Compass navigation satellite constellation takes shape. UniStrong holds 40 percent of the market for automobile navigation systems in what is projected to be a 100 billion yuan ($15.6 billion) market over the [...]
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by Matt Ball on July 14, 2011
Urbanflow is a concept for the city of Helsinki that takes the static high-definition screens that are on display throughout the city and turns them into an urban operating system that “seamlessly integrates city services between the Web, mobile devices, and city screens no matter where you are or intend to be.” The Urbanflow project [...]
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by Matt Ball on June 1, 2011
The Wireless Innovation for Transportation (WIN for Transportation) Initiative is a line item in President Obama’s 2012 budget to spur development of new technologies, and to create jobs. Last week a roundtable discussion took place with government and industry representatives to build upon the Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) ongoing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) research program. [...]
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by Matt Ball on May 18, 2011
Trimble Navigation’s Christchurch, New Zealand office went up in a fiery blaze last night. It took 40 firefighters to control the fire, and several were injured when a floor collapsed. The structure had been damaged by the quake that hit February 22, but some work had been ongoing in the building. Tragically, the building housed [...]
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by Matt Ball on April 20, 2011
Trimble continues its fast-paced acquisitions with the announcement late yesterday that it is acquiring Ashtech in order to expand the Spectra Precision portfolio of survey solutions. The press release made little mention of the MobileMapper series of GIS and mapping products that compete with Trimble’s own data collection products. Further indication that these products weren’t [...]
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by Matt Ball on February 17, 2011
The augmented reality development platform Layar has recently added new 3D capabilities. The first item is the 3D Augmented Office that allows you to model a virtual 360 degree model with walls, floor, ceiling and furnishings, but to take that model into reality with windows that look out on the real world. The other 3D [...]
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