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Directions Magazine: GIS News, Articles, Maps, Data, Tools
Your Source for Geospatial Technology Friday | June 06, 2008

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Top Story

Geospatial Data Aids Engine Design in Automotive SectorLocation Determination Technology Primer

Eric Carr, the VP of Location Technologies at Loopt presents a primer on location determination technologies at TechCrunch. There you can read about how all the different technologies determine where you and your device are, providing the key data for location-based services to thrive. If you are still trying to keep the GPS, A-GPS, cell-id, Wi-Fi options straight, this article is a great reference. Also noteworthy: a comment from a developer arguing that having an API is enough; there's no need to understand how these technologies actually work.


off the beaten path

_Get London Reading is a fun website that includes interactive maps showing where books set in London actually take place. According to the site, "Our interactive map features 400 books either set in, or about, the capital." The site is sponsored by Arts Council England, 3M and Booktrust.

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Oracle's Location Intelligence Podcast Series (#2): Location Intelligence: Putting the Pieces Together
If you consolidate all your organization's spatial information in the enterprise database, it can be shared among users and leveraged in business processes throughout the enterprise. This opens up many new possibilities for service improvement, business development, cost reduction and more. In this podcast, you will learn how consulting firm Johnston-McLamb is helping enterprise customers in the private and public sector to benefit from Oracle's entire spatial and location technology platform, including Oracle Database, Oracle Spatial and Locator, and Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer.

ESRI's ArcGIS Podcast Series (#3): What's New in ArcPad 7.1
In this podcast, Elvin Slavik, ArcPad lead developer, and Jian Lange, ArcPad product manager, talk about the latest ArcPad release, version 7.1. Hear about new capabilities and performance enhancements including out-of-the-box relational database support, simple data templates, and new StreetMap and Data Manager extensions.


All Points Blog

SatNav Teddy Bear

Esquire Magazine: What I Learned Looking for Steve Fossett

JK Rowling Sues Mapmaker for Putting her Home on the Map

Sources: Nokia/NAVTEQ is Go

Quote of the Week


Press Releases

San Diego City Center 3D City Model Lands on Google Earth

State of California Launches the Nation's First Statewide Green Buildings Database

Tele Atlas To Propose New CEO As Company Ushers In New Era in Digital Mapping

TomTom Declares the Public Offer for All Shares in Tele Atlas Unconditional

National Geographic Maps launches National Trails Database

GeoEye Receives Additional U.S. Government Awards Totaling $22 Million

Resort Maps Selects MapsAlive Technology to Make Online Maps Interactive

Optech Lidar Technology Delivers Weather Reports from Mars

Aerial imagery helps keep energy supplier in the picture

Galdos Systems Inc. Launches KML Validator


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