What is special about Geospatial?

Lenovo has produced a new advertising spot for their Thinkpad X300. This spot tries to

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Today Google has integrated Streetview in Google Maps routing. If you generate a routing inside a city with Streetview you can see a camera. With a click on this camera a Streetview window is comming up where the street scene of the position is shown.

Example

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Will the second iPhone Generation come with an integrated GPS module? The are a lot of rumours about the second iPhone out in the internet for serveral months. Now Engadget writes that the new iPhone has GPS included. I think we will get the answer directly from Mr. Jobs during his keynode at WWDC 2008 in June.

The tend in the mobile phone industry shows the increasing importance of locational services.

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Mozilla FireFox is an awsome Internet browser. With the version 3 the developers have enhanced the usability of the software once more. Therefore it is not surprising that the maket share is rising according to XiTi.

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In Austria there is makret share of about 32%. I think after the official release of version 3 there will be an further boost in the maket share.

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Two students from Germany have worked on a project called Enkin. The have written this locational service on Google Andriod. Enkin allows to navigate in three differend modes:

• Classic Map
• 3D View
• Reality

Until now the hardware is a little bit cumbersomely but I hope this will change after the first real Android mobiles are on the market.

“Enkin” introduces a new handheld navigation concept. It displays location-based content in a unique way that bridges the gap between reality and classic map-like representations. It combines GPS, orientation sensors, 3D graphics, live video, several web services and a novel user interface into an intuitive and light navigation system for mobile devices. This project is a submission for the first round of the Google Android Developer Challenge and should not be considered a final product. If you want to learn about it in depth, please read our detailed documentation.

Link: http://www.enkin.net/

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