Tomorrow I will do my thesis defense. The topic is the “Development of a distributed Service Framework for Location-based Decision Support“. Here you can see the slides to this presentation. They are not the final version but almost. There were also some difficulties to convert them from the PPTX format in the online format of a slidehoster - So maybe some of the slides look a little bit wired.
The first Andoid phone was officially announced by Google, HTC and T-mobile. There was not really a “WOW” effect during the presentation. The design is well known from the first Android presentations and the features could have been expected.
Here a small list of facts:
Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7201A™, 528 MHz
Memory: 256 MB ROM, 192 MB RAM
Dimensions: (LxWxT) 117.7 mm x 55.7 mm x 17.1 mm
Weight: 158 grams (5.57 ounces) with battery
Display: 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with 320 x 480 (HVGA) resolution
Network: HSDPA/WCDMA, Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
Device Control Trackball with Enter button
Keyboard: Slide-out 5-row QWERTY keyboard
GPS: GPS navigation capability with built-in GPS receiver and map software
Connectivity: Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate, Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11b/g, HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
Camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with fixed focus
Audio: Built-in microphone and speaker
Battery: Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, Capacity: 1150 mAh
Google switched their underlying map data to TeleAtlas for their whole branch of products. Now Google Earth, Google Maps, Local Search and Google’s mobile solution using Teleatlas for their underlying data. Many see this as logical step after the acquisition of Navtech by Nokia. Recently there where some differences in locations when you ask for them in two different products (e.g. Google Maps and Google Maps API). This should now be unified.
TeleAtlas was founded in 1984 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TomTom. The headquarter is in Ghent, Belgium and by 2007 about 1900 employees are working at TeleAtlas. The total revenue is more than 300 mio. Euros. Official Homepage: www.teleatlas.com
The German company Geofabrik is specialized to neogeography and open geospatial data. Now they provide the download of OpenStreetMaps as daily updated shapefiles.
The data on their server are regional hierarchical structured. All shapefiles are based on OpenStreetmap-raw data. This XML-based file format dist described in the OpenStreetMap-Wiki at OSM Protocol Version 0.5.
But not all layers of the available OSM data is converted special layers can be requested as additional service.
Nokia tries to promote their Nokia Maps with a geographical game. It a flash based game where you have to guess the location of different cities around the globe. At the end you can send them their high score and win some prices.
The game might be classified as addictive.
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