The developer community of Android criticizes the information policy of Google. Currently the SDK has several bugs (e.g, Geocoding, and Media Player), but Google is waiting with a new release of the SDK. The last Update goes back in February, since then no new version of the Android SDK was announced.
Citation from the Petition:
In order not to lose many highly encouraged developers, I think its time to release some news about the development process of the SDK. Maybe let us know why we have to live with these long release-cycles.
With an online Petition the programmes would force Google to announce a new version.
Several developers are thinking to adapt their applications for other frameworks like the iPhone SDK, Windows mobile, Symbian or OpenMoko. I’m looking forward to see Googles reaction.
Petition: http://www.anddev.org/petition/
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In Youtube now you can also search for videos from a special region or location. To use local search you can enter the name of one location in the search box of YouTube. In most cases there appear a small map with 3 videos form the local search linking to an map interface. If you cannot see this map on the search results you have to specify the location in the advanced search.
The local search uses a Google Maps which is located directly above the search results. The maker and the buffer (as red circle) shows the region where videos are searched. One drawback until now that there is no direct linking between the search results and the map.
The marker in the map can be changed to search for another region.
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Typing on a mobile device my be very cumbersome. Google also recognized this disadvantage and provide a voice search for Google Maps for mobile devices. They give a short tutorial how to do voice search. unfortunately it is only available for some blackbarry phones, but I assume it the service is accepted by the user, more phones will be supported.
But how it is written on the site?
“Using your voice is optional. You can always type your searches as usual.”
[via: http://www.google.com/mobile/blackberry/maps/voicesearch.html]
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Thematic Mapping Engine (TME) enables you to visualise global statistics on Google Earth. The primary data source is UNdata. The engine returns a KMZ file that you can open in Google Earth or download to your computer.
The goal of this project is to investigate and show how geobrowsers can be used for thematic mapping. It is initialised by a master’s thesis in Geographical Information Science at University of Edinburgh.
It is really a helpul tool to ceate a impressive thematic map very fast. The only problem until now is that you have no possibility to use your own statistical data.
Source: http://thematicmapping.org
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The GeolocationAPIprovides the geolocation of a device running a Gears-enabled web browser. The Geolocation API allows web apps to retrieve the user’s current position. The API should provide the following features:
- One-shot position requests (e.g. for recommendations sites — “where am I right now?”)
- Repeated position updates (e.g. for continuously updating one’s location on a map)
- Ability to get the last-known position cheaply before doing an expensive new request
- Compatibility with future use as a singleton in the standard DOM (e.g. window.geolocation)
Link: http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/wiki/GeolocationAPI
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