Have you every ask what to do with your GPS Data and how to share this information. A new start-up company from Vienna (timatio) provides a online service for achieving and sharing Geodata with the aim to build up a social network based on GPS data.
There is a potential to create a central service to view and store tracking data. The platform should be very open so there are less limits for the customers. It is planned to provide an API for the data so the users can build their applications based on their own ideas. Until now the service is used by so called “friendly customers”.
I will observe news of this project to provide you with further news.
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.
Map Errors can be reported:
With the “Edit” functionality the users have the possibility to correct mapping errors (http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=68474#modify). but Google also encourage people to report errors directly to Teleatlas using following link: http://www.teleatlas.com/ForConsumers/MapFeedback/index.htm
Information to Teleatlas:
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
[via spatiallyadjusted]
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.
OSM data is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0-License.
[via Mapperz]
I’ve already posted that Google together with GeoEye will launch a new Satellite for Google Earth and Google Maps images. The so called “GeoEye-1” satellite will take photos with a resolution of 0.41 cm / pixel. In the following pictures you can see the difference between a image with 100cm/px reolution and a picutre with 41cm/px.
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On the GeoEye Website you can watch the lauch of the satellity on video.
Yesterday there was the start of the Olympic Summer Games 2008 in Beijing, China.
There are a lot of information about the games incuding a lot of geodata and 3D model of sport facilities. One Example is a Google Maps mashup.
Can’t make it to Beijing? Now, you can follow the Summer Games no matter where you are. Explore stadiums in 3D, track medal counts, and view live sport results on Google Maps and Google Earth.
View the map larger: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/2008summergames/
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