What is special about Geospatial?

Nokia is planning opening up Nokia Maps for the Desktop and synchronizing information between desktop and mobile phone. Therefore they are working on a browser frontend for their maps and navigation service Nokia Maps, which is optimized for the PC. The user should be able to plan a route on the PC and is shown the information on the mobile after synchronizing. I can be assumed that Nokia Maps will be embedded into the Ovi-platform. Currently the product is under development and will not be available before fall 2008.

In general it can be said that Nokia make a lot of effort providing geospatial solution for the mobile world. Nokia has announced to deliver 35 to 40 million mobiles, which have built-in GPS chips.

[via: golem.de]

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Geogames is an event with the objective to apply Geoinformation playfully. The pupils should learn to use GIS to solve tasks of everyday’s life. Four different station with topics about Geography, GIS, etc. give an insight where these technologies are used. Students from the Carinthian University of Applied Sciences (CUAS) support pupils in their tasks and at each station.

The event is organized by the CUAS and the federal state government of Carinthia.

On the homepage the pupils will see their walking routes as GPS tracks.

When: 25.06.2008, 8:30 a.m

Where: FH Kärnten | Europastraße 4 | A-9524 Villach/St. Magdalen

Official Site: www.geogames.at

Announcement: http://www.fh-kaernten.at/cms/stg-geo/news_3212.htm

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Steve Jobs is currently talking about the new iPhone at WWDC 2008 in San Francisco. It will have 3G and built in GPS.

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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.

[via Engadget]

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The European Union (EU) has finnaly decided about financing the statellite navigationsystem Galileo. All in all until the year 2013, when the project should be finnisched, the EU will provide 3.4 billion Euros.

“Mit der Einigung des Rates haben die Mitgliedstaaten heute die letzte Hürde zur Realisierung von Galileo genommen. Jetzt ist die deutsche Raumfahrtindustrie am Zug” Bundesverkehrsminister Wolfgang Tiefensee

Translation: “With this agreement of the concil the member states have taken the last barrier for realization of the Galileo project”.

With this decision the political framework for Galileo are set. In July ESA will start with tendering and will finnish this in the end of this year. This will be a good change for high tech companies of the EU. In the end of this month the second experimental satellit “Giove B” will be shot into the outer space. This satellite will contain technology of the future Galileo statellites. Giove B will start on April 27th form the kazakh spaceport Baikonur. Origionally this satellite should have been sarted in spring 2006. The fist test satellite “Giove A” is in outer space since 2005. The sart was delayed conistently. Last time the delay was because of problems with the russian carrier rocket Sojus.

The actual roadmap for Galileo defines the end of the assembling of satellites until 2013. In the end Galileo will have 30 satellites and be more precise than the US-mavigation system GPS. The european projects now delays for several years behind the original roadmap.

[via derStandard]

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