Tag Archives: routing
How reliable are Directions (or Routes) in Google Maps?
Google Maps does not provide metadata about geographical data used for geocoding or routing. This could lead to some astonishment when the user see the routing results in Google Maps. For example a route from Hungary to Bulgaria will direct … Continue reading
Video integration in driving direction of route planners (Google has StreetView, Microsoft videos)
Google integrates StreetView in their driving directions to give the user an impression about the calculated route. Microsoft tries now tries to integrate videos in their driving directions and synchronize them with the map. According to the official research paper … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Geodata
Tagged direction interpretation, driving directions, geospatial research, googe streetview, google driving direction, graz, klagenfurt, microsoft driving direction, microsoft graz, microsoft research, ms research, route planning, route recognition, route visualisation, routing
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Yahoo Maps with draggable routes
Yahoo has updated their Map Service for Europe. Now it is also possible to modify routes via drag and drop, as you know it from Google Maps. They included also an function to revert back to the original route and … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb
Tagged directions, drag & drop, drag and drop, network, route, routing, street network, wayfinding, yahoo local maps
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Wolfram Alpha meets Geography
As many other Internet users I stumbled across WolframAlpha some days ago. Wolfram Alpha defines itself as computational knowledge engine. The concept for using knowledge alpha can be seen as combination between Google and Wikipedia, but it uses quite an … Continue reading
Posted in Geodata, Sites, Web
Tagged geocoding, geography, Map, projections, routing, Stephen, thematic mapping, thematic maps, Wolfram, WolframAlpha
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Intelligent Online Routing – TomTom Route Service with IQ Technology.
TomTom has introduced an online routing service with their IQ Technology. The routing service is currently in beta and an only accessed after registration. They use the latest version of Teleatlas Street data, which is a fully-owned subsidiary of TomTom. … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Geodata, Internet
Tagged best route, Internet, IQ technology, Location, minimize, online routing, routing, service, street data, TeleAtlas, tomtom, traffic information, travel time
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Google Maps Walking Routes
Google introduced Walking routes! Try it for yourself at http://maps.google.com Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
Opensource, OpenLS and OpenStreetMaps for a OpenRouteService
Open Source GIS solutions gain more and more attention in the Geoinformation sciences community over the past years. Now there are numerous usable and stable Open Source libraries and tools for spatial data management, customization and visualisation available. Open Source … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Research, Web
Tagged GIS, ogc, open source, openls, openstreetmap, osm, routing, standards, web service
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Streetview & Driving Directions
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 … Continue reading
