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Really interesting article citing a few studies about the rise of the smartphone and mobile web in retail purchasing. - Justin Davey

Clixtr..."aims to turn smartphones into what they refer to as ’smartcameras’ or ’social cameras’. The basic idea behind the service is that when you’re at an event, be it a birthday party at your home or at a massive rock concert, photos from multiple people attending could be turned into one single, centralized photo album for all to enjoy. - Justin Davey

A Google Maps mashup that places your Facebook friends on a map. - Justin Davey

"The Free Our Data campaign has scored a major victory, with the announcement by the government that it intends to make Ordnance Survey maps free for use online by any organisation – including commercial ones – at resolutions more detailed than commercial 1:25,000 Landranger maps from April next year." - Justin Davey

All the major platforms will be powered by Skyhook very soon. - Justin Davey

Here we go. Given the struggles the PND industry is facing, maybe companies such as Pioneer should focus on innovating rather than protecting patents that won't matter in a couple of years. - Justin Davey

Haven't read about this yet but it's important. They won the Random Hacks of Kindness competition. - Justin Davey

Interesting tutorial. - Justin Davey

The title says it all I think. It'll be interesting to see if the API attracts as much attention as Twitter's has. - Justin Davey

"Researchers Tomoji Takasu and Akio Yasuda of Tokyo University developed the RTKLIB library to perform the RTK-GPS calculations, and then ported the whole thing to run on a low-cost beagle board and commodity GPS receiver. Want to try it out? Full source code, circuit layouts and instructions are provided on their site." - Justin Davey

advanced lane guidance, text-to-speech, "Help Me," updated map / safety cameras (in select European nations) databases, customizable audio warnings and iPod player control. New features coming with the update, according to Engadget. - Justin Davey

"NAVTEQ Traffic coverage for Canada has doubled to encompass more than 13 million people, or more than 40 percent of Canada's total population. NAVTEQ Traffic is now available in seven of Canada's major metro areas, including: Toronto, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; Vancouver, British Columbia; Ottawa-Gatineau, Ontario and Quebec; Hamilton, Ontario; St. Catharines-Niagara Ontario; and Oshawa, Ontario. This recent expansion more than doubles the number of Canadian markets previously covered by NAVTEQ..." - Justin Davey

Rich from GPS Tracklog reviews the nuvi 1250. - Justin Davey

"This weekend, benevolently-inclined hackers will listen to a keynote from FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. Then they’ll churn out some of the most important open source code on the planet—code that saves lives and mitigates human suffering. They'll address problems like, how do we crowdsource information from local citizens to aid first resonders? How do we quickly collect and publish fresh aerial imagery of an affected area? How do we create a comprehensive missing persons finder after a disaster?" - Justin Davey

Hawaii becomes the 50th US state, more cities in Spain, 50 in the Netherlands, and 5 in Mexico come to Google Street View. - Justin Davey

A great hack that enables users to use Google Maps with Navigation on the G1 (remember it's currently exclusive to the Droid right now) - Justin Davey

"Since the launch of Google Latitude earlier this year, we've been getting a lot of feature requests. One of the most popular ideas was for Latitude to keep track of location history, allowing you (but not your friends) to see where you've been at any point in time. Another popular idea was to notify you when you're near your Latitude friends so you can easily meet up or grab lunch. Today, we're happy to introduce both Google Location History and Google Location Alerts (beta) to let you do even more with Latitude." - Justin Davey

3D Landscape provides developers with ways to use and display high quality 3D maps in phone applications. - Justin Davey

Probably the best analysis of the acquisition I've read. - Justin Davey

Cartography 2.0 is a free online knowledge base and e-textbook for students and professionals interested in interactive and animated maps. - Justin Davey

"New location services: RIM is launching three new location-based services for developers: cell site geolocation, reverse geocoding and travel time. Cell Site Geolocation is very standard today and is commonly used as an alternative to GPS. Reverse Geocoding helps people convert their location coordinates into a specific address for use in BlackBerry applications. And finally, Travel Time allows developers to incorporate estimated travel time within their apps for destinations in the US and Canada. The travel time calculations will be based on distance, speed limits and aggregated traffic conditions. The service returns values for an estimated arrival time, total travel time and total distance that can be used in an application." - Justin Davey

Loopt is already taking advantage of the new Blackberry app features. - Justin Davey

"The one feature request that we've heard over and over, however, is "what's going on where I am?". To answer that, we wanted to give you all a heads up regarding the new "Trends API" that we're launching. This API will open up trending information that is specific to a number of locations around the world. At a high level, there will be two new endpoints: * an endpoint to give a listing of all locations that trends are available for, and * an endpoint to actually allow you to query by a specific location. " The Trends API will use Yahoo's Where on Earth IDs from yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet which I've written about here before. - Justin Davey

NodeBox is a new software application for creating generative art using procedural graphics. - Justin Davey

Urban Defender is a location-aware game that takes place in cities and towns. The game and its main interface, the ball, are situated inside the real world. Other location based games often only work with displays or have navigational character. This game is based upon elements that are fundamental to people in urban situations: districts and their habitants. Targeting children and young adults, the goal and main rule of the game is: try to conquer as many quarters as possible, reinforce these quarters and defend them against other players. - Justin Davey

OSM project to map Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. - Justin Davey

Nice! - Justin Davey

We need this in Wiinipeg. - Justin Davey

We need this in Wiinipeg. - Justin Davey

This is great! - Justin Davey

This is great! - Justin Davey

That's pretty accurate positioning for cell tower triangulation. I'd like to know exactly how this works 'cause right now I don't believe it. - Justin Davey

That's pretty accurate positioning for cell tower triangulation. I'd like to know exactly how this works 'cause right now I don't believe it. - Justin Davey