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February 2, 2022
MapTiler has created a single image of the entire world detailed enough to find a specific house. If […]
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MapTiler has created a single image of the entire world detailed enough to find a specific house. If […]
“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and […]
“Connect your compatible smartphone to the center display to access select apps, your calendar and playlists or navigate […]
AT&T’s Fleet Complete, a North American provider of fleet telematics and mobile workforce technology, has upgraded its browser-based […]
Reasons Cited Include Privacy, Lack of Retail Support
Google Here, a proposed beacon-based location service operating within Google Maps, was reportedly cancelled due to a concern by Alphabet CEO Larry Page’s that it would be too invasive by the users of his mapping service. When the location industry has such a dominant player pull out of a nascent, and potentially lucrative, proximity service, does it mean that consumers will now have to wait for a full-scale rollout? Google will remain a major player with its Google Maps app, but where does it go from there?
New imagery of the highest canopy in the Amazon rainforest is now available on Google Maps. The Amazon […]
Hard to believe, we have only now reached the 10th anniversary of Google Maps. As important as digital maps have become, their purpose is much the same as the printed and drawn maps that preceded them. Digital maps emerged in the 1960s with the Census Bureau’s DIME maps. These first digital maps were used for analysis of place-specific data, such as populations within census tracts or cities. Digital maps in turn led to geographic information systems (GIS) for spatial analysis. Though GIS had uses in fields like city planning, the main stimulus for digital maps came in the 1990s with the convergence of the completion of GPS infrastructure, and affordable and portable computers.
Computer security company Absolute Software Corporation is extending its products to use Google Maps to provide improved device geolocation tracking […]
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