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TomTom to bring free lane guidance, text-to-speech, iPod control to iPhone GPS app
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.
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NAVTEQ expands real-time traffic coverage in Canada.
"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…"
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Garmin nuvi 1250 review | GPS Tracklog
Rich from GPS Tracklog reviews the nuvi 1250.
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Google LatLong: Saving the world, one line of code at a time
"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?"
(tags: activism cartography disaster democracy emergency geo geocoding geodata geography geolocation geospatial geotracking geoweb gis hacking) -
Take a Virtual Tour Through Google Street View On a Stationary Bike
(tags: streetview geo geodata geography geospatial games)
links for 2009-11-12
Nov 12 at 11:11am by admin