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Tele Atlas Urban Maps Launches to Deliver Pedestrian-Specific Content on Mobile Devices

GENT, Belgium --(Business Wire)-- Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, today announced the availability of Tele Atlas(R) Urban Maps, designed to enrich the mobile users' location-based services (LBS) experience. Urban Maps delivers premier out-of-car content such as enhanced views of sidewalks and footpaths, 2D representations of notable structures and building footprints that better orient pedestrians in city centers.

Tele Atlas Urban Maps Launches to Deliver Pedestrian-Specific Content on Mobile Devices

GENT, Belgium (Business Wire) -- Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, today announced the availability of Tele Atlas(R) Urban Maps, designed to enrich the mobile users' location-based services (LBS) experience. Urban Maps delivers premier out-of-car content such as enhanced views of sidewalks and footpaths, 2D representations of notable structures and building footprints that better orient pedestrians in city centers.

Tele Atlas Urban Maps Launches to Deliver Pedestrian-Specific Content on Mobile Devices

Advanced Features Offer Realistic Views of City Centers, Pedestrian Waypoints to Enhance Mobile Navigation Applications GENT, Belgium--(Business Wire)-- Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, today announced the availability of Tele Atlas(R) Urban Maps, designed to enrich the mobile users' location-based services (LBS) experience. Urban Maps delivers premier out-of-car content such as enhanced views of sidewalks and footpaths, 2D representations of notable structures and building footprints that better orient pedestrians in city centers. "Whether it's the busy executive seeking a better route from their parked car to the location of their next meeting or the holiday traveler looking for the nearest bank machine, consumers need to be able to quickly orient them

Nissan adds Google Maps to Carwings navigation system

Nissan Motor has added Google Maps, an online mapping service, to its Carwings navigation system, through which the users can now send locations found on Google Maps directly to their vehicle's onboard navigation.

Nissan Adds Google Maps to Carwings Navigation System

Nissan Motor has added Google Maps, an online mapping service, to its Carwings navigation system, through which the users can now send locations found on Google Maps directly to their vehicle's onboard navigation.

Tele Atlas Urban Maps Launches to Deliver Pedestrian-Specific Content on Mobile Devices

GENT, Belgium - Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, today announced the availability of Tele Atlas® Urban Maps, designed to enrich the mobile users’

First Look: iPhone 2.2 Makes A Great Thing Better

The biggest improvement in the iPhone software Version 2.2 is in the Maps application -- particularly the addition of Street View. It's a slick implementation that gets a lot of information into a very small screen. You can figure out the new Street View and other Maps features easily, especially if you've already used Maps.

Nokia Partners with MyClick to Promote Lupus Map Services and Supernova

launches. Firstly, Nokia has launched their Lupus Map services via a Mobile WAP site with compelling offers. In order to increase the awareness of Nokia Maps and let users experience the fun features of Nokia Maps, Nokia has partnered with MyClick, a world leader in mobile phone image matching, to provide an interactive mobile platform for mobile users to access the Nokia Maps by just clicking the Metro ad and print ads in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Maps on the iPhone 3G

The iPhone 3G has a new way to help you find your way around, and to find what’s near you. In addition to using the familiar WiFi networks and cellular towers, it uses GPS (Global Positioning System), a well-established satellite-based navigation system commonly used by car-based devices. The 3G, however, uses A-GPS – (‘A’ for ‘assisted’), where the satellite info is augmented by data from the WiFi and cellular networks. This information is then made available to the 3G’s applications using Location Services (found in Settings). As you can imagine, this information has transformed the iPhone Maps app...

Google Maps Interface Updated

The Google Maps navigation interface has received an update. The zoom bar is slightly redesigned, and Street View can now be accessed by clicking the person icon above the zoom slider. Street View is a bit more immersive now as it’s not wrapped in a box layer on top of the map anymore, but fills the whole width instead (with a small map appearing in the bottom right). Rotating a panorama photo is possible by moving the “N” symbol of the top compass.

Let My Maps Be Your Geo Database

My Maps is a feature that lets you create your own mashup on a map. Once a map is created, it can be shared with a link, or in Google Earth with a KML file. And now, it is also available via RSS–GeoRSS, to be more specific.

Google Maps - Fallout 3 Capital Wasteland Guide

"A Google Maps mashup that is building into a handy guide to the post-apocalyptic landscape with the help of community-minded gamers.

Google Maps' My Location Feature Now Uses Wi-Fi

About one month after Google announced the improvement of the My Location feature of its Google Maps product, the time has come for yet another enhancement. This time users can get even more accurate location information by using mobile phones with Wi-Fi capabilities.

Google Maps gets UK road-traffic data

The traffic information, which the agency collects for major roads in England, is being provided to Google Maps in Datex II format, a European standard developed specifically for road-data information exchange. The format provides real-time traffic information and predictions based on past conditions, helping motorists to plan their journeys ahead to avoid congestion.

Google Maps shows you where to vote

If you're unsure where you should be casting your ballet come November 4, Google's got you covered with a new maps layer that lets you search for local polling locations. Users simply plug in their home address and it figures out both what county they're in and where their poll location is.

Google Maps for iPhone Adds Google Street View

Apple today released iPhone Firmware 2.2 update for its iPhone and iPod Touch devices through iTunes, which promises some new features and enhancements, the most major being an update to the iPhone's Maps application to include Google Street View, which first debuted on the T-Mobile G1 handset. Hopefully the feature will make its way to Windows Mobile and other operating systems in the near future.

Flickr maps world through geo-tags

Despite Yahoo's travails, Flickr continues to do some very interesting work. According to this post on the Flickr blog, they're now reverse-engineering the geodata on squillions of photos to create ad hoc maps of the world. The accuracy will depend on the quality of the tagging, as always, but could we ever harness human-powered information like this to help Free Our Data? (via)

Traffic updates come to Google Maps

Google Traffic Maps is a joint venture between the search engine and the Highways Agency, an executive agency of the Department for Transport.

Traffic updates come to Google Maps

Google Traffic Maps is a joint venture between the search engine and the Highways Agency, an executive agency of the Department for Transport.

Traffic updates come to Google Maps

Google Traffic Maps is a joint venture between the search engine and the Highways Agency, an executive agency of the Department for Transport.

Microsoft Is An Escort Service, According To Flawed Google Maps

MicrosoftEscortServices.jpgGoogle Maps allows businesses to claim their listings on the site and edit them for accuracy. But sometimes, business that don't claim their listings quick enough will lose control of them to a spammer, who then edits the business's phone number, address and category.

Creepy Google Maps knows where your router is

Google has announced an update to the My Location feature of Google Maps for Mobile that uses Wi-Fi to help pinpoint your location more accurately. Which begs the question, how does Google know where your router is?

Just Scratching the Surface: New Technique Maps Nanomaterials as They Grow

The new technique maps the surface of a nanomaterial as it grows. In this figure, a surface pole figure has been created for magnesium nanoblades. Credit: Rensselaer/Gwo-Ching Wang

Just Scratching the Surface: New Technique Maps Nanomaterials as They Grow

The new technique maps the surface of a nanomaterial as it grows. In this figure, a surface pole figure has been created for magnesium nanoblades.

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