Follow
Blog: Chris Harlow on ITSearch The Harlow Report Archives
Foursquare today announced the launch of an API made especially for app developers, startups, and small to medium-sized businesses to access location-based data and follow users’ location in real time
The Places API for Startups will give companies the ability to add things like location search, location sharing, and details about a business
Photos, tips, and reviews written by Foursquare users can also be incorporated into an app with the new API. Details about 105 million places such as “live music” or “accepts credit cards” can also be added
The new service allows unlimited daily API calls.
Read full story at Venture Beat…
first published week of: 04/16/2018
Based on its recent analysis of the location-based services market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Mapbox with the 2018 North America Enabling Technology Leadership Award for its innovative technology platform that enables developers to integrate highly accurate and rich location data for maps, search, and navigation tools into their applications (apps) and software.
Mapbox's intelligent solutions create a multi-layered world of roads, building levels, and water bodies where each feature can interact with the underlying raw data to create a unique style and use cases. Mapbox leverages the inherent reciprocity of its platform, to send anonymized data from user devices into an aggregate data pipeline to generate a feature-rich map. Approximately 300 million end users are creating more accurate information to Mapbox, collecting over 200 million miles of road data each day via Mapbox's platform.
The platform delivers the data, style, and vector tiles for client-side rendering, which enables deep layers of detail that incorporate a significant amount of information. The proprietary map-rendering technology also maintains high performance, similar to a video game, while redundant data centers in 10 geographic regions across the globe ensure high data availability. As a result, Mapbox's vector maps are capable of high performance even in low-bandwidth areas.
"Mapbox provides a flexible platform to efficiently create highly accurate location based services," said Brent Iadarola, Vice President at Frost & Sullivan. "The platform is open sourced and equips developers with innovative tools to seamlessly enhance their applications with advanced location features. Further, the company has rapidly expanded into new areas such as automotive, AR/VR on Unity and data visualization for business intelligence."
Read full story at Business Insider…
first published week of: 02/12/2018
I was casting about for map design idea one night, and my wife had a good suggestion.
You’re always replicating old maps. Why not make the map from the future? Never one to turn down a challenge, I set my imagination into motion to try to picture what a map might look like 50 years in the future.
One obvious direction would be to look to movies, video games, and television for inspiration.
These examples are pretty cool looking, but that’s not the vision I had for the future.
I think future digital displays will be more mundane. If fancy heads up displays (HUDs) from Iron Man’s suit or screens from Minority Report or Oblivion aren’t in our future, then what is?
Read full story at Medium…
first published week of: 01/01/2018
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com
Geospatial services that use geographical data in planning and decision-making, currently net a combined revenue of $40-45 billion in India and around 9 million Indians use them on a daily basis, according to a new report.
“Geospatial services deliver efficiency gains in diverse fields of the Indian economy that are valued at many times the size of the sector itself,” the report, brought out jointly by GIS software firm ESRI India and management consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG), said.
The sector alone amassed revenue of $4 billion in 2016. Besides, the use of geospatial services leads to annual cost savings of up to $75 billion, it said.
Read full story at Hindu Business Line…
first published week of: 04/02/2018
The Global Geographic Information System (GIS) Market Research Report is an in-depth study and professional analysis on the current state of the Geographic Information System (GIS) market. Company Profile, Capacity, Production, Price, Cost, Revenue, Supply, Import, Export and Consumption covered in Geographic Information System (GIS) industry report.
Global Geographic Information System (GIS) market is a growing market in Semiconductor & Electronics , Electronic Devices sector at present years. The Geographic Information System (GIS) has uncovered rapid development in the current and past years and is probably going to proceed with a continuing development in the upcoming years.
Following are major Table of Content of Geographic Information System (GIS) Industry:
Get PDF Sample here…
Read full story here…
first published week of: 04/23/2018
( android.com)
Google has released their first version of Android P Developer Preview ahead of Google I/O 2018. Android P is now available to download on Google smartphones: Pixel, Pixel XL Pixel 2, and Pixel 2 XL. The stable Android P update is expected to release in Q3 2018.
Android P comes with new features like Indoor Positioning, Notch support, improved messaging notifications. So let’s take a look at the best features of Android P
Android P comes with Indoor Positioning support which opens a new opportunity for the location-based services. The update adds platform support for IEEE 802.11mc WiFi protocol which is also known as WiFi Round-Trip-Time (RTT). With hardware support, Android P devices can use the RTT APIs to measure the distance to nearby WiFi Access Points. So we may see a lot of indoor positioning apps soon on Play Store.
Android P adds supports for Display cutout so now the Android P apps will be able to take advantage of the fullscreen content.
Read full story at Rayarena…
first published week of: 03/19/2018