Nokia has appointed Sean Fernback as president of its location division, HERE.
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Best of the Blogs 2 September 2014
Louisiana shrinks; PuppetCopter; Ukraine conflict maps; the scenic route; address-less; and more!
Best of the Blogs 18 December 2012
The first images of the next Scottish Ten project have been released, showing unprecedented detail of the Eastern Qing Tombs – in use from 1666 to 1911 – which are the final resting place of some of China’s best known emperors. LiDAR News has the details, and a link to more images. Mashable […]
Best of the Blogs 20 November 2012
GIS Lounge has a post on a great piece of memorabilia from the 1893 World Fair – a map contained within a cane. Came maps were a popular way of finding your way around town in the days before we’d ever even reached space, let alone placed navigational satellites there. Google Maps Mania […]
GIS and geospatial goods and services on the rise globally
Global sales of GIS and geospatial software, services and data grew by 10.3 per cent in 2010 to USD 4.4bn, according to research by Daratech. And this figure is forecast to grow by more than 8.3 per cent to almost USD 5bn this year. North America, which accounts for almost half the industry’s annual sales, […]
Navigation market going mobile
The move from in-car navigation devices towards software-based navigation systems on mobile phones and personal devices is happening faster than many realise, according to a recent survey by ABI Research. In 2009, almost 95 per cent of revenues came from established, hardware-based technologies such as factory-fitted navigation and unconnected personal navigation devices. Revenues from […]
Tom Tom wins GPS customer survey
Tom Tom came first amongst GPS navigation players in a customer satisfaction survey of 2,500 consumers in Australia. Tom Tom came first across all the criteria including upgrades, accuracy, ease of use, screen display and price. Garmin also scored well, scoring four or five stars across every criteria, and coming second followed by Navman […]
