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Where 2.0 Monday

Posted: May 13th, 2008, 10:57pm CEST

Tags: Conferences

Many product and company announcements have been made in just one day. I don't have all of them; it's surprisingly hard to track everything, even with many bloggers and journalists there. I've ranked them 1-5 for impact on geospatial professionals. 1 means little or no impact, 5 means quite a lot of impact.

Nokia will add Ovi support to its mobile mapping offerings. Ovi is Nokia's portal for Internet service and content sharing content. Later this years users can download maps (from the Internet I believe), mark them up and sync them to their phones. They'll also be able to capture routes while driving/walking and upload those to Ovi. In time users can share those maps with others and further enhance them with mashups of content from user generated content sites such as TripAdvisor. The app is expected, close to complete, in September. (Infoworld, Wired [with graphics])
Impact: 2 This is likely to be in the short term more of a social networking type of sharing.

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