TomTom’s Map Share update brings crowdsourced navigation to iPhone GPS app
Buckled early and sprung for TomTom's iPhone GPS app , did you? If so, that very app just got a lot better today, as version 1.6 has brought TomTom's Map Share -- a crowdsourcing aspect that'll keep your maps more up-to-date than you ever thought possible. Map Share enables iPhone users to make changes instantly to their own maps and to benefit from free map updates made by the TomTom community and verified by the company itself.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app, engadget, excuse, iphone, iphone gps, iphoneapp, map, mapping, maps, speed, tomtom
Google Latitude makes brief appearance in App Store, gets yanked post-haste
Ah, the games that grown-ups play. It's a situation that's beginning to feel an awful lot like the Google Voice fiasco that made the rounds in mid-2009, but if it ends in a similar fashion , you won't find us kvetching about the teases
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: googlelatitude, googlevoice, iphoneapp, map, mapping, mountain, publicly-reveal, the-description, the-screenshots
TomTom maps get loaded onto HTC Locations, promise ‘zero-wait navigation experience’
Look out, Google Maps Navigation -- here comes a little friendly competition from across the pond. While we'd heard the term HTC Locations bandied about a bit during the company's London launch of the Desire HD , now it looks as if both HTC and TomTom are ready to make their newfound friendship official
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: across-the-pond, europe, htc, Locations, mapping, navi, smartphones
MapQuest rolls out 360 View, MapQuest 4 Mobile v.1.2 | GPS Obsessed
MapQuest is rolling out the early Christmas presents from its mapping platform this week, with the beginnings of its new Street View/Streetside-like street level imagery availability, dubbed 360 View, and enhancements to its mobile ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Street, Other Tags: BlackBerry, christmas, directions, game, htc, iphone, location, mapping, mapquest-360-view, mapquest-android, mapquest-maps, opinion
New Zealand bans mobile phone navigation while driving–but PNDs …
A new New Zealand Transport Ministry law will prevent drivers from using mobile phone navigation software while driving, even if it is mounted on the dashboard or windshield--while still keeping traditional navigation devices legal.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: driving-laws, gps-obsessed, htc, laptop, mapping, marketing, mobile, Mobile Phone, mobile-maps, portable-navigation, stumbleupon, venture-capital
Inside View from Ireland: A Very Positive Roaming Experience
The most significant tip that I offer to anyone else who has bled their mobile phone bills while roaming: download Nokia maps before you leave home, zoom to the street levels, search for interesting content and bookmark them.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other, Phone Street Tags: bernie-goldbach, border, facebook, mapping, Mobile Phone, nokia, reading, states, videos, wishlist, work
Citizen scientist – how mobile phones can contribute to the public …
Dr Paulos has already equipped street sweepers in San Francisco and taxis in Accra, the capital of Ghana, with sensors to measure pollution levels, which he then used to create a map of each city's environmental landscape. ...
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other, Phone Street Tags: africa, collaboration, development, environment, htc, learning, mapping, media, mobile, Mobile Phone, nonprofit, open-source, social, social-network, traffic
Mayrise Maps Road Works for South Gloucestershire – Geo: International
Using MAYRISE Mobile for Street Works and MAYRISE MapNow mapping software running on Dell Axim X51v devices, South Gloucestershire Council is improving the overall management and co-ordination of street works.
Categories: Mobile Street Tags: council, devices, gloucestershire, inspectors, management, mapping, mayrise, month, more-hellip, online, online-articles, south, street, street-works
GPS On Your Mobile Phone Illegal In Cars | Lifehacker Australia
Common sense suggests you shouldn't use any GPS in a car without it being mounted -- but even if it is, the law could see you getting busted if that G...
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: australia, cars, design, downloads, facebook, gps, guide, mapping, money, nokia, work
Swiss official tells Google to erase street views | csmonitor.com
The main street of Grindelwald is shown on a Google employee's mobile device as he poses for photographers on the launch of the Google Street View application at Google office in Zurich August 18, 2009.
Categories: Mobile Street, Other Tags: christian, csmonitor-com, culture, editor, global-warming, internet, learning, mapping, monitor, pictures, sci-tech, swiss, tech-culture, technology