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Phonelocator joining OpencellID
Phonelocator just joined OpenCellID, and submitted millions of mesures and ten thousands of Cells! (see our stats )
Phonelocator is a native S60 realtime GPS tracking application for Nokia
S60 phones developed by Birkett Enterprise Ltd. It allows you to view the
location of your phone and a trail of where it has been using this
website. Phonelocator has [...]
Article on MobiForge about OpenCellID
I’ve written an article for the excellent mobiforge.com site, which is visible here:
Adding location to a non GPS phone: introducing OpenCellID
Lonely Planet API
Big news in my view in the tourist area: Lonely Planet, one of the biggest brand in traditionnal tourist guide, just launched an API to access to his content.
The API is REST/XML based, quite easy to understand. So congrat to Chris (yes, one of the numerous former ex-In-Fusio guys in this area!)
A nice mobile web [...]
8Motions in the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 Conference
We will take part of the panel “How to build a community and monetize your local social network” next week in the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 Conference, in Amsterdam. Seems to be a lot of ince speakers, for various companies. If you are here, and want to chat, just send me an email.
OpenCellID re-integrate GsmLoc data
Jon Spinney from Maperture blog pointed on my previous post the effort of Christopher Schmidt from GSMLoc to create the same kind of database. So thanks to both of them, I’ve integrated the previous database of GPS cell, and we are now at 15301 cells covered with 541728 mesurements…
Introducing OpenCellId
Here is a project that I wanted to introduce to you: OpenCellID.The purpose of this project is to create an OpenSource database of GSM cells.
Why? Because this can be used as a “cheap” way to get your location. There is not a lot of phones that provides this access to JavaMe application (mostly SonyEricsson), [...]
Navx launch his own platform
Navx, a french company selling customized voices and POI for GPS, seems to go also in the UGC content. They just announced yesterday the opening in public beta of their platform.This seems very similar to what 8Motions is doing, except that they are focused on the GPS market. While GPS is a big market, I [...]
Introducing 8Motions mapping client
If you are a long time follower of this blog, you probably now already what is 8Motions. Let me introduce more formally this cool new application:
What is 8Motions?
8Motions is a revolutionnary new mobile map client, full featured.
With 8Motions, you can do the following things:
Browse maps on your mobile. You can choose your map provider, between [...]
MobileBarCamp in Paris
I will be in the next “Mobile Bar Camp” in Paris, Saturday the 13th of October, organized by Philippe Jeudy and Louis Van Proosdij. Will be in French, but imprevissive list of participant. If you want to chat with me, drop me an email.
Server moving
Part of the server used to host J2memap dev tools and 8motions are migrating today. If you still encounter some issues let me know.