A new partnership between 8motions and Mappy
8motions and Mappy will partner up to facilitate the creation of geolocation systems designed for mobile phones. Together the technical expertise of the two companies will bring the most up-to-date mapping solutions to users (only professionals). Mappy cartography will be directly integrated into our “mobile map toolkit”.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us for any further information. read more…
SFR CityFavorite
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8motions has developed a geolocalised social network for SFR, one of french operator. This application can be download as a free trial by the SFR customers since september 14th. |
Users can shares their favourite places with all users or only their friends. The application is available on the web for everybody and on mobile phone as a beta test opened for SFR customers.
With this app users can post places from their mobile, with photo, description, rating, privacy level, and share this with their friends or other, who can post comments and rating in turn. Users can also share their own position with friends allowed to see them.
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User generated content |
| UGC map | Friend finder | |
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External content |
| Search map | Flickr content |
The mobile app use map data from Mappy, a french provider. This can be loaded on java mobile with a GPS, as a Nokia N95, or without GPS, as a Sony-Ericsson W910. In this case positioning is given by cell Id, through an access to the cell data base of the operator.
All this features have been developed thanks the Mobile Map Toolkit. Graphics have been integrated thanks to LWUIT library.
The same features can be find on the web with Google map as map data provider. User can enhance their content previously cough with their mobile or generate new content and share it with web or mobile users.
OpenCellID reach major milestone
A little bit more thant one year after the launch, OpenCellID now reached more than 300 000 cells discovered an near 40 millions of measures!
A good time to celebrate it and to announce it to the world through a nice PR, that is enclosed here. The PDF version is vailable too.
For immediate release
OpenCellID, the biggest open source database of CellID announces a major milestone.
Bordeaux, France
7 April 2009
8Motions, the company behind the OpenCellID effort announced today that the OpenCellID database reached last month a major milestone with 300 000 (three hundred thousand discovered) cells in April. CellID is an alternative technology to GPS for mass market phones and provides location information to users based on GSM cell towers. OpenCellId.org ( http://www.opencellid.org ) offers APIs and tools to use this database in mobile applications.
This database is created using a crowdsourced approach, thanks to support of hundreds of
enthusiast developers and companies supporting the project. One of these companies is Birkett Entreprise finalist of 2008 Navteq developer challenge with his “phone locator” product . Alex Birkett declares: “OpenCellID is a fantastic resource for people wishing to make location aware applications using open, non-proprietary technology. Birkett Enterprise is delighted to have been able to contribute data to the project.” Other developers have created clients for Blackberry, J2ME, Windows Mobile, Symbian and OpenMoko devices demonstrating the industry interest for this approach.
Aurelien REGNAULT,co- founder of 8Motions declares: “OpenCellID is the first viable alternative to
commercial CellID approach and enable smaller companies to provide compelling mass market LBS enabled application. We initially created it for our internal needs, but we are amazed by the success of this effort”
About 8Motions:
8Motions provides service and technologies for mobile mapping applications, including the “Mobile Map Toolkit”, an easy to use component to embed maps into a mobile application available in J2ME and soon iPhone.
8Motions is located in Bordeaux, France and has been created in 2006 and has been nominated as one of the finalist of the Navteq LBS Challenge in 2007.
Contact: infos@8motions.com
Corporate WebSite : http://corp.8motions.com
About Birkett Enterprise:
Birkett Enterprise Ltd was established in 2007 to provide high quality mobile software. The directors are Alex and John Birkett. Alex has been developing software using Symbian OS, Series 60 and UIQ. since 2001. He has worked for Opera Software, Sendo, Bullant Software (now UI Ative) and IBM.
Birkett Enterprise is developing phonelocator, a software application and web service to locate GPS enabled Series 60 handsets.
Contact: http://www.birkett-entreprise.com
MobileWordCongress & 8Motions
Next week will “the” yearly mobile event, the MobileWordCongress. As usual, I’ll be there and would be happy to meet some of you if you will be there. So feel free to drop me an email if you want to chat about localisation, mapping, CellID, widgets or other cool technologies!
WhereRYou: OpenCellID Blackberry client
WhereRYou is an OpenCellID Blackberry client, created by Aris Volcoff. This application works in the background and use the OpenCellID Backend, so not really graphical, but here is a small snapshot:
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