Garmin announced its first mobile phone yesterday. According to Garmin, it’s slim, sleek, innovative, and a breakthrough. It’s a phone, navigator, camera, browser, and music player. Many of the media reports on it reflect surprise.
I am not surprised.
Why wouldn’t Garmin make a phone? Convergence has been in force in technology forever. The phone manufacturers […]

Verizon Wireless said it would open its network to outside devices and applications. As has been widely reported, Google and others have been pushing to break through what some see as the market expansion logjam resulting from carrier policies and practices that close their networks to outsiders.
For location-based applications this is a win. The LBS […]

At the recent trendy Where 2.0 conference, Google and Microsoft announced new capabilities for their online mapping services, focused on three-dimensional photographic views of a few large U.S. cities. And Google just announced it would acquire Panoramio for linking photos to the geographic location at which they were taken. While interesting to look at, the […]

The Geo Factor recently interviewed Andrew Hagenbuch, co-creator of the Mapwing virtual tours service. It’s an interesting app - photos linked to a map or floorplan to provide a visual spatial reference.

TGF: What is Mapwing?
At its core, Mapwing is a technology that enables people to give their photos a sense of direction or place. […]

Wearable GPS is proliferating, just because it can, it seems. We now have a GPS sneaker from Quantum Satellite Technology that promises to locate the wearer with press of a button. And there’s the indisposable SkyKap Advisor: golf claps for GPS golf caps.What’s the burning desire to be able to locate someone? Here in Maryland, […]