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Google Transit Data: 1m Stops in Nearly 500 Cities

08/21/2012
Last week Google announced to have reached coverage for 1 million stops in almost 500 cities worldwide for its transit information service on Google Maps. The Mountain View company also updated its Google Maps for Android app (version 6.10) to make transit information easier to use on the map. Now...

NAVTEQ: 4,605 Indoor Location Mapped

07/17/2012
On the heels of Google (read here) announcing they have mapped 10,000 indoor locations, Nokia Location & Commerce (i.e. NAVTEQ) announced to have a database of 4,605 indoor venues mapped. These location include mostly shopping malls, but also retail stores, airports, and transit hubs – in 38...

Google Claims 10,000 Indoor Locations Mapped

07/11/2012
Google is now providing indoor maps for more than 10,000 locations in Google Maps for Android, wrote the Mountain View company in a blog post yesterday. While most of the maps are for U.S. location Google also has indoor maps for the United Kingdom, Canadan Japan and Switzerland. The web giant has...

Google Debuts Indoor Maps in UK, Switzerland

07/03/2012
Google today announced the introdution of indoor maps in Europe, starting with United Kingdom and Switzerland. In the UK Google has partnered with museums, train stations, airports and a few other categories such as well known London department stores Harrods and Peter Jones. In total 40 locations...

Google Enters Fleet Management Market

06/25/2012
Last week Google announced the launch of “Google Maps Coordinate“, a fleet/workforce management tool for businesses. The system tracks in real-time the location of employees with mobile devices and using the tool the dispatcher can assign jobs to the nearest employee. Workers can see a list of...

Google Adds Live Traffic in 7 New Countries

06/25/2012
Google last week announced to have expanded its live traffic coverage to seven new countries: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Mexico, Peru, Romania and South Africa, adding to the 19 existing countries. The traffic data allows for the user to see current traffic conditions, and also gives estimated...

Google Drastically Lowers Maps API Fees

06/25/2012
Google on Friday last week announced what it comes as a strategic U-turn in the pricing policy of its Map API. The price goes down from US $4 per 1,000 map loads to 50¢ per 1,000 map loads, beyond 25,000 map loads per day. In addition to that, the pricing for Styled Maps (a feature which allows...

Amazon (Android) App Store Opens in EU 5 this Summer

06/21/2012
Amazon today announced the opening of its Android app store in United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain this summer. Developers can already submit apps for these regions. So far Amazon only had its Android app store running in the United States. Even if volumes are much smaller than Google...

ABI: “200,000 Retail Stores to Utilize Sub 10m Accuracy Indoor Location in 2016“

06/13/2012
In a podcast recorded last week with GPS Business News, Patrick Connolly, analyst with ABI Research gave us an overview of his latest report dedicated to the indoor location market. According to this report, 200,00 venues - many of them retail stores - will utilize sub 10 meter accuracy indoor...

Analyzing the Impact of New Apple’s iOS 6 Maps

06/12/2012
Yesterday Apple unwrapped the much awaited iOS 6 operating system that includes a new, home-made version of Maps. “Once again Apple comes very late with a feature others have offered for a long time - but the devil might be in the detail, I'm sure Apple will have done a very good job in creating a...

Google Maps API: 800,000 Developers and Counting... Down?

06/11/2012
Among other news released last week by Google, vice president of Google Maps Brian McClendon said that 800,000 developers are currently using Google Maps APIs. This number has grown from 350,000 in April 2010, the last time - to our knowledge - this number was publicly released. Having in mind...

Video of Press Event with Brian McClendon, VP of Google Maps

06/07/2012
Yesterday Google announced several news regarding its mapping division and technologies during a press event lead by Brian McClendon, VP of Google Maps. Watch below the entire event to get all the details:

Google Unveils New 3D City Technology, Shows Teeth to Upcoming Apple Mapping Product

06/06/2012
Google today in a press conference introduced a new type of 3D city models that are built using a technology known as stereophotogrammetry. Stereophotogrammetry uses cameras mounted on planes that take oblique pictures wich are used both to create 3D models and the texture applied to these models....

Ghost Town Gets Local Reviews: Welcome to Google+ Local

05/30/2012
Google Places is dead, welcome to Google+ Local: today Google POIs directory Places has found a new home inside Google+ as announced in a blog post of the search engine company The new version of this places directory offers Zagat reviews as well as “reviews from friend you trust,“ i.e. within...

Yellow Medya: Redefining Local Search in Turkey?

05/30/2012
Formerly known as Yellow Pages Turkey, Yellow Medya was created in 2008 and carved a niche in the Turkish market in investing in a large, accurate database of local businesses. As of April 2012, the Yellow Medya database was comprised of over 750,000 unique business listings categorized into more...

The Transformation of Yellow Pages Companies

05/15/2012
Once upon a time, Yellow Pages companies were monopolists selling advertising to smalll and medium sizes businesses (SMBs). Today the development of digital advertising completely changed their landscape, forcing them to transform into local Internet companies facing web giants such as Google and -...

Google Maps Adds Indoor Walking Directions

05/10/2012
Following on its roadmap for indoor location, Google today introduced a new version of Google Maps for Android that offers indoor walking directions for venues in the United States and Japan. This new feature is available to venues that have uploaded their floor plans to Google’s mapping portal....

Wrapping up WHERE Conference

04/09/2012
GPS Business News attended the WHERE Conference this week in San Francisco. Although the number of attendees seemed to have slightly decreased this year the conference retained all of its interest as a hub where geo-technologists from web giants (Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, etc...) and tiny...

Google Crowdsources Indoor Location with Dedicated Android App

04/06/2012
Google yesterday unveiled the Google Maps Floor Plan Marker App, an Android application that allows venue owners to wardrive RF frequencies (GPS, Wi-Fi, Cellular) inside their venues to improve Google’s indoor positioning database, including floor determination for multi level venues. The...

2012 State of Google's Map

04/04/2012
Speaking today at the WHERE Conference in San Francisco, Brian McClendon, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, responsible for geo-products gave an overview of Google’s mapping efforts in the last four years. Besides North America (US, Canada and Mexico) Google has now built its own map...

TomTom Claims HD Traffic Outperfoms Competitors: Study Methodology Under Question

03/27/2012
TomTom today at the Intertraffic exhibition in Amsterdam published the result of a study from the German Aerospace Center that, according to the GPS maker, demonstrates TomTom’s HD traffic superiority against the competition. The methodology used is however mixing results from traffic feed and...

Apple, Foursquare et Alii Abandon Google Maps API: An Analysis of the Exodus

03/22/2012
Google’s switch to paid licensing for the high usage of its Maps API on the web has created an exodus to third party solutions such as the free map data developed by the Openstreetmap (OSM) community, as demonstrated by recent news from Apple, Foursquare, geocaching.com and many others. GPS Business News analyzed this move to understand the real reasons behind it and the long term meaning for the LBS market.

France: Google Convicted of Abusing Dominant Position with GG Maps

02/02/2012
A French commercial court has found Google guilty of abusing its dominant position with Google Maps to erase the competition. The court ordered Google to pay €500,000 in damages and interest to the plaintiff and a €15,000 euro fine. Google said it would appeal. This ruling is the outcome of...

Google Partners with Thetrainline.com; Offers British Train Timetables on GG Maps

01/30/2012
Thanks to a partnership between Google and thetrainline.com, British train travellers can now search for journeys across the country at maps.google.co.uk with more than 2,500 stations and 170,000 trips nationwide at their fingertips, in addition to 8,000 bus stops and over 250 tube stations....

CES: Daimler & Google Expands Partnership

01/12/2012
At the CES trade show in Las Vegas Daimler and Google announced a deepening of their strategic partnership. This new agreement will provide Daimler with “access to the suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) known as Google Maps API for Business for the use of cloud-based,...

Google’s Indoor Location: What Does it Mean?

12/20/2011
Two weeks ago Google publicly launched indoor maps and indoor location for its Android operating system. Still in beta and limited to a few hundred locations in the United States and Japan, the system offers a map that pinpoints details inside buildings (shops in a mall, etc...) as well as an...

Google Updates Maps of UK, Germany, Finland and Sweden, Exit Tele Atlas

12/12/2011
Google last week quietly announced an update of its maps for the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland and Sweden, meaning that it is not using anymore data from TomTom/Tele Atlas in these countries. Instead, the web giant is relying on its own map, augmented by special datasets sourced from local...

NAVX Seeks €23m in Damages from Google

12/05/2011
NAVX, a French provider of content for navigation software, today announced it is suing Google in Paris Commercial Court for abuse of dominant position and seeking €23 million in damages. This lawsuit follows NAVX victory in June 2010 when the French competition authority considered that...

Google Adds Indoor Maps & Location to GG Maps for Android

12/01/2011
Google yesterday announced the addition of indoor maps to Google Maps for Android, coming up with a solution that not only offers maps but also an indoor positioning engine to improve accuracy and provides information about the floor level. Precisions about these indoor maps have been given...

Google Selects INRIX Traffic for EU Navigation & Mapping Apps

09/27/2011
Google has selected INRIX’s Real-time Traffic to help power its navigation and mapping applications, we learned today. The service is initially available in 8 countries across Europe, including the U.K. and Germany with plans to roll out into addition markets by the end of the year. INRIX...

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