I mislead... flying fingers made me forget that corelocation has been a part of the Mac SDK for a bit now (I saw a demo of it baked into the iPhone browser in June in Cambridge). Sorry about that.
But, what on earth would this "Geo Team" do at Apple? ArcGIS Server in a phone is not that dim a possibility anymore, except, it ain't gonna be /ArcGIS Server/ in *the* phone, eh! There was a time when geography and software meant you-know-who. Even as recent as a couple of years ago at GSDI 06, I recall walking into the courtyard of the military museum in Santiago and seeing the vendor booths area bookended by tweedledum and tweedledee... the McDonalds and Burger King of GIS... even as everyone was talking all the time about Google Earth this and Google Maps that. Microsoft has had a very active digital geography division doing really cool stuff, mostly research and conceptual, but now, a "Geo Team" at Apple, esp. when they have really cut down on their R&D from their ATG days. These are good times. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Andrew Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed - the CoreLocation is already there. Apple built the Maps > application on the iPhone, and with MobileMe access to iPhone tracking > and preventing Google from launching a native Latitude app all points > to Apple making a bigger play on controlling the LBS support on the > iPhone. > > Both exciting (yay more location in compelling consumer applications) > as well as concerning (vendor control of the platform and blocking of > perceived competitive applications). > > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:01 PM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.placebase.com/ makes pushpin API, now a part of "Geo Team" >> at Apple! http://bit.ly/1gsDtV >> >> coreimage >> coredata >> coreaudio >> .. >> corelocation? >> >> >> >> -- >> Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org >> Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org >> Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org >> Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor >> Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science >> ======================================================================= >> Sent from Madison, WI, United States >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > > > -- > Andrew Turner > mobile: 248.982.3609 > [email protected] > http://highearthorbit.com > > http://geocommons.com Helping build the Geospatial Web > Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
