Archive for November, 2006
Public GeoData Organisation petition
0 Comments Published by Laurel November 9th, 2006 in GPS, LBS, Location Based ServicesThe petition states:
We the undersigned, ask Members of the European Parliament to adequately amend or, failing that, to reject the current draft of the INSPIRE Directive on European Spatial Data Infrastructure because it:
* Does not guarantee that European citizens and businesses can download and freely re-use Geographic Information collected by government.
* Instead it entrenches a [...]
GSMLoc project
0 Comments Published by Laurel November 9th, 2006 in GPS, LBS, Location Based Services, Mobile PhoneFrom Christopher Schmidt, Web Developer and GSM/LBS enthusiast - his GSMLOC project.
Ever wanted to know where you were, but didn’t have a GPS handy? Wondered about ways to use that cell phone sitting in your pocket to find out where you are?
These are things that the network providers want to offer to you — [...]