Tagged: Mapping & News
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Apple to drop Google Maps from next iPhone, to reveal new ‘3D mode’ News
11.05.2012 Apple’s growing enmity with Google will extend to the sixth generation of the iPhone due out in September and the first casualty will be Google Maps. Apple reportedly plans to...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Apps -
New website reveals travel times to 24-hour emergency hospitals News
19.01.2012 Travel times to the nearest emergency hospital is a hot issue in Ireland right now, thanks to hospital closures, but a new website should be able to at least provide citizens... -
Facebook finally puts Effin, Co Limerick, on its map News
06.01.2012 Social networking giant Facebook has recognised Effin in Co Limerick as being an actual place following a campaign by Effin native Ann Marie Kennedy. -
Apple buys C3 – 3D mapping coming to iOS devices? News
30.10.2011 Apple is to bring mapping on iOS devices like iPhones and iPads to a whole new level after it emerged the company has acquired C3 Technologies. The move could be bad news for... -
TomTom releases Top Gear sat nav News
07.10.2011 TomTom has launched the TomTom GO LIVE Top Gear edition, a sat-nav device with branding and features from the BBC car show. -
Google Street View to float down the Amazon River News
18.08.2011 Forget about walking the streets of your favourite cities from your armchair, soon you’ll be able to float down the Amazon and Rio Negro rivers in northwest Brazil and explore... -
Google Ireland staff makes it onto Street View News
11.08.2011 The Google Street View car captured the Google Ireland staff outside its European base in Dublin this May while updating images for the street-level mapping service. -
Microsoft bringing its Street View rival ‘Streetside’ to Europe News
13.04.2011 Microsoft has started taking photos for its rival to Google Street View - called Streetside – across Europe, starting with London. -
Google Maps 5.0 brings 3D mapping to Android News
17.12.2010 The newest version of Google Maps for Android is now available, bringing 3D building support, dynamic map drawing and access to maps offline. -
Google Earth 6 brings Street View integration News
30.11.2010 Google Earth has been upgraded, bringing an integrated Street View experience to the service and including 3D trees and easier-to-use historical imagery. -
Eggs-treme Google fans vandalise blurred German Street View houses News
24.11.2010 Reports have claimed that vandals have been egging houses in Germany whose owners requested that they be blurred out from Google Street View. -
Navteq pushes to 3D with PixelActive purchase News
17.11.2010 Navteq has made a big step towards accelerating its 2D mapping into 3D by acquiring PixelActive, developers of 3D urban modelling tools. -
Google hits the road with self-driving cars News
11.10.2010 Cars that drive themselves are already here with self-driving cars developed by Google already logging more than 140,000 miles. The breakthrough will help cut down the 1.2...Categories: Wireless Communications, Science, R&D, Investments, Intellectual Property, Communications -
eSpatial’s web GIS system for Florida’s city of Tampa News
27.04.2010 Dublin global web GIS company eSpatial’s technology is to be used by the Florida city of Tampa in its comprehensive, city-wide online mapping and analysis system – the first... -
70pc of government agencies to implement GIS applications News
17.03.2009 Nearly three quarters of government agencies in Europe and North America have, or plan to, implement geographic information systems (GIS), with over half of agencies surveyed...Categories: Government, CIO -
Nokia bulks up its business and mapping devices News
16.02.2009 While it is no doubt licking its wounds from the economic crisis, the world’s largest mobile maker Nokia refuses to compromise on innovation and has brought out a range of new...Categories: Comms