It is an off-board navigation system so that customers always have the advantage of the most up-to-date mapping information available.
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Campaigners have pressed for a wide range of public data, from mapping information to MPs' expenses, to be made available on the web.
The only company that Gigwalk is announcing so far as a client is TomTom, which uses Gigwalk to keep up-to-date mapping information.
Founded in Israel in 2008, Waze is one of the few services with detailed mapping information, making it a target for takeover speculation.
This is considered a major breakthrough because it allows mapping information to be transmitted from a server instead of being stored directly on the hardware.
Esri logoEsri is a company that develops mapping and geographic information systems to help businesses easily visualize and share spatial information.
It then combines this real-time information with ephemeris data, mapping, cellular base station and Wi-Fi access point database information, and other cloud-based aiding information using the SiRFusion platform.
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Mattos has engineered a piece of software, called DB2 Information Integrator, that races through different databases, recognizing data structures on the fly, mapping the entire system and figuring what information needs to move where.
The mapping database is constantly updated with information from Thomson Reuters and third party sources.
But new, patented tests created with information gleaned from genome mapping have injected new life and higher margins (near 75%) into the business.
And (speaking of real estate) which sort of ad is more likely to sell a house nowadays: the newspaper's truncated description with a single, low-resolution thumbnail, or a virtual tour with live mapping services and geographical and geopolitical information with feature comparisons to other properties available?
My prevention agenda also highlights early action on conflict, such as by mapping, linking, collecting and integrating information from across the international system.
Over the last year and a half Yabuki's engineers have been mapping out where potentially useful bits of information reside across Fiserv's disparate software systems.
One of the main lessons learnt so far through the programme is the need for allocating enough time and resources to the process of information, motivation and need mapping.
Apple acquired several companies to construct its mapping technology, as well as using information from third parties, such as navigation system maker Tom Tom NV, before it was ready to boot Google Maps.
As the Vice President announced in June 2010, we have expanded the use of cutting-edge fraud mapping tools to gather enormous quantities of information in real time, analyze the data, and connect the dots to identify indicators of possible fraud or error.
The non-profit software company that develops open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
Ushahidi is one of the better-known success stories, developing open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
To that end, Mr. MacKerron expects to link the information to weather reports, online mapping systems and demographics databases.
The Seeing Is Believing West Africa project is mapping local areas to provide more in depth information to farmers via their phones.
In Zambia, women-led technology organisation Asikana Network is currently mapping all similar organisations across Africa with a view to sharing information.
The regulators are looking into whether Google street-mapping teams collected and stored passwords, emails and other personal information collected from unprotected wireless Internet networks around the world.
Acknowledging the point, Nokia's chief executive, Stephen Elop, has stressed that mapping services such as its City Lens app - which overlays information about nearby points of interest, shops and restaurants over a view captured by a phone's camera - will remain exclusive to its own devices.
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Apple said its new version of its "virtual assistant" Siri, which has been criticized as incomplete, contains more local business information, supports more languages and integrates with its new mapping app.
According to the Ministry of Defence's own database - some of which has been made public under freedom of information - and according to the government's own mapping, the fire station, the police station and the security office are all outside the officially designated boundaries of the settlement, on privately-owned Palestinian land.
In addition, UNESCO is building on its existing partnership with GOOGLE to enlarge the scope of the AFRICOM Membership Directory to include more information on museums in Africa in order to elaborate a mapping of museums in Africa on the general GOOGLE site and a more detailed mapping that includes museum professionals and their specialities on the AFRICOM web site.
The firm also updated its mapping technology to feature "City Lens" - an augmented reality app that overlays information about nearby restaurants and other points of interest over live footage of the surrounding area captured by the device's camera.
Future iDevice interfaces may also be leveraged for Apple to enhance its upcoming iOS mapping software with cloud-based crowd-sourced info for more reliable real-time traffic information.
In an effort to help displaced hurricane victims and their families, ad hoc communities of Internet users are using mapping technologies from Google to track storm damage, analyze aerial photos and try to make sense of what little information is available.
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