100 Million Google Mobile Map Users

100,000,000 Google Mobile Map Users

Almost five years ago, Google launched Google Maps for mobile to help you get where you needed to go from your phone instead of a paper map.

Today, more than 100 million people a month are now using Google Maps for mobile to get from point A to point B, find nearby places, and more.

Over the past 5 years, Google Maps for mobile has changed quite a bit they are adding more ways to help you explore the world around you. There is My Location, you can quickly find where you are on the map with or without GPS. You can put your friends on the map with Latitude. Navigation even turns your phone into a free internet-connected 'SatNav' with voice guidance and Street View imagery.

Google Maps Mobile - The 5 Year Journey of Advancing Map Updates.

Lately, has seen some changes especially focused on helping you find the right place at the right time. With recent additions such as Place Pages, you can now pick a nearby place by browsing information such as opening hours and review snippets for the places around you.
It’s easier than ever to find those places with Search by voice or the new Places icon on Android. With this latest Android version, happy to see that you’re now searching for places almost three times as often, doubling how many Place Pages are seen a day.

Source & Image:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/08/to-100-million-and-beyond-with-google.html

Hotmap - Virtual Earth Users Map

Hotmap - A good way to show your Virtual Earth (Live Maps) user base.


This data is based on a sample of tile logs on servers from January through July of 2006.
It combines server hits from road, aerial, and hybrid imagery in one view.

• Zoom in and out with the control widget in the top left. You can also zoom in by double-clicking the mouse; and zoom in or out with the mouse wheel.
• Pan by clicking and dragging on the map surface.
• Inspect a specific point by right-clicking. It shows the exact imagery available at the point clicked, at the current data level.
• Works in FireFox too!
  

"Hotmap shows where people have looked at when using Virtual Earth, the engine that powers Live Search Maps: the darker a point, the more times it has been downloaded. Each square represents one unit of imagery, called a "tile". When the program starts, it shows tiles at zoom level 11, which has tiles at a resolution of 74 meters-per-pixel. At the closest in, Virtual Earth has tiles at zoom level 19, 0.3 meters-per-pixel. You can look at higher- or lower-resolution points with the "select data level" indicator at the top."

http://hotmap.msresearch.us/


Now it would be good to see results from Yahoo Maps, Multimap, Google Maps and others...

ESRI Users Questions Answered

ESRI Users questions answered from ESRI International User Conference 2007



Mapperz Mixed Pick from http://gis2.esri.com/library/userconf/index.html


When will ESRI certify support on Microsoft’s Vista operating system?
We will complete our testing and add support for the Microsoft Vista operating systems in the third quarter 2007 for ArcGIS Desktop 9.2. We will support all products on Windows Vista at the ArcGIS 9.3.

NOTE: Due to some issues with Vista, several patches from Microsoft will be required in order to run ArcGIS under Vista.

What is the status of ESRI’s support for running ArcGIS on 64-bit operating systems?
ESRI is currently performing certification testing for ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 to support 64-bit processors. This will be delivered with service pack 3 in July.


What is ESRI doing in ArcGIS to make it easier for users to share geoprocessing models and best practices?
ESRI will publish a new Web site named the Geoprocessing Center to coincide with the ArcGIS 9.3 release in an effort to promote the sharing of geoprocessing models and scripts among the ArcGIS user community. This new resource center is part of the ESRI support site. By openly sharing these models and scripts, we can help each other learn and apply geoprocessing for solving many types of problems. ArcGIS 9.3 will make it easy to publish models to, as well as search for and download models from, the Geoprocessing Center.


When will ESRI support better handling of graphical exports of large format maps (72 x 55 inches and larger)?
The next major release after ArcGIS 9.3 will include a new plotting and graphic display system that will significantly increase display performance and support large format map export as a primary capability.


Can you improve the performance of the “Near” spatial analysis tool?
(Requested many times to ESRI UK - you try using 'near' with 28 million addresses)

Yes, ArcGIS 9.3 will include a new approach for performing proximity analysis that substantially increases the performance of the Near tool. New functionality will be provided that calculates the distances between and among various features (points, lines, and polygons). The output of this function will be a new "near table" that can be subsequently used for various kinds of spatial analysis (e.g., spatial statistics).



What is ESRI doing about the speed of ArcMap?
In the next major release after ArcGIS 9.3, ESRI will implement a new display pipeline into ArcGIS that will radically improve display performance and scalability.


Microsoft is developing a spatial type in SQL Server. Will ESRI be supporting this?
(codenamed 'Katmai' will be SQL Server 2008 with Spatial Database Support. This manages any type of data from relational data to documents, geographic information and XML.)

Yes, ESRI is working closely with Microsoft and will release support for this spatial type as a standard part of ArcGIS clients (direct connect) and ArcGIS Server (ArcSDE gateway). This capability will be supported with ArcGIS 9.3. We will coordinate the timing of the release of this functionality with Microsoft’s release schedule.

More info on Microsoft SQL Server 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/futureversion/default.mspx

Google Map API Developers Listen - DragZoom

This post proves that Google listen to people who use Google Maps everyday.

Using the Drag Zoom Icon The Result - exactly the area you want


Thank you Google Maps API Engineers/Developers for providing this feature.
Thank you Pamela for posting it on the Official Blog.

http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/06/dragzoomcontrol-v10-easier-zooming_06.html

Mapperz originally post this 'suggestion' in the API Feature Requests
wayback in February 20007.

ArcGIS 9.2 is Delivered to UK Users

ArcGIS 9.2 is Delivered to UK Users

UK Users can finally get there hands on ArcGIS 9.2 (Arc/Info, ArcEditor and ArcView)

Though a few surprises lurk:

• DVD only (Lots of CD only users beware)
  
• No Service Pack 1 included
• Documentation is in PDF format (no hardcopy unless you print them)

Though there is one useful leaflet called ArcGIS Desktop - A Selection of Time-Saving Tips and Shortcuts (This will be put to the test).

Cartographic Representations part 5 coming soon.

Mapperz recommends installing the updated version of the Service Pack1
updated on the 9th January (43.7mb)

Also use the ArcGIS 9.2 Help Web Version
as is more up-to-date than the desktop installed version

Source: Mapperz

UK Wii Map

UK Wii Map


MapWii maps Nintendo Wii's, across the World. Use the map and simply click the "Request" to contact the Wii user. Over 7000 (Currently) Wiis have been mapped worldwide, with thousands added daily. Designed for the Wii Internet Channel, hence the long narrow map in most internet browsers.
To add your Wii (not wee) you need to login in and register.

Source: Google Map Mania

ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 1 Delayed

ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 1 Delayed

The first ArcGIS 9.2 service pack, ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 is planned to be available as a download to the public late the week of December 25, 2006.

But the fix list is as long as your arm... here for the full list (yawn -have a spare 20mins)

A very quick summary for the GIS user - some would of thought these issues were ironed out in beta testing.

NIM004780 - With an Open Attribute table, selected records are out of sync with the selected features.

NIM005516 - Right-clicking on a data frame in the TOC crashes ArcReader.
NIM005626 - Deleting a record from a FileGDB that only has an OID (no other fields) doesn't work - code mistakenly thinks it's not a valid row and skips the delete.
NIM005643 - Three Cartography geoprocessing tools, Select Feature By Override, Update Override and Calculate Line Caps are not completing in ArcMap when run on a selected set of features in an edit session from a file geodatabase.
NIM005647 - In ModelBuilder, if the input paramter of Intersect is a variable and you drag and drop a feature class onto that variable, ArcGIS will crash.
NIM005698 - In Manager, log in as admin, you can edit passwords agsadmin, agsuser, and SOM, then display a message to tell admin to change OS password also
NIM005717 - Query task doesn't highlight result properly when the search layer has a spatial reference system different than that of the MXD.
NIM005727 - Clip tool doesn't use the extent of the given template raster dataset.

UK ArcGIS 9.2 will be allowed to download the service pack but pointless until ArcGIS 9.2 has arrived (due Feburary 2007).

UK EDN Developers have ArcView 9.2 but will have to pay ESRI(UK) an additional £500 for the licence key. So EDN now costs £5,500.

To save £500 wait until Feb 2007. Then can be used with your maintence contract.

ArcGIS with PostGIS soon to come?