Tag Archives: gps

Location-based services may be a hard sell.

Posted on September 26, 2010 by John Reiser

How will our location-based services be perceived by the public? Will our smart web maps be seen as black magic? Continue reading →

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More on Apple’s mishandling of geotagged photos

Posted on July 5, 2010 by John Reiser

I claimed that iPhoto was the culprit behind the mangling of the GPS coordinates embedded in my photographs. The problem likely lies in the Core Image library used throughout Mac OS X. Continue reading →

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Geotagging a short bike ride

Posted on March 7, 2010 by John Reiser

Brought my Blackberry with me on a bike ride around Glassboro and Pitman. I used beGPS One, a Blackberry GPS logging application to record my location every 30 seconds as an NMEA sentence. I then used GPSBabel to covert the … Continue reading →

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Apple rumored to include CoreLocation in 10.6

Posted on February 5, 2009 by John Reiser

AppleInsider has a tip that the upcoming version of Mac OS X, dubbed “Snow Leopard” will incorporate the GPS and location-based services library from the iPhone into the laptop/desktop version of the operating service. They postulate that “CoreLocation will utilize … Continue reading →

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Location-Based Services on the BlackBerry Platform

Posted on January 24, 2009 by John Reiser

I just recently picked up a BlackBerry Bold. I admit, I’m a CrackBerry addict; I’m an even bigger fan now that I know their browser has a GPS location object that is accessible through JavaScript. I have a sample set … Continue reading →

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