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Who's to say AT&T isn't doing this already in USA?

Verizon is already doing this, and has been for a while, according to
PC World's article about this

Verizon has posted changes to its privacy policy stating that it will now share user location data, Web browsing history and demographic information with marketers.

While Verizon insists that it will not provide third parties with any information identifying users on a personal basis, it will give them a wide array of its users' information, including websites they frequent on their Verizon devices, places where their devices have been, and demographic categories such as gender and age range. Verizon will also share user interests with marketers, such as whether they're a sports fan, own a pet or what sort of restaurants they frequent.

The Department of Justice in the USA already wants carriers to keep user location data for further review by DOJ as needed, warranted or not.

Apple already got slogged for tracking user location data in articles and on South Park's "Human Centipad" episode, if you remember that. And that was followed by Android having to deal with user location tracking issues in May of 2011.

All of this just by searching for [ +"user location data" ] on your favorite search engine! So why aren't people up in arms about this?? Oh yeah, because not only do they accept this voluntarily, they pay the damn phone companies a monthly allotment to take their personal data and sell it! Damn sheep!

They still do. Or at least some...others claim to have stopped the practice.

Try this instead. Probably not hi-def, but at least larger photos. And a photo of the visualization they're talking about.

Here are papers published in 2001 and 2003 describing location advertising in the open source mobilemaps search engine:

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=281
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=369

This still has a ghost site up on the net. One of the original authors is contactable at abrahaph at yahoo's .co.uk website.

Here are papers published in 2001 and 2003 describing location advertising in the open source mobilemaps search engine:

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=281
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=369

This still has a ghost site up on the net. One of the original authors is contactable at abrahaph at yahoo's .co.uk website.

Ok, I'm late on that one. But really worth is the GEB 6-minutes video demonstration of the new features.

Here's more info, well, a copy of my post of the site from my sig:
Mentioned earlier this week, here's the official announcement and a description of a new feature, 3D building swooping. The release provoked a lot of reactions and writings in the geoblogs. Here's the GEB entries on his first impressions [with screenshots], a video demonstration, well worth the 6 minutes (really), a short explanation of the new navigation widgets and some final thoughts on GE 4.3. Ogle Earth also shares his comments and discuss the differences between atlases and mirror worlds. Interesting to note that not everyone is pleased with some of the changes, with GE being dubbed the AOL of the Geoweb. APB also links to a IW article on the practical uses of Google StreetView.

Agreed. And this isn't something new. The two major road data providers, TomTom and Tele Atlas, already have their "crowdsourcing" tools to improve the maps of their GPS Nav systems (and any other other of their customers, such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!). See MapShare and MapInsight, their official tools. Of course, OpenStreetMap is could be considered another pertinent project bridging GPS and crowdsourcing. Oh, and by the way, you have real-time traffic in Google Earth too you know. And we discussed p2p networks for road traffic some time ago.

And now, totally off-topic, I would have liked /. to discuss the last Microsoft Virtual Earth release this week. It's really major. My story submission about it was rejected. There's even a Google SketchUp competitor in there and many features we won't see anytime soon on Google Maps / Google Earth (and other few worthy competitors).

Patent http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fs rchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5032989.PN.&OS=PN/50329 89&RS=PN/5032989 Summary http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_i d=2031

The only reference in TFA about ask.com maps is "Its map and image search products, too, offer distinct advantages over the competition. Not much. However, see the maps tools and read a review of it. If these maps-topics is of your interest, see also http://slashgeo.org/ :-)

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+offers+a+new+angle+o n+maps/2100-1032_3-5986057.html?tag=nefd.top

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_i d=2047

Directions Mag is/will probably provide a deeper analysis since it target specifically the geospatial domain, not general technology.

This article provides a more neutral point of view of this move. It also has some opinions from the other parties involved.

Here's some links from the geospatial community, reacting to this great announcement.
First, there is this very interesting analysis:
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_i d=2037
There's also this interesting comment:
http://geovisualisation.com/WordPress/?p=223
And some comments on this:
http://industry.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05/1 1/28/1453240

This Autodesk announcement is one of the most important news in a great while (since Google Map/Earth made some geospatial tools known to the world?).

Read the article written by a "GIS journalist" instead of just looking at Autodesk's press release and you might get a better idea about open source GIS (web mapping in particular): http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_i d=2037

At least Postgres had the nice type system already to be extended. As for the spatial indexes PostGIS has GiST-based R-Tree spatial indexes.

Note this is not ideal and the PostGIS community is trying to scare up funds for a couple of mad finns (Oleg and Teodor) to fix up Postgres with the required concurancy support for GiST and row level locking.

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_i d=891
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005- 06/msg00294.php

Actually if you wanted to actually speed things up implementing row level locking would help everyone .

Potgres knows where it needs to improve, support the mad hackers.

"GIS: A Mature Industry Tackles the Disruptive Technology Question"
http://www.directionsmag.com/editorials.php?articl e_id=904

This recent article makes some good points, including: How come the traditional GIS vendors were not driving this latest wave of disruption? Certainly the ideas and even the technology has been around for many, many years - but true innovation isn't always about inventing something completely new from scratch, rather it is applying existing ideas creatively in new ways. That is known as pushing the boundaries. It appears that it is the map "hobbyists" and not the "professionals" currently leading the way. (Hmm, didn't "hobbyists" invent the personal computer ...)

Um, if you mean the excellent summary article mentioned, GRASS is item number one.

That said, GRASS could be as powerful as Almighty God, but most people would never get past what is surely the worst user-interface known to man. C'mon guys, fix the damn thing already.

Looks like it already worked for Verizon.

With this and a on-board vehicle navigation system in a self parking car I can get an extra 40 minute nap and a shave in on my way to work!

They also have a series of free (and spam-free!) newsletters.

I've posted below, but in case it's lost in the noise, here's another one - open source search, open source biz plan:

Mobilemaps.com

It's a location search rather than a traditional search, and the demo is of California. Some commentary from Search Engine Watch is here.

The biz plan is geotargeted advertising - articles on it published here , and here.

I've posted below, but in case it's lost in the noise, here's another one - open source search, open source biz plan:

Mobilemaps.com

It's a location search rather than a traditional search, and the demo is of California. Some commentary from Search Engine Watch is here.

The biz plan is geotargeted advertising - articles on it published here , and here.

Here's one - open source search, open source biz plan:

Mobilemaps.com

It's a location search rather than a traditional search, and the demo is of California. Some commentary from Search Engine Watch is here.

The biz plan is geotargeted advertising - articles on it published here , and here.

Here's one - open source search, open source biz plan:

Mobilemaps.com

It's a location search rather than a traditional search, and the demo is of California. Some commentary from Search Engine Watch is here.

The biz plan is geotargeted advertising - articles on it published here , and here.