LBS outside the garden

Listening to the Adam Curry podcast this morning, who described using google local on his mobile to give his cab driver directions to a hotel.. LBS is alive and well outside the network operators “walled gardens” it seems.

More on Road Charging..

In my last post I commented on the potential of demand based road pricing and drew a comparison with the low cost airline pioneers of this. As Wired reports this is already reality. A section of Interstate 15 North of San Diego ( a busy section of road familar to me from trips to the …

A must read …

Great piece by Adena and Joe of Direstions Magazine, “An Open Letter to GIS/Geospatial Software Companies” – a very perceptive and I believe accurate view of the GI industry today – for me two take-aways “simple is good” and “data in king”.