LBS week wrap-up
Don’t know about you but for me this has been the busiest week of the year by far. Probably the decade… And it seems that it is just not totally over yet.
Anyway deCarta’s developers conference was a great way to learn about the mapping ecosystem.
So not to repeat it all, take in short form that if your business plan needs money to implement a project that for its survival depends on phone carries, rethink your plan.
Or better, just really scrap it. If carriers have a say in it at all.
Just forget them. They decided to lock their platform to exclusive partnerships closing it to most inovattive business. Need argument? When will they let mobile games happen? What about location-based games?
This blog has been pointing out about API restrictions for a while now.
Fine. See Google x Microsoft or the fate of any dinosaur that decides to stop in the middle of the innovation road. They are doomed to die a painful death. By starvation. And in the phone carries case this might be specially true if you consider the growing level of VOIP adoption rate.
As I already mentioned VC’s also say that LBS should be integrated as part of something else, a feature. Not an application per se.
Free Content?
On the major event play watch out for Google and Microsoft as obvious as that may sound. In their current fight for digital imagery content where Microsoft (and it seems Google too) have exclusive rights over satellite content from DigitalGlobe.
GeoEye seems to be the place to go look for satellite imagery.
By exclusive I mean this contract doesn’t allow free distribution through free channels or anyone else that might try to access it for free. Only business, or paid consumers can have access to the content.
BTW, US seems to be the one of the few countries that makes its own map data publicly available. Europe seems to be a lot more restrictive about it.
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