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Quintar wants to enhance navigation with augmented reality so you can have an easier time navigating live events at big venues for sports or concerts. And so it announced today at Google I/O that is has partnered with Google on its ARCore tech platform. Quintar tried out the tech recently as the official mobile augmented ...

Google Maps is expanding the Immersive View format it revealed last year to an important part of the app: routes. When you look for directions in Google Maps on iOS and Android in select cities, you’ll see a more detailed view of the route. The feature isn’t just about making your journey look nicer than ...

Najważniejszą funkcją systemu to możliwość dodania do niego rozkładów jazdy dowolnej firmy transportowej. Celem projektu jest dotarcie do lokalnych przewoźników i przekonanie ich do umieszczenia i (regularnego) aktualizowania swoich rozkładów jazdy, ponieważ serwis pozwala na samodzielne zarządzanie rozkładem przez firmy transportowe. Aplikacja wyznacza połączenia między dwoma miejscami z możliwymi przesiadkami, pozwala zobaczyć czasy odjazdów czy ...

Developed by the Singapore Land Authority, the SLA App provides information that’s not available on normal maps. The map on the platform was designed especially for wheelchair users. The app was demonstrated at the Geo Connect Asia event in Singapore. Developed by the Singapore Land Authority, the SLA App provides information that’s not available on ...

Prepared, the provider of mission-critical emergency multimedia services, has partnered with NextNav Pinnacle to power its z-axis location ecosystem. Prepared’s software currently enables 9-1-1 dispatch centers to livestream from the scene of an incident. It receives multimedia content, and pinpoint mobile callers’ location data to build real-time, big-picture assessments and improve overall emergency responses. Through ...

با فعال‌کردن «حالت ذخیره باتری»، برخی عملکردهای مسیریابی تغییر می‌کنند تا مصرف باتری کمتر شود. در یکی از مهم‌ترین تغییرات، سرعت دریافت GPS کاهش می‌یابد و به موازات این کاهش انیمیشن‌های مرتبط حرکت نرم نشان‌گر نیز خاموش می‌شوند. به‌این‌ترتیب نشانگر همچون گذشته روان و نرم حرکت نمی‌کند، اما در مقابل مصرف باتری کاهش پیدا خواهد ...

Mercedes-Benz and Google announced today a long-term strategic partnership to further accelerate auto innovation and create the industry’s next-generation digital luxury car experience. With this partnership, Mercedes-Benz will be the first automaker to build its own branded navigation experience based on new in-car data and navigation capabilities from Google Maps Platform. This will give the ...

Prague has an excellent public transit system, but there still are delays. An online map shows the exact location of all public transit vehicles in real time, so you can decide if it is worth waiting or making alternative plans. The function will likely soon be added to the PID Lítačka application. People in Prague ...

Aplikacja powstaje w ramach programu “smart city”. Jak opowiedzieli w trójce Gabriela Szewczuk i Bartosz Wiktorzak z Koła Naukowego z Wydziału Geodezji i Kartografii Politechniki Warszawskiej, pomysł na projekt pojawił się w ich głowach podczas podróży. – Byliśmy w Barcelonie. Podróżowaliśmy z osobą niepełnosprawną. Ogromny kłopot sprawiło nam wtedy znalezienie windy. Studenci stworzyli prototyp aplikacji. ...

Over the past year, Google Maps has really evolved, offering impressive features, that provide more immersive experiences. Now the firm is taking things to another level, leveraging AI and computer vision to take you places that you never thought possible within Google Maps. While you could previously take an aerial tour of locations, you’ll now ...

Togg arabalarında Google ya da Yandex harita uygulamaları değil Türkiye’de üretilen yerli harita uygulaması “Gez” kullanılacak. Togg arabalarında yerli harita uygulaması kullanılacak. Türkiye’nin Otomobili Togg, mobil uygulaması “Trumore” ile dijital dünyadaki yerini aldı. Yerli harita uygulaması “Gez” de kullanıma sunuldu. Türkiye’nin Otomobili Togg, dijital dünyaya iddialı girdi. Trumore mobil uygulamasıyla kullanıcılara farklı bir deneyim sunuluyor. ...

Strava routes are about to get three-dimensional. The popular fitness social network announced today that it’s acquired Fatmap, a mobile app known for its 3D maps for outdoor sports like hiking, trail running, skiing, and mountain biking. “Fatmap tech will power Strava maps for both free members and subscribers,” Strava spokesperson Brian Bell told The ...

HERE Technologies, a location data platform, announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud platform. This collaboration will deliver improved performance for indoor and outdoor positioning capabilities, enabling AWS third-party developers to track and manage internet-of-things (IoT) devices. HERE Positioning enables developers to switch between different localizing technologies, and it relies exclusively on ...

A new study published today in Science Advances combines a decade’s worth of satellite vessel tracking data with identification information from more than 40 public registries to determine where and when vessels responsible for most of the world’s industrial fishing change their country of registration, a practice known as “reflagging”, and identify hotspots of potential ...

An innovative software program will allow Schenectady police officers to track which streets have been patrolled in the city with real-time updates, the city announced on Tuesday. The new Patrolfinder software was produced by the Transfinder school bus-routing company in partnership with the Schenectady Police Department. The software, which will be deployed in all department ...

Digital maps just took a huge leap forward. At CES 2023, HERE Technologies, the world’s leading location platform, unveiled UniMap, a revolutionary, highly automated mapping technology that enables rapid creation of digital maps and location products. HERE has been developing the technology over the last three years in close collaboration with automotive groups including BMW ...

O lançamento da Carris Metropolitana no Verão passado levou Cláudio Pereira, engenheiro informático de 26 anos, a criar uma plataforma que colmatasse as deficiências de informação do novo serviço rodoviário. Contudo, rapidamente percebeu que a sua ideia tinha potencial para ser algo maior e mais abrangente, e que poderia ser uma espécie de “Wikipédia” dos ...

Trelleborg Marine and Infrastructure launches its latest fixed-installed piloting unit, SafePilot P3, developed in response to the recent advisory issued by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) requiring a new positioning system for Neopanamax vessels beginning in October 2023. SafePilot P3 from Trelleborg is a high-accuracy navigation solution that provides real-time certified data to and from ...

카카오가 ‘카카오맵’의 로드뷰를 3차원 영상으로 개선한다. 최현철 카카오 비주얼컴퓨팅셀 매니저는 8일 열린 개발자 컨퍼런스 ‘이프 데브 2002(if(kakao) dev 2022)’에서 기존 2D 위치 정보를 3D로 개선한 공간정보 생성 기술 ‘스페셜 커넥션 맵(SCM)’을 소개했다. SCM은 전국 로드뷰 영상 정보를 토대로 기존 2D 정보를 3D로 확장해 건물이 밀집한 도심 지역에서 앞건물에 가려지는 지역이나 센서에 영향을 주는 여러 요소로 ...

Researchers of Delft University of Technology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and VSL have developed an alternative positioning system that is more robust and accurate than GPS, especially in urban settings. The working prototype that demonstrated this new mobile network infrastructure achieved an accuracy of 10 centimeter. This new technology is important for the implementation of a ...

In September, Reuters reported that the Indian government is pushing smartphone manufacturers like Samsung, Oppo, Apple, and Xiaomi to make their smartphones compatible with Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC), the home-grown alternative to US’s Global Positioning System (GPS). A recent RTI response obtained by journalist Aroon Deep of Entrakr sheds more light on the government’s ...

Navigating an unfamiliar place is uniquely challenging for people with disabilities. People with blindness, deafblindness, visual impairment or low vision, as well as those who use wheelchairs, can travel more independently in urban areas with the aid of effective wayfinding technology. A new report from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) explores how ...

The ideal inertial sensor for navigation must, on the one hand, emit signals continuously at a high rate, and on the other, remain precise and sensitive over extended periods. Classic inertial sensors do meet the first criterion, but they err over time. Conversely, quantum sensors are extremely precise and sensitive, but measures are accompanied by ...

Baidu said on Monday that it has received permission from regional authorities in the southern Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou to provide automakers with its high-definition mapping technology to enable advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) on production vehicles. The company claimed that its lane-level HD map and in-car software would allow vehicles to change ...

Turkey-based defense company Savunma Teknolojileri ve Mühendislik (STM) has announced the successful completion of Turkish Defence Industry Agency’s (SSB) KERKES project. Launched in 2019, the project involved upgrading the capability of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) to operate in a global positioning system (GPS)-denied environment. The KERKES project supports both rotary-wing, including STM’s Kargu drone, and ...

Since mid-September 2022, NASA-funded instruments have been hitching rides on commercial aircraft and collecting environmental data over New Zealand. The collaboration with Air New Zealand is the first known data-collecting partnership between a passenger airline and a NASA Earth science mission. The new program is part of NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, ...

این سامانه توسط دانشگاه سید جمال‌الدین اسدآبادی طراحی و تولید و در اختیار شهرداری‌ها، عموم مردم، مالکان پارکینگ های خصوصی و مدیران حوزه ترافیک قرار گرفته است. این سامانه با حمایت گروه ژئوماتیک ستاد توسعه فناوری‌های فضایی و حمل و نقل پیشرفته معاونت علمی و فناوری ریاست جمهوری تجاری سازی شده است. هدف از این ...

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. has been on a bit of a roll lately, developing automated solutions for long-haul truck routes in the southern parts of the U.S. The self-driving trucking company made a big announcement on that front in August, unveiling a partnership with Pilot Company, the largest travel center operator in North America, to develop ...

On this post, I provided the definitions of Alidade, reviewed a timeline of creations of her sons (Groma, Dioptra, Astrolabe, Sextant, and Theodolite), and finally explained how they work.

نقشه و مسیریاب نشان با رونمایی از قابلیت جدید «نشان ۳۶۰» اکنون به کاربران خود این امکان را می‌دهد تا نمای ۳۶۰ درجه خیابان‌های ۱۴ شهر ایران را مشاهده کنند. این نخستین بار است که یک اپلیکیشن مسیریاب ایرانی، ویژگی نمای خیابان را در اختیار کاربران خود قرار می‌دهد. به گفته روابط‌عمومی مسیریاب نشان، این ...