Thursday, December 8th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC?) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Gazetteer Best Practices Document. There is growing interest in the development of a common feature-based model for geographic names databases, often referred to as gazetteers. This candidate OGC best...
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Yahoo's crush on location-based offerings appears to be building steam. A day after announcing a new mapping alliance with Nokia, Yahoo said it has acquired Asian location-based service Koprol. Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Koprol is similar to...