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février 2nd, 2010

Nav4All goes offline in 3 days: une rumeur?

A sad news  that I learned today from  SPF forum:

Dear Customers,

It is with the deepest regret that we hereby notify you that the global navigation of Nav4All and the Tracking & Tracing will go offline in 3 days. The reason for the same is that the data licence agreement with Navteq (a 100% Nokia subsidiary) was not extended, in a totally unexpected manner. It is not possible to implement data from another supplier in our Nav4All systems within the short term. The Nav4All navigation system was developed for Navteq data. Nav4All has therefore been constrained to stop.

We greatly regret the fact that we have to suspend the operation of our service. With your help, we have developed Nav4All into a global product with 27.5 million users in 56 languages, in 5 years. This has made Nav4All the largest navigation supplier. This large number of users also has to do with the fact that Nav4All works on hundreds of different mobile telephones of many makes such as Blackberry, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Android, HTC, Nokia, LG, Iphone, Ipod etc.

After 5 years of testing and market development, we witnessed rapid – in fact, exponential – growth during the last two years. That growth was reported in the licence reports to Navteq. In mid-December 2009, the global coverage was extended to include the Philippines, Morocco and Kenya.

Please contact the Nav4All support desk in case you have any questions: www.nav4all.com/support. If there is any further information from Nav4All concerning the subject of this letter, the same will be published on our website: www.nav4all.com. For reasons of privacy, Nav4All does not have the email addresses of all its
customers, and we therefore request you to forward this email to the maximum extent possible, in order to ensure that everyone is informed.

Kind Regards,

Hennie J.M. Groot Koerkamp (CEO)

Nav4All BV

avril 8th, 2009

GPX – The GPS exchange format

GPX is a light-weight XML data format for the interchange of GPS data and it has been used/supported by hundreds of software applications. >>> GPX home

février 11th, 2009

ION:Open source comes to GPS

source: GPS World

Built around the C++ programming language, GPSTk primarily consists of two pieces, the afore-mentioned core library and the suite of applications. The library includes functions such as GPS time, ephemeris calculations, atmospheric delay models, position solutions, mathematics and an application framework. The applications suite includes basic transformations, observation data collection and conversion, file comparison and validation, data editing, ionosphere modeling, and autonomous and relative positioning.

septembre 5th, 2008

What went wrong at Magellan?

Beginning of August GPS Business News heard that Magellan’s CEO Nelson Chan might have left the company. Then this news was confirmed from other sources adding that Christian Bubenheim, who was vice president Product Marketing, had left the company too. Clay Babcock, who was Senior Director, Product Planning also left the company earlier in June. more>>

septembre 3rd, 2008

CompeGPS to power new Evadeo crossover PNDs

This fall French mapping Institute IGN is refreshing its line of “Evadeo” crossover PNDs with four new models: Evadeo M20 (€199), M30 (€249), X50 (€399) and X60 (€449). This new range will boast new software developed by Spanish outdoor navigation editor CompeGPS – instead of the software from BCI Navigation found in previous products. more>>

juillet 22nd, 2008

Navigation piétonne : le GPS en basket

Le GPS est l’accessoire idéal en voiture, il nous guide pour aller d’un point A à un point B. Mais en dehors de la voiture, le même problème se pose quand nous sommes dans une ville inconnue. Aujourd’hui, les GPS proposent un mode piéton toujours nous guider tout en prenant en compte les chemins interdits aux voitures et en associant des points d’intérêt spécifiques. Revue de détails…

juillet 22nd, 2008

导航地图驶入资金迷局

( source: 中华工商时报)

     从四次融资成功到放言2008年上市,再到CEO被迫离职、400名员工被开,作为GPS图商中的代表企业——灵图的“过山车”之旅似乎还未结束,从今年5月开始,灵图申请破产保护的传言已成坊间热点。尽管灵图已登出辟谣声明,但是,墙倒众人推,关于“多家企业联合状告灵图合同履约问题”甚至“灵图数据保密室因涉嫌泄漏国家机密被查封”传言层出不穷。

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juillet 13th, 2008

GPS卫星导航器附加功能

source : 新民晚报

影音播放

无论从外观还是从内部结构上看,GPS与MP4都有着众多相似点,那么为什么不将二者结合起来呢?在目前的国内市场上,可以说80%以上的PND型GPS都具备多媒体影音播放功能。

影音播放功能对于GPS来说还是相当实用的。在驾车的时候把GPS当向导,休闲的时候当MP4听歌看电影,方便又惬意。尤其是那些支持FM发射的机型,基本上可以取代车载音响系统了。

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juin 30th, 2008

GPS chipset providers

juin 25th, 2008

厂商解读:凯立德

[Source: 易观 ]

凯立德成立于1997年,最初以开发大型国土资源管理系统为主要业务,随后也推出地理信息系统行业应用服务,并在这些项目服务中开始地图数据的采集业务,1999年开始开发导航引擎软件。在便携式导航领域,凯立德向硬件厂商提供地图数据、引擎一体化方案,目前为e路航、奥可视、神行者等PND品牌提供导航软件。易观分析认为,凯立德在PND导航领域的主要优势有:

1、地域优势。国内大部分PND生产企业位于广东省,作为唯一一家总部位于深圳的导航地图企业,凯立德在与PND硬件厂商的合作中具有地域优势,这一优势为凯立德赢得了大量的PND中小品牌客户。
2、软件易用性。凯立德导航软件的地图数据与引擎底层联系紧密,这一方面是导致凯立德只能提供数据、引擎一体化方案的原因,一方面也使得软件的速度较快。同时凯立德软件的UI设计也比较便于新手使用。
3、用户认知度。除了向硬件厂商提供软件使用许可以外,凯立德导航软件也有面向终端用户的零售模式,这是用户对该软件品牌比较了解的原因之一。另外,与电视直销品牌的合作,也提高了最终用户对凯立德品牌的了解。

上述这些优势使得凯立德导航软件具有较大的用户存量,但是以下几个问题也困扰凯立德的发展:

1、定位相对低端。由于大部分合作伙伴均为中小品牌,凯立德的品牌定位显得相对低端,特别是Mio与凯立德合作终止以后,凯立德比较缺乏大品牌客户。近期竞争对手对知识产权纠纷的过度宣传,也使得凯立德在品牌形象建设方面显得有些被动。

2、盗版产品泛滥。市面上有大量PND产品安装盗版凯立德导航软件,这使得凯立德导航软件尽管拥有数量巨大的用户,但并不能为其带来实质收入。