As a follow up to our interesting
blog post about the high-flying Nokia N95 strapped to a kite, I have the
pleasure to share some information about a more sophisticated application that
builds on this teachnology.
Jeff Johnson from PictEarth USA contacted me and shared details of what his
company has been doing for some time now, "inb a more professional manner". Jeff
and crew have developed software to run on the NSeries Mobiles that uses the GPS
(internal or external) to record the position of the photos and make
photo-overlays. The program generates KML that can be downloaded from the phone
and uploaded to Google Earth. According to Johnson,"we are very close to having
the ability to post data directly from the phone to our servers using the
GPRS/EDGE/3G networks via FTP."
PictEarth has developed software
to run on the NSeries Mobiles that uses the GPS (internal or external) to record
the position of the photos and make photo-overlays. The program generates KML
that can be downloaded from the phone and uploaded to Google Earth... NICE! Jeff
tells us that they are very close to having the ability to post data directly
from the phone to their servers using the GPRS/EDGE/3G networks via FTP.
PictEarth using the Nokia N95 smartphone
Image captured from above using PictEarth and Nokia
N95
Testing is being considered on other devices, however, since the
support of Nseries devices via US carriers is quite limited the N75 will likely
be the next device used as it is the only S60 device that works on At&Ts 3G
networks here in the US.
Of interest, those of you heading to GeoWeb
later this month in Vancouver, you'll be able to get the low-down directly from
Jeff.
Thanks to Jeff Johnson of PictEarth USA for the comments. See http://pictearthusa.com for more.
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