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A (Mostly) Complete & (Mostly) Accurate History Of Location (Abridged) Gary Gale, Director Ovi Places Registry [email protected] twitter.com/vicchi BCS GeoSpatial SG London, October 2010 51° 30' 39.6936”, 0° 7' 18.9582"
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A (Mostly) Complete & (Mostly) Accurate History Of Location (Abridged)

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Page 1: A (Mostly) Complete & (Mostly) Accurate History Of Location (Abridged)

A (Mostly) Complete & (Mostly) Accurate History Of Location (Abridged)Gary Gale, Director Ovi Places [email protected]

twitter.com/vicchi

BCS GeoSpatial SGLondon, October 201051° 30' 39.6936”, 0° 7' 18.9582"

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 2

KELLYLEEBARRETT on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellylee/4177529745/

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 3

Gary Gale on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/vicchi/4414198544/

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Twitter Hashtag

#gssg

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 5

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Changua Coast Conservation Action on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/waders/3177090710/

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Nad on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/nad/386051891/

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OI. TALK TITLE. NOW!!!

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 9

“This location stuff’s only recent isn’t

it?”

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 10

“I can’t keep up with this geo stuff, it’s all

moving too fast, where’s it going?”

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Location Is All About These … Right?

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Boson Nova on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bosonnova/3250298799/

A (Mostly) Complete And (Mostly) Accurate History

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ohad* on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/4119933035/

3200 BC – Celestial Navigation

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Sebastian Niedlicj (Grabthar) on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/42311564@N00/2292118012/

1100 BC– Magnetic Compass

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Adelaide Archivist on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelaide_archivist/3172908079/

1000 BC – Homing Pigeons

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Eratosthenes.png

300 BC – Eratosphenes Proposes Longitude and Latitude

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hipparchos_1.jpeg

200 BC – Hipparchos Invents Geocoding

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Newsbie Pix on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/newsbiepix/4235304729/

5 BC – Smoke Signals

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iran_Biruni.jpg

1100 – Al Biruni Proposes Earth’s Axial Rotation

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Astrolab.JPG

1295 – First Astrolabe

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elefthis1 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/61288890@N00/2141540887/

1300 – Mappa Mundi

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normanbleventhalmapcenter on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/2674855383/

Circa 1600 - Maps

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caveman on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/3185534518/

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perpetualplum on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/perpetualplum/2866054138/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oktant.jpg

1730 – Octant Invented

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1761 – Marine Chronometer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harrison_H4_clock_in_The_principles_of_Mr_Harrison%27s_time-keeper_1767.jpg

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Happychopper on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/happychopper/345096825/

1900 – Radio Triangulation

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 29Joe Hastings on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/joehastings/370714654/

1960s – First Navigation Satellites

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1967 – MapQuest Founded

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1984 – Tele Atlas Founded

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1987 – Navteq Founded

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 33John_Dulaney on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/15046584@N08/1562794445/

1989 – First GPS Satellite

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 342Tales on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/stigster/3761714132/

1990 – Portable GPS Units

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1996 – MapQuest.com Launched

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 36Dennis Crowley on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/4821474454/

2000 – Dodgeball Founded

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2000 – “Smart” Phones

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December 2001 – KDDI Launches First GPS Phone

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 39http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Logo

July 2004 – OpenStreetMap Launches

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 40http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0000/5515/5515v3-max-450x450.png

January 2005 – Loopt Launches

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February 2005 – Google Maps Launches

Adam Burt on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburt/244778461/

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 42Irish Typepad on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/irisheyes/1282719713/

September 2006 – Nokia N95 Launches

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May 2007 – Google Streetview Launches

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deansgate_St_John_St.png

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 44Justin Lee on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/lis186/222048525/

November 2007 – Google Maps for Mobile Launches

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2007 – TomTom Acquires Tele Atlas, Nokia Acquires Navteq

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 46http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wazeiphone.png

2008 – Waze founded

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 47Tom Raftery on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/traftery/4400475227/

May 2008 – Brightkite Launches

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 48theleetgeeks on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/theleetgeeks/2662322865/

June 2008 – iPhone 3G Launches

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August 2008 – Gowalla Launches

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 50Laughing Squid on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/2313476788/

August 2008 – Yahoo! Fire Eagle Launches

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 51Matt Jones on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3253226650/

February 2009 – Google Latitude Launches

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March 2009 – Foursquare Launches

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 53http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firefox_3.5_logo.png

June 2009 – W3C Geolocation in Firefox

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 54http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twitter_2010_logo.svg

August 2009 – Twitter Launches Geotagging

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 55arrayexception on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrayexception/4053931102/

October 2009 – Google Launches Free Navigation

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2010 – Nokia Launches Free Navigation

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2010 – Facebook Places launched

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 58Marco Bellucci on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcobellucci/3534516458/

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Company Confidential. ©2010 Nokia 59http://twitter.com/vicchi/status/19113610835

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Jan 10 Feb 10 Mar 10 Apr 10 May 10 June 10 July10 Aug10

Twitter PlacesGoogle Places for Android

Booyah MyTown adds Product Check-in

Facebook Places

Launched

Adds Check-In

Check-in + Rewards

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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

1H 2H 1H 2H 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q

Loopt Pulse (events/places)

Boost Mobile

Developer Programme

FB Connect announcement

Sprint iPhone

Loopt Mix Unifies service across networks

Loopt Mix as separate app

FB Connect launched

ATT

Android

Tweetsii

Android

UnicomS60

Gypsii Connect

China MobileDopod

Samsung Java, iPhoneWeb

iPhone App GalleryAPIUpgrade Android

Business Analytics

APIRaw Version

iPhone 1.2

Android

BB version

Universal check-in

Merges with Limbo 2.0 AR app on

Layar

iPhone Android

API beta

Launch

Location sharing API

BuzzLatitude History & Alerts

API

Launch iPhone 2.0iPhone

iPhone 3 .0

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Thank you

Gary Gale, Director Ovi Places [email protected]/vicchi