a (mostly) complete & (mostly) accurate history of location (abridged)

A (Mostly) Complete & (Mostly) Accurate History Of Location (Abridged)Gary Gale, Director Ovi Places Registrygary.gale@nokia.com

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

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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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“This location stuff’s only recent isn’t

it?”

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“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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A (Mostly) Complete And (Mostly) Accurate History

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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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300 BC – Eratosphenes Proposes Longitude and Latitude

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200 BC – Hipparchos Invents Geocoding

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5 BC – Smoke Signals

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1100 – Al Biruni Proposes Earth’s Axial Rotation

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1295 – First Astrolabe

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1300 – Mappa Mundi

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

Circa 1600 - Maps

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1730 – Octant Invented

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1761 – Marine Chronometer

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

1900 – Radio Triangulation

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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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1989 – First GPS Satellite

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1990 – Portable GPS Units

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1996 – MapQuest.com Launched

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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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July 2004 – OpenStreetMap Launches

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January 2005 – Loopt Launches

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February 2005 – Google Maps Launches

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September 2006 – Nokia N95 Launches

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May 2007 – Google Streetview Launches

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November 2007 – Google Maps for Mobile Launches

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2007 – TomTom Acquires Tele Atlas, Nokia Acquires Navteq

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2008 – Waze founded

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May 2008 – Brightkite Launches

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June 2008 – iPhone 3G Launches

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August 2008 – Gowalla Launches

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August 2008 – Yahoo! Fire Eagle Launches

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February 2009 – Google Latitude Launches

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March 2009 – Foursquare Launches

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June 2009 – W3C Geolocation in Firefox

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August 2009 – Twitter Launches Geotagging

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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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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

Thank you

Gary Gale, Director Ovi Places Registrygary.gale@nokia.comtwitter.com/vicchi