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Looking for Exceptional European SaaS Sales Lead

September 2, 2024

A powerful emperor with SaaS products in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Middle East
Have experience selling not only for commercial companies but also for government agencies.
Entrance and growth of entry into the new market and are exciting
Those who can execute at fast startups
Be familiar with technology and be familiar with SaaS products
It is better if you have geographical experience, but not required
The central person who has demonstrated the ability to build and guide a team
There are frequent business trips to Europe, and there are not many business trips to the Middle East.
All European regions (including no n-EU countries (including no n-EU countries)

Those who are purely interested and prove that they are qualified: Please send your resume to Contact@maphapenings. com. If you know such a person, please contact us. But don't waste each other's time.

If I like it, I will send a reply, but do not expect a reply.

Mapping F1: Teams, Power Units and Tracks

August 15, 2024

Well, let's reveal a little secret: I'm a little F1 fan. As you may not know, this is the F1 World Championship, the highest in the world's world's car race. I think this business engineering is as interesting as the race itself. There are 10 teams, each owns two machines. Funded teams have more than 1, 000 employees to design and manufacture machines. Even more interesting, the machine is constantly evolving. Each team wears newly designed and upgraded parts to give the driver an advantage each time. McLaren MCL3 8-CREDIT: MCLAREN Racing If you want to know a little crazy, see a video that shoots what a team does just to assemble bol t-ons:

F1 team
F1 power unit manufacturer
F1 truck

Click the image below to enlarge.

F1 Teams

The F1 team in 2024 has 10 teams. Most of them are based in the UK:

The following is a map showing the location of each team. All are the same scale, so you can compare the size: September 2, 2024

F1 Power Units

A powerful emperor with SaaS products in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Middle East

Have experience selling not only for commercial companies but also for government agencies.
Entrance and growth of entry into the new market and are exciting
Those who can execute at fast startups
Be familiar with technology and be familiar with SaaS products

F1 Tracks

It is better if you have geographical experience, but not required

The central person who has demonstrated the ability to build and guide a team

There are frequent business trips to Europe, and there are not many business trips to the Middle East.

All European regions (including no n-EU countries (including no n-EU countries)
Those who are purely interested and prove that they are qualified: Please send your resume to Contact@maphapenings. com. If you know such a person, please contact us. But don't waste each other's time.
If I like it, I will send a reply, but do not expect a reply.
August 15, 2024
Well, let's reveal a little secret: I'm a little F1 fan. As you may not know, this is the F1 World Championship, the highest in the world's world's car race. I think this business engineering is as interesting as the race itself. There are 10 teams, each owns two machines. Funded teams have more than 1, 000 employees to design and manufacture machines. Even more interesting, the machine is constantly evolving. Each team wears newly designed and upgraded parts to give the driver an advantage each time. McLaren MCL3 8-CREDIT: MCLAREN Racing If you want to know a little crazy, see a video that shoots what a team does just to assemble bol t-ons:

F1 team

F1 power unit manufacturer

F1 truck

Click the image below to enlarge.

12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 10

The F1 team in 2024 has 10 teams. Most of them are based in the UK:

A Relentless Quest for Maps

The following is a map showing the location of each team. All have the same scale, so you can compare the size: September 2, 2024

1967: Donnelley Cartographic Services

A powerful emperor with SaaS products in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Middle East

1994: GeoSystems Global Corporation

Have experience selling not only for commercial companies but also for government agencies.
Entrance and growth of entry into the new market and are exciting
Those who can execute at fast startups
Be familiar with technology and be familiar with SaaS products

It is better if you have geographical experience, but not required

The central person who has demonstrated the ability to build and guide a team

There are frequent business trips to Europe, and there are not many business trips to the Middle East.

All European regions (including no n-EU countries (including no n-EU countries)

The Moon Shot Idea

If I like it, I will send a reply, but do not expect a reply.

August 15, 2024

F1 team

F1 power unit manufacturer

F1 truck

Click the image below to enlarge.

The F1 team in 2024 has 10 teams. Most of them are based in the UK:

The following is a map showing the location of each team. All have the same scale, so you can compare the size:

In 2024, four different organisations will provide the teams with "power units", defined as a combination of an internal combustion engine and an electric motor driven by two different energy recovery systems: regenerative braking and engine heat recovery. There are four suppliers:

Ferrari

Mercedes AMG Engines

Mercedes AMERICA MERCURES

Renault
In 2024, there will be 24 circuits spread across the world:
Here are the specific tracks in the order they will be held. For the schedule, see Formula1. com:
Acknowledgements and Credits

Formula One World Championship

Planet f1. com

McLaren Racing

Red Bull Racing

Apple Maps

May 1999: The IPO

Foster + Partners McLaren Centre

Footnotes

Max Emilian Verstappen. 18 July 2024 & amp; lt; pan& amp; gt; In 2024, four different organisations will provide the teams with "power units". A "power unit" is defined as a combination of an internal combustion engine and an electric motor driven by two different energy recovery systems: regenerative braking and engine heat recovery. There are four suppliers:

Ferrari
Mercedes-AMG Engines
Red Bull
Renault
There will be 24 tracks around the world in 2024:
Here are the specific tracks in order of their running. For the schedule, see Formula1. com:
Acknowledgements and Credits
Formula One World Championship
Planet f1. com

McLaren Racing~Red Bull Racing~Apple Maps

Foster + Partners McLaren Centre

Footnotes

This is a guy named Max-Emilian Verstappen.

July 18, 2024 Four different organisations will provide the teams with "power units". A "power unit" is defined as a combination of an internal combustion engine and an electric motor driven by two different energy recovery systems: regenerative braking and engine heat recovery. There are four suppliers:

Ferrari

A Potential Acquisition Target

Mercedes AMG Engines

Mercedes Mercedes AMERICA Mercedes AMERICAN MERCURES

Renault

In 2024, there will be 24 circuits distributed around the world:

Here are the specific tracks in order of their opening. For the schedule, see Formula1. com:

Acknowledgements and Credits

Formula One World Championship

Planet f1. com

McLaren Racing

December 1999: Acquisition Announced

Red Bull Racing

Apple Maps

Foster + Partners McLaren Centre

Footnotes

2000: The Slow Demise Post Acquisition

This is a guy named Max Emilian Verstappen.

July 18, 2024

Everyone, ready to return your clock with me: Let's take you in 1967. The Beatles announced the Surgent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club, and Rupert Murdoch was the second year of the year. The organization became a component of a large map. Let's talk around here. At that time, Chicago had a large company named R. R. Donnie, which was successful. R. R. Donnie, founded in 1864 by Richard Robert Donnie, derived from the company name, became a global printing king. By 1967, it became famous for the first phonebook (1874!), Marketing materials for Ford T-type cars, Catalogs of Sears, and Life Magazine. 1864 R. R. Donnie's prototype: Source: CHICAGOLOGY In order to support the printing empire of CHICAGOLOGY Donnie, Donnie purchased a large and very expensive color printing material and was looking for a way to collect investment. The company had already printed a large number of phone books and magazines, but the printing press was still capable. So what happened? Donnie proposed a roadmap to create and print the oil company. One of them was shell oil. At that time, the shell had already made larg e-scale test printing. Everyone, let's prepare to return the clock with me: Let's take everyone in 1967. The Beatles announced the Surgent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club, and Rupert Murdoch was the second year of the year. The organization became a component of a large map. Let's talk around here. At that time, Chicago had a large company named R. R. Donnie, which was successful. R. R. Donnie, founded in 1864 by Richard Robert Donnie, derived from the company name, became a global printing king. By 1967, it became famous for the first phonebook (1874!), Marketing materials for Ford T-type cars, Catalogs of Sears, and Life Magazine. 1864 R. R. Donnie's prototype: Source: CHICAGOLOGY In order to support the printing empire of CHICAGOLOGY Donnie, Donnie purchased a large and very expensive color printing material and was looking for a way to collect investment. The company had already printed a large number of phone books and magazines, but the printing press was still capable. So what happened? Donnie proposed a roadmap to create and print the oil company. One of them was shell oil. At that time, the shell had already made larg e-scale test printing. Everyone, ready to return your clock with me: Let's take you in 1967. The Beatles announced the Surgent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club, and Rupert Murdoch was the second year of the year. The organization became a component of a large map. Let's talk around here. At that time, Chicago had a large company named R. R. Donnelli, which was successful. R. R. Donnie, founded in 1864 by Richard Robert Donnie, derived from the company name, became a global printing king. By 1967, it became famous for the first phonebook (1874!), Marketing materials for Ford T-type cars, Catalogs of Sears, and Life Magazine. 1864 R. R. Donnie's prototype: Source: CHICAGOLOGY In order to support the printing empire of CHICAGOLOGY Donnie, Donnie purchased a large and very expensive color printing material and was looking for a way to collect investment. The company had already printed a large number of phone books and magazines, but the printing press was still capable. So what happened? Donnie proposed a roadmap to create and print the oil company. One of them was shell oil. At that time, the shell had already made larg e-scale test printing.

Donnie was based in a brilliant town called Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as he wanted to put this new organization near his printing factory. Lancaster is located in the countryside where many Armish lives, and has become famous for the most successful films of Peter Weer (by the way, worth it). Credit: Peter Weir and Paramount have begun to provide services to the earth as the densely mature mapping services from Donerie Cart Graphic Services to Custom Mapping Services. But in 1990, another opportunity came. A small software emerging company in McLean, Virginia needed a highway map. The company was Spatial Data Sciences (SDS) and Dr. Barry Grick was president. SDS has sold this idea to both Land McNalysis and Donzy. Land was not reluctant, but Donneler was reluctant. The project started as a joint venture, but only a year later, Donerie took full power and decided to buy SDS stocks. Donnie has now entered the mapping software business. However, in 1994, just four years later, Donerie decided to focus on printing. Grick and others have persuaded the management and convinced that if there was VC funding, the organization would grow much faster as an independent company. As a result, the map service category and the newly established Geo Software category can now grow faster as an independent company.

Almost all of the major telephone companies in the United States-Ninex, Bell South, Bell Atlantic, Amertech, Pacific Bell

Many of the main car associatio n-US AAA, British Automobile Association (AA)

Hearts and later Avis

Moore Real Estate: Utilizing Geo Systems's expertise, Moore launched the world's first housing search site, Cyber Holmes. com, and became the most innovative player in the US real estate market.

Geo Systems sometimes used Apple as a customer. Geo Systems has developed Fodor's 94 Manager Travel for Apple Newton, and Apple has released it as part of a series of apps.

Geo Systems has developed Fodor's 94 Manager Travel for Apple Newton, and Apple has released it as part of a series of apps.

Many readers know that they will be a young whipper snapper who is not used to the brain to be deprived of Wi-Fi compatible screens. But even if you're an ol d-aged wiper snapper like me, your brain may need a biden prompt to remember the life of the time.

America Online (AOL) was all the rage, with popular sites like Yahoo, Geocities, and Netscape. 1995:

Most popular websites: 1995-2023 - Hosting Credits A2

MapQuest Today

So the clever minds at GeoSystems 2 took notice of this hype and decided to do a moonshot: what if they developed a consumer site focused on maps and funded it with advertising?

But the question was what to name it. The original name suggestion was "webmapper", but a website management company trademarked the name just before the project started. So an internal competition was held for a new name. The winning name was chosen by an employee's wife 3 .

You may have heard it before. That's right:

Yes, dear reader, it's "MapQuest".

And so, on February 5, 1996, the site launched. It looked like this 4:

MapQuest. com in 1997, about a year after the initial launch - Credit: Internet Archive
Q: What happened after that? A: A big mess.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is a town of about 50, 000 people, famous for its Amish people. The Amish shun modern things like electricity, and still use horses and buggies instead of cars:
Amish Horse and Buggy - Image credit: Etsy

Word of MapQuest spread like wildfire through the social media pipeline of the time (i. e. people talking to each other). Within days, traffic to the site skyrocketed, and there was a mad scramble to add capacity. One big office room was quickly filled with folding tables, stacked servers, and a rat's nest of cables.
And Lancaster's entire internet capacity was almost absorbed into serving MapQuest. The team did all they could to keep the site going.
MapQuest didn't even provide directions. MapQuest didn't even provide driving directions. All it did was display a static map for an address.

Things moved quickly from there:

GeoSystems opened an office in Denver and moved MapQuest's servers there.
MapQuest released detailed driving directions for the US, resulting in a huge increase in traffic.
MapQuest released a B2B service that allowed companies to integrate MapQuest maps and directions into their websites.
MapQuest expanded internationally, covering Canada and Western Europe.
The site became so popular that it was rare to see someone boarding a plane without a MapQuest printout:
Even the manga artists at that time chose the popularity of the map quest:
One year after the release, the situation accelerated further. In July 1997, $ 12 million in the C series, and in 1998, some Mapquest founded members moved to other businesses. The biggest change was that in August 1998, Mike Malligan, a senior vice president of American Express, became the CEO.
After that, the situation began to move rapidly.
In the late 1990s, the Dotcom boom became ful l-fledged. Everyone was excited to get on the wave. In 1995, Net Scape released stocks. Yahoo was listed in 1996. Amazon in 1997. In 1998, companies such as Geocity, infos space, and IPOs played the IPO. However, in 1998, the possibility of the collapse of the dot com bubble was already small, and this timing was considerable.

F1 truck

The company knew that the company name "Geo Systems Global Corporation" would not have the necessary evaluation. Therefore, it was necessary to use the sort leadership cultivated under the Mapquest brand. Initially, I was just thinking about changing the company name to Mapquest. But at that time, companies did everything they could to utilize the Internet function. Just adding . com to the company name can enhance the corporate value (do you remember? In February 1999, Geosystems Global Corporation became Mapquest. com, Inc.
Marigan also knew that Dotcom, a major compan y-based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, would not work. Instead, the headquarters was immediately transferred to a sophisticated office at Park Avenue, Manhattan.
By January 1999, Mapquest has grown to 222 employees (46 sales staff!) And had the following impressive customer list:
Yahoo (Mapquest Yahoo!
Mapquest (Yahoo!) YahooQuest (Yahoo!); YahooQuest (Yahoo!); Other search engines at that time: Excite, Infosk, Ricos, Ask Jeves
Elon Mask ZIP2
AAA, Avis, Hearts, Budgets

Trip Planning + Trip Memories: Nobody’s Nailed It.

Travelocity, American Express, Galileo

National Geographic

Let’s Start with The Planning

Fedex, blockbuster, border, home depot, Sears

On The Journey

Marriott, Hilton
Ticket master
Sales

It was $ 25 million, but at that time it was only about 30%($ 8 million).

The rest is the old custom map printing business (formerly Donerie Cart Graphic Service). Of course, investors' interest was that online business growth was much higher than the conventional business.

I remember well when we discussed the valuation. With a very conservative, I thought the company's value was $ 40 million. If we are extremely optimistic, and if the map quest hits a home run, the company's value may be $ 400 million.

Map quests were listed on May 4, 1999, and stock prices fell 49 % on the first day. The company, which has an Interne t-related income of about $ 8 million, has now reached $ 800 million.

Map Quest IPO Newsletter-May 1999

However, this promise for investors in the potential growth of the Internet business was not a dream story. By the end of 1999, the number of customers in the map quest reached about 2. 500 companies. Many of them were just a company that wanted a store search on the website. A major site like Yahoo used a map quest to add a map to the website! Major sites such as using Mapquest to add maps to search results and provide their own map services.

Sharing the Memories

Regarding advertising revenue, Mapquest had one advantage. That means that the value of the ad was enhanced in a way that no one could do. Mapquest was the first site that provided Geocentric ads. Hotels, airlines and fast food chains like this.

For several months after Mapquest's IPO, they continued to rise and expand. The map quest is currently the first map site to provide satellite images, which offers services in five languages and 78 countries. In November 1998, Medrix Metrix ranked Mapquest as a 34th website with many visitors worldwide, and Mapquest became the number one travel site. Also, PC magazine and Yahoo!

Such a large advertising and activities began to attract the attention of major companies. The map quest, which has just finished the IPO's d e-distribution, is now a "clean" company and was easy to acquire.

At that time, Mapquest was a company called America Online (AOL). Mapquest wants to "map" many AOL properties. At this time, AOL was in the peak. Acquired the largest rival compasserb. Acquired the popular instant message site ICQ. And he acquired the net scale. And he was hungry to continue to expand. AOL was particularly interested in accessing a large number of websites that could post local ads.

Immediately after the release of Mapquest, Mike Mulligan heard that his assistant was trying to arrange a meeting between him and AOL's Paul Dabermedy. Daberened Nedictis was the head of AOL Digital Cities, a site that provides local content and event information in cities in the United States. Paul had identified a company that could provide an important local advertising inventory for AOL.

Mike stopped his assistant and asked Paul directly. The two were immediately agreed to meet in a faster schedule. For Mapquest, it was lucky. At a meeting with Paul, AOL has just begun to consider a candidate for acquiring AOL Digital Cityes. With the realization of good conditions at an early stage, Mapquest was able to take the lead in the acquisition negotiations. If the meeting was not held so quickly, it might have been another story.

In fact, AOL's interest in Mapquest was not related to the map. He was not interested in Mapquest's B2B business. The only thing they wanted was advertising in stock.

However, despite this luck, the acquisition was hardly realized.

The possibility of the acquisition was on the reef at the dudeliography stage. AOL was dissatisfied with the data agreement between Mapquest and NavTech (now HERE), discontinued discussions, and asked Mapquest to negotiate a direct contract with NavTech. Mapquest accepted this. Mapquest negotiated a new contract with NavTech and negotiated again a few months later. At that time, Mapquest's stock price rose, and Mapquest has reached a more advantageous agreement.

At the same time as the Mapquest's acquisition consultation, AOL was undergoing another and much larger acquisition of Time Warner. However, it was not tim e-consuming to break the tim e-warner negotiations. The acquisition of Mapquest was discussed again and was approved by the AOL Board of Directors at this time.

If the Mapquest negotiations with Time Warner had not been broken, they would probably not be considered.

On December 22, 1999, an agreement was finally announced. AOL agreed to acquire a map quest in about $ 1. 1 billion stock transactions. At that time, it was not bad for a company that made a profit of about $ 35 million.

However, this evaluation did not last long. AOL's stock price peaked about 10 days ago. On January 10, 2000, less than a month later, AOL announced a ridiculous acquisition. . 000. 000. 000. 000 (yes, $ 183 with "B") was to acquire a time warner. However, AOL transferred 11 % less than a day after the announcement, and the value of the acquisition of Mapquest was taken away. By January 18, 2000, the acquisition of the map quest has been reduced to about $ 785 million.

Many Mapquest employees were dissatisfied with AOL, and were particularly dissatisfied with the employees who were able to develop the Internet business. The idea of being acquired by AOL was abominable. For them, it was like being acquired by an organization like today's DJT. AOL? They don't understand the Internet! The only thing they did was to pack AOL CDS in the mailbox.

However, the acquisition was finally established in the second quarter of 2000. Mapquest has become the property of Big and Bad Aol.

BIG BAD AO L-CREDIT: Gary Rivlin and to the industry standard

At first it looked rosy. AOL had a flexible number of users. At that time, four out of five Americans using the Internet were accessing AOL sites. And AOL was able to guide more users to Mapquest. Traffic has increased rapidly. AOL has obtained what he wanted, a huge page view for display ads.

Mapquest traffic after acquiring AO L-Credit: Media Metrix

A Possible Magical Product

However, there were signs that Utopia would not be realized.

On January 11, 2001, AOL's acquisition of Time Warner was completed. The internal conflict between AOL and Time Warner's executives quickly broke out. The day after the end, AOL's stock price fell from $ 47 to $ 45, a maximum of $ 94 and 19, 1999.

The situation was not good. The company's compan y-wide employment was implemented, affecting all assets, including AOL Time Warner and Map Quest.
By this time, you had a new manager as Mike Maligan left behind the sunset. In fact, one year after the acquisition, there were some managers. I was told: If you want to improve your career, you need to relocate to AOL's main center in Diffe, Virginia. " "Yes," I answered. The night before I had to transfer my family from Lancaster to Virginia, my boss called me. 😱
The next day, he moved as planned and arrived in a new home with a moving company and a box for moving. Suddenly, AOL's senior vic e-president's executive assistant called me: "Well, I know you have just moved your home and family to Virginia, but your role. Don't worry who will be your next boss.
Hmmm. Very encouraging.

The new management was hardly interested in Mapquest, especially on roadmaps and product strategies. Layoff and employment frozen, even if there were good plans, there was no enough resource to do something meaningful.

Mapquest is a website built with map data, but has not made a map. In fact, 98 % of the map data was licensed by a third party.

And if you guess who made it, you won't get a prize.

A new website opened on February 8, 2005. Unlike Mapquest, there was a large "slippery" map, that is, a map of clicking and dragging. There was also a brand name:

The rest is history.

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It is currently owned by Internet advertising company System1. All the Mapquest IP and mapping kno w-how were a little discarded. He seems to rely on Mapbox technology now.

How sad is that you have to end the really wonderful company story.

But what shook our world was the "map that was happening."
References, thanks, further reading and viewing:
Thanks to Perry Evans, Barry Grick, Mike Marigan, Michael Nappi and Paul Ross.
Safety and Exchange Committee Mapquest IPO's newsletter S-1.
CHICAGOLOGY: RR Donerie: R. R. A simple history of how Donneli was born.
Article about the Geo system's Apple Newton product published in FODORS:
"Mapquest Investors Eye AOL with Cause": Ariana Eunjung CHA, January 19, 2000, Washington Post.
"BIG, Bad Aol": A former author of the industrial model, Gary Librin. This article won the Robe Prize as the best business article published in the magazine of the year.

PLACE: Fueling Maps for the Rest of the World

Published Mapquest IPO interviews by CNBC's Mike Marigan:

PLACE Fundamentals

Part 1-First map

Thinking Different

Part 2-Birth of coordinates

Part 3-Road map
Part 4-Travel to search for longitude
Dawn of the 5th tube map

Part 6 --Map of computer map

Part 7-View from the sky

The 8th "Where are you, where are you?

The 9th "Mysterious phenomenon called" Etak "

footnote

Then until the 5th. All Timelines [1] Patricia Booke r-1956? [2] Anna Tov e-1967? [3] Wendy De n-1999? [4] Jeri Hal l-2016? [5] Elena Jukov a-2024
In February 1996, Mapquest. com's initial development, launch, and success part of the main wisdom brains (sorry if you missed it): Perry Evans, Chris Farjoy, Barry Grick, Simon Green Man, Harry Grout, Marshall Matthew, Paul Metsgar, Michael Nappi, Bob Rudy, Travis Shak, John Silver, Mike Swearts. ︎
Perry Evans's wife. ︎
There is no release screenshot. About a year and a half has passed since the original release. If you have a former colleague, please share it. ︎
ARM Holdings! ︎

Google? Founded in September 1998. At that time, it was only three months old. ︎

Navtech (now here), ETAK and GDT (now TOMTOM), A. N. D (now GeojunXion). ︎

June 20, 2024 Part 2-Birth of coordinates

Part 3-Road map

Part 4-Travel to search for longitude

Dawn of the 5th tube map

Part 6 --Map of computer map

Show Me the Data

Part 7-View from the sky

The 8th "Where are you, where are you?

The 9th "Mysterious phenomenon called" Etak "

footnote

Then until the 5th. All Timelines [1] Patricia Booke r-1956? [2] Anna Tov e-1967? [3] Wendy De n-1999? [4] Jeri Hal l-2016? [5] Elena Jukov a-2024

In February 1996, Mapquest. com's initial development, launch, and success part of the main wisdom brains (sorry if you missed it): Perry Evans, Chris Farjoy, Barry Grick, Simon Green Man, Harry Grout, Marshall Matthew, Paul Metsgar, Michael Nappi, Bob Rudy, Travis Shak, John Silver, Mike Swearts. ︎

Perry Evans's wife. ︎

There is no release screenshot. About a year and a half has passed since the original release. If you have a former colleague, please share it. ︎

ARM Holdings! ︎

Putting PLACE Data to Use

Google? Founded in September 1998. At that time, it was only three months old. ︎

Navtech (now here), ETAK and GDT (now TOMTOM), A. N. D (now GeojunXion). ︎

June 20, 2024 Part 2-Birth of coordinates

Part 3-Road map

Part 4-Travel to search for longitude

Dawn of the 5th tube map

Part 6 --Map of computer map

Part 7-View from the sky

PLACE’s Biggest Fans

The 8th "Where are you, where are you?

The 9th "Mysterious phenomenon called" Etak "

footnote

Then until the 5th. All Timelines [1] Patricia Booke r-1956? [2] Anna Tov e-1967? [3] Wendy De n-1999? [4] Jeri Hal l-2016? [5] Elena Jukov a-2024

Perry Evans's wife. ︎

There is no release screenshot. About a year and a half has passed since the original release. If you have a former colleague, please share it. ︎

How Do You Access PLACE Data?

ARM Holdings! ︎

Google? Founded in September 1998. At that time, it was only three months old. ︎

Navtech (now here), ETAK and GDT (now TOMTOM), A. N. D (now GeojunXion). ︎

June 20, 2024

If you notice the rhythm of the chart is a little off, it's not because I don't love you. A grand tour of Great Britain, including the most iconic places in England, Scotland and Wales. Loch Linnhe on the west coast of Scotland. The trip was a three-week road trip, stopping at a different place almost every night. The process of planning this trip was long and hard, but actually a lot of fun. I researched many times the places to visit, the best places to stay and eat, the best route to get from A to B, etc. But in the end, we got there. Now that I'm back, I want to share my memories of the trip. But just like planning a trip, creating and sharing a cohesive biography of my trip is far from simple. Net/Net: No one has cracked the nut of planning, and no one has cracked the nut of travel memories. So, if you're a passionate map nerd and have a talent for being a developer, here's your challenge and opportunity.

Where Next for PLACE?

What do you start with? In my case, there were some ideas and conditions. There were places I wanted to visit and places I wanted to stay. Travel had a thre e-week time constraints, and he knew he didn't want to travel all day long. So the goals were fun and simple. If you do a preliminary investigation, you'll notice that there are some apps that help you create a travel plan. However, they are quite difficult to use. Wanderlog was the closest to the best travel planner. It is quite comprehensive, allowing you to create a itinerary, create a memo, set a budget, and work with others. In addition, search for places and "Mappy" interfaces are very good. Of course, from search engines to bananas, it is realized by AI, like today's products. Wanderlog Trip Planne r-Credit: Wanderlog But it's important to remember that you are a faded map. Well, I tried using it. However, he immediately faced anxiety. If you spend a huge amount of time on this tool, will you get the necessary results? Is it easy to use when traveling? And what can I get (with small hands and deep pockets)? What do you start? In my case, there were some ideas and conditions. There were places I wanted to visit and places I wanted to stay. Travel had a thre e-week time constraints, and he knew he didn't want to travel all day long. So the goals were fun and simple. If you do a preliminary investigation, you'll notice that there are some apps that help you create a travel plan. However, they are quite difficult to use. Wanderlog was the closest to the best travel planner. It is quite comprehensive, allowing you to create a itinerary, create a memo, set a budget, and work with others. In addition, search for places and "Mappy" interfaces are very good. Of course, from search engines to bananas, it is realized by AI, like today's products. Wanderlog Trip Planne r-Credit: Wanderlog But it's important to remember that you are a faded map. Well, I tried using it. However, he immediately faced anxiety. If you spend a huge amount of time on this tool, will you get the necessary results? Is it easy to use when traveling? And what can I get (with small hands and deep pockets)? What do you start with? In my case, there were some ideas and conditions. There were places I wanted to visit and places I wanted to stay. Travel had a thre e-week time constraints, and he knew he didn't want to travel all day long. So the goals were fun and simple. If you do a preliminary investigation, you'll notice that there are some apps that help you create a travel plan. However, they are quite difficult to use. Wanderlog was the closest to the best travel planner. It is quite comprehensive, allowing you to create a itinerary, create a memo, set a budget, and work with others. In addition, search for places and "Mappy" interfaces are very good. Of course, from search engines to bananas, it is realized by AI, like today's products. Wanderlog Trip Planne r-Credit: Wanderlog But it's important to remember that you are a faded map. Well, I tried using it. However, he immediately faced anxiety. If you spend a huge amount of time on this tool, will you get the necessary results? Is it easy to use when traveling? And what can I get (with small hands and deep pockets)?

To sightseeing and coin laundry: By displaying phone numbers, websites, the way, and guides, and expanding certain areas, we were able to quickly narrow down the lists related to specific days. You can also share the guide with others just by tapping. Of course, the lack of arrival days, departure date, reservation number, reservation inquiry, cost, budget, etc. are all details. Now, it would have been possible to spend all of this information in the Wanderlog app, but as I said, I was wary of entrusting information to unfamiliar apps. It was also found that it was difficult to summarize the information in the format that the app is in the format. So what should I do? I looked at the spreadsheet. Because it is a clou d-based click, it can be enlarged, easy to access from any device, and it is easy to share and edit with others with the collaboration function of the numbers. But how to decide where to stop, where to stay, where to eat? Readers, a ful l-fledged investigation has begun. My past posts, especially "Why the party or POIS evaluation system is the worst? And to to sightseeing and coin laundry: Call number, website, how to go, and to enlarge certain areas. So, I was able to quickly narrow down the list of related to a specific day, and of course I was able to share the guide with other people. Now that we can spend all of these information in the Wanderlog app, such as numbers, reservation inquiries, costs, and budgets. I also looked at the spreadsheet to summarize the information. So you can use the click, easily access from any device, and use the number collaboration function to share and edit with other people, but where to stay and where you eat. How do you decide to do it, readers have begun a ful l-fledged survey, especially "why the party and POIS are the worst? : By displaying a telephone number, a website, the way, and the guide, and the specific area, we were able to quickly narrow down the list of the related to a specific day. Of course, I could share it with all of these information, such as the arrival date, the reservation number, the cost, and the budget. It would have been possible to put it in the Wanderlog app, but as I said, it was difficult to summarize the information to the unfamiliar app. I know what to do, so I can easily access it from any other device. It's easy to edit or edit, but how to decide where to stay, where to eat? Readers, a ful l-fledged investigation has begun. My past posts, especially "Why is the parties and POIS evaluation systems the worst?
That kind of painstaking research is part of the fun. The constant search for the perfect spot gives you not only rewards but also endorphins. So if someone made it really easy, would you feel like you made the right decision? You be the judge.
My tweaks to my guides to Apple Maps were not made public to the people I shared them with. That means sharing a guide is really a "send a copy" feature, not a "collaboration" feature. Apple has both options for notes, pages, numbers, and primary documents. I wish Apple Maps guides had the same feature.
I love the "scenic route" option for directions.
If there was one part I longed for "Apple intelligence" was to suggest places to stop on the route. At least twice, I passed spectacular places without even realizing I was passing by.

Angel of the North

The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture by Antony Gormley, located south of Newcastle, England. Completed in 1998, it is said to be the largest angel sculpture in the world. It is 20 metres (66 feet) tall with a wingspan of 54 metres (177 feet), longer than a Boeing 757.

The "Angel of the North" near Newcastle, England. Antony Gormley (b. 1950). Image credit: George Ledger / Art UK

The Kelpies

The Kelpies are a pair of giant steel heads near the Scottish town of Falkirk. They were designed by sculptor Andy Scott and completed in 2013. Kelpies (or water kelpies) are shape-shifting spirits in Irish and Scottish folklore. They are usually depicted as horse-like creatures that can assume human form.

The Kelpies near Falkirk, Scotland - Credit: Andy Scott and Visit Scotland

Facebucket; Instagam? X? Myspace? This JMC does not exist in this world. Me: I want to share different photos with different people, not with the world.

So I turned to messaging, WhatsApp, and that ancient appy thing most Gen Z users have never heard of: email. A pain? Yes. But at least I had full control over my delivery.

The problem started after returning home. I was taking about 700 photos, but they were widely distributed geographically. Furthermore, even if I shared a specific place, for example, a series of Stirling Castle, the people who shared it were not always "geographical knowledge". So they didn't know the location or context.

It's easy to find all photos of a specific location in iOS and MacOS "photos". If you use the shooting location tab to zoom in where you are worried about on the map, you can spread the photos from there and share them.

If you want to be more cute, open iMovie on your iPhone, select "Start New Project", and select "Magic Movie":

In fact, this is pretty amazing. This is a magic movie I created for Stirling Castle in Scottish:

12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9

This movie was created using the iOS iMovie's "Magic Movie" optio n-Credit: Apple

A Curious Phenomenon Called ‘Etak’

Still, what is missing in this movie?

Boys & Girls Maps?

Etak Navigator System Details

It turned out that there was no magical way to put a map. TRIPCAST, which seems to have a good reputation among the apps I tried, provides map display options to uploaded photos, but it depends on the user, how to reproduce travel with map animation. No. You also need age to upload photos to the server. When I tried to upload all the photos I took during the trip, the app crashed many times. Uh.

Just Some of the Technical Hurdles

By the way, some Apple fans may have participated in a keynote speech on the WWDC24 the other day and noticed that a new function called "TRIPS" will be added to the photo app. Click here for the clip of the new photo app installed in iOS 18:
Apple WWDC 2024 Keynote About new photo apps for iOS 18 - Credit: Apple
But does the "TRIPS" filter include a map? Unfortunately, I don't think so.
And the most important thing is whether the "Travel" function contains map animation. I really doubt it. It is difficult if you want to reproduce your trip with map animation and share it with others. Seriously difficult. Try using StoryMaps 1 (I'm sorry, it's difficult and painful). If you are a professional, you can use Adobe After Effects templates like WorldTravelmaps (more difficult, even more spicy):

Polarsteps may be a good app to share memories. As far as I know, Polarsteps is like a Facebook for travel, and can be used to search and browse other people, or to create a travel resume. Mountains seems to be better than TripCast, scanning a photo library, and automatically generates travel. I downloaded Polarsteps from the app store, scanned for about 10 minutes, plunged about 20 minutes, and succeeded in creating a rudimentary version of the GB Grand Tour:

Polarsteps Ap p-Credit: Polarsteps

Polarsteps succeeded in rebuilding about 70 %. However, when I tried to associate photos and places, I became somewhat delusional. But it's not bad overall.

Former What3Words' Claire Jones seems to have become the CEO of Polartrips. I'm looking forward to what she does.

So what is the perfect app?

An app that makes design and collaboration easier. A completely unified map. And super smart.

By mining my e-mail for reservations, I will automatically add details to my itinerary.

Make proposals based on where you like or where others like (not the general public).

Utilizing the apps that you use on a daily basis: Maps, photos, calendars

The Amazing Team Behind It

Propose more interesting routes, especially scenic routes

And important: It's similar to what Polarsteps is trying to do: It will automatically reproduce the trip like magic so that I can relive it when I get home. : A wonderful animation map and a smartly grouped trip of photos and videos taken on the way.

The Apple Maps and Photos (or Google equivalent) are approaching several issues. Wanderlog is brave, but it's still painful and unemployed. Polarsteps is very useful for traveling, but lacks the travel plan.

So what is the potential future?

Perhaps, maybe. There may be more mischievous Sherlock than that miserable fruity group in Kupacino. I understand now:

Travel: A magical mate of all travel.

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I think it is a secret publication of the Environmental System Research Institute.

Gratitude

Apple

Esri

Polarsteps

Trip cast

Visit to Scotland

So What Happened to Etak?

Wanderog

Wikimedia

World Travel Map

2 May 2024

It's not often that you come across an organization that has the potential to make a difference -- that is, really make a difference. A little organization called Place is one of them. Place caught my eye when I first got in touch with founder Peter LaBrie last July. Peter is a geographer. He was born in Southampton, England, which coincidentally is not far from the headquarters of Ordnance Research. Perhaps this was a signal that he would eventually pursue a cartographic career. We found a common thread: we were both soon-to-be ex-Pats, having both been teachers at Roman Catholic preparatory schools in England in the late 1970s. Not only that, but like me, Peter's first real involvement with technology was with VAX/VMS minicomputers. But whereas I set off for Silicon Valley, Peter's journey was more exotic. He spent his childhood in the Bahamas, studied geography at the University of Michigan, and then headed to the University of Miami in 1984 for a master's in economic geography and GIS. It was during his time at Miami that he first got familiar with mapping technology, cutting his teeth on early versions of Esri's arc/information. What? Early versions of Arc/Info are exotic? Wait! What was exotic? It's not often that you come across an organization that has the potential to make a difference. I mean, really make a difference. A little organization called Place is one of them. Place caught my eye when I first got in touch with founder Peter Lovely last July. Peter is a geographer. He was born in Southampton, England, which coincidentally is not far from the headquarters of Ordnance Research. Perhaps this was a signal that he would one day pursue a career in cartography. We discovered a common thread: we were both teachers at Roman Catholic preparatory schools in England in the late 1970s, and soon became ex-Pats. Not only that, but like me, Peter's first real exposure to technology was with VAX/VMS minicomputers. But while I went to Silicon Valley, Peter's journey was more exotic. He spent his childhood in the Bahamas, studied geography at the University of Michigan, and in 1984, headed to Miami University to earn a master's degree in economic geography and GIS. It was there that he got his start in mapping technology, cutting his teeth on an early version of Esri's arc/information. What? Early versions of Arc/Info are exotic? Wait! What's exotic is that it's not often you come across an organization that has the potential to make a difference. I mean, really make a difference. A little organization called Place is one of them. Place caught my eye when I first got in touch with founder Peter LaBrie last July. Peter is a geographer. He was born in Southampton, England, which coincidentally is not far from the headquarters of Ordnance Research. Perhaps this was a signal that he would eventually go into cartography. I discovered a common thread between us: we were both soon-to-be ex-Pats, having both taught at Roman Catholic prep schools in England in the late 1970s. Not only that, but like me, Peter's first real exposure to technology was with VAX/VMS minicomputers. But whereas I embarked on a journey to Silicon Valley, Peter's journey was far more exotic. He'd spent his childhood in the Bahamas, studied geography at the University of Michigan, and then headed off to the University of Miami in 1984 to earn a master's in economic geography and GIS. It was while at Miami that he first got his feet wet with mapping technology, cutting his teeth on an early version of Esri's arc/information. What? Early versions of Arc/Info were exotic? Wait! Exotic was...

This is particularly remarkable in developing countries in the world. At the macro level, detailed data on cities, communities, and neighboring areas has become a serious obstacle to the social welcome of hundreds of millions of people over the continent. However, these countries needed only software to manage data. Raw data was needed to use data. And they didn't have it. What is the best way to create data? Everyone, it starts with the map. January 2020 was born from such needs.

When Peter established it, he relentlessly focused on basics. Basics about data. Basics about organizational structure. Basics for motivation. And probably the most important thing is the basis for trust. This place is not just a commercial map company. It is not just an open data organization. Hig h-quality data must be made into an organizational structure that can be efficient and large in large quantities. To do so, we will reconsider the "back side of the front line administrator" of how the data company is composed, how the incentives are adjusted, how data is collected, and how it is published. I needed it. It was also necessary to focus on creating appropriate types of data. As Peter digs into the level of atoms to the level of atom, to create a very detailed map that is suitable for supporting the development of the local community and your prosperity, the first is required. I noticed that it was. It's not just an image. Images from commercial satellites were not enough. I needed a higher definition. So what did this site do? They have mission to collect and publish images of ultr a-high resolution, high accuracy, and street levels in cities in small islands around Africa and the world. This image is

The wonderfulness of this place is not in the data they collect. Their way of doing it.

Acquires the necessary permission to collect data from each government.

Get the right to permanently manage data in The Place Trust, a U K-based data legal trust

Giving data to the Place Trust to Place Polly This is especially remarkable in developing countries in the world. At the macro level, detailed data on cities, communities, and neighboring areas has become a serious obstacle to the social welcome of hundreds of millions of people over the continent. However, these countries needed only software to manage data. Raw data was needed to use data. And they didn't have it. What is the best way to create data? Everyone, it starts with the map. January 2020 was born from such needs.

But Why the name ‘Etak’?

The wonderfulness of this place is not in the data they collect. Their way of doing it.

Acquires the necessary permission to collect data from each government.

Get the right to permanently manage data in The Place Trust, a U K-based data legal trust

Giving the data to the Place Trust to Place Polly is particularly noticeable in developing countries in the world. At the macro level, detailed data on cities, communities, and neighboring areas has become a serious obstacle to the social welcome of hundreds of millions of people over the continent. However, these countries needed only software to manage data. Raw data was needed to use data. And they didn't have it. What is the best way to create data? Everyone, it starts with the map. January 2020 was born from such needs.

But Wait, There is One More Thing…

The wonderfulness of this place is not in the data they collect. Their way of doing it.

Acquires the necessary permission to collect data from each government.

Get the right to permanently manage data in The Place Trust, a U K-based data legal trust

Give Place Polly the right to license data to The Place Trust

The site also promises not to compete with members. Therefore, we do not intend to build road map data or land information systems from the image. In a sense, it is a form that has been apprenticed to TSMC. TSMC promises not to integrate with customers in the Silicon 1-chip manufacturing business.

All of these match incentives and build trust.

Instead of obtaining data free of charge, the government is encouraged to provide the approval needed to allow data collection. For example, a specific aircraft or UAV landing and flight permission, the Ministry of Defense, Aviation Control, and Warning of Police.

It takes time, time, and time, to obtain such permission. Therefore, it is very valuable to give the government a prompt permission to provide an incentive. Peter told me that another commercial aerial photographer had been waiting for 110 days until the permission was granted. Can you imagine that airplanes and equipment cost more than four months? it hurts.

Second, Agency Space is based on trust principles:

So There You Have It…

The government is judged and examined before signing the data collection agreement.

A third party who wants to use the data must apply to become a member of the site. It is also authenticated and browsed.

The Terms of Service follow the "Trajectory Charter", which stipulates international common principles to support ethical and responsible practice when using location information.
Members and Place Governments shall maintain a good condition to comply with these principles and maintain access to the data in the Place Trust. If the government does not comply, it can be op t-out from continuous or future data collection. If the members of the Place Trust do not obey this, you can refuse to access the data.
The data is collected by a section of the Place Trust, a bas e-based Place Foundation. However, the data is managed and licensed by a completely different corporation called Place Trust, a Britis h-based base. This allows the data to be protected properly even if the Place Foundation collapses.
Third: The focus is on collecting data in the right way, but quickly.
That part is not simply collecting data using a few cheap DJI drones. It focuses on the strictness of photography using the latest rider and Ultracam Aeramam camera. The data mounted on the rear or event 38 mapping drone can be collected up to 5. 000 square kilometers per hour.
EVENT38 E400 Drone Mapping - Credit: Event38 Place Tea m-Credit: Place
PLACE's framework has already proven its value:
It is rapidly gaining support in a short period of three years (most of which were in the midst of the world's epidemic). He signed an agreement with nine countries, including Ghana, Court Jiboire, the Thakus Kaikos Islands, Angira, Malawi, and Kenya. Nigeria with a population of 230 million is the last major country.

They realize that the site context has removed data collection and eliminates the need for consultants to complete work. For example, no one who helps get a permit is no longer needed. The incentive of a framework that moves the government in a short circuit enables all of these.

As a result, it is possible to collect hig h-quality data that can be used immediately by a good organization.

What does the data look like?

This is the air location data of the road intersection near the mosque plateau in Abijan, Court Jiboire:
Aerial photo data of Court Voir, Abija n-Credit: Place
And equivalent products on Google Maps and Apple Maps:
Credit: Google Maps Credit: Apple Maps
Google and Apple generally strive to be the best of the available commercial satellite data. As a result, the aerial photography position data is quite high, and it can be seen that it is very useful to judge land boundary line, land use, economic activity, population, etc. Of course, it is so suitable to create a street map.
The ground specimen distance (GSD) of the aerial data is about 5cm. Compared to the GSD of satellite images generally available in the market is 40-50cm, it is magnitude different.
However, this site is not limited to the collection of aviation data. Anonymous street level data is also collected. The following is a sample of the ground data of Court Jiboire:
Place terrestrial dat a-Credit: Place
For the government, it is the blessing of the heavens just to create an accurate map of the local community. It may be a foundation for understanding the population and land use. It is also important for promoting economic development, managing medical care and event programs, and collecting more fair and efficient property taxes.

12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 8

For commercial organizations, the uses are manifold. In the insurance industry, data is especially useful for understanding flood risk. Data is valuable for building construction and economic modeling. And of course data is also the basis for consumer applications such as mapping, routing, and business search.

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Data can be used to quickly and efficiently build models, whether they are vulnerability analysis models for floods or heat from buildings, transportation models to transport goods, or population growth models to help with urban planning.

And AI just powers these analyses.
All these projects are desperately needed, especially in Africa. The population is growing at an extraordinary rate, and with it the economy. For example, Malawi's population is currently about 22 meters, but is expected to grow to 110 meters by 2050.
And there will be many use cases for data that humans have yet to invent. Remember when the iPhone was released in 2007? Who would have thought of Uber then?
The same thing will happen in Africa. Africa has a population of 1. 2 billion people with an average age of 19. And regardless of what you think, many of the young UNOs are well educated and many of them are very smart. So, young African entrepreneurs are the driving force behind growth. Africans creating businesses for Africans.
The potential is great. And it will be interesting to see how place data is used.
Three years after launch, it has already built a fanbase.

Esri is one of them. It obviously fits into their secret evil plan to have every person on the planet with an ArcGIS license, but to be fair, it fits right in with Jack Dangermond's sincere goal of making a difference.

Universities around the world love data for research, as do many well-known international organizations.

Determining Your Location: First Things First

And then there are organizations that help governments process, understand, and get insights from data. Many of these are development organizations, like the Beltway Bandits in Washington DC and similar organizations in other parts of the world.

Of course, AI companies like Atlasai and Impact Obsormatory love the service, too.
At the time of writing this article, 52 organizations are joined and will be added in about two weeks. It has also been funded by several major organizations, including Global Innovation Fund, ImpactAl Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Omidyar Network, and Mozilla Foundation.

It is hard to imagine that as rumors about this site spread, the number of members and funds will increase into a snowball style.

The business model of this site is simple.

It costs $ 1, 000 per year to become a site member. If you are a taxpayer in the United States, this is considered a tax deduction. If you are generous, you are free to pay $ 1, 000 or more a year. 😉

If you want to use data for no n-profit or no n-profit purposes, you don't have to pay any more, but as a site preference, secondary works will be published in the creative community license.
In the case of commercial use, a single data license fee will be charged. The fee is based on the number of licensed cities, and many cities are discounted. Updating a city is treated in the same way as other cities. For example, the data recorded in Abjan in 2024 is $ X. For data recorded by Abjan in 2025, you will be paid again.
Commercial licensing is not allowed to deteriorate the data as it is, but is allowed to create a derivative work and license the work for a fee. There is no back requirement for revenue distribution to place secondary works.

Precursors to GPS: Acoustic Locators, Gee & LORAN

This site has accomplished a lot in three years since its establishment:

He has signed a data collection agreement with nine countries, including Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria.

It has a data collection agreement with nine countries, including Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, and cooperates with these countries so that the government can get appropriate incentives to cooperate with them.

The Place Foundation and The Place Trust have established an organizational structure that makes it easier to accommodate larg e-scale data collection.

Towing power by participation

It has received basic funding from some major organizations.

However, it has not yet reached critical squares.

The site has not yet published enough data to increase the big commercial revenue. Therefore, it requires further funds to reach and maintain the critical mass of data. I am convinced that they will reach it, but it requires more jobs and more frankly.

However, if you reach the critical mass, it will be even more interesting. Place already has plans to subsidize log data not only in areas of interest but also in the necessary areas, using commercial income. In other words, the license revenue obtained by licensing the data of the growing cities is used to log data in a poorer area.

There is another interesting way. Peter's play framework, especially the organization structure built around the trast (separate trus t-place from the Place Foundation), and the incorporated incentive and collaboration in collaboration in other industries, key people in other industries. The same model is thinking that it will work well on healthcare data and agricultural data. Hmm. That's right.

If you want to know more about the play, we recommend that you visit the play website in thisisplace. org. Alternatively, contact the Place Foundation Peter Lovely CEO or Denies McKenzie CEO of Place Trust.

I can't wait to watch the play forward. I'm sure the surprising development is waiting ...

Acknowledgment and footnote

Acknowledgment

GPS and its Catalyst

I am very grateful to the Place Foundation Chief Executive Peter Rabrey and Denies McKenzie, Chief Executive of Place Trust.

The place is not a sponsor of this article (not anyone else sponsored).

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TSMC is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in Taiwan. It manufactures silicon chips such as Apple, NVIDIA, AMD. Since its establishment, TSMC has strictly promised not to compete with customers. According to TSMC, "our mission is to provide technologies and abilities that are trusted by the world's logic industry over the next years." ︎

April 11, 2024

Occasionally, revolutionary products that change everything appear. Steve Jobs, who announced the iPhone in 2007, said so. But what I'm talking about is another revolutionary product. This is an important product that has been changed forever how to go to this place on earth. Today, I would like to talk about Etak Navigator, a revolutionary product and the world's first practical car navigation system. Below is the photo: At that time, I didn't think it was from this world. Silicon Valley's San Jose Mercury News said: Etack Navigator was released 39 years ago (!) In 1985. Reagan and Gorbachev were negotiating the end of the Cold War. And it was the year that Steven Spielberg released the movie "Back to the Future": In 1985, he moved using a paper map, like a map of Thomas Brother in Los Angeles. As you can see, the map was not always beautiful. Thus, the map was not always beautiful. From the current standards, finding a place was very difficult and troublesome. So when Etak Navigator was released, it was like a future. A lot of news was made immediately, including the cover of the popular science magazine. Sometimes revolutionary products that change everything appear. Steve Jobs, who announced the iPhone in 2007, said so. But what I'm talking about is another revolutionary product. This is an important product that has been changed forever how to go to this place on earth. Today, I would like to talk about Etak Navigator, a revolutionary product and the world's first practical car navigation system. Below is the photo: At that time, I didn't think it was from this world. Silicon Valley's San Jose Mercury News said: Etack Navigator was released 39 years ago (!) In 1985. Reagan and Gorbachev were negotiating the end of the Cold War. And it was the year that Steven Spielberg released the movie "Back to the Future": In 1985, he moved using a paper map, like a map of Thomas Brother in Los Angeles. As you can see, the map was not always beautiful. Thus, the map was not always beautiful. From the current standards, finding a place was very difficult and troublesome. So when Etak Navigator was released, it was like a future. A lot of news was made immediately, including the cover of the popular science magazine. Occasionally, revolutionary products that change everything appear. Steve Jobs, who announced the iPhone in 2007, said so. But what I'm talking about is another revolutionary product. This is an important product that has been changed forever how to go to this place on earth. Today, I would like to talk about Etak Navigator, a revolutionary product and the world's first practical car navigation system. Below is the photo: At that time, I didn't think it was from this world. Silicon Valley's San Jose Mercury News said: Etack Navigator was released 39 years ago (!) In 1985. Reagan and Gorbachev were negotiating the end of the Cold War. And it was the year that Steven Spielberg released the movie "Back to the Future": In 1985, he moved using a paper map, like a map of Thomas Brother in Los Angeles. As you can see, the map was not always beautiful. Thus, the map was not always beautiful. From the current standards, finding a place was very difficult and troublesome. So when Etak Navigator was released, it was like a future. A lot of news was made immediately, including the cover of the popular science magazine.

Without this important invention, Etaku Navigator would have failed. The second important invention was the "hea d-up" moving map screen. In other words, the vehicle remains in the center of the screen, and the map moves and rotates under the vehicle. What is reflected on the windshield is displayed on the screen. This proved to be very intuitive. Third: Etak Navigator is the first consumer device that introduced an address search or an address search concept that was called "geocoding". This is the only clip from the only video that Etak Navigator is actually moving:

As you can see, the map moves and rotates according to the vehicle driving. The button on the right controls the zoom level shown by the number of miles between the symbol of the vehicle and the top of the screen. At the top of the screen, the current zoom level, the direction to the destination, the number of miles to the destination, and the north direction are displayed. In the address search, the destination could be entered from the address, street, and intersection. It was also possible to store general places such as home and workplace. Etack navigator had 12 buttons, six on both sides of the screen. These are software programs according to the current functions. On the screen below, you can see how the street name is input. Note that only two buttons can easily enter any characters or numbers. Also, simply enter the first few characters in the street name, and then only select the street from the list. This is an etak navigator in navigation mode. Instead, it is displayed as a flashing star simply by enlarging the map to see the destination. As you approach your destination, zooms in and more local roads are displayed. I had to use my head to judge the most appropriate path. The lack of navigation on the turn by turn does not prove that. Without this important invention, Etaku Navigator would have failed. The second important invention was the "hea d-up" moving map screen. In other words, the vehicle remains in the center of the screen, and the map moves and rotates under the vehicle. What is reflected on the windshield is displayed on the screen. This proved to be very intuitive. Third: Etak Navigator is the first consumer device that introduced an address search or an address search concept that was called "geocoding". This is the only clip from the only video that Etak Navigator is actually moving:

As you can see, the map moves and rotates according to the vehicle driving. The button on the right controls the zoom level shown by the number of miles between the symbol of the vehicle and the top of the screen. At the top of the screen, the current zoom level, the direction to the destination, the number of miles to the destination, and the north direction are displayed. In the address search, the destination could be entered from the address, street, and intersection. It was also possible to store general places such as home and workplace. Etack navigator had 12 buttons, six on both sides of the screen. These are software programs according to the current functions. On the screen below, you can see how the street name is input. Note that only two buttons can easily enter any characters or numbers. Also, simply enter the first few characters in the street name, and then only select the street from the list. This is an etak navigator in navigation mode. Instead, it is displayed as a flashing star simply by enlarging the map to see the destination. As you approach your destination, zooms in and more local roads are displayed. I had to use my head to judge the most appropriate path. The lack of navigation on the turn by turn does not prove that. Without this important invention, Etaku Navigator would have failed. The second important invention was the "hea d-up" moving map screen. In other words, the vehicle remains in the center of the screen, and the map moves and rotates under the vehicle. What is reflected on the windshield is displayed on the screen. This proved to be very intuitive. Third: Etak Navigator is the first consumer device that introduced an address search or an address search concept that was called "geocoding". This is the only clip from the only video that Etak Navigator is actually moving:

What of GPS?

The Etak Navigator had five main elements. First, a vector CRT display like you'd find on an oscilloscope. The navigation application and data were stored on a cassette. A cassette tape guide was specially developed to read the tape at extremely high speeds. In a music player, the tape is read at a speed of about 5cm (1. 7/8") per second. The Etak Navigator's tapes were read at a speed of about 200cm (80") per second! An electronic compass was mounted on the rear window of the vehicle. To measure distance traveled and to augment the directional information from the compass, magnetic wheel sensors were attached to the non-running wheels of the vehicle. This included installing special magnetic strips on the inside of the wheels and installing magnetic sensors in the brake calipers. Finally, there was a metal box about the size of a shoebox that contained the CPU and motherboard. This was installed in the trunk. The cartridge stored the navigation application and map data. The maps were called "Etak Maps". Six cartridges were needed to cover the San Francisco Bay area: The original price of the Etac Navigator was $1. 395, equivalent to about $4. 000 today. In addition to the price of the navigator, there were expensive installation costs.

Four map digitizing workstations

An engineer to develop and compile the code
A batch worker to process and compile all the map data
A company administrator to use for text processing

This was the coding environment:

A crappy black and white terminal.

We used the "vi" editor to edit the code. Sometimes we had to wait an hour for the program to compile.

It took two weeks to perform map data processing tasks... longer than the mean time between failures of a VAX mini computer. The engineers used to joke (well aware that this was a statistical error) that they only had to perform major tasks right after fixing a hardware failure.

The map digitizing environment was also revolutionary:

Each digitizing workstation consisted of a computer clone with an 8-bit color graphics card and a 19-inch monitor. Each digitizing workstation consisted of a computer clone with an 8-bit color graphics card and a 19-inch monitor. This was later expanded to 36 workstations. Etac digitized maps 24 hours a day, five days a week, and eight hours a day on weekends.

This map processing system was the first in history to use "Heads Up" digitization, and was a huge trade secret at the time. It was so secret that the methodology was never patented, and the digitization environment was roamed by curious people, especially the CEO of a certain company called "Environmental Systems Laboratories", a gentleman named Jack Dangermond. 😉

Prior to this invention, people digitized "blindly" using digitizing tablets, which were extremely inefficient and prone to errors.

Etac's map generation system used 8 pieces of graphic color cards very efficiently. Five bits were used to display the USGS scan in grayscale, and the remaining three bits were used to display the digitized map on top. The system was used to rearrange GBF/DIME files, digitize new roads, and edit road features such as road names and addresses:

Etac was founded in 1983 by a truly brilliant engineer, Stan Honey.

Stan was already a world-famous sailor. More importantly, he was a world-class navigator and had already broken many trans-Pacific sailing records based on his navigation skills.

Before founding Etak, Stan was a research engineer at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

Stan has accomplished a lot. His most recent accomplishment was as technical director for America's Sailing, where he developed a system that tracks American boats to within 2 centimeters, 5 times per second!

The initial idea for Etak was born when Stan Haney and serial entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell were sailing together. Nolan hired Stan to watch his racing yacht at the 1983 Trans-Pacific Yacht Race (a prestigious yacht race that sails 2. 225 nautical miles on the open ocean from Los Angeles to Honolulu).

Nolan is famous for inventing the first video game, Pong, and later founding Atari.

Getting to Where We Are Today

[Early one morning, Stan and Nolan were working the night watch together. Stan thought that a navigation system for a car could work based on dead reckoning and comparing your current location to known points on a map (a technique called map matching). You wouldn't need any satellites, just a good digital map, a good compass and a few sensors, and you could show the results on an electronic display.

Nolan's response: "Yeah, let's do that.

Nolan always understood where consumer technology would end up ending. In an interview with Inc. in 1984, he said: There is this box on the dashboard. Enter "Japanese food", "Cheap", and "delicious sushi". Instead, the box will lead you to a certain place. "

One of the important employees of Etack was Marved White. Merve was a map scientist and a mathematician, and was involved in a map creation project at the US Census Bureau.

Under the guidance of Marve, the productivity of Etack's map digitalization was three times the industry standard. After leaving Etack, Merve moved to many exciting venture companies, including ESPN's innovation chief technologist.

Behind Navigator, there were many excellent engineers who have been working in SRI International, including Ken Mills, George Lou Mirror, and Alan Philips.

Many of the first people who were first adopted by ETAK went to other mapping organizations, including you. When I was working for the Apple Maps team, 12 of my colleagues were ETAK graduates.

In 1993, Etak staff: Terry Obrien, Merve White, Walt Zavoli, Alan Philips, Jamie Boxstons, Ken Miles, Stan Honey, Jerry Russell

Etack Navigator was about 20 years ahead. It turns out that it is very difficult to make it as a business for hardware costs and expensive installation processes (do you remember?).

Instead, Etak immediately spi n-out. Robert Bosch in Germany, American GM, and Japanese Clarion. And many years later, many companies such as Brown Quint, Garmin, Magellan, and Tom Tom have created an idea of "personal navigation devices."

Now Don’t Go Thinking GPS is Infallible…

In the process of business, Etack was noticeable, probably an unusual forwemen, News Corporation, led by Lupert Murdoch. It was News Corporation John B. Evans who found the possibilities.

Like Nolan Bushnell, John was the best visuality. You will often see him on the same platform as Intel's Andy Gloves, Bill Gates, and other technical masters. Albert Skardino and Matt Falnoon talk about the story in a memorial article by John on the Guardian.

The deal that would prove pivotal to John's career came in the mid-1980s. In 1985, Murdoch invested $350 million in the Travel Magazine and Directory Group. With one hand, Evans took over the consumer magazine division of Murdoch's US organization, including TV Guide, Elle, and his invention Automobile, and with the other, in a suburban office building, he began a top-secret project to develop Hotel and Travel Index, part of the Travel Group, into a new multimedia product code-named Jaguar.

In the days before internet video streaming and large files, travelers were limited to travel brochures to provide opinions on hotels and destinations. Jaguar allowed travelers to visually tour a destination online while viewing the hotel room they had booked. When integrated with important airline reservation information and other databases and cross-referencing tools, the system threatened to leapfrog other airline, car, and hotel reservation systems.

So John thought Etak's maps and technology could help Jaguar's system. So John convinced Rupert to buy Etak.

Stan Honey narrates the conversation:

John immediately saw the power of maps in the media to change the world of classifieds, yellow pages, and travel, answering the questions, "Where's the nearest? How do I get there?" Of course, John and my shared sailing background created an instant group of mutual friends and experiences. I remained close friends with John until his death, and visited him frequently. Even after John left News Corp, whenever I was in New York waiting for weather to attempt a transatlantic sailing record, I invited John out on the boat. It was a 100-foot monohull or multihull. Without John Evans' vision and commitment to Etak, Etak would never have appeared on Murdoch's radar screen. When Murdoch decided to buy Etak, he also consulted with Barry Diller, who was running Fox at the time, and although he asked tough, direct questions and had a slightly more short-term vision than John, he also supported News Corp's purchase of Etak and focused on the charts.

John was a real long-term visionary, as was Nolan Bushnell. During the Etak days, both of them visited the Etak crew and "upgraded" their predictions. This was very helpful, as they both kept us open-minded. But it also helped that we stayed away so little, because we're burdened with having to actually make things work, and visionaries are rare. It's interesting to see what Nolan and John predicted, and it's also interesting to remember how far away it seemed at the time they visited.

But times are changing: In 1989, Murdoch sold Jaguar's systems to Reed International, making a profit of $500 million. With Jaguar sold, Etak's relevance to News Corp. declined.

News Corp then sold Etak to Sony, which later sold Etak to Tele-Atlas, which was later bought by TomTom. So what was originally Etak is now Tomtom:

The answer goes back to the dawn of Polynesian navigation. Back then, ancient sailors navigated the oceans based on various environmental factors, such as the location of surrounding islands.

They imagined their ship to be stationary, with the islands moving beyond it.

Similarly, in the Etak Navigator, the vehicle is stationary, and the chart moves beyond it....

With this in mind, Stan decided to call his company Etak. Etak is a Polynesian word that means a moving navigational reference point.

When you look at consumer mapping applications in navigation mode, have you ever noticed something?

Have you ever noticed something about the symbols they use to indicate the vehicle's location?

Does it look familiar? Of course it does.

So it turns out that the symbols used in all navigation apps today are the same ones originally invented by Etak.

But why did Etak use this special symbol?

Indoor Positioning

If you talk to George Ruhmiller, the engineer who wrote the original code, he'll tell you offhandedly that it was a good idea at the time, when Etak and Atari were housed in the same office building at 1287 Lawrence Station Road in Sunnyvale, California.

Because Etak used a CPU-limited vector display, George needed a symbol that would not tax his very scarce computing resources. He also needed a symbol that was easy to read. The traditional car symbol, 🚗, had too many lines. It also did not clearly indicate direction. He needed something simpler.

Legend has it that one of Etak's engineers saw a pre-release demo of Atari's latest game. The game was...

Underground Positioning

What symbol did Asteroids use for spaceships?

Thus the vehicle navigation symbol was born, and is still used today in all navigation applications around the world:

Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.

Where Next?

Some of Etak's key inventions include:

The world's first real working navigation system.

Improving dead reckoning with map matching

Map header screen navigation

First use of GeoCoding in a consumer application

Highly efficient algorithms for storing and retrieving map data

Digitization-driven digitization

If you want to be more cute, open iMovie on your iPhone, select "Start New Project", and select "Magic Movie":

Inventor of the universal map navigation symbol

At the time, I was still just an engineer. When I joined Etak in 1985, I never dreamed I'd be joining such an illustrious group.

It's been an honor, a privilege, and an incredible journey. Thank you.
Thank you. Stan Honey, Marv White, and the Etak team
Benji Edwards: "Who needs a GPS? The forgotten history of Etak's amazing 1985 car navigation system" (Fast Company, 2015)
Popular Science article from June 1985: Credit: Stan Honey and Popular Science
ETAK's business plan: May 10, 1984: Credit: Computer History Museum
Rare and interesting documents about ETAK: Source: Computer History Museum
ETAK Innovations: Credit: Stan Honey

12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 7

Etak's original product brochure from 1985: Credit: Stan Honey

Those Views from Above…

Paper presented at the Royal Nautical Society of York in 1985: Credit: Stan Honey
Tour and demo of the Etak Navigator: Credit: Ellsworthc on YouTube:
So, do you think you know where you are? And how did you arrive at this seemingly trivial fact? Yes, dear reader, locating where you are is no longer a daunting task. But let me remind you right away that for the average Joe or Jolly, it was only so for a very short time. What made it possible was the widespread use of pocket computers, which everyone now carries with them. But by 2016, the global penetration rate of smartphones had only surpassed 50%, so it is safe to say that it has only been eight years since the majority of people on this planet were able to quickly define their niche. This is a truly astonishing fact. Even before the iPhone, there was a way to quickly locate where you were. You could use your favorite personal navigation device (PND), but only when you were in a car. And the global penetration of PNDs was nowhere near that of smartphones. This innate ability to locate where you are can remove a lot of stress from your life. You no longer have to roll down the car window in embarrassment, and at least most of the time, you don't have to worry about getting lost during a leisurely stroll through the countryside. For those of you who don't remember, it was something like this [click to play]:
Real-time navigation for cars, trains, bikes, and on foot
An explosion of tracking apps for vehicles, missions, rides, deliveries, planes, boats, and not to forget, bird and animal tracking

A complete revolution for search and rescue

A complete revolution for deployment and construction

Allowing geographic indexing of everything (pictured?)

The basis for self-driving machines - tractors and bulldozers, planes, and maybe one day cars and trucks too

So it's pretty easy to argue that this phenomenon should be on the list of "12 cartographic events that shook the world". But how did this happen? And what's left?

If you're so inclined, I want you to know the story of how we got to where we are now, and where we are. And I'll give you a little glimpse of where we're going. It's not all because of GPS.

A few things had to happen:

Someone had to invent the map (see "12 Cartographic Events That Shook the World: Part 1: The First Map").

Someone had to invent a coordinate system (see "World War I").

And someone had to invent how to identify his position. Knowing the latitude (north or south) was relatively easy. However, it was really troublesome to seek longitude (east or west distance).

How this problem was solved is a magnificent story. TL: DR: This problem was solved by anomeric carpenter in northern England in 1759. Everything was a watch.

If you want to dig deeper, propose three options:

Option 1:15 minutes: Read 12 Map Happening that slaughtered our world ": Part 4: A magnificent exploration of longitude"

Options 2: If you want to know the whole picture: Read Dava Sorber's amazing bestseller book.

Options 3: If it is difficult to read like some politicians, watch the PBS video "Lost at Sea", a narration by Richard Drayfas. In fact, even if you can read it, just watch the video. It's a very cool story.

The acoustic detector first appeared. It was used to identify the position of enemy cannon in World War I. This system measured the direction of gunfire using a microfone. By using two or more microphone in a known place, the position of the cannon could be identified using a simple triangular method.

However, this was different from the general SHURE microphone used in pod casting. Let's see the 1927 thing:

T3 Sound Locator 1927 - Credit: Wikimedia

Alternatively, there is a Japanese one before World War II:

Before World War II, Photo of Emperor Showa observing a military hearing sound device mounted on a fou r-wheeled carriag e-Credit: Wikimedia

Gee is a wireless navigation system invented by the United Kingdom during World War II, so as not to be confused with the clear butter in Indian side dishes. By measuring the time delay of radio signals that arrived from multiple known places, the position was measured in a manner called a double curve navigation. GEE's main purpose was to provide a blind landing system by making bombers returning from night raids to find landing strips.

The methodology was as follows:

The transmission antenna is located on both sides of the runway about 10 miles (16km). It was guaranteed that the two antennas would simultaneously send signals by sending a common signal to the two antennas via the transmission route.

The receiver mounted on the aircraft is synchronized with these signals and sends it to a [oscilloscope] type screen ... If the aircraft is correctly lined up on the runway, both signals are simultaneously received and drawn to the same point on the screen. If the aircraft is on one side, one signal is received ahead of the other, and two separate peaks are formed on the screen. By identifying which signal is received first, the pilot can change direction in the right direction by leaving the pilot, and leaving it from it.

The type, called Robert Dippy, has subsequently contributed to the development of a lon g-range version called Loran, which means lon g-range navigation.

How did Loran work? Please see the 2-minute video of the Smithsonian Museum:

Mechanism of Loran Positioning Syste m-Credit: Smithsonian Institation

Loran has evolved over a long period of time. It was first released in June 1942, declared in early 1943. The initial system was Loran-B (failed work), but Loran-C was born. The US Loran-C transmitter began in 1958 and was operated by the US Coast Guard. The original Loran-A system was operated until 1985. The Loran-C was opened for private use in 1974, and the US transmitter was ultimately suspended on February 8, 2010.

I think most people have heard the word "GPS". Of course, it means a whole global positioning system. And surprisingly, the origin is in the US military. The GPS system is owned by the US government and is currently operated by the US Space Army. The receiver mounted on the aircraft is synchronized with these signals and sends it to a [oscilloscope] type screen ... If the aircraft is correctly lined up on the runway, both signals are simultaneously received and drawn to the same point on the screen. If the aircraft is on one side, one signal is received ahead of the other, and two separate peaks are formed on the screen. By identifying which signal is received first, the pilot can change direction in the right direction by leaving the pilot, and leaving it from it.

The type, called Robert Dippy, has subsequently contributed to the development of a lon g-range version called Loran, which means lon g-range navigation.

How did Loran work? Please see the 2-minute video of the Smithsonian Museum:

Mechanism of Loran Positioning Syste m-Credit: Smithsonian Institation

Loran has evolved over a long period of time. It was first released in June 1942, declared in early 1943. The initial system was Loran-B (failed work), but Loran-C was born. The US Loran-C transmitter began in 1958 and was operated by the US Coast Guard. The original Loran-A system was operated until 1985. The Loran-C was opened for private use in 1974, and the US transmitter was ultimately suspended on February 8, 2010.

I think most people have heard the word "GPS". Of course, it means a whole global positioning system. And surprisingly, the origin is in the US military. The GPS system is owned by the US government and is currently operated by the US Space Army. The receiver mounted on the aircraft is synchronized with these signals and sends it to a [oscilloscope] type screen ... If the aircraft is correctly lined up on the runway, both signals are simultaneously received and drawn to the same point on the screen. If the aircraft is on one side, one signal is received ahead of the other, and two separate peaks are formed on the screen. By identifying which signal is received first, the pilot can change direction in the right direction by leaving the pilot, and leaving it from it.

The type, called Robert Dippy, has subsequently contributed to the development of a lon g-range version called Loran, which means lon g-range navigation.

How did Loran work? Please see the 2-minute video of the Smithsonian Museum:

Mechanism of Loran Positioning Syste m-Credit: Smithsonian Institation

Everything was replaced by GPS; well, like records, GPS is also reviving. A new version of Loran has been selectively investigated and developed, as GPS interference may vulnerable to the current satellite positioning system. It is called enhanced Loran or "Eroran" and is being considered by several countries. Other countries continue to operate the Loran transmitter around the world.~I think most people have heard the word "GPS". Of course, it means a whole global positioning system. And surprisingly, the origin is in the US military. The GPS system is owned by the US government and is currently operated by the US Space Army.

The development of GPS began with the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Within hours of the launch, two entrepreneurs, William Geer and George Weifenbach, physicists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), realized that they could determine the satellite's location by monitoring its radio signals and measuring the change in frequency of the signal at known locations on Earth due to the Doppler effect.

William H. Geyer (1926-2011) Credit: Johns Hopkins APL George C. Weifenbach (1921-2003) Credit: Johns Hopkins APL

It wasn't long before Frank McClure, associate director of the lab, asked for a different idea: could the known satellite locations be used to determine the user's location?

Why was it so interesting? Because the United States needed a more effective way to blow up the Earth, and one of those ways was to put nuclear warheads on submarines. But a missile launched from a submarine couldn't turn Moscow into a lump of molten glass unless Moscow knew the exact location of the submarine, preferably within a few hundred feet.

It turns out we can pinpoint the exact time when the idea of satellite navigation was born. Guillet and Weiffenbach tell it in a 1998 paper:

Now we are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. On Monday, March 17, 1958, Frank McClure called us into his office and told us to close the door. He asked us if we had anything new that suggested our claims that we could derive an approximate orbit from a single pass of Doppler data had been exaggerated. When we told him that nothing had changed, "Mac" asked if we could do an inverse solution, that is, determine the location of the station assuming that the orbit was known.

This led to the development of what was known as the Transit navigation system. The first attempt to launch a prototype Transit satellite took place in September 1959, and full-scale operations began in 1964. It was primarily used by the US Navy to provide precise positioning information for its Polaris fleet of submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Transit has a long history and never stopped providing navigation services until 1996, when it was replaced by GPS.

Transit 2A satellite preparing for launch - Credit: Wikimedia

If you want to dig into the technical methodology behind Transit, I recommend reading its Wikipedia page.

The pioneering transportation system was thought to be too late and too intermittent to catch up with the airplane speed. I needed a more accurate and reliable system.

From the 1950s to the 1960s, several systems were developed in parallel. Before the nucleus Harmageddon begins, it is to obtain an accurate solution to a land or se a-based missile launch. These other systems include the following:

Moscaic (1950-61): The Moscaic, developed by the Missile Division of Reuseon, stands for "precision ICBM control movement system" and was basically 3D Loran.

Project 621B (1963-73): Aerospace Company (1960 to now) developed more than 1400 scientists and engineers in this concept demonstration design. Aeros Pace was outsourced by the US Air Force to determine navigation coordinates from satellite signals and continue research to meet the accuracy requirements of 15 meters. Through the Basic Research Project 621B, he has built many of the basics of GPS. By the late 1960s, the Aerospace has launched a plan to use 20 satellites placed in a still orbit.

Time satellite (1964-74): Demonstrated that the exact clock required for GPS can be rotated in space. This was actually the 20t h-century version of the H4 chronometer developed by John Harrison in 1759 (see). "The 12 events that shaken our world: Piezo de Resistance was the launch of the Timeline satellite 3, which was equipped with an atomic clock for the first time.
In the late 1960s, it was clear that a solution that satisfies all requests requires adjustment and ship load. In 1968, the U. S. Army, the Navy, and the Air Force joined to form a NAVSEG.
Unfortunately, the group had no authority to execute the decision. In 1969, Chairman Ivan Aeronautical Councilor sought help from President Nixon's science advisor. The advice was not to support the Presidential Committee, but to continue to push ideas through military customers. It was a wise action as a result.
"Mapquest Investors Eye AOL with Cause": Ariana Eunjung CHA, January 19, 2000, Washington Post.
The main client was Air Force Colonel Bradford Parkinson. In 1972, he concluded that certain elements of Project 621b, TIMATION, and TRANSIT were necessary to make satellite navigation truly successful.
On April 17, 1973, the Department of Defense approved the creation of the GPS Program Office, with Parkinson as its leader. At a major meeting held over Labor Day weekend in 1973, Parkinson was able to convince the Army team about the system's plans. The system decisions made at this meeting are still valid today.
Brad Parkinson (born 1935) served as the first program manager of the GPS Joint Program Office, which was established in 1973. Credit: Aerospace Corporation
But what shook our world was the "map that was happening."
From 1977 to 1979, over 700 different tests were conducted and several test satellites were launched.

Screw “Immersive Views.” A Santa Claus List for Mapping Apps. 🎅🏼

Just after midnight on July 19, 1977, Rockwell Collins engineer David Van Dusseldorp was sitting on the roof of his company building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, adjusting his antenna every five minutes to receive signals from the first Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, known as NTS-2.

This GPS receiver was a bit more cumbersome than the ones we are used to today:

In 1977, the Collins Government Avionics division of Rockwell International produced the world's first GPS receiver. It weighed over 270 pounds. Certification Navigation Society

No more brain dead search boxes

More satellites were developed in the years to come. It took until 1985 for it to enter the production and development phase. The first operational satellite, "Block II," was launched in February 1989:

GPS Block II satellite launched in 1989 - Credit: Aerospace Corporation
GPS received its first test in 1990 after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the system provided valuable navigation information to all coalition forces. Media coverage of GPS's use in the war increased awareness of the system and commercial interest.
By the time GPS was fully operational, its future success was virtually guaranteed.

Initially, the US Pentagon kept GPS only for themselves. It was not available for commercial or consumer.

However, on September 1, 1983, the Korean Airlines 747-type jumbo aircraft from Anchorage to Seoul flowed into the Soviet territory and all changed by the Suhoi SU-15 interceptor. All 269 passengers have died.

As a result of the case, President Ronald Reagan has issued an order to make GPS available for free for private use.

The memorial monument of the KAL007 flight "Prayer Tower" at Cape Soya. The memorial monument is near the land, near the point where the aircraft was shot down. Credit: Wikimedia

Initially, the US Pentagon kept GPS only for themselves. It was not available for commercial or consumer.

But there was a solution. Selected availability affects all GPS receivers in a specific area, so a fixed station that knows the location can send errors to other receivers in the area. This methodology was named Differential GPS (DGPS).

As a result of the case, President Ronald Reagan has issued an order to make GPS available for free for private use.

What about the malicious team using GPS? Now, the U. S. military has developed a new system and provided the ability to refuse GPS to enemy troops in a specific crisis.
Of course, with the advent of GPS, other countries around the world suddenly were in a serious and disadvantageous position. Friendship countries were American compliance. The American enemy suddenly fell into a deep, deep yogurt. Of course, other systems also appeared:

Initially, the US Pentagon kept GPS only for themselves. It was not available for commercial or consumer.

If you open your favorite map app, you will see a small blue dot zooming into the current location like magic.
So you may think that this app only reads GPS and plots on the map.

Hahaha. However, it turned out that it was not so simple.

As a result of the case, President Ronald Reagan has issued an order to make GPS available for free for private use.

Second: In the city where hig h-rise buildings are lined up, the GPS signal bounces on the side of the building like a pin g-pong ball, which consequently gives all kinds of wrong measurements.
The third is that you are still. When you move around, the accuracy of GPS decreases. The more you move around, the lower the GPS accuracy.
Looking at the specifications of the iPhone, you can see that gps or higher is required to get beautiful blue dots:

Initially, the US Pentagon kept GPS only for themselves. It was not available for commercial or consumer.

Instead of GPS, you can determine the rough position of your mobile phone by looking at the Celtower that your device is looking at and the triangle surveying the position.

Identify the position from the radio tower of the mobile phon e-Credit: gp yes

It works, but can only specify the approximate position (usually a few hundred meters).

The Wi-Fi location tracking works using a unified database of the known Wi-Fi router (also known as Wi-Fi Access Point). Knowing the position of the mobile phone tower, this method works almost in the same way, similar to the idea behind the triangular surveying of a mobile phone tower.

However, it is necessary to convert the location information of the Wi-Fi router to a database. From 2008 to 10 years, Google had a secret collecting this data and became a problem. How did Apple access the same information? To be honest, I'm not sure, but I guess it was collected from billions of iOS devices with a habit of wondering.

Another way to keep the location information accurate is to use the location information history. At one point, you find that you are in a specific place, and then confirm that your mobile phone compass and motion sensor is heading at a specific direction at a specific speed, then you later. You can guess the location. This method is called "speculation navigation". This has a limit, but can prevent the blue dot from flying too much.

Another method is to use known information about the current way of moving. If you are in navigation mode by car, it is very likely that you are actually running on the road. Therefore, the app can "button" the blue dots on the road.

As already mentioned, many applications and industries require accurate location information. Therefore, a lot of effort, time, and costs are spent to improve the accuracy of location information.

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One method was called RTK (rea l-time cinematics) and was invented in the early 1990s. Basically, it evolved the method of the differential GPS used as a selective use solution. This is based on a geographically distributed baseline set based on a known position.

Cool routes

In recent years, major companies have introduced another method to determine your position. "Visual tracking" is composed of what the mobile phone camera is seen and the known 3D building database. Apple Map introduced this feature three years ago:

Apple Map started visual tracking in 202 1-Credit: Apple

It is difficult to get location information in the building. Some approaches have been tried, but one of the most common "solutions" was to promote ideas for triangular surveying using Bluetooth beacons. However, few people know that hundreds of (thousands of) beacons need to bomb carpet in a building to make it successful. And the beacon battery must be replaced every few months. Net / Net: Not used for babies.

Another approach that Apple adopts is a method called Wi-Fi fingers. Apple's indoor positioning system depends on this method and captures Wi-Fi radio interference patterns in the building. This is not an absolute, but at least there is no need to install a beacon like a mountain.

The problem of indoor placement is worth the article on another map. There are many misunderstandings about s o-called "solutions".

Have you ever wondered that two tunnel excavators began to expand the tunnels for many miles and miraculously ended in a almost perfect position? I always wonder. This is especially true if these machines have thousands of tons of weight and tend to sink.

GP, Wi-Fi, and cellular methods are clearly not suitable. So how are you doing? The answer is to use laser guidance. One of the typical companies that provides solutions in this field is a German company called VMT. Let's introduce a short video from the company's website [Click to play]:

Tunnel excavation machine VMT navigation syste m-Credit: VMT

Cool routes with waypoints I might actually like

There are recent scary stories that Russia has nuclear weapons in satellites, and nations around the world, of course, have become nervous about the vulnerability of satellite positioning systems. For example, GPS depends on 24 satellites. Just destroying only a few, GPS will hardly work.

As a result, the US Space Army tracks smaller and inexpensive satellites to reinforce GPS Constellation. This not only reduces the cost of the entire system, but may also reduce vulnerabilities.

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There is also a story that everyone's best friend, Elon Mask, may consider a commercial arrangement system.

However, here is another positioning technology that Hiroyuki Tanaka of the University of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute is currently studying. The following are his papers published in the Nature magazine and followed by Cell. com.

The concept is to develop a completely new wireless navigation technology called a wireless Mumetric Navigation System (MUWNS), taking advantage of the relative and transparent properties of Muon cosmic rays. Quoting the author's words:

This paper is the world's first used on the 1st basement floor in the building to navigate (people) in an area where the signal of the Global Citigation Society System (GNSS) / Global Citigatic System (GPS) does not reach. It shows the results of the physical demonstration of Muom. As a result, the navigation accuracy was comparable to the positioning accuracy that can be achieved by GNSS/GPS single point positioning in urban areas.

Yes, readers. Minonia

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Source: Frederica LaricCia In Statistica: Number of Smartphones Sold to End Users Worldwide from 2007 to 2023︎.

References and acknowledgments

Steven R. STROM: "Mapping a Course Towards Global Navigation".

Now get me parked…

Aerospace Corporation: "The History of Aerospace".

The Institute of the Navigation (Aeon): Navigation Museum

Galileo GNSS: "The first GPS signal received 40 years ago"

Mark Birdon and Alyssa Macilip: "Google Street View Wi-Fi Scandal and Privacy Regulation"

Wikimedia in Wikipedia. What would it happen if you didn't have it?

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Wi-Fi that has become popular (sometimes called "WHIFF-EE" in French).

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Internal relaxation

My time was hard. I was lucky to have tea, and cold tea at that.

For those of us who have been cartographers for a while, we should add one important item to this list: the luxurious richness of the “view from above.” Aerial photography.

Aerial photography changed the way we see the world, the way we map it, and the way we understand it.

Indoor maps everywhere — but personalized for me

As many of you may know, I was part of the team that developed the world’s first car navigation system, the Etac Navigator, in 1985. The navigator couldn’t function without a digital road map, and nobody was making one, so we had to make our own maps.

This was not an easy task. There was no Google Earth. There was no satellite imagery. Aerial photography was as rare as seeing progressive people at a MAGA rally.

To make digital maps, we had to use what are called USGS Quads. USGS Quads are 1:24, 000 scale printed maps produced by the United States Geological Survey. Some of these maps were relatively new, made last year, while others were a bit older, about 30 years old.

USGS Quad in San Francisco - Credit: USGS

Fewer immersive views and more maps please

So the digital maps we made were far from up to date. We knew that. That's why when we gave people the opportunity to try our address tracker, we always asked them "Where did you grow up?", not "Where do you live?" 😜

So where did these aerial views come from?

The first aerial photographs were taken in 1858 by French photographer and balloonist Gaspard Félix Tournachon, aka "Nadar". And in 1855, he patented the idea of using aerial photographs to create maps.

Gaspard Félix Tournachon, aka "Nadar", and his balloon photographs Credit: Professional Aerial Photographers Association (PAPA)

But photos weren't just taken from balloons. Ingenious people also used kites and pigeons. In fact, in 1903, Bavaria even founded the Bavarian Pigeon Corps for aerial reconnaissance. But controlling flight paths turned out to be a bit of an interesting challenge.

Aerial photos taken during a pigeon photographic flight. Note the wingtips! Source: Association of Aviation Photographers (PAPA)

In 1897, the next step to the next stage was Alfred Nobel, a very famous colleague. He took aerial photographs for the first time with a camera mounted on the rocket and succeeded.

However, it was all before the plane, and it was surprisingly Wilver Light in 1909 (in Italy!).

As is common, it was a war that accelerated progress. First of all, in World War I, aerial photographs were rapidly widespread in place of sketches and drawing on airplanes. At the end of World War I, both camps were taking pictures of the battlefield twice a day.

The biggest progress was Sherman Mills Fairchild (1896-1971) than anyone else.

A mapping app my mother-in-law would use

In 1960, the cover of the time magazine Credit: Time Magazine

Unfortunately, in the hig h-tech world of the 21st century, Sherman Fairchild has become a forgotten hero.

Shaman Fairchild has established more than 70 companies for many years and has become famous for focusing on aviation, cameras and semiconductors.

If you know how to use the Rotary Dial, you may have heard the name of a famous Silicon Valley company called Fairchild Semiconductor. Sherman founded the company in 1957 and became a pioneer in the production of transistors and integrated circuits.

Perhaps you don't know that the Fairchild Semiconductor has begun as part of the Fairchild Camera & Instrument established in 1927.

If you dig deeper deeper, you will see the story about this company:

In 1917, Sherman Fairchild was rejected for its unhealthy. In 1917, Sherman Fairchild was refused to be in military service due to unhealthy. He decided to find another way to support war efforts, and went to Washington D. C. and won a government contract to develop an improved air camera.

His secret was a camera specializing in use on airplanes where stability and shutter speed problems remain. By the end of the war, the shutter developed a camera inside the lens. This has greatly improved the image quality, and has become a standard for the air camera system for 50 years.

In 1921, Fairchild began commercially an aerial investigation of the city, and on August 4, 1921, an altitude 10. 000 feet:

Manhattan's Fairchild Aerial Aerial Photo, 1921: Source: US Council Library

By the time of World War II, more than 90 % of the Airlines used by the Allies was designed or manufactured by Fairchild.

Before Fairchild died in 1971, he was mounted on Apollo 15, No. 16, No. 17, and his camera was exploring the moon, while his camera was on the moon. I was mapping:

Fairchild Moon Mapping Camer a-Credit: Wikimedia

But, of course, aerial photographs are not just those taken from an airplane. The satellite has dominated the world with a fierce rush of the Cold War.

TL;DR

The honor of Map Happenings, which shakes our world, is nothing less than a landsat planned by NASA in an era when nuclear power and transition to the moon.

In 1965, Mr. William Pecola, director of the US Geological Investigation (USGS), proposed an idea of a remote sensing satellite program to collect data on natural resources on Earth.

According to Pecola, the program was "in 1966, as a direct trigger, in which the usefulness of Mercury and Gemini's shooting in global resource research was proved." The weather satellite has been monitoring the atmosphere of the earth since 1960, and was considered to be generally useful, but did not evaluate terrestrial data from space until the mi d-1960s.
After a variety of political and military reversal, NASA finally issued a g o-signed satellite construction in 1970. Landsat 1 was launched in just two years, and it was the beginning of a new era of global remote sensing from space:
Landsat No. 1 1972 Images --Sredit: NASA
Landsat No. 1 was launched in 1972 and said the beginning of the new era of remote sensing from space.

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For the past few years, if you want to give an overview of what happened in the world of artificial satellites, I want my best friend to watch a very attractive video by Max Lenorman, editor of MindsbeHindmaps for about 20 minutes.

The Advent of Computer Based Mapping

The satellite images have revolutionized the world in various ways, such as weather, agriculture, environmental research, and of course military, but probably have the deepest impact on map creation.

Map manufacturers like Google, Apple, Here, Tomtom, Grab, Baidu, Kakaomap, and YANDEX are not only to make a map today, but also update them to the latest maps without a lot of hig h-resolution aerial photos. I can't.

Today, companies such as Maxar, Planet, and Satellogic provide 30 cm (1 feet) -like photos on a daily basis.

1 foot).

Analysis is not limited by technology. It is restricted by the government. There is no doubt that a military satellite has a 10 0-centimeter resolution of 100 cm.

But don't even decide that it is an image from satellite. Aerial images from airplanes and aircraft are still extremely common, and companies like Neatmap are doing business to sell "more clear images than the best satellite images."

It is clear that Google and Apple are also conducting their own surveys. This is one of the many aerial display mounted on Apple's MacOS and Tvos:

London Apple Screen Save r-Credit: Apple
Of course, there is the only flies ...
Apple Apple's only fly fly is just a fl y-fl y-it is called cloud.
Oh, this is also called at night.
But don't worry, readers. It is called "SAR", a synthetic opening radar. The SAR invented by Karl Wiley, a goodyear aircraft company in Arizona in 1951, can use radar to see clouds (and darkness), allowing high resolution images in any weather.
This was the first recruitment of the SR-71, a spy machine that started in service in 1966, 58 years ago!
SR-71 Blackbird Magazine-Credit: Popular Mechanics
Currently, SAR images are easily marketed by companies such as Capella Space:

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