jonasolof
10-04-2004, 02:38 PM
While in one of the majore electronics outlet in Dubai at the Deira CityCenter viz. Plug-Ins Electronics (3rd flooor), they demonstrated the coolest nav software I've seen to date.
The PC/laptop version shows vector graphics and satellite images side by side. As you zoom in, scale changes simultaneously. You pan both. Buildings down to 2x2 meters are rendered on the vector graphics and the high resolution satellite images shows cars in the streets as narrow ant eggs , about 2 mm long. Vector resolution is on the same scale.
POIs are indicated directly on buildings and you can even get a listing of companies in a building.
The software allows for routing, vias and blocking no-go zones. It looks like something the US armed forces would like to have for coordinating air and ground forces in urban warfare in a nearby region.
A GPS enabled version is coming soon.
There is also a PDA version, but it doesn't have the sat images.
The PDA vesion is for pocket PC and it is GPS enabled. See web site www.informap.ae
The above maps called UAElocater cover all the emirates in the United Arab Emirates. It is updated twice yearly(by restriction of the security minded governement). A similar web based locator is available: www.uaelocator.com (no sat images).
The company also proposes georeferencing buildings to get rid of the conventional address system.
For those that don't want to live in a mega boom moon base but prefer to go into nature, another product covering Oman should appear towards year's end.
Further ahead lies nav software for Europe.
I got the City Navigator Middle East. Garmin's early implemented vector graphics look sad in comparison, especially on the PC screen.
When you see what's going on in Dubai, the world's fastest real life Sim City game session, you are not the least surprised that amazing things can be done also in software.
The PC/laptop version shows vector graphics and satellite images side by side. As you zoom in, scale changes simultaneously. You pan both. Buildings down to 2x2 meters are rendered on the vector graphics and the high resolution satellite images shows cars in the streets as narrow ant eggs , about 2 mm long. Vector resolution is on the same scale.
POIs are indicated directly on buildings and you can even get a listing of companies in a building.
The software allows for routing, vias and blocking no-go zones. It looks like something the US armed forces would like to have for coordinating air and ground forces in urban warfare in a nearby region.
A GPS enabled version is coming soon.
There is also a PDA version, but it doesn't have the sat images.
The PDA vesion is for pocket PC and it is GPS enabled. See web site www.informap.ae
The above maps called UAElocater cover all the emirates in the United Arab Emirates. It is updated twice yearly(by restriction of the security minded governement). A similar web based locator is available: www.uaelocator.com (no sat images).
The company also proposes georeferencing buildings to get rid of the conventional address system.
For those that don't want to live in a mega boom moon base but prefer to go into nature, another product covering Oman should appear towards year's end.
Further ahead lies nav software for Europe.
I got the City Navigator Middle East. Garmin's early implemented vector graphics look sad in comparison, especially on the PC screen.
When you see what's going on in Dubai, the world's fastest real life Sim City game session, you are not the least surprised that amazing things can be done also in software.