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Android Geo Apps in Soviet Russia: Latitude and longitude find you
Alexey Zinoviev discusses the importance of geographic applications and their development, focusing on various geo APIs including Google Maps, Yandex Map Kit, and Bing Maps. He highlights the challenges of traditional mapping, including inaccuracies and battery usage of GPS, and emphasizes the potential of location-based services (LBS) and geolocation technologies. The presentation concludes with a note on the necessity for balance in localization while maintaining user privacy.
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Android Geo Apps in Soviet Russia: Latitude and longitude find you
- 1. Speaker : AlexeyZinoviev Android Geo Apps: In Soviet Russia latitude and longitude find you
- 2. About ● I ama scientist. I’m interested graph theory, machine learning, traffic-jam prediction, and big data algorithms. ● I'm also a programmer, so I'm interested in NoSQL databases, Java, JavaScript, Android, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, MapReduce, metaprogramming, reflection. ● And I’m a huge fan of GEO APIs (e.g., Maps APIs)
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- 4. Some maps areextremely old
- 5. Some maps areinaccurate
- 6. Some maps areused in games
- 7. And, of course,some maps are realistic
- 8. ● Geo applicationsare a specific type ● Maps are optional ● Geo content in your app ● There’s a mobile aspect Geo apps
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- 14. ● Cell ofOrigin : finds location by CellID ● Time of Arrival (TOA) ● Observed Time Difference (OTD) ● A-GPS : starts from base stations LBS (Location Based Services)
- 15. ● GPS guzzlesbattery power ● GPS is often inaccurate ● People active in more than 10 times Why LBS?
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- 17. The Maps Family Let'smap everything on the map
- 18. ● Convenient controls(zoom) ● Geocoding ● Routing ● Layers ● Gestures ● Showing traffic jams and public transport (optional) Opportunities of Respectable API
- 19. ● v2 with3D rendering ● Gesture control ● Best support and documentation ● Heatmap & clustering ● Simple integration with location API Google Maps
- 20. ● Excellent coveragein Russia ● More attractive on iOS ● No direct geocoding ● Development was stopped ● No special limits ● 25,000 geocoding requests per day Yandex Map Kit
- 21. ● Data fromOpenStreetMaps ● Best coverage in the world ● Development by community ● No routing & traffic jams ● Tiles from MapQuest + OpenLayers ● Fork & control code :) OsmDroid
- 22. ● This SDKwas designed to work with Android 2.x devices ● Best photos from space ● Excellent coverage in the U.S. ● Supports geocoding, reverse geocoding, and routing Bing Maps SDK
- 23. If you developinga project for... ● a U.S. company - Bing Maps ● a transnational company - Google Maps ● a Russian company, or one in in the former U.S.S.R. - YandexMapKit ● OpenSource with special tiles - iOS maps with overrided tiles MapQuest + OpenLayers ● OpenSource with its own data - OsmDroid ● … just to play - NokiaMaps
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- 25. ● Latitude &longitude ● Latitude is y, longitude is x ● But it looks like this: (y, x) ● To indicate the cities, regions and countries you need diffirent coordinate precision ● Spherical geometry Latitude and longitude
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- 28. Data, People &Revenue
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- 30. ● Popular commercialsites pay for usage ● Limits ● Google Maps for business ● AdMob integration ● Time in app Google’s profit
- 31. ● Media contentwith geolabel ● Places, addresses, organizations ● Wiki ● Type of activity ● Individual tracking ● Purchases Data
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- 37. Local deals andoffers
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- 40. In conclusion ● Don’toverlocalize ● End to real privacy ● Steps to real life
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