Free Amazon Fire Phone App From MapQuest

MapQuest, Inc., has launched an enhanced device-specific navigation app optimized for the Amazon Fire phone available today. The free app provides a customized experience leveraging the Fire phone’s Dynamic Perspective functionality including tilt-activated menus, layer bars and panels.
“Working on Amazon’s Fire phone was a refreshing development ecosystem, providing a unified vision for the MapQuest team to create an app that operates more quickly than many other platforms,” said Brian McMahon, general manager, MapQuest. “MapQuest’s free apps and experiences are agnostic across all devices, which is great for our more than 40 million users who have been with us for years and are excited to try Amazon’s new phone.”

MapQuest’s Navigation Apps
MapQuest’s personalized navigation experience has long been touted as both easy-to-use and better at connecting people to the maps and routes that shape their everyday lives. Today’s additional features add to the recent updates MapQuest incorporated into its mobile navigation apps for the Amazon Appstore, including:

• NEW! – Tilt-activated menus beautifully engineered for Fire phone’s unique panels
• NEW! – Layers bar relocation under widget for better consumer experience on Fire device
• NEW! – 3-D logo icon for better legibility on Fire phone’s screen
• NEW! – More customization from map icon to specific navigation options (last location, home, work)
• High-resolution vector maps: Beautifully designed maps offer improved quality and resolution, enhanced zoom features and new cartography
• New interactive map layers and customizable category buttons: These features make finding nearby business and popular locations quick and easy
• An industry-first ETA status bar: A status bar informs users of time and distance to their destination, as well as anticipated in-route traffic
• Advanced navigation features: Voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation and real-time traffic re-routing
• One-click point of interest and location sharing: Send location or destination information out via social media, SMS or e-mail

“MapQuest has innovated using Fire phone’s unique capabilities to offer customers a new kind of experience for people on the go,” said Steve Rabuchin, Vice President, Amazon Appstore. “We’re thrilled that MapQuest has created an app for Fire phone. We think customers are going to love the experience.”

To download MapQuest’s free navigation apps and to select a favorite team experience, visit the Amazon Appstore to get started.

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GIS App: ArcGIS Explorer For Smartphone and Tablet

Esri released recently Explorer for ArcGIS, the GIS app for everyone to access and share maps on their smartphone and tablet. This app is characterized by being “for everyone”, with its modern, easy-to-use interface that allows non-GIS professionals to use it right away. Right now the release is available on iOS but an Android version will be available in the future.

Explorer for ArcGIS may require some familiarity with Esri GIS tools. For example, users can access any of their organization’s maps authored in ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS. These users are able to search for information about their assets, find out where their assets are in relation to their current location, and share that information easily with whomever they want to know the information. Maps can be shared several ways including text message, email and AirDrop and other methods.

Maps can be redlined in Explorer with the app’s sketching tool. There is also an interactive presentation feature in Explorer for ArcGIS that makes it possible for users to brief stakeholders by using map slides which contain a title, visible layers in sets, and an extent. During a presentation, users can interact with a live map and also view pop-up windows and sketch.

To download Explorer for ArcGIS, visit the Apple App Store. All you need is an iOS device to download and try the sample maps included in the Explorer app.

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Free Trimble RTX App For Android Phones and Tablets

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today the Trimble RTX mobile app, built to serve end users across the survey, mapping and agriculture markets. Using Android smartphones and tablets, the Trimble RTX app enables the Trimble CenterPoint RTX post-processing service and the RangePoint RTX service activation portal to go mobile. The Trimble RTX app also offers a series of satellite utilities including a skyplot, information regarding satellite status, and signal-to-noise ratio graphs.

The announcement was made today at INTERGEO 2013, the world's largest conference on geodesy, geoinformatics and land management.

Powered by Trimble RTX technology, the GPS, GLONASS and QZSS enabled CenterPoint RTX post-processing service delivers better than 2 centimeter (1 inch) accuracy, and improves with larger observation files. With the Trimble RTX app, geospatial professionals using the CenterPoint RTX post-processing functionality can quickly and accurately establish their base station coordinates, reducing setup time to just minutes.

In this initial release, the CenterPoint RTX post-processing features include:

    - mobile device to GNSS receiver data transfer via Bluetooth; no need for USB keys or thumb drives
    - a library of global and regional coordinate systems where users can select the most appropriate system for the job
    - job progress alerts
    - in-app reports of processed results
    - support for a variety of Trimble receivers including the Trimble R10, the Trimble R8 (Model 4), the Trimble R6 (Model 4), the Trimble NetR9 and the Trimble NetR5

In addition, the Trimble RTX app also allows farmers to activate the Trimble RangePoint RTX correction service directly from the mobile device. Free for one year through 2013, RangePoint RTX delivers better than 15 centimeter (6 inch) pass to pass and 50 centimeter (20 inch) repeatable GNSS accuracy; it is ideal for broad acre agriculture applications.

"We are committed to offering new ways of providing high-accuracy positioning," said Patricia Boothe, general manager of Trimble's Positioning Services Division. "With this new mobile app, we are delivering the power of Trimble RTX technology into the palms of our customers' hands."

The free Trimble RTX app is available for smartphones and tablets using the Android operating system. Available now, the CenterPoint RTX post-processing feature operates on Gingerbread or higher. The RangePoint RTX self-activation feature, available in the fourth quarter of 2013, requires Jelly Bean or higher. To download the app, go to Google Play Store or visit: http://www.trimble.com/positioning-services/.

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iPad App Of the Day: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Our app of the day: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres for iPad
 

Description

Leading journals from the American Geophysical Union are now available on your iPad. Fresh from the newsstand, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres brings you a stimulating, high-impact mixture of articles covering all aspects of atmospheric science.

Enjoy an entirely new browsing and reading experience, and keep up to date with the most important developments in the geosciences: – Stay current with the latest articles through Early View – updated almost daily.
- Be notified when a new weekly issue is available.
- Download articles and issues for offline perusal.
- Save your favorite articles for quick and easy access.
- Share articles with colleagues or students.

CURRENT SUBSCRIBERS to Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres can “pair” their device with their personal or institutional subscription to enjoy full access in this iPad edition.

SUBSCRIBE IN THE APP: Annual Subscriptions (24 issues) for the iPad-only edition are available for $349.99 (US) per year. Payment is charged to your iTunes account after confirmation of purchase. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres subscriptions automatically renew within 24 hours of the end of your subscription period for $349.99 (US) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the subscription period. To turn off auto-renew, go to your iTunes account settings after purchase. Note that subscriptions cannot be cancelled during the term of the subscription, but you can still turn off auto-renew to prevent automatic renewal of your subscription. Note that any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchases a subscription.

About the Journal:
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) publishes original scientific research on the physical, chemical, and biological processes that contribute to the understanding of the Earth, Sun, and solar system and all of their environments and components. JGR is currently organized into seven disciplinary sections (Atmospheres, Biogeosciences, Earth Surface, Oceans, Planets, Solid Earth, Space Physics).

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres covers all areas of atmospheric sciences, including:
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- Atmospheric Physics
- Atmospheric-Biospheric Interface
- Aerosol and Clouds
- Climate and Dynamics
- Hydrospheric Interface
- Lithospheric Interface

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres includes original research covering the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, as well as the atmospheric-biospheric, lithospheric, and hydrospheric interface.

About the Society:
The American Geophysical Union is a not-for-profit society of Earth and space scientists with more than 62,000 members worldwide. Established in 1919 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., AGU advances the Earth and space sciences through its scholarly publications, meetings and conferences, and outreach programs.

Note: Open iTunes to download the app.

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Free App Of The Day: Citymaps - Create Your Own Map

Create and follow beautiful maps of the places you love!

Citymaps is a new social map that lets you create and share maps of your favorite places. Make maps yourself, or make them with friends. Explore all kinds of maps by people who know the area best — friends, locals, and publishers. Easily send texts of maps or share on Facebook and Twitter. Happy mapping!

Find Citymaps in the App Store.

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Medicare Mapper Free iPad App Now Available

Demonstrating how location analytics can use big data, Critigen LLC along with partners Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., and Esri, has developed an informative Medicare application called Medicare Mapper.  Just released in the Apple App Store, it is a free download for the iPad.  Based on a publicly available data set from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the application allows consumers to see where people in their area are going for Medicare services, and service providers to see where their patients live along with the relative amount of services they received.  It quickly and easily illustrates geographic patterns in Medicare hospital inpatient expenditures and exemplifies the power of location analytics for healthcare.

Based on the 2011 version of the Hospital Service Area file, the application makes anonymous data available on health services, service providers, utilization, and costs in an intuitive tablet interface.  A total of 990,455 records, represented by a string of numbers, were decoded and geo-enabled with help from the U.S. Census Bureau’s ZIP code file and population data from Esri.  It describes every Medicare Hospital Inpatient Admission that occurred in the country in 2011.  Included is the residency (ZIP code) of the beneficiary, the hospital provider that received the reimbursement, the total amount of the reimbursement, the total length of stay, and the total number of cases that originated from within the respective ZIP code.  Using the totals described by the data, two more categories of data were averaged and included for each record.

Users can select a specific hospital and display its impact in terms of which ZIP codes their 2011 Medicare beneficiaries came from.  If a ZIP code is selected, pins appear on the map to show what facilities were used by the beneficiaries living there.  Another built-in capability compares two hospitals or two ZIP codes in a side-by-side manner.  The differences of each category can then be viewed numerically or by percentage.  These capabilities enable users to build the stories they need to produce understanding, build knowledge, research, or manage.

Medicare Mapper follows the 2012 release of Critigen’s Health Indicators app as an example of using our geospatial technology and mobile expertise to make health data accessible to everyone.  We hope it inspires the health community to embrace the potential of geographic information to improve the way we invest in healthcare, prevention, and infrastructure. We also hope it enables executives, citizens, and health professionals to create the stories they need to enable change.

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OGC Student Map App Challenge 2013 Sponsored By Google

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces the OGC Student Map App Challenge, sponsored by Google, an OGC Principal Member. The Student Map App Challenge is a contest for students who have programming skills and an interest in maps and location services.

Open standards from the OGC unlock the potential of the "spatial Web," creating opportunities for app developers to make all kinds of location information available to users, independent of platform. The OGC has launched the Student Map App Challenge to make entrepreneurial students aware of the enormous social and commercial potential of these open standards.

Three winning applicants will receive an OGC Student Map App Challenge Award and the opportunity to have their apps featured on the OGC website and in other media channels. The first place winner will:

    - Receive the award at their choice of the next year's OGC Technical Committee meetings (http://www.opengeospatial.org/event?category=ogctcpc), held quarterly in cities around the world. OGC will pay for travel, accommodations and meals.

   - Receive a Nexus Tablet donated by Google.

   - Receive a two-year OGC membership for the student's academic institution

   - Have a dedicated award page on the OGC website and be cited in an OGC press release.

Applicants and their apps will receive the attention of the OGC's 480 public sector and private sector members – government organizations, NGOs, corporations and universities around the world.

Apps can make use of hundreds of public and private sector map data sources that are accessible through server-side implementations of OGC standards. These include weather, navigation, demographics, sensors, webcams, commercial establishments, hydrology, bird counts, accident statistics and many other kinds of data. The OGC Student Map App Challenge page provides search tools that can be used to find these existing OGC service instances. Most of these have no restrictions or few restrictions on their use, and thus they provide countless opportunities for mapping apps and location service apps.

Students don't need to rely on others' data, however. Sources of spatial data that are not now accessible through OGC's open interfaces and encodings can be made accessible by students who develop server interfaces as well as client apps.

Students must register by 15 June 2013 and submit their apps by 15 July 2013. Contestants and the public will be notified of the results on 30 August 2013.

The OGC is an international consortium of more than 480 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the Student Map App Challenge page for details.

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Get The Free iGIS for iPad App

I have the iGIS for iPad app on my device, and maybe anyone of you may want to get and use it too. The iPad app is free for a limited time.

iGIS - The world's first and leading iOS GIS.

True GIS functionality is finally available on the iPad! Your iPad, your data, your maps.

iGIS represents a new era in mobile GIS solutions by enabling users to load, view, investigate, create and export their own data over background maps, satellite imagery or your own imagery.

Importing data is easy with our unique data import facility supporting Mac, PC and Linux or via the USB cable. ESRI Shapefiles (.shp) are supported at the moment.

Great for field work as your spatial data is stored on the iPad, so there is no need for an Internet connection to see your data. We also support over 3000 projections, so there is no need for data re-projection.

We include support for multiple layers of points, lines, and polygons and imagery – all styled as you like.

Add comments to your maps - A point layer is added with a name and description field. You can add or edit any of your layers - and even define your own data entry forms with dropdown lists for codes, etc.

Export your layers to ESRI shapefiles for use back in your enterprise.

Other features include:

- Great speed, using our multi-threaded map renderer.
- Support for large datasets.
- Add your own imagery
- Import and export of ESRI Shapefiles.
- Display current GPS location in your chosen projection ( + compass)
- Zoom to current location
- Zoom to data extent
- Map Pan, zoom in, zoom out
- Changeable drawing styles for a layer: size, color, transparency
- Set the draw order and visibility of map layers
- Set the zoom scale for layers via a simple slider
- Select and interrogate feature attributes via point and click

This application is designed for GIS professionals and an understanding of some basic GIS concepts such as layers, shapefiles, projections etc, would make using iGIS simpler.

Visit iTunes to download the iGIS app for the iPad.

Also visit: Best Free GIS Apps for iPad and iPhone

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HyDRA App From The U.S. Army Geospatial Center

The U.S. Army Geospatial Center (AGC) and Engineer Research and Development Center recently released the Hydrologic Data Resources Application (HyDRA) - a Web-based data survey and analysis tool created to provide the Dept. of Defense (DoD) logistics and geospatial intelligence-related water communities with information on water resources data collection, visualization and dissemination in a mobile, enterprise-enabled environment.

HyDRA allows users to view, collect and edit unclassified water resources features via Android 2.2+ OS smart devices using Google MapsTM and Google EarthTM applications. Wells, water tanks, water storage points, dams, treatment plants and other features may be added, queried and edited in “connected” and “disconnected” modes; collected features may also be edited through a Web page using the same functionality. The Web page and app were created to assist U.S. Army engineers and the water community working in infrastructure and reconstruction operations with feature collection and identification. A compass feature is also included to assist the user in finding the nearest water feature and its bearings.

The mobile application may be downloaded from the AGC’s Web site. An offline version of the mobile application is under development and will allow the user to store collected data locally and sync to the server after an internet connection becomes available.

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ArcGIS for Android: Edit Maps on Kindle Fire

Esri users can now access ArcGIS data and mapping capabilities on Amazon's popular Android tablet, Kindle Fire. ArcGIS for Android, also available on iOS devices, Windows Phones, and other Android devices, lets users access, edit, and share maps. The free app can be downloaded directly from the Amazon Appstore for Android.



ArcGIS for Android is a native application that serves as a mobile gateway into the ArcGIS system. It provides an intuitive user experience for querying map layers and data. With it, users can quickly access their own maps and data authored in ArcGIS Online as well as collect and edit geographic data. ArcGIS for Android includes a Favorites feature that accesses popular maps quickly; a tool for measuring area and distance; and the ability to display data in popups that support images, charts, links, and more.



ArcGIS for Android is built on Esri's ArcGIS Runtime Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK lets developers create custom spatially enabled applications for Kindle Fire and other Android devices and is designed to use web services available from ArcGIS Online. Apps built using the SDK can be deployed within the enterprise or to the public via the Amazon Appstore for Android and Google Play.


To download the ArcGIS app, visit the Amazon Appstore for Android or directly from your Kindle Fire.

SOURCE Esri
Matt DeMeritt of Esri
Phone: +1-909-793-2853, ext. 1-2930

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GeoJot App Makes iPhone, iPad 2 Camera Field Data Collection Tool

Has anyone of you already tried the GeoJot mobile app? According to the app description, it could make your iPhone or iPad 2 camera into a photo-based field data collection tool.

GeoJot geotags your photos with more accurate GPS coordinates and allows you to jot down attribute data associated with each photo such as name, condition, value, etc.. GeoJot is a companion app created for use with GPS-Photo Link, photo mapping software for the PC. Use GPS-Photo Link desktop software to extract attribute information with the geotagged photos - create printed reports, Shape Files and GeoDatabases, KML, KMZ files, watermarked photos, and more.

Professionals use geotagging to do real property audits, damage assessments, compliance documentation and more. GeoJot makes it easy to coordinate large geotagging projects. A field manager sets up the attribute lists and then shares the attribute list with the team in the field for consistent data collection. Team members take photos recording position and attribute data using predetermined attributes. Team members send data in via email or download to a central location for processing with GPS-Photo Link. Your company now has photos on maps with attributes ready for analysis, reports, presentations and more.

GeoJot features:

- Automatically record more accurate GPS coordinates with each photo increasing the accuracy from about 60ft up to 15 ft.

- GPS Lock feature allows you to capture the location of the object instead of the photographer

- See Lat/Lon, Elevation, and GPS accuracy while taking photos.

- Collect up to 24 attributes for each photo. Once you have created the attribute fields, you can create a drop down lists of values or type in values in the field.

- Select an attribute list for a group of photos. Each time you take a photo, GeoJot prompts you to select values for the attributes in that list.

- Manage attribute lists creating different lists for each of your geotagging projects.

- Share attribute lists between devices for consistent data collection from your team in the field.

- View a summary of attributes collected in the camera roll through the Photo List View. See a thumbnail of each photo captured along with the date, time and attributes associated with the photo.

- View all photos on one map through the map view, click on a pin to see individual photos.

- Email a photo with geotag and attribute information through the send photo option. Others can add the photo to their camera roll and view it with GeoJot.

- Email or download photos to your PC where you can use GPS-Photo Link to create printable reports, KML, KMZ, or Shape Files showing watermarked photos, maps and attribute data. (GeoJot data cannot be read by other photo mapping software directly. You must use GPS-Photo Link).

- Select the way coordinates, distances, and directions are displayed in the app.

- Map settings icon allows you to select Roads, Satellite or Hybrid as the background maps.

Are you interested? Here is a link to the app store.

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Ice Dataset on CryoSat App for iPad and iPhone

Discover ESA’s ice mission, track it in real time and obtain the latest measurements with the new CryoSat app for iPhone and iPad. CryoSat is measuring the thickness of polar sea ice and monitoring changes in the ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica.

The CryoSat iPhone and iPad application – or CryoSatApp – is now available at Apple's App Store.

CryoSatApp’s main menu provides access to four sections: mission description, a 3D model of the satellite, position tracking and data visualisation.

In the first section, users can easily find information on the CryoSat mission, including images, videos, archived news and an overview of how CryoSat obtains and delivers data.

The 3D model feature allows users to zoom in on how the satellite is built and discover its instruments – such as the radar altimeter for measuring ice thickness.

Information on CryoSat’s current position is automatically updated, including its visibility over selected ground stations. Users can also track the satellite’s position in relation to the iPhone or iPad’s geographical location.

But it’s the data feature that makes this app unique. Not only does it give access to all of CryoSat’s measurements, it can help you visualise the ice sheets by providing a vertical profile over the area.

All geophysical parameters stored in the CryoSat products can be easily displayed at the touch of your fingertips as soon as they are generated on the ground. Users can select the day and orbit from which they want to extract the data, and view Earth’s ice profile from that orbit.

This is a remarkable tool for students and scientists engaged in using CryoSat products.

ESA has a new Earth Observation Data Policy, which allows for free and open access to satellite data.

Since its launch in April 2010, CryoSat-2 has been collecting data to improve our understanding of the relationship between ice and climate.

In June 2011, the first map of Arctic sea-ice thickness was unveiled. The satellite will continue to monitor the changing ice for years to come.

SOURCE ESA Portal

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Free PDF Maps Viewer for iPad

Avenza Systems has made mobile GIS technology available on Apple iOS devices for everybody to use.

The free PDF Maps viewer app is a geospatial PDF, GeoPDF and GeoTIFF reader for your Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. Easily download, browse and interact with maps. It compliments MAPublisher and Geographic Imager, both of which have the ability to export to geospatial PDF and GeoTIFF. The formats are also supported by common GIS applications including ArcGIS.

PDF Maps is used by companies, organizations and individuals for navigation, information collection, and sharing geographic information and knowledge.

Find PDF Maps on the iTunes store.

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TomTom App for iPhone 1.9 Available and Optimized For iPad

TomTom today announced the release of the TomTom App for iPhone, version 1.9, which has been optimized for the iPad. Now, existing TomTom App customers can download the newest version of the App to their iPads for free.

Optimized for the iPad, the new TomTom App features a higher resolution for a sharper display and an enhanced user interface to fit the larger screen size. The new release of the App is also compatible with Apple's brand new iOS5.

“This new release – now officially called 'TomTom App for iPhone/iPad' – is a logical next step for us”, says Corinne Vigreux, Managing Director Consumer at TomTom. “Our customers asked us for enhanced iPad features, and now they have them. We have enhanced everything the iPad user sees and interacts with on the touch-screen.”

The TomTom App for iPhone/iPad, version 1.9, features a new map release – a benefit to users of both Apple devices – with updated roads and points of interest.

With this new release, TomTom has made use of the extra iPad screen size. The full-screen display shows both driving view and advanced lane guidance at the same time. Drivers can also switch to driving view with one touch from anywhere within the App, and can access guidance options in a tap.

Customers also get HD Traffic as via an added in-App purchase. For existing TomTom HD Traffic subscribers, drivers can switch subscriptions from their iPhones to their iPads, at no cost.

Availability and pricing

TomTom App for iPhone/iPad 1.9 for the US is available now for $49.99. Existing TomTom App for iPhone customers can download the new version of the App to their iPad for free.

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Best Free GIS Apps for iPad and iPhone

I own an iPad and have been downloading free GIS apps. There are not so many GIS apps available, to be honest. Most of those I encountered were from ESRI.

Here are free GIS application that may be worth downloading unto your iPad (and in some cases, iPhone).

1. ArcGIS - ESRI App
ArcGIS is a great way to discover and use maps. Maps come to life in ArcGIS. Tap on the map or use your current location and discover information about what you see. You can query the map, search and find interesting information, measure distances and areas of interest and share maps with others. Find community hosted maps from ArcGIS Online – ESRI’s online GIS. Alternatively you can use the authoring tools on ArcGIS.com to create your own maps that can be used in ArcGIS.

If you are an existing ESRI customer this application is part of your ArcGIS system. You can share your corporate maps and extend the reach of your GIS to your iOS devices within your enterprise using ArcGIS Server.

2. UC 2011 App
It is based on Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego. You can have immediate access to full conference details, activities, sessions and training information on your iPhone, if you are among the 14,000 GIS professionals who are going to attend the conference in this July. With this app, you can get important times & dates for events, access to content of sponsor and exhibitor and use Esri’s own maps to navigate the conference center and exhibit halls. Save paper products by supporting Esri’s green initiatives via downloading this app.

3. Terrapad App
Meet Terrapad, your Mobile Geographic Information Manager.
Terrapad gives you the flexibility to enter, query, modify and export your geographic data, all from within your iDevice. Driven by a powerful database engine, a unique and simple user interface, and flexible extensions, Terrapad can meet your most demanding needs.

4. iGIS App
iGIS represents a new era in mobile GIS solutions by enabling users to load, view, investigate, create and export their own data over a background of Google maps satellite imagery.

Importing data is easy with our unique data import facility using the USB cable or wirelessly on your Mac, PC and Linux. Raster data in many formats (pre-processing required) and ESRI Shapefiles (.shp) are supported at the moment.

5. GISRoam – iPad Mobile Professional GIS App
With GISRoam mobile GIS, take your Raster and ESRI Shapefiles with you everywhere. GISRoam is an easy to use and powerful mobile GIS app that enables Shapefile viewing, editing, colorization, and collection over user loaded imagery. With GISRoam you can now go where no 3G or Wi-Fi network exists since the vector and raster data can be pre-load onto the iPad/iPhone before you head out and updated when you return.

6. WolfGIS App
WolfGIS can perform the following tasks:
•Load and display Shapefiles and MapInfo vectors
•Load and display Elevation, Imagery, and Maps rasters
•Import, export, and Share vectors using WolfGIS Web Server
•Import rasters and import/export vectors using iTunes
•Take pictures within the application and associate them with parcels. Easily access the picture catalog associated with parcels.
.... and more

7. SHP Viewer App
It is a simple shapefile viewer. The Esri Shapefile or simply a shapefile is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems (GIS). A shapefile is a digital vector storage format for storing geometric location and associated attribute information. This format lacks the capacity to store topological information.

8. Mapworkspace App
It is a SaaS solution developed for MapInfo Professional users to allow them to easily publish and share their maps on the Web. Developed by Korem, Mapworkspace is truly unique for its accessibility and ease-of-use. Although solutions currently exist allowing users to add simple geographic information to free online map services, Mapworkspace stands out by providing the mapping professional with complete latitude to create maps. Public or private access allows non-GIS professionals to view published information and interact with the authors in a user-friendly environment.

Find these iPad apps from the Apple app store.

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BlackBerry PlayBook ArcGIS App

WebMapSolutions have just released to the Blackberry App World an ArcGIS mobile application. Based on the ESRI Flex viewer, this is a free app. It is a first version of a more complete application, to be released later in the Summer.

The application is called ArcGIS Viewer and can be downloaded directly from App World.

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GIS Education App in OVI Store

Officially, we now have a mobile app! The Nokia OVI store now carries the "GIS in Education" application for your mobile. You can check it out here. Download it for free (for Nokia users, for now) and tell your friends about it.

The "GIS in Education" mobile app will update you of the latest in Educationgis.com. If you don't have the time to visit this site everyday, download the free app and we'll deliver the news directly to your Nokia smartphone.

Here is the link to the app again.

About Ovi Store:
Ovi Store is intended to offer customers content that is compatible with their mobile devices and relevant to their tastes and locations. Customers can share recommendations with their friends, see what they are downloading, and let them see items of interest.

About GIS in Education:
The main goal of this site is to provide the Geospatial technology users and professionals, specifically targeting students and academicians, with the latest developments affecting the GIS and Remote Sensing fields.

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RouteBuddy Atlas: free iPhone app

Following on from the launch of 1:50k mapping RouteBuddy and Ordnance Survey have now announced the availability of UK National Park maps at 1:25,000 scale.

The maps cover all fifteen national parks and work in conjunction with RouteBuddy's free iPhone app RouteBuddy Atlas or RouteBuddy's desktop application.

Retailing from £19.99 these maps offer a significant saving on similar national park maps available on other platforms. For more information visit RouteBuddy's Map Store here.

RouteBuddy Atlas is a great app and works well on the iPhone platform with full use of the GPS on iPhone 3G and 3GS models. Apps are installed to the iPhone using a novel system which turns the iPhone into a server.

Switch it on in Atlas settings and you are given a URL . Map files purchased and downloaded from RouteBuddy's map store can be easily copied to the iPhone via this feature using Explorer or Finder (this solution is 100% OS indpendent) and then activated by entering the unique Licence Key provided at purchase.

Some sample images of the Snowdonia National Park Ordnance Survey map are provided below:

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Earthscape iPhone Application -- free download now

Earthscape, the incredible iPhone application that brings Google-earth to the iPhone, giving the application for free, for a "limited time". Download it now using the link below.

Earthscape presents our planet as it was meant to be seen -- in full 3D. With hundreds of thousands of geotagged wikipedia articles, you can learn about the geological forces that shaped our world, historic events that changed civilization, and monuments we have built in our quest to understand the universe we live in. Or perhaps you are more interested in finding out exactly where the Hollywood sign is, or where the Coliseum in Rome is located -- it's all there. If you like Google Earth on your desktop, you will love Earthscape in your palm.

The entire United States can be viewed in detail, usually comparable or slightly better than current desktop solutions. Imagery outside of the United States is currently limited to 15 meter resolution -- enough to discern major roads, but not houses. As we acquire the rights to use more detailed international imagery, it will be provided to Earthscape users as a free upgrade.

Download Earthscape iPhone Application (iTunes link).

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