BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20090308T020000 RDATE:20090308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090623T003240Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090622T180000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090622T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090623T003240Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090623T003240Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457332 DESCRIPTION:What happens when everyone has devices in their pockets that know where they are and can display engaging maps? That's exactly what i nnovative company Platial has been exploring since 2005.\n \n Platial CEO Di-Ann Eisnor and VP of Product Jason WIlson will talk about mobile mapping at Mobile Portland's June Meeting. Di-Ann's description of their topic was so good that we're quoting it verbatim:\n \n "\;My daughter's school has an activity called 'junkbox\,' where y ou make stuff based on whatever scraps you find in a box of reused compo nents and objects.\n \n Because both maps and mobile are in ra pid iterative development\, mobile maps developers have been in a consta nt state of junkbox \; we've gleaned scraps of location data\, bits of A PIs\, and grasped at revenue models but there haven't been enough of the right elements to make something truly wonderful.\n \n This h elps explain why a few services like Loopt\, Platial Nearby and Whhrl ha ve seen some success but nothing on the scale of Twitter or Facebook.\n \n \n On Friday\, our box was endowed with a shiny new it em\; location-aware web browsing at least for iPhone\, and with it\, Map Kit and new payment models .\n \n Now\, web developers will b e able to create location-based apps for iPhone\, drastically increasing the number of services which can integrate location.\n \n Thi s\, in addition to recent releases of geodata APIs and location APIs bri ng the vision of mobile mapping to reality almost surely leading to augm ented reality \, truly social maps serving a global purpose\, better fil tered &\; analyzed content.\n \n Platial Nearby is directin g all of this toward specific contextual location filters. We'll talk ab out this and show some examples of what we're making now."\;\n \n About Di-Ann &\; Jason \n \n Di-Ann Eisnor is CEO and Co-founder of Platial\, The People's Atlas\, a widely used social ma pping platform for the web and iPhone. Di-Ann is working toward using s ocial mapping for cultural diplomacy across the globe through community engagement.\n \n Jason WIlson is VP Product and Co-founder of Platial. He focuses on the UI and product direction across all of the Pl atial properties with an emphasis on web services and iPhone.\n \n About Platial \n \n Platial\, The People's Guide to Who and What's Nearby\, is a free resource where people around the world sha re and discover all kinds of Places. Platial was founded to connect peop le globally by making everywhere more accessible.\n \n Social mapping can illustrate a post geo-political picture of the world that al lows people with shared interests to leap geographic boundaries. The ne twork of Platial maps\, including Frappr\, which we acquired in 2007 is distributed on over 500\,000 sites a month and on the iPhone to over 350 \,000 users.\n \n Platial has contributed over 300 Million geo graphically referenced pieces of media including photo\, video\, stories \, people to the Geospatial web at large. Platial is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers\, Sherpalo Ventures and KeyNote Ventures and Omidyar Network among others.\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/eve nts/1250457332 URL:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2973341/ SUMMARY:Mobile Portland: Maps and Mobile — A Rapidly Changing Landscape LOCATION:AboutUs: 107 SE Washington St.\, Suite 520\, Portland Oregon 972 14 US SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR