<one's-own-horn-tooting> Our Open Source CAD (Computer-Aided-Dispatching, at www.ticketscad.org ) has included for several years now the feature in which given the incident location, the application returns the list of response units, ordered by proximity, with driving directions - Google generated - from the nearest. Directions for others are presented when any other is clicked.
</one's-own-horn-tooting> I plead guilty here of using some rather obvious freely-available tools, sans any special innovation on our part. I sincerely hope that Apple is dissuaded from pursuing this, or is shot down hard if they do proceed! AS On 12/21/13, Puneet Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was tl;dr, but the quick scan I did seems to have two things that I > haven't seen yet -- > > 1. multi-touch: touch two points on a map and the best route is displayed > immediately; > > 2. dim everything else thereby highlighting only what one wants to look at. > > There may be other new things in that long application. > > Interestingly #2 above reminds me of line graphs that Manish Agarwala from > Berkeley had invented a long time ago that MapBlast incorporated in its > routing algorithms. Then MapBlast was bought out by MS maps outfit (I think > it was called MSN) and the feature existed for a while; and then that > morphed into Bing and it even existed in Bing Labs for a while and then > seems to have vanished. I used to love that line drawing feature. You could > ask for a route as a line drawing, and it would only highlight the most > important thing, the route, along with associated land marks, and dim > everything else. > > > On Dec 20, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Simon (SPDBA) Greener > <si...@spatialdbadvisor.com> wrote: > >> While I am not sure of the features in osgeo software to which Venkatesh >> refers, most of what appears in the patent application are natural >> improvements to existing map functionality that is common to any mapping >> software. I can't see Google letting this through without a fight. I agree >> with Venkatesh that an objection be lodged. >> Simon Greener >> >> On 21 Dec 2013 17:05, Venkatesh Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> >> wrote: >>> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I think the OSGeo should express strong objection to the "Interactive >>> Map" >>> patent filed by Apple on 17 Dec 2012 [1]. The contents of the patent [1] >>> >>> describe features that OSGeo software already provides for over a decade. >>> >>> >>> Best >>> >>> Venka >>> >>> [1] >>> http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=%28715%2F771.CCLS.+AND+20131219.PD.%29&OS=ccl/715/771+and+pd/12/19/2013&RS=%28CCL/715/771+AND+PD/20131219%29 >>> .. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss