For the usual phone apps there are practices how to control it (eg. signing the applications), but in the browser?

I am personally big fan of geo enhanced browsing (and I bet on it currently as a entrepreneur - we do something like this in Locify - expose the location data of the user to the web developers on regular java phone). But there are really not just technical issues to solve.

David Cizek
http://www.locify.com

Skyhook Wireless’s primary business model to date has been to perform regular scans in hundreds of cities of Wi-Fi networks. Each network has identifying broadcast information that, paired with a high-power GPS receiver on board their wardriving vehicles, allows them to create essentially spatially specific maps of signal strength from unique transmitters. They use their own homegrown algorithms to then take a scan from a device, like an iPhone, and produce their estimate as to the location. In my testing, Skyhook has performed extremely well.

Skyhook may also be “pinpointing” cellular base stations, not towers, and that might be part of their model, but Apple’s Steve Jobs stated bluntly from the keynote stage in January 2008 that the iPhone was combining cell tower triangulation information from Google and Wi-Fi location information from Skyhook. So it wasn’t really any secret.

Skyhook has a relationship with Sirf, the leading GPS chipmaker, for integration with their platform. They also have no cell phone integration besides the iPhone (and that’s not at the carrier level, but an application level controlled by Apple), so they’re not in a position to use cell tower information that’s often hidden by phones below the abstraction layer available to even smartphones’ SDK or platform for third-party development. Having cell base station information wouldn’t necessary translate to Skyhook being able to pair that with cell information from the phone. (Under Android, it likely would, however.)

The exposure of this information to developers is very cool, and you may have more information than has been publicly discussed, but, sheesh. The basic facts are pretty straightforward and usual for context, especially if this changes the landscape.

Are all Users so dumb that whenever they are in a busy high street, (or main for our US readers) they will have to use Geo-Services to locate their nearest Starbucks or McDonalds. Haven’t they got eyes, ears or brains?
Geo-Services could be used by Companies that know everything they need to know about any individual via their Social and Search Graph - and place hopeful relevant Local Advertising Messages on your Mobile Phones.
Maybe some Users will find these messages relevant, but there is also a danger that these local messages could turn into Mobile Spam.

Plus the Companies that set up these Geo-Services could also make a huge earner by selling most of their daily data to other Third Party Companies, including most importantly Security Services.

Imagine a future where every Mobile Phone is fitted with and using these Geo-Services and a drugs deal goes wrong at a house in Baker Street, London at 1900pm, where two people are shot dead and four gang men flee the scene.
Security Services that pay these Companies for these Geo-Services on a daily basis that track, store and keep a search history for every day in London, could then search and play back a timeline of tracking events around that location and quickly learn the identities of all four gang members.
They could then do a search history of where each individual was before the shooting and where their exact location is right now.

I am not saying that this is a bad thing, but this type of historic mobile tracking of users could also be priceless for private investigators to spy on ‘cheating spouses’ or ’sick employees’?

Maybe I have gone a little bit too far on the Big Brother or Minority Report scenario for Geo-Services. But as Dion stated right at the beginning of this post, Companies must get it right at the beginning, or risk losing the confidence of all Mobile Users.

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Otherwise, thank you Google - you work will transform space into place.

So when I try and past in or feed in 1,000 customers says you cant map that main.

What is the point of seeing 15 customer on a map? I want to see all my 20,000.

When I try put in 20,000.. comes back and says cant put in that much data.

MS Excel supports right now 1,048,576 rows, their are a lot of users out their that are running stuff over that much data.

“Google enterprise products make your users more productive by combining the innovation and ease of use of Google’s consumer products with the features, security and support that your organization requires” http://www.google.com/enterprise/index.html

Can anybody get hold of a sales person at Google? I tried for over 1 year now… their phone line points you back to their web site, and website makes you fill out a form that you never get a replie back from, so post a msg on their support groups and their people at google looking after dont replay back…

So i want to buy Google Geo product as we are track over 300 (5.8m geocodes a week) asset Geocodes, but looks like their no way to do it.

Google has done some amazing jobs on Google Apps, but still dont do some the basice things we need to use it.. e.g. offline with out having to buy MS Outlook, automatice distribution list administation.