OpenRouteService was developed at the University of Bonn and uses the new OpenLS services published by the Open Geospatial Consortium. It was launched in Germany in May 2008 and coverage was extended to cover the UK and Ireland early in September 2008.

The Your Navigation service was was also launched in the UK in September 2008. Using both services it is possible to select a start and end location and a mode and the service will calculate a suitable route.

Here is YourNavigation for a walking route in central London.

And here is the same route by bicycle:

And by car:

OpenRouteService is able to offer similar functionality but can also use real time (TMC) traffic data for the Northrhine-Westphalia and Bavaria areas. The image below shows two areas of traffic congestion in the Cologne area..

The static data on which this is based is collected by volunteers for OpenStreetMap and is available on a Creative Commons Licence. The OpenStreetMap community is currently improving the tagging of road and path data to improve the accuracy of the routing. Coverage for OpenStreetMap is expanding fast in the UK and elsewhere.

Voici Rice Daubney un site en Flash venu tout droit d'Australie.

Vous aimerez sa navigation originale et intuitive.

Bonne découverte!

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San Jose, CA---How can you miss with a panel on making money? This session, with Joe Laszlo, director of advertising at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), moderating a panel made up of mobile video executives, was packed. Each executive spoke about his or her company's business model. Susan Cashen, vp of marketing at mywaves described the company as a handset agnostic mobile video service that delivers video around the world. "Because we're free, we're dependent on advertising," she said. "We've also recently launched commerce with entertainment. When a consumer is immersed in an entertainment experience like watching a free Beyonce video, it's a natural for them to be able to buy Beyonce content, both virtual and real goods."

Transpera CEO Frank Barbieri described his company as "building the largest premium ad-supported mobile video network." Networks in Motion is an applications and platform provider for the mobile phone, focused on search and navigation, with a subscription-based model. "Navigation and search is alive and well on the paid platform," said CEO Doug Antone. Bytemobile CMO Adrian Hall said his company provides services to the carrier as an enabler to the end-user. "We basically enable the mobile Internet for the end-user," he said. "And we see user-profile information which is useful for contextual and behavioral targeted advertising."

On the advertising front, asked Laszlo, are advertisers are willing to pay a premium for mobile? Bytemobile's Hall said the one thing that appears obvious is that the more targeted the ad, the more valuable. Barbieri said that mobile has far more focus of attention than the PC, where the screen could be displaying several windows and other distractions simultaneously. "For brand advertisers, that increased attention leads to better numbers," he said. "I think the news is fairly good in these early days." Cashen said about 6.5 million unique come to mywaves every month; they come twice a week and spend 20 minutes, watching 2 or 3 minute segments. "A 30-second pre-roll just won't cut it," she said. "In the short term, there are big opportunities to connect with consumers via direct marketing. There's genius to leverage the video entertainment on the handset from the point of view of a brand. Taking what works on the web on mobile is taking baby steps,. You have this incredible storefront on the handset. Click-to-call, click-to-buy: there's no better measurement. Leveraging the entertainment to create action is where we feel good."

Cashen said that transcoding video for the consumer gives her company information on the consumers. "We have the ability to target by DMA, time of day, and type of handset," she reported.

Everyone is trying to drive personalization and the consistency of brand across multiple devices, noted Hall and more personalized advertising based on user needs will create a dramatically stronger click-through rate. The mobile marketing campaign has to have ways to interact with the user, said Barbieri. "We work with our brand advertisers to brainstorm the mobile marketing campaign and how to target the audience."

Antone observed that his company's business model is different in that the user pays $10/month to navigate. "It's no longer how you get from Point A to Point B," he said. "We want someone to turn it on in the morning for real-time traffic information. Not just where's the local movie theater but what's playing and when. It's all available on your client-server application on your handset. See us as a publisher that's getting your content out to people. Our customers are the carriers, who sell to their customers. That's our strategy. All of them have this $10 price point. At some point it'll be $5 and beyond that it will be zero, a free application. The relevance of this is that when someone is mobile, they're also motivated. When you're in a browsing application and looking for a restaurant, you're motivated to go. Targeted, pertinent advertising that can happen during that search is what we're focused on."

But to get the numbers, the only way the carriers can make that work is to draw in big percentages of their users. To get 50 to 60 percent, they'll have to change the pricing model. "We're betting on the idea that they're going to try to do that and not roll over," said Antone

Focusing on how the Networks in Motion product will one day be free, Antone talked about the challenge. "It depends how good we all are at creating the economics on the back end," he said. "That listing of Italian restaurants in your neighborhood, for example. Would you find it offensive to get a manipulated search, where the restaurant that's farther away pays to be listed first? When do consumers say, Forget it - you're giving me something I don't want. We have to do this in a way that there's enough economics but the consumer still likes it."

Finally, panelists spoke about the role of the carrier, between the extremes of a dumb pipe and a walled garden. "There is a smart pipe concept where there's a tremendous amount of marketing and merchandising power that any one would be a fool to ignore, because they have a connection to the user with billing inserts, with product marketing on the deck," said Barbieri. "There's a relationship that can be used to promote content well. We have to move from a programming-type mentality of carriers to more of a merchandising, marketing and retail type of relationship. And that's good for us and for the consumer as well. We have yet to get to the point where there are tremendous marketing and retailing competencies at some of the carriers, but that'll change.

The carriers could move faster," added Hall. "They are desperately trying to be smart pipes and it's incumbent on us to work with them to become smarter. While they're starting to recognize they're sitting in a unique place and make smarter use of the user profiles they see. By doing that effectively, they'll continue to be smart pipes or, in some cases become smarter pipes."

Les déplacements ne se conçoivent plus sans intelligence. Pour rouler, marcher ou voler malin, les usagers des transports ont besoin d'informations, des informations fiables et en temps réel.
Face à ces demandes multiples, une certaine effervescence s'empare des opérateurs de téléphonie mobile. La semaine dernière, SFR et la PME Moviken lançaient itransports.fr, premier service européen de calcul d’itinéraires en transports publics sur téléphone mobile. Le même SFR équipera de ses cartes SIM un nouveau GPS TomTom. Le GO940, puisque c'est son nom, calculera les itinéraires en tenant compte des déplacements de tous les utilisateurs de l'opérateur.
Et voilà qu'à l'occasion du Mondial de l'Automobile 2008, Orange annonce une ribambelle de nouvelles offres allant du Wifi embarqué dans la Lancia au lancement d'Orange Maps en passant par un nouveau service de collecte de données trafic automobile. Ce dernier projet a retenu notre attention car il s'appuie d'abord sur les traces, anonymes et massives, captées à partir des téléphones mobiles en mouvement ; des données qui sont ensuite agrégées à d'autres sources pour une information plus pertinente ; des traces qui deviennent une source considérable d'informations mais qui soulève des questions multiples (Vous êtes capteur, donnée et exploitant ou encore Quand les espaces urbains du futur posent problèmes).
Nous nous sommes entretenus avec Jean-Louis Klein, responsable projet automobile et télématique. Il raconte pourquoi et comment Orange a décidé de mettre son réseau mobile au service de l'info-trafic.

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To help search engines find all of your website's webpages it is important that you provide their bots with a path to the webpages using HTML links. Search engine bots currently cannot read JavaScript links, Flash links or form drop-down menu links and by using these types of navigation you will prevent your webpages from being indexed. It is best to structure your navigation well and provide top level and sub-level HTML navigation links relevant to each section of your website.

Site Map Alternative

If (for some obscure reason) it is not possible to use HTML links within your main website then you should provide users and search engines with a HTML site map alternative that provides a list of links to all the webpages within your website. Search engine bots automatically look for site maps when they visit a website so providing this service will only benefit the indexing of your webpages.

Cross-Link Pages to Help Pass Relevancy and Pagerank

Search engines give more weight (PageRank as Google names it) to pages that are nearer to the top level of your website than pages tucked away in some remote location. This weight can help increase your rankings for search terms related to that page. By cross linking pages with other pages in your website you will help evenly pass this weight around your website helping all pages rank well. An excellent example of this is Wikipedia. You will see that the text in a single Wikipedia page contains many links to other pages and sections of the Wikipedia website all with relevant anchor text.

Avoid Using Popup Windows and Frames

Do not add important information within a popup window link. To create the popup window the link is likely to use JavaScript which will block the search engine bots and then even if the popup window webpage is found and indexed it is likely that when a user visits that page they will have no navigation to take them through the rest of your website. The same problem happens when using HTML frames where you have your navigation in one frame and the content in another.

Quand je navigue, je veux un accès facile à tous les outils du navigateur — menus, boutons, barres d'outils, etc. Mais quand je lis, tout ce qui n'est pas information à l'écran vient distraire l'attention et perdre de l'espace. Je veux que cela disparaisse entièrement.
Quand j'ai navigué jusqu'à un document que je veux lire, je devrais pouvoir appuyer sur un bouton "Lecture", et seul le document, peut-être avec des boutons élémentaires de navigation comme "Page suivante", "Page précédente", et un bouton pour revenir au mode de navigation, devrait être visible. [...] Page suivante, Page précédente ? Eh bien! oui, le document devrait être paginé. Les études ont montré régulièrement que la pagination est bien meilleure que le défilement.

Source : APSED (Bill Hill)

School websites ideally should contain three areas: a brochure style department based on the prospectus; some official pages that contain necessary information required by OfSTED, the LA and the DCSF; and a fun section based on the children's contributions, with safe links to other child-friendly sites.

Simplicity was also the order of the day, with a basic design which reflects the ethos of the school, as well as its corporate image, uniform colour and surrounding area. There are many sites that offer templates for schools, but apart from there being some terrible designs, you can't lump schools into pre-determined categories, neither should they be fluffy, animated, cartoon-like or just plain ugly.

Navigation (accompanied by breadcrumbs) should be extremely simple, and as in one of my school designs, colour coded. You should (nearly - hence the breadcrumbs) be able to get to another area of the site via colours, shapes or motifs which are easily recognised by the children. Each site will evolve organically, as that is the nature of school sites, so a mechanism to enable growth in keeping with the recognition facilities is vital.

Keep to very simple link icons or graphics, with absolutely no flash or other technology gimmicks cluttering up the place. School servers are notoriously slow, so anything that aids a quick download is much appreciated. Also, for some reason, school monitors view sites differently than ordinary PCs, so this needs to be taken into consideration when compiling the design, and CSS and other similar techniques may not have the effect you are looking for.

The element of self-edit is something that is deemed essential for a school, hence why there are so many templates available. But I will be putting into place a method of creating a website for a school that can be maintained by themselves later (after a bit of training), made possible by keeping the whole design and process as simple and easy as possible.

Usual late start and the 3D Facilitator went through MAYA's interface and navigation for the four new ReTrainees, one of which did not have a computer to use.

Good navigation will make your web site both accessible and usable.

Introduction to GPS - GPS Details - GPS Errors and Biases - Datums, Coordinate Systems, and Map Projections - GPS Positioning Modes - Ambiguity-Resolution Techniques - GPS Data and Correction Services - GPS Standard Formats - GPS Integration - GPS Applications - Other Satellite Navigation Systems

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<siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true">
<providers>
<add name="XmlSiteMapProvider"
description="Default SiteMap provider."
type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider"
siteMapFile="Web.sitemap"
securityTrimmingEnabled="true" />
</providers>
</siteMap>

This allows me to then modify my sitemap nodes as follows:

<siteMapNode roles="Member, PowerUser, Administrator" title="LeftNav" description="LeftNav" url="https://www.mywebsite.com/Members/somePage.aspx">

I can allow any role I choose to see that link via Forms Authenication. Very handy. No more HttpContext.Current.User.IsInRole("someRoleIChoose") in the code behind file of the master template. Nice.

Il y a un petit clavier virtuel sur le iPod touch; je croyais initialement qu'il serait pénible à utiliser, car les touches sont petites et il n'y a pas de stylet comme c'est le cas pour un Palm. Erreur. Malgré mes gros doigts qui touchent systématiquement trois lettres en même temps sur ce petit clavier, le iPod retient presque toujours celle que je visais, et me le confirme en plus en affichant une petite bulle montrant cette lettre au-dessus de mon doigt pendant une fraction de seconde. Remarquable.

Côté présentation l'écran d'accueil est d'une simplicité bête. Plein de petites icônes carrées sur fond noir. Je peux les déplacer à volonté en les glissant, incluant sur deux autres surfaces d'écran pour cacher celles que je prévois utiliser moins souvent.

Parmi ces icônes, celle de Safari. Le navigateur web est franchement bien fait. Deux champs pour taper dans le haut de l'écran: l'un comme barre d'adresse, l'autre pour Google. En bas, les touches de navigation et les signets. J'ai essayé de lire sur Cyberpresse en grand format (et non le site adapté pour appareils mobiles), et le résultat est impressionnant. Le texte est trop petit ? Taper deux fois sur l'écran pour faire un zoom ! La page est trop large ? Tourner le iPod sur le côté et l'image s'affiche en largeur. J'ai aussi constaté qu'il y a une fonction de favoris encore plus rapide que les signets: on peut mettre des sites web comme icônes sur l'écran principal.

Évidemment, je me suis aussi jeté sur la version iPod d'Epocrates, une base de données de médicaments très populaire chez les étudiants en médecine parce que la version simple est gratuite. C'est franchement plus beau que la version Palm ! Le contenu est évidemment le même, mais la navigation est plus agréable.

Il me reste encore des fonctions à essayer. En fait, maintenant que j'y pense, je n'ai encore écouté aucune musique sur cet iPod neuf ! :P

In order to improve customer access to and navigation between VisitScotland's special-interest microsites (golf, cycling, walking, etc.), we've introduced a new navigation 'widget' which sits in the top header area of each microsite and on the main VisitScotland.com site itself.

Clicking on the 'Explore Scotland' tab opens up a panel containing links through to the main microsites, to current promotions and to important areas on VisitScotland.com, such as the Online Travel Shop. The links in the widget will change seasonally or if there is a special promotion running.

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Die Navigon-Tochterfirma Skobbler bietet eine gleichnamige  Navigationssoftware für Mobiltelefone an, die kostenlos genutzt werden kann.  Darüber erhält der Anwender standortbasierte Daten, um etwa Geschäfte,

Geldautomaten oder Restaurants in der Nähe zu finden. Eine spezielle  Darstellung in Skobbler soll die Fußgängernavigation vereinfachen.[...]

Die Entwickler von Skobbler versprechen außerdem, dass der Dienst sehr umfassende Daten für lokale Informationen bietet. So sollen sich Restaurants, Geschäfte, Läden, Ärzte, Apotheken und Ähnliches in der
Umgebung bequem finden lassen. Diese können bewertet und kommentiert werden, so dass wertvolle Zusatzinformationen bereitstehen. Bei der Suche nach einem Geldautomaten werden auch die Banken beziehungsweise die zusammengeschlossenen Gruppen, wie etwa Cash Group oder Cash Pool,  berücksichtigt. Skobbler navigiert einen direkt zu dem Suchergebnis hin, wie es auch von lokalen Suchmaschinen bekannt ist.

HRS ist schon dabei. Hotels können über Skobbler gesucht, gebucht und storniert werden.

Die Website ist schon mal vorbildlich gestaltet, die Anmeldung im Web ist transparent und einfach. Nach dem opt-in muss Skrobbler auf dem Handy installiert werden. Das kann etwas länger dauern, da z.B. ein Steuerung der Displaybeleuchtung und ein Sprachmodul aufgespielt werden - alles per Internetverbindung vom Handy aus. Dennoch ist der Prozess vorbildlich transparent und nachvollziehbar - einschließlich zweimaliger Sicherheits-PINs, die per SMS aufs Handy kommen und die man wieder im Internet eingeben muss. Missbrauch durch Angeben irgend einer Handynummer ist da nicht so leicht.

Auf dem Handy erscheint schließlich tatsächlich eine Landkarte mit Positionsbestimmung, zoom in/out etc. Wie man dort nun Einträge abruft oder selbst welche macht, habe ich noch nicht herausgefunden. Vielleicht waren in "meinem" Planquadrat einfach noch keine drin.

Being from that neck of the woods myself, and a geographer to boot,  I shouldn't get lost on the way to the City Chambers. However on websites poorly designed navigation often leads to lost and frustrated users. As such this is an area which deserves plenty of attention when it comes to our testing.

Working on the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" principle we intend to keep most of the content structure pretty much the same. But we are thinking of changing the way the navigation works as well as how it looks. Here's a screenshot of an example of the local navigation options in the Schools section:

Interested to get feedback on whether this is an improvement on our current design. In particular the arguably more subtle use of colour and showing main section links on every page - we remove these at lower levels on the current site.

Voici le site en Flash de Chris Woods un photographe canadien de talent qui retiendra votre attention.

Vous retrouverez à la fois des sportifs, des célébrités, l'éditorial ou autres...

Retrouvez aussi la publicité pour les voitures ou autres...

Bref, naviguez à vue de façon simple et originale parmi ses différentes photos...

Bonne visite à tous... ;-)

• The dog breed Xolo, which I propose as the original face of Anpu, could not have been known outside America, presumably until Columbus discovered the Americas
• The full-body representation of Anpu reminds more of jackals than dogs, and the black color which is not known in any real-life jackal should be attributed to symbolism

I will have to respond on two parts, each responding to one of the observations. Let's start by examining when Egyptians had close enough contact with America to know about the black dog breed Xolo, protector of the dead in ancient America, enough to adopt the figure as the black-faced Anubis, protector of the dead in ancient Egypt.

There's a noteworthy book called "Visitors to Ancient America", pages 38 and 39 of which describe the voyage of the boat Ra II, a 1970 voyage from Africa to America on a papyrus boat designed similarly to ancient Egyptian boats, which proves that Ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians had material and technical knowledge capable of carrying them across the Atlantic**.

But is there evidence of such a voyage having actually happened? Well, it seems adventurers who travel the ocean in ancient-designed boats seem to gain their confidence that it could be done from such evidence. In addition to the well-established Anubis Parallels I mentioned in The Face of Anubis that cannot be attributed to mere coincidence, traces of nicotine and cocaine* found in Ancient Egyptian mummies need explanation. I imagine the cost of tobacco would have been prohibitive to average Egyptians of the time (lucky for them), yet relatively small quantities for the most exclusive consumption seems to have existed. The Old World in general had knowledge of America before Columbus; there is evidence of Nordic countries reaching America, and China had settlements in America, but it's not today's topic.

So, to wrap up, contrary to the euro-centric naïvety and self-important beliefs of post-renaissance European adventurers, the Old World almost always had relations with the "New World", Egypt had trade and possibly more relations with America. And could they have known American mythology and exchanged symbolism? Indeed.

Next part: "Anubis: Jackal, Wolf, or Trans-Atlantic Dog?" presents my findings about the jackal-head claim of nowaday's egyptology, and will be followed by the Head/Face discussion in a following post God willing.

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* As described here, here, here, here, here and here and discussed here and here

** More can be found here, here, here and here. Also "Current Anthropology" presents a scholarly reference in Santiago Genoves' paper Papyrus Rafts Across the Atlantic