IranMap

Latest Iran routable Map for GPS devices and Garmin’s GPS is now available with following cities:
Tehran, Karaj, Semnan, Bam, Hamedan, Kish island, Mashhad, Esfahan, Shiraz and Ghom, including following POIs:

Kish Island GPS Map

- 5550 small cities and villages
- 88249 Street and main roads
- 1046 Bank and ATM
- 1170 Hospital and medical centers
- 1177 Petrol stations
- 4030 Restaurants
- 87 Hotels
- 11477 Emergency Road Services
- 52 Airports
and more

Kish Island GPS Map

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Leading Nordic directory provider Eniro has signed an agreement with digital map maker NAVTEQ, to make Eniro’s local content available in navigation devices using the NAVTEQ map.

Initially Eniro will provide information on 300,000 advertisers and their related content to be integrated into NAVTEQ’s database for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Poland. Advertiser data from Eniro will thereby be available in cars, Smartphones and other handheld navigation devices.

“Through the agreement with NAVTEQ, we are strengthening our offering towards advertisers – we are adding another distribution channel, making us an even stronger player on the market”. said Jesper Kärrbrink, President and CEO of Eniro.

Eniro is the leading directory and search provider in the Nordic media market with operations in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Poland. The company is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and has some 5,000 employees. In 2008, revenues amounted to SEK 6,645 million (US$847 million).

The Tehran weather has been more or less excellent despite the pollution and yes the unbearable and awful heavy traffic. But in the past couple of weeks it has been so hot that we have turned all the coolers on. We did have one of the best springs for a long time which included a lot of rainy and windy days which are always welcomed by many, however now it is warm if not hot most days. We were lucky to have had our cooler serviced on time and it makes being indoors more pleasant and may help to cool everyone down.

The talk of the town of course is the forthcoming presidential election, and the choice between four candidates (Mr Ahmadinejad, Mr Mousavi, Mr Karroubi and Mr Rezai). It is for sure an election to watch and follow especially with all the enthusiasm that Mr Mousavi has brought about among the students, technocrats, many women, and professionals. Some people are extremely eager and some others say that they will only vote in the second round.

Iran’s “Wood Carpet” directed by Abdul Rahman Mirani received Jury Special Award worth 1500 euros at Hamburg International Short Film Festival. The film is about people’s endeavor to reconstruct a bridge destroyed as a result of a flood near a village in Kermanshah on the Iran-Iraq border.

The 25th edition of the festival opened on June 2nd with 3 Iranian films and was wrapped up on June 8th.

Also Reza Jamali’s “Old Men Do Not Die” and Mehdi Jafari’s “Dad Gave Water” were other Iranian films which competed at the event.

Around 400 films from 40 countries took part in the international festival.

Google last week rolled out a free to use dashboard for local listings in Google Maps and Google Search. Dedicated to local business owners, the dashboard includes very useful information such as:

– Impressions: The number of times the business listing appeared as a result on a Google.com search or Google Maps search in a given period.

– Actions: The number of times people interacted with the listing; for example, the number of times they clicked through to the business’ website or requested driving directions to the business.

– Top search queries: Which queries led customers to the business listing; for example, are they finding the listing for a cafe by searching for “tea” or “coffee”?

– Zip codes where driving directions come from: Which zip codes customers are coming from when they request directions to the local business location.

Privacy

To protect any potentially personally identifiable information, queries with a very low search volume have been put by Google into the “other” category, addresses are filtered out of the queries (for example, if a someone searched for “bakery near 5873 Maple Ave,” you would only see the “bakery” term.) Privacy is also the reason why Google is limiting at the ZIP code level the accuracy of where started turn by turn directions to the local business.

Stickiness, crowdsourcing and Local Ads

In providing such interesting data Google is cleverly creating a lot of stickiness to its “Local Business Center” where the dashboard is available. Local business owners will be likely to update more frequently their profile, resulting in very fresh information. In addition, the Mountain View company will be able to create more awareness for its “Local Business Ads” (AdWords) – which appear in Google Maps and in other types of local searches – to these local business owners.

GyPSii adds Java platform compatibility, targets 650 million+ Chinese mobile users.

GyPSii business unit, developers of the award-winning GyPSii mobile social networking application (www.gypsii.com), today announced the launch of the Java version of its application, with both Chinese and English language support.

GyPSii created the Java application with the Chinese mobile consumer firmly in mind. Many Chinese users’ first and only access to the Internet is via a mobile device, and the new GyPSii Java app will appeal to the 70% of the 650 million phone owners in China who own Java-based phones.

GyPSii is already locally available in China for the major operators China Mobile and China Unicom, for download on compatible Java phones. GyPSii is also available globally across a wide range of devices, including Samsung, Nokia, LG, Apple iPhone and Blackberry smartphones.

“The arrival of GyPSii on Java is another milestone for us, which broadens the choice across all mass-market devices that consumers can use and enjoy GyPSii on – alongside the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Blackberry (RIM), webtop and netbook applications already in our portfolio,” said GyPSii’s Chairman, Dan Harple.

“Our GyPSii members in China are already extremely active mobile social networkers. With Java platform compatibility, they are now free to create, share and connect with the rest of the GyPSii community – across even more devices and networks, at anytime, from any location,” added Harple. “We plan to expand our reach on Java platforms into other countries, extending our mass market coverage further on a global basis”

GyPSii delivers an all-in-one mobile lifestyle experience – featuring simple to use content creation tools, social networking capabilities, and location context. It allows people to instantly capture and share what they are actually doing in their daily lives, building a multi-media virtual world – the places they have been, the things that they are doing and where they are going.

Utilising a wide range of location and multimedia creation technologies for today’s mobile phones, GyPSii empowers people to share their experiences as they happen – including with photos, video, comments, status and information captured and uploaded from their mobile phone, with location context.

Italy-based PND maker AvMap, announced last week it closed a deal with the Dutch Citroën branch to provide a dash-integrated PND solution to the Citroën C1 in the Netherlands.

AvMap has designed for Citroën a tailor-made holder which allows integrating in the Citroën C1 dashboard a Geosat 6 portable navigator. “We have pioneered in portable car navigation back in 1994, and today we are offering to car manufacturers hybrid solutions which ensure the best and safest positioning of the PND inside the car without any annoying cable nor suction cup limiting the visibility”, stated Simone Lazzarini, AvMap Managing Director.

This deal follows several similar contracts with leading automotive brands such as Peugeot Automobili Italia and Portugal, Mitsubishi Brazil, and Citroën Italy. To avoid the pitfall of the dropping prices on the PND market sold at retail, AvMap has been concentrating its activities in these automotive deals in order to sustain its margins.

Iran lovers from around the globe can take a virtual tour of the country with online three-dimensional and panoramic photographs. Iran’s cultural and scenic attractions have been introduced at 360cities.net along with the tourist attractions of other countries.

The site includes photographs taken by prominent Iranian artists such as Ramin Dehdashti as well as international photographers. Visitors can see full-screen images of scenes, change the perspective, see them in detail and copy the pictures to their personal websites.

The site also provides directions to the location from anywhere in the world and describes each location on the map.

Persepolis, Pasargadae, the tomb of Cyrus, Naqsh-e-Jahan Square (Isfahan), Eram Garden (Shiraz) and Dizin ski resort (Tehran) are among the countless Iranian sites available on the website.

To navigate use keyboard arrow keys

Hafeziye, the Hafez Tomb in Shiraz