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Personalised time/place knowledge goal of ThunderMaps
Personalised time/place knowledge goal of ThunderMaps
(sticK - 13 November 2012 ) Location-based intelligence is one of the up-and-coming applications of all things mobile.
Wellington-based startup ThunderMaps reckons it has a solution to a problem – individuals and organisations having geo-knowledge that is valuable to others, but having no practical way of sharing their information.
ThunderMaps co-founder Clint Van Marrewijk says the five person team’s goal, is to reduce the barriers to the adoption and use of spatial information by the public.
“There is so much valuable data going to waste. We take data available from separate organisations, and data inputted from the public, and give users, usually smart-phone owners, the ability to filter that for themselves,” he says.
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