Archive for the 'Developer' Category
Search Along Route Expanded
As a follow-on to the June08 Dash Express update, we’ve recently expanded our popular Search Along Route™ functionality. Initially, Search Along Route enabled customers to pinpoint Yahoo! Local destinations anywhere along their route – between the origin and destination, presented with both absolute distance and deviation off the route. Now, in addition to identifying Yahoo! [...]
Read More..>>DashApp Spotlight: Trapster… Reloaded
Trapster®, an inaugural DashApp partner developer, has incorporated community feedback and leveraged our June software update to implement a new free service. Previously, Dash Express customers had access to a real time speed trap exchange system including a growing database of nearly 40,000 static enforcement points, such as known hot [...]
Read More..>>Dash at IET’s Intelligent Environments and GeoWeb 2008
After getting the API updates out I am taking it to the road.
First, I’m attending the IET Intelligent Environments conference in Seattle on Monday and Tuesday (today). This academic-focused event presents numerous papers focused on:
Intelligent environments are spaces in which computation is seamlessly used to enhance ordinary activity. One of the driving forces behind [...]
Dash API Enhancements
After a lot of great feedback from the community and our developers we’ve just updated our Dynamic Search API for DashApps (PDF). Today we introduce several enhancements including a larger result sets, various user experience improvements, Search Along Route ability, and custom icons. But that’s not all…
The most exciting improvement may be facilitating in-car text [...]
Welcome to the (Mobile) Social
We’re not your average, every day automotive GPS company. In fact, we’re somewhat reluctant to even use the “GPS PND” label in describing the business given our unique philosophy… We’re running on a community-developed operating system. We’re crowd-sourcing real-time traffic data. And we’ve got an open API that’s being used to tap into online social [...]
Read More..>>Does Your GPS Tweet?
As the title asks, does your GPS tweet? If you’ve got a Dash Express, it sure does!
We opened our API just a few short weeks ago and the response has been amazing - with a couple dozen applications already built. Mike Tuckman and Michael Muni have been leading the Dash customer application development charge and [...]
Read More..>>Post-Where 2.0, first partner DashApps online and API documentation available now!
First, we are so happy to see all of the energy and enthusiasm from the attendants of the Where 2.0 conference in reaction to our announcement. Today, we are happy to say that the first five DashApps that were released by partners are available on MyDash.
Also, as everyone has been eagerly anticipating we [...]