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Slashgeo was on hiatus when the iPhone came out. Several geoblogs discuss the mapping capabilities of this overly hyped gadget. Here's some of them. Let's start with a press release on the Nokia N95 and the iPhone raising the bar for mobile multimedia. Ogle Earth offers a link to use a GPS with your iPhone. And a reminder that it supports GeoRSS. A wrap-up from The Map Room. And really worthed are the posts by Peter Batty on Geothough about his experiences with the iPhone and its mapping capabilities. See also previous stories.

Ogle Earth has video along with a report about this new development. Here is their summary : "Four minutes into this demo of Google's Android mobile platform, you get to see a 3D globe that you can spin by dragging your finger across the touch screen"..."But it's not Google Earth; it's an application that the presenter, Steve Horowitz, calls "global time", presumably because it can show you what time of day it is on different parts of the planet. I bet this is what the New York Times supposed was Google Earth, and it is certainly what Robert Scoble erroneously refers to as "a Google earth map" in his post about that video. (Still, if he hadn't called it that, my RSS reader's filters wouldn't have picked it up, so I can't complain too loudly:-)". Head on over to Ogle Earth to see the video and get an in depth analysis.

Over on SlashDot, there is currently a conversation going on about the announcement of the Android SDK which was released today, which is somewhat related. Head on over there for the full detail.

Aaron Bodbyl-Mast writes "Bruce Sterling highlights an intriguing app being developed for the Google Android Developer Challenge. The video provides a nice demonstration of the app, as well as a description of future plans for the technology including integration of a gyroscope and the use of 3d buildings models. I think this is just of the type of iceberg. I also imagine that we will be seeing a similar concept integrating GPS and Street View. As the Instapundit would say: Bring it on!" The name of the project is Enkin, and the video over the URL above explains clearly what it's all about. It is so interesting that I'm pretty sure we'll see that kind of tool widely offered on phones in a few years. Previous Android stories copied below.