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It's my pleasure to announce that NAVTEQ Network for Developers(TM) (NN4D), introduced a year ago, is an active supporter of Slashgeo.org.
This is great news for our thousands of geospatial professional readers. It opens the door to the sharing of additional pertinent content from NAVTEQ and will increase Slashgeo's visibility. We are also planning a few new related features which may interest several of our readers. No money is involved in the deal and rest reassured that Slashgeo will stay neutral and continue aggregating and discussing geonews from the geospatial community as a whole.
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As one of the Slashgeo founders, here's my take on what our community of users/readers get:
- More people reading and potentially participating at the exchange of experience and opinions on Slashgeo, specifically the diverse community of NAVTEQ developers in that case.
- More visibility since NAVTEQ is linking to Slashgeo.org as a worthy source of aggregated geonews directly on their website (and may provide more exposure to Slashgeo as they feel appropriate, of course).
- (maybe less important) NAVTEQ will share some pertinent content on Slashgeo.
Does this matter? I think so. Slashgeo has been running for over two years. We have thousands of daily readers (up to 27,000 daily hits), but, let's be honest, the level of user participation on the site is very low. We provide the Slashgeo service for the geospatial community, it's ad-free and we're spending money and a lot of time because... well... that's one of our way to contribute to the community we love. However, and here's the link with the NAVTEQ deal, the site is only partially fulfilling its goal. We had a 10-comments story this week [slashgeo.org], but it's an exception; we need to attract more enthusiastic users to the site to higher the level of participation. This 'deal' might help us reach more people and make Slashgeo a better tool.
If we ultimately find out the site is really more trouble/efforts than fun/useful, we might as well close the site as it happened earlier this year [slashgeo.org]. It's obviously not what I want, but hey, I have only one life and I intend to make the best out of it
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