The 31-year old Mini is equipped with Pitney Bowes mapping and geographical analysis software MapInfo Professional, which is linked to a GPS system that
Mortimer is using to replace paper maps. The most important part of the technology is the global addressing, according to Justin Barota, architect in Advanced Concepts and Technology at Pitney Bowes, who was on-site at the Toronto event. If you want to meet Duncan in downtown San Francisco on June 8 and he happens to be there, the system will notify you that he is in the vicinity and provide a route to the event, he said. Federating information streams and global addressing in terms of the individual are the future of location intelligence software, according to Barota. As an individual, you wont have to maintain your postal address, because it becomes virtual you, attached to your identity, he said.
Mortimers 10-month tour will include an estimated 36,000 miles of driving. Stops are scheduled for Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Russia and Poland. This is Mortimers third world tour for cancer fundraising, with previous trips taking place in 1996 and 1999.