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Fetched: March 30th, 2008, 5:31pm CEST
Mark Valentino of Freese and Nichols explains how the company recently integrated the new digital pen and paper software platform, Capturx for ArcGIS Desktop, into field operations. The company specializes in engineering and architecture, inventory and asset management, as well as environmental science, and collects a large volume of geospatial information for most of its projects.
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Fetched: March 28th, 2008, 2:30am CET
In recent years spatial technology has evolved so that anyone with a personal computer and access to the Web can, with only a few mouse clicks, "see" almost any place on earth. That raises expectations when it comes to how current data are -- and for retail network planners (the folks figuring out where to open, close and move stores) having the most recent demographic data possible is critical. The Gadberry Group's Larry Martin describes the demand and touches on his company's offerings.
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Fetched: March 27th, 2008, 4:26pm CET
Canada Post's Timothy Grayson takes a deep dive into addresses and explores their relevance in an increasingly online world. "Pondering a future for location intelligence is a speculative journey through geographic permanence and human transience that ends with proving location intelligence to be evermore crucial to businesses and governments," says Grayson. Read more...
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Fetched: March 26th, 2008, 5:30am CET
The Carbon Project received $100,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation to further develop its product, ((Echo))MyPlace. There is a possibility of up to $1.1 million in additional funding. The company is seeking $3 million in private investment. Nora Parker asked The Carbon Project's founder, Nuke Goldstein, and its CEO, Jeff Harrison, some questions about ((Echo))MyPlace.
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Fetched: March 26th, 2008, 5:30am CET
In times of a natural disaster how will local authorities alert you to potential danger? Or, how will you be alerted in case something happens on the campus where your son or daughter is in school? Tim Lorello of TeleCommunications Systems talks with editor-in-chief Joe Francica to discuss short messaging services as well as other mobile alerting technology that his company and the wireless carriers are implementing to comply with WARN Act.
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Fetched: March 25th, 2008, 5:30am CET
Google's opened up "Point of Interest" editing to all. ESRI gives its third party developers new application development environments. China and Wal-Mart push the envelope on RFID. Our editors look at these developments and what they may mean to the geospatial community and beyond.
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Fetched: March 24th, 2008, 5:30pm CET
Oracle conducted its annual users group meeting following the GITA conference in Seattle on March 13. From the outset, it was clear that Oracle is continuing its rapid move from simply supporting core spatial data types for spatial data management to offering "full blown" application suites. Last year's meeting revealed the beginning of this trend. This year's customer and partner presentations further illustrated the move. Joe Francica reports.
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Fetched: March 21st, 2008, 2:30am CET
Exploration software and GIS are essential for geologists searching for petroleum and mineral deposits. With discoveries harder to find, geoscientists are collecting more data than ever before and examining their findings with greater scrutiny. This article, by Geosoft's Carmela Burns, discusses integration between earth mapping platforms like Geosoft and ESRI's ArcGIS environments, and describes a case study at Brazil-based mining company Companhia Vale do Rio Doce.
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Fetched: March 18th, 2008, 4:07am CET
Just after the final session at GITA's Annual Conference, Executive Director Bob Samborski sat down with Editor-in-chief Joe Francica to review the association's new emphasis on infrastructure and its special track dedicated to emergency response. Samborski shared his thoughts on how the change affected this year's event planning and the conscious effort to highlight the importance that GITA members bring to solving the challenges brought on by the world's aging gas, water, electric and telecommunication utilities.
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Fetched: March 17th, 2008, 8:30pm CET
The MyLoki service from Skyhook is location-enabling social networking websites like Facebook. Ted Morgan, CEO and founder of Skyhook provides his insights into the new service and the hurdles that must be addressed regarding privacy concerns as well as cultural barriers that come with publishing your location. Listen to this brief podcast with editor-in-chief, Joe Francica.
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Fetched: March 17th, 2008, 5:30am CET
Safe Software's FME User Conference was a GIS conference that was not so much about GIS. The challenges are geographic, to be sure, but the conference was really about integration - integration of data, platforms, services, levels of government, etc. Adena Schutzberg reports.
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Fetched: March 17th, 2008, 2:30am CET
Safe Software's FME User Conference was a GIS conference that was not so much about GIS. The challenges are geographic, to be sure, but the conference was really about integration - integration of data, platforms, services, levels of government, etc. Adena Schutzberg reports.
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Fetched: March 13th, 2008, 5:30am CET
The software development world has taken a keen interest in agile development practices and agile project management. The practices have crossed the chasm, becoming part of mainstream application development, according to Chris Spagnuolo. But has the geospatial development worldpicked up on agile? Spagnuolo explores the results of a recent survey on that topic.
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Fetched: March 12th, 2008, 2:30am CET
At the Intelligent Enterprise Expedition (IEE) Conference hosted by DMTI Spatial in Toronto on March 5-6, Joe Francica heard a recurring theme that is reverberating throughout the industry: Addresses linked to customer files are too often wrong. This problem is costing forward-thinking companies time and profits to fix and clean customer records before they even attempt spatial analysis. Even basic geocoding is still a major "pain point."
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Fetched: March 11th, 2008, 5:30am CET
This past week two of the many tech players with a toe in the geospatial waters, Apple and Yahoo, announced new developer offerings that will add to the twists and turns location based services have taken on the road to maturity. One of the services of the iPhone SDK is Core Location, meaning developers can develop native applications that take advantage of the pseudo-location abilities. We'll have a look at the iPhone SDK and Fire Eagle from a geospatial perspective plus explore what the real reason is for wanting navigation on your mobile device.
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Fetched: March 10th, 2008, 2:30pm CET
The state of Delaware tapped a team of three organizations, Integrated Warehousing Solutions, ESi and Towson University's Center for Geographic Services, to assemble and provide a "public health preparedness" system. Integrated Warehousing Solutions' (IWS) President Carl Brewer shared details of the project in this brief article.
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Fetched: March 7th, 2008, 5:30am CET
During the long process from extraction to refining, crude oil is pumped through an intricate system of closely monitored storage tanks and distribution pipes that help maintain an uninterrupted flow of petroleum products to both industry and the individual consumer. In this article, ESRI's Jim Baumann discusses how Texas-based Plains All American Pipeline uses technology to control that process and adhere to strictly enforced federal regulations for storage and transportation of crude oil.
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Fetched: March 6th, 2008, 5:30am CET
At the ESRI Federal User Meeting (Feb. 20-22), Tele Atlas announced that some of its data would be used in USGS map products. Directions Magazine followed up with Tele Atlas, which put us in touch with USGS to provide some background. Kari Craun, director of the USGS National Geospatial Technical Operations Center, answered our questions on the agreement and use of the data.
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Fetched: March 5th, 2008, 5:30am CET
In this brief interview, IDV Solutions explains the "how and why" their Visual Fusion differs from other composite applications. Visual Fusion has the ability to focus the display of data around its "where" and "when" elements, and then display this in a rich, highly interactive user environment. Senior Managing Editor Nora Parker posed five questions to IDV Solutions' Product Manager Scott Caulk about the company's latest release, Visual Fusion Server 3.0.
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Fetched: March 5th, 2008, 5:30am CET
Background documents referred to in Bruce Joffe's article titled "Assemblymember Jose Solorio's AB1978 Threatens Public Access to Government Geodata"
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Fetched: March 5th, 2008, 5:30am CET
GIS consultant Bruce Joffe is leading an effort to oppose California legislation proposed by Assembly Member Solorio that would harm access to geospatial public records. This article, by Joffe, explains the situation, and includes links to the bill in question, the explanation of the bill from Solorio's office, and a list of individuals to contact to register your opposition.
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Fetched: March 4th, 2008, 4:15am CET
The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) commissioned the report titled, "Independent Study of the Roles of Commercial Remote Sensing in the Future National System for Geospatial-Intelligence" early last year. It explores four possible business cases for how the government and private companies might work together to provide needed imagery for those agencies and their government clients. The suggested path is not the status quo and may have implications for the two current U.S. commercial satellite providers, DigtialGlobe and GeoEye. Our editors try to tease out what the report means and its implications.
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Fetched: March 3rd, 2008, 3:22pm CET
Asterop is a business intelligence data company based in France. The company recently announced Asterop On-Demand, an online software solution for retailers, real estate brokers, marketers and other
consumer-facing businesses. The company's CEO and chairman, Christophe Girardier, will be speaking at this year's Location Intelligence Conference. This article features a one-on-one interview with Girardier by managing editor Nora Parker.
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Fetched: March 3rd, 2008, 5:26am CET
Asterop is a business intelligence data company based in France. The company recently announced Asterop On-Demand, and the company's CEO and chairman, Christophe Girardier, will be speaking at this year's Location Intelligence Conference. Girardier answered some questions about the company's offerings.
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