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A new geospatial term has been popping up on the Internet lately: the GeoCloud. Carl Reed, Chief Technology Officer in the July 2008 OGC newsletter (Chief Technology Officer’s Message: The Cloud) defines cloud computing:
The term “cloud” comes from the fact that we have all used the cloud symbol to represent the internet/web. Cloud computing therefore refers to [...]
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Posted: July 27th, 2008, 4:04am CEST by Caitlin
Mapinfo has provided a case study on location intelligence in the retail sector with this article on OfficeMax’s use of MapInfo Location Intelligence in their recent expansion.
As a leader in both business-to-business office products, solutions and retail office products, OfficeMax, Incorporated serves enterprise-level, mid-size and small businesses, as well as individual consumers. The company was [...]
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Posted: July 21st, 2008, 3:43am CEST by Caitlin
The advent of tools that invite and encourage even non-GIS trained users to provide geographic data and mapping in a collaborative, wiki-like environment has both fans and naysayers. The debate about this growing effort aside, even coming up with a universally accepted name has been elusive. There are certainly many competitors seeking to be [...]
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Posted: July 21st, 2008, 2:44am CEST by Caitlin
Despite the introduction of the ArcGIS platform at the 2000 ESRI International User Conference, some GIS shops either partially or exclusively still use ArcView 3.x as a means by which to do GIS. The original ArcView was introduced in the early 1990s as a graphical interface to view geographic data. ArcInfo, at the time, was [...]
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Posted: July 14th, 2008, 5:17am CEST by Caitlin
The Obama Campaign is looking for volunteers to help out with their GIS skills:
GIS for Change
Political campaigns rely heavily on location based data and with the November election rapidly approaching we are looking for Obama supporters in the GIS professional community to step forward and help win November! Anything from 5 hours [...]
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Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 6:24pm CEST by Caitlin
Rather than continue to try and compete with the mapping services provided by other Internet search engines, Ask.com is now using Microsoft’s Virtual Earth to providing mapping services.
Read more: Ask Maps Now Using Virtual Earth - Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
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Posted: June 24th, 2008, 8:09am CEST by Caitlin
Information about Microsoft’s GoVE imagery acquisition program has been posted on Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog. The program is looking for governments to submit their aerial imagery to Microsoft for publication onto Virtual Earth.
We’re just starting a new program called “GoVE” which enables municipalities, state and local governments, aerial photographers, carrier pigeons, whoever, to share [...]
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Posted: May 13th, 2008, 5:20pm CEST by Caitlin
Jo Treadwell from GeoTec Media is asking for your vote by Wednesday, May 14th:
Geospatial Leadership Awards
Sponsored by GeoWorld Magazine
We need your vote! Polls close Wed., May 14
Vote Now
If you have already voted for the 2008 Geospatial Leadership Awards, sponsored by GeoWorld magazine, we appreciate your participation. If you have yet to vote, [...]
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Happy Earth Day!
The USGS and NASA jointly maintain the “Earth as Art” website which brings to the public stunning images of the Earth taken by the Landsat-7 satellite and the Terra Satellite’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). The site was originally created in 2002 by the USGS National Center for EROS in [...]
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Origami seems to be a theme of the moment. First Google made the odd statement that “Mapping has come a long way from the origami paper creations of the past” as part of their KML news release. Now a court case is the battleground between two mapping companies fighting over the rights to [...]
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The beta version of MetaCarta’s GeoSearch News was recently launched. According to MetaCarta’s web site, the mapping service pulls from more thatn 1,400 international, national and local news organizations to present a 30-day window of news events around the world. Users can search for news items by place and/or subject matter. News items are displayed [...]
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