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Posted: January 7th, 2009, 3:00pm CET
I ran across this the other day: The GIS Use in Public Health and Health Care blog.
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Posted: January 7th, 2009, 3:00pm CET
Back in November we asked how important is it that a job candidate be familiar with more than one GIS product/platform. I'm please to report 82% of the 28 respondents put it in the required/valuable category.
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Posted: January 6th, 2009, 8:20am CET
With the new year five days old and economic challenges expected for every sector we explore four big challenges and opportunities for those in geospatial technology.
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Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 6:46pm CET
I knew nothing of the hot dog chain until we ran an article about its location technology strategy .
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Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 3:20am CET
Unearthed Outdoors offers the 250m True Marble image set for a free download with a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
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Posted: January 1st, 2009, 9:00am CET
Unearthed Outdoors offers the 250m True Marble image set for a free download with a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 7:14pm CET
The checks went out Christmas Eve and had Intergraph's name on them, but they were fake.
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 7:14pm CET
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 6:35pm CET
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 4:54pm CET
The year end list includes: * ' Mexico Under Siege ' - Los Angeles Times in-depth coverage of Mexico's drug war and how the United States is indirectly involved.
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 4:36pm CET
The year end list includes: * ' Mexico Under Siege ' - Los Angeles Times in-depth coverage of Mexico's drug war and how the United States is indirectly involved.
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 2:55pm CET
Titled, Where to Locate Your Business , it starts with the story of a small company that started in Doylestown, PA and moved the sprawling metropolis of Stowe, Vt.
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 2:34pm CET
Titled, Where to Locate Your Business , it starts with the story of a small company that started in Doylestown, PA and moved the sprawling metropolis of Stowe, Vt.
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 3:33pm CET
No, this is not a story about bad data. It's a story about how waterproof paper failed to hold ink in the rain during an Australian orienteering event.
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 2:26pm CET
"Maps are really powerful. Advertising on a map is a good idea because maps aren't just read and thrown away.
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 1:27pm CET
"Maps are really powerful. Advertising on a map is a good idea because maps aren't just read and thrown away.
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
ReadWriteWeb rekindles a post about from earlier this year which highlights the difference between traveller type apps vs.
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
The Globe offers an article titled The Year in Maps , with the subhead: "A cartography boom offers new ways to see the world." The author, Drake Bennett, spoke to me and some other locals for input and its nice ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
President & CEO, Director of GeoEye Inc. Matthew M Oconnell bought 6,250 shares on 12/19/2008 at an average price of $17.91. That's about $111,000. - GuruFocus Comments Display comments as No comments Add ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
Word is Rolta will by a "US-based specialist IT firm, which provides software and related services to the oil and gas industry." Rolta acquired WhittmanHart Consulting, a Chicago-based business intelligence ...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 5:23pm CET
Odd for this to pop just before the holiday, but that's how it goes sometimes. Geospatial Holidings is based in Pennsylvania and "is building the first accurate 3-D and GIS database of the world's underground ...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 3:44pm CET
NPR had two great interviews in the past few days with Tim O'Reilly and Lawrence Lessig.
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 1:41pm CET
With all the location apps for the iPhone you'd think an app with the name Fake Call Locations would actually fake your location to an app that shares location information with contacts.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 3:00pm CET
Sermo FluMonitor is a sort of step from Google Flu Tracker which uses end-user queries about the flu to map where the disease is prevalent.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 8:18am CET
The year is just about over so why did so many organizations announce new products, updates, agreements and developer opportunities this week? The distraction of the upcoming holidays may mean "few are paying ...
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Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 4:32pm CET
Per 24/7 Wall Street : GeoEye, Inc. fell another 5%. Satellite imagery contracts may still be lucrative, but supporting the business is not a cheap endeavor.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 4:32pm CET
Earth2Tech offers this quote from a speech he gave earlier in the week. Perhaps we can hook him up with the DOI folks? We need more effective use of the capabilities provided by satellite imagery and other ...
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Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 4:31pm CET
Many sites are reporting that news after Garmin Asia Pacific marketing director Tony An let the news slip.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 3:56pm CET
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Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 3:00pm CET
A team of students, lead by their Steeler fan instructor, at Carnegie Mellon developed the system which now includes sensors in both the glove and the ball.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 2:16pm CET
The app in alpha is available for Germany, France, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Ireland.
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Posted: December 19th, 2008, 11:58pm CET
Officially called Google Research Datasets, the service was going to offer scientists a way to store the massive amounts of data generated in an increasing number of fields.
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Posted: December 19th, 2008, 3:30pm CET
There's a new, free app for the iPhone that provides details about Washington DC aimed at inauguration goers.
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Posted: December 19th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
Back in the day, getting money out of NYC for slips and trips on uneven pavement or potholes was pretty easy.
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Posted: December 19th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
I think the guilty is not only Electoral College, Al gore also guilty about all of war etc.
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Posted: December 19th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
I'm not a regular reader of the Huffington Post but on Monday it ran a satire piece about Americans knowledge of geography.
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Posted: December 19th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
"How do you plan for an event that some are calling the largest in U.S. history? You get a map that's almost as big as the city itself.
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Posted: December 19th, 2008, 5:57am CET
The app, Where To, which turns the iPhone into more of a GPS, from developer Tap Tap Tap made about $200,000 in its first three months at the App Store.
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Posted: December 19th, 2008, 4:21am CET
The app, Where To, which turns the iPhone into more of a GPS, from developer Tap Tap Tap made about $200,000 in its first three months at the App Store.
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 1:51pm CET
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Posted: December 16th, 2008, 7:09pm CET
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Posted: December 16th, 2008, 5:03pm CET
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Posted: December 16th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
The USGS National Geospatial Program Office has just launched a new version of The National Map website.
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Posted: December 16th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
I heard this in passing on a recent Buzz Out Loud and found the confirmation here .
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Posted: December 15th, 2008, 2:44pm CET
Rich Owings wrote to share the news from his GPS Tracklog blog. The products from that line include Magellan RoadMate, Maestro and Triton.
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Posted: December 15th, 2008, 2:43pm CET
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Posted: December 12th, 2008, 6:35pm CET
Courtesy of Wired's Autopia blog , researchers at Zurich's School of Applied Science built a video that simulates the flight paths of airline traffic around the world in one 24-hour period.
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Posted: December 12th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
The system called Pegasus Europe Geo-route, used by the Royal Mail, calculates the optimum post load that can be delivered by staff.
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Posted: December 12th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
The property was acquired by Demand Media in 2006 and the plan was to shut the office eventually, but it came sooner rather than later due to a lease issue, rather than the economy say those involved.
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Posted: December 12th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
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Posted: December 12th, 2008, 2:02pm CET
The property was acquired by Demand Media in 2006 and the plan was to shut the office eventually, but it came sooner rather than later due to a lease issue, rather than the economy say those involved.
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Posted: December 11th, 2008, 6:48pm CET
Putting it's money where its maps are, the state of Maryland produced a map of ecologically sensitive areas including protected lands and other areas.
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Posted: December 11th, 2008, 4:47pm CET
Putting it's money where its maps are, the state of Maryland produced a map of ecologically sensitive areas including protected lands and other areas.
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Posted: December 10th, 2008, 1:54pm CET
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Posted: December 10th, 2008, 1:45pm CET
The new entrants to the Open Handset Alliance include ARM, Asustek, Garmin, Huawei Technologies, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Vodafone.
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Posted: December 10th, 2008, 1:45pm CET
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Posted: December 10th, 2008, 1:44pm CET
Word is out that Google is now including some magazines in its book search . You can find and read entire issues online.
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Posted: December 10th, 2008, 1:44pm CET
The BBC profiles Ushandi an open source tool to crowdsource information in times of crisis.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 4:24pm CET
Wireless telecom group Vodafone Group said Tuesday that it will offer 12 Swedish kronor a share, or 239 million kronor in total, to buy Wayfinder Systems.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 4:19pm CET
Details are sketchy about where and when the 125 individuals will be let go , but the news was out in Lebanon, NH yesterday, where 500 people are employed at what was GDT headquarters.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 4:11pm CET
Details are sketchy about where and when the 125 individuals will be let go , but the news was out in Lebanon, NH yesterday, where 500 people are employed at what was GDT headquarters.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 2:53pm CET
Here's the full 10 page story . Here's the short story: Wayfinder, a Swedish company, makes mobile applications that use GPS functionality.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 2:53pm CET
Details are sketchy about where and when the 125 individuals will be let go , but the news was out in Lebanon, NH yesterday, where 500 people are employed at what was GDT headquarters.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 2:53pm CET
Chris Holmes isn't quoted, but his comment about increased demand for open source geo is noted.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 9:35am CET
Have you considered getting a PhD in GIS? What is a PhD in GIS? What schools offer them? Why would you want one? Is it a degree that can get you ahead outside of academia? We look at two programs that offer ...
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Posted: December 8th, 2008, 11:30pm CET
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Posted: December 8th, 2008, 2:05pm CET
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Posted: December 8th, 2008, 2:04pm CET
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Posted: December 5th, 2008, 5:30pm CET
"It's kind of cool to see all the colors and see what goes there. If you don't learn this stuff you may not have a job later." - Tyler, a third-grader, after learning about GIS at Millersville University's ...
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Posted: December 5th, 2008, 3:43pm CET
"It's kind of cool to see all the colors and see what goes there. If you don't learn this stuff you may not have a job later." - Tyler, a third-grader, after learning about GIS at Millersville University's ...
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Posted: December 5th, 2008, 3:43pm CET
"It's kind of cool to see all the colors and see what goes there. If you don't learn this stuff you may not have a job later." - Tyler, a third-grader, after learning about GIS at Millersville University's ...
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Posted: December 5th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
Dr. David Maguire, who currently serves as chief scientist and director of the international group at ESRI will take the Pro-Vice-Chancellor position at Birmingham City University, UK.
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Posted: December 4th, 2008, 6:19pm CET
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Posted: December 4th, 2008, 3:38pm CET
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Posted: December 4th, 2008, 3:38pm CET
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Posted: December 4th, 2008, 1:16pm CET
First, David Pogue, of the New York Times is looking for better graphic indicators for "the good to bad" scale.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 8:28pm CET
Company: Intelligent Decisions Systems, Inc Industry: Local Government, Environmental, Public Safety, Public Health, Consulting, Federal Government, Emergency Services, GIS Software Products, State Government, ...
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 8:28pm CET
Company: Intelligent Decisions Systems, Inc Industry: Local Government, Environmental, Public Safety, Public Health, Consulting, Federal Government, Law Enforcement, Emergency Services, GIS Software Products, ...
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 5:58pm CET
According to a worldwide study conducted by Nokia, residents of the United Arab Emirates are the most disoriented people in the world.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 3:50pm CET
It's the 8100t and both David Pogue at the New York Times and Rachel Cericola at Wired vote a clear "No." This is the first time in a while I've read a sold "don't buy it" review of any GPS.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 3:50pm CET
"These survey results highlight that voice still remains the 'killer application,' despite the growth of some data services," reports Ronald Gruia, Principal Analyst for Emerging Telecoms at Frost & Sullivan ...
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 3:00pm CET
"Make copies of the course map; on them, write your anticipated split times. Keep one the refrigerator, at your desk, in the bathroom.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 3:00pm CET
There's quite a push to link GPS and tourism, most notably on cell phones and devices users already have in hand.
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 8:56pm CET
That's today's big news. Funny since not too many years ago it was DWF all the time and PDF with a line through it in Autodesk ads... Too bad there's nothing specific for geo folks in the enhanced PDF - press ...
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 3:33pm CET
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 3:17pm CET
From Nokia World, being held in Barcelona this week: "Your social location, or SoLo will become your here-and-now-identity." - CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo "Combining the real world with the virtual world, pointing ...
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 3:00pm CET
Chemistry professor Talal Akasheh of Hashemite University of Jordan was awarded the prize and will use the funds to monitor development in the 2,500-year old city of Petra, which is threatened by natural decay ...
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 2:00pm CET
With most GIS professionals accustomed to scouring the Internet for data, it's no surprise that many are turning to online sources for education and professional development.
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 10:00am CET
How does a geospatial news outlet use new and social media? And, what's in it for readers and listeners? Our editors share how Directions Media is using these tools and look ahead at better matching content and ...
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 8:56am CET
With most GIS professionals accustomed to scouring the Internet for data, it's no surprise that many are turning to online sources for education and professional development.
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Posted: November 25th, 2008, 1:15am CET
Company: Intelligent Decisions Systems, Inc Industry: Local Government, Environmental, Public Safety, Public Health, Consulting, Federal Government, Emergency Services, Software Development, GIS Software ...
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Posted: November 25th, 2008, 1:15am CET
Company: Intelligent Decisions Systems, Inc Industry: Public Safety, Public Health, Federal Government, Emergency Services, Software Development, GIS Software Products, State Government, Spatial Data Standards, ...
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Posted: November 10th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
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Posted: October 29th, 2008, 1:35pm CET
"The practical challenge posed by dashboard navigators, cell phones and the host of coming location-aware devices is that the systems are proprietary and fast changing.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 4:58pm CEST
Chris Fernandez at PeakStocks thinks so. Bottom line: With the BASIC program out of the way for at least one more year, and perhaps for good, the U.S. government will rely on GeoEye more and more, especially in ...
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