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Samborski on GITA 2008

Posted: March 18th, 2008, 7:40am CET

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Just after the final session was held 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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Dejure vs. Defacto Standards...Who Will Decide?

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 6:51pm CET

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At the GITA conference, Mark Doherty of Intergraph raised an interesting point in his presentation. He compared commonly accepted standards as proposed for the OGC, for example, versus "defacto" or perhaps more commonly "used" standards that may be neither "open" (in the current vernacular) nor a true standard. His examples recognized WMS and WFS as an example of common specifications. While the analogy is not quite accurate, his "defacto" standard was the use of Oracle Spatial as a platform more commonly chosen to manage spatial data. You might think of KML as another "defacto" standard for sharing data on the Google platforms.
It raises an interesting point of whether some standards or specifications are too fleeting; here today but fade when the market determines something different. And how does someone with the responsiblity of developing an enterprise architecture decide.
If you like PDF...GeoPDF Continues to Add New Features

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 2:28am CET

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GeoPDF from TerraGo Technologies has been around for a few years and the ability to capture a window of geospatial information from your desktop GIS system and export it to PDF provides not only data compression but an easy way to share data with people who have the Adobe Reader. Now, TerraGo is going further with the free GeoPDF Reader by offering:
- The ability to view data in a variety of projections
- Right click to link a MBR to a Google Map
- Import ShapeFiles
- Output from GeoPDF to KML
Another fairly slick addition to the Map2PDF Professional version is the ability to assemble a "mapbook." This utility can combine a series of GeoPDF's into a single, seamless file.
And if you haven't heard about it, the USGS has put all 55,000 USGS quad maps online (USGS Store) for free download in GeoPDF format.
GE Energy Continues Product Suite Development on Oracle but Sticking by SmallWorld

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 2:16am CET

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At last years GITA conference, GE Energy announced plans to develop a suite of products on the Oracle Spatial platform. This past January, they released the first application on Oracle for electric distribution and at the conference announced another for gas distribution. The company believes that while many larger utilities may not be quite ready to migrate from an existing SmallWorld configuration, these recent product announcements on Oracle are a first step toward offering a suite of business applications.

GE maintains that it will continue to support SmallWorld and MAGIC indefinitely. They believe that customers will still use it for a customized GIS solution. GE also offers and office suite of applications on SmallWorld technology and will build its suite of applications on Oracle in parallel.

GE recently purchased Fichtner IT Consulting, a German engineering company that has a software solution built on Oracle. GE believes that Fichtner will support mining of data assets as customers move into the Oracle environment
Quote of the Day - "How is China Funding its Growth?...Look at the back of your shirt!"

Posted: March 11th, 2008, 12:16am CET

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Tom Murphy, keynote speaker at this year's GITA Conference and former mayor of Pittsburgh confronted a question from the audience at the opening plenary session on how China was funding all of its infrastructure development.
"Look at the back of your shirt," was his retort. Murphy indicated that China was flush with cash right now and their infrastructure projects prove it. He cited as evidence:
- China completed a vast 25000 mile highway system in just 12 years
- Beijing's subway expanded from 70 to 335 miles in a little more than a decade
- Thousands of miles of high speed rail lines are under construction

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Samborski on GITA 2008

Posted: March 18th, 2008, 7:40am CET

Enclosure: [download]

Tags: gita 2008

Dejure vs. Defacto Standards...Who Will Decide?

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 6:51pm CET

Tags: gita 2008

If you like PDF...GeoPDF Continues to Add New Features

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 2:28am CET

Tags: gita 2008

GE Energy Continues Product Suite Development on Oracle but Sticking by SmallWorld

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 2:16am CET

Tags: gita 2008

Quote of the Day - "How is China Funding its Growth?...Look at the back of your shirt!"

Posted: March 11th, 2008, 12:16am CET

Tags: gita 2008