Podcast: 2007 Year in Review
By Directions Staff
, Directions Magazine
December 17, 2007
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2007 Year in Review
Value of Geo- Pitney Bowes Inc. buys MapInfo Corporation (press release)
- Nokia Buys NAVTEQ (Directions Magazine)
- TomTom buys Tele Atlas (All Points Blog)
- Social networking (loopt; Dodgeball, Latest Geek News Blog)
- OpenStreetMap
- OS OpenSpace (press release)
- OpenAerialMap
- Facet Builds New Street Centerline Database - How Does It Match Up to Current Digital Street Data? (Directions Magazine)
- Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography (Michael Goodchild, NCGIA, PDF)
- 'Relaxed' Yellow Pages turned down Google (Stuff.co.nz)
- TomTom MapShare Allows Drivers to Edit Maps (All Points Blog)
- User-Generated Content Will Bring Greater Depth to Digital Maps (press release)
- Neogeography is not GIS; Not LI (All Points Blog)
- Quantitative Geography and other "revolutions" in the history of geography (Wikipedia)
- Spatially-enabled Business Intelligence and Convergence (All Points Blog)
- SQL Server (code named Katmai) with geospatial datatypes. (1, 2, Directions Magazine)
- GPS Enabled Ski Jacket (All Points Blog)
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