Wireless handheld computing is evolving as the emergency manager’s answer to obtaining real-time intelligence from the field.A recent live demonstration of the latest technologies sheds some light on technology that works and technologies needing more work.

We interview Adam Rubinson,
co-director of the DC GIS & Vicki DeFries, GIS Manager, Office
of the Chief Technology Officer, Washington D.C.about the debut of DC Atlas.

Scott
Elliott, founder of this publication, started Wessex, a company offering
nationwide street network data for the entire U.S.for a fraction of the
price than what was currently being charged by the more “mainstream” data
vendors.It changed the landscape of how data was priced and the ripple
affects are still being felt.