Arc2Earth is a tool to convert ArcGIS data into KML and provide other services related to Web mapping. It's well regarded and used in government, businesses and academia (see the existing long list of university users). The company feels it has a larger place in education and non-profits: We...
How can scientists best share the gigabytes of data related to ocean research? OneOcean has the answer. OneOcean, a stealthy Seattle startup whose board includes MySpace founder Aber Whitcomb, sees that as an opportunity. And the 15-person company just reeled...Read more
Update 1/9/13: here's a link to the contract. I had to ask WCSA to help me find it. Thank you! --- original post 1/3/13 ---- The Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA) and the National Association of State Procurement Officials, working in collaboration...Read more
"The pace at which organizations are adopting and mandating BIM is accelerating very rapidly," said Mike DeLacey, president of Microdesk, an architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) consulting firm specializing helping owner/operators in applying technology to the...Read more
In early December Editor in Chief Joe Francica got an exclusive first look at Intergraph's totally retooled and integrated software solutions for GIS, remote sensing, photogrammetry and server-based options. This review of the geospatial product suite is based on extensive...Read more
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The New Paradigm : Leveraging the “Information Cloud” with the Dynamic GIS
Last year, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck just miles from Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. More recently, massive earthquakes have also struck Christchurch, New Zealand and Japan’s...Download this paper