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Pretty Imagery in Google Earth and other Google Maps/Earth News

Google Earth 6.2 had a "prettier" version of its imagery. No, it's not new data just a new smoothing algorithm. Today, we’re introducing a new way of rendering imagery that smooths out this quilt of images. The end result is a beautiful new Earth-viewing...Read more

Meet Your Colleagues: Dino Ravnić

Dino Ravnić is the co-founder and CEO of GIS Cloud, Ltd, and he is passionate about the present and future of GIS in the cloud. When asked to send us a picture of something he enjoys doing (fishing? hunting? ballroom dancing?), he gave us one of him working on GIS cloud capabilities...Read more

Socium: 1Spatial’s Online Data Validation Service Launches in US

Socium, a subsidiary of 1Spatial, is launching an online data validation service in the United States on February1st. Directions Magazine interviewed Abbie Beckford, customer relations and marketing manager at Socium, to learn the details of the offering....Read more

Geospatial Data Content Licensing and Marketing in the Era of Data as a Service - An Interview With James Cutler, CEO, emapsite.com

James Cutler, CEO of emapsite, a geospatial data provider in the UK, discusses how selling data online has evolved over the last 10 years to accommodate new licensing agreements and data delivery platforms. He forthrightly expresses the opinion that “open data” is a promise yet to...Read more

Fees for County GIS (not data) Use and other Government GIS News

The Berrien County, Michigan, Geographic Information System (GIS) is holding a seminar to introduce its new GIS provded by Schnieder Corporation. The session is free (I think), but using the GIS is not. The cost of using the GIS website is $15 per day or $50...Read more

New Geo APIs

Inside Idaho API: The service delivers geospatial data to support mapping of resources within the state of Idaho. Compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, the platform uses ArcGIS and other resources to promote sharing of data, effective...Read more

Podcast: Geo at CES 2012

Geotechnology appeared in cars, social media "cockpits" and nearfield communication (NFC)-enabled phones at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Is it evolution or revolution?

Autodesk and Pitney Bowes Software Elaborate on New Relationship

Tuesday’s press release from Autodesk regarding its new relationship with Pitney Bowes Software (PBS, the new name as of January 1, 2012 for Pitney Bowes Business Insights) raised many questions. Joe Francica and I spoke with James Buckley, Senior Vice President &...Read more