Cloud Computing

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 in $6 million from private...

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 with the states of Colorado,...

It’s time to clear your cache. Yesterday we added over 50 terabytes of new imagery from DigitalGlobe to the World Imagery map. This release includes 30cm imagery for the continental United States and 60cm imagery for large parts of Western Europe. The cool part, I agree with James Fee, is...

I think this is a paradigm shift in GIS technology. I think ESRI and Amazon are the two big players in creating the shift In the end, it’ll allow GIS to be more ubiquitous. It won’t just be rich municipalities or the municipalities with large populations that can afford GIS. Len Bundra,...

I learned that NORAD Santa is changing map platform providers via Pocket Lint and confirmed it in the Norad Santa partners list. Google is not listed but Microsoft, Bing Maps and Azure are! There's also a Windows Phone app this year. Why the change? The Seattle Times reports that while...

In a paper titled, "Energy Efficient GPS Sensing with Cloud Offloading", Microsoft researchers propose a potential solution to this battery power and size dilemma. This paper describes cloud-offloaded GPS (CO-GPS), an innovative way to perform location sensing by using tiny embedded devices...

There was some irony in the fact that nearly every presentation by Autodesk executives at Autodesk University (AU) this year mentioned the company's migration of its software solutions to a cloud computing environment but its major sponsors were all hardware vendors. Lenovo, HP, Intel and Dell...

During a press conference at Autodesk Univeristy in Las Vegas, Autodesk CEO Carl Bass reaffirmed what he has said for some time that "I do believe that everything is moving to the cloud." Asked to clarify what he meant, he said that "There are a lot of applications that will [still] be done on...

If there was one way to summarize the first day of presentations at Autodesk University it was to emphasize "how to reduce cycle time." That is, how can designers of whatever ... bridges, roads, cars, robots … go from design to build in less time. The vision presented by Autodesk is one of taking...