Cloud Computing

Hackers can cause traffic jams by manipulating real-time traffic data, researcher says  Inject tech into geography: "Rather than showing ...a static map..., show ... video ...and ,,,useful websites" If Only All Subway Sandwich Shops Were Actual Subway Stations (in...

Dewberry, a leading professional services firm, has been selected by the State of Hawaii to assist in the transition of public websites into the public cloud. As an authorized Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, Dewberry offers the full suite of AWS products along with expertise in architecture...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) faces the regular challenge of collecting, managing, fusing, using and sharing data during emergencies. While the process is getting better, the agency is looking for enhancements. And, it's looking to the cloud. The vision is to move geospatial...

In a detailed blog post at CloudMade lays out keys milestones frome the past four years and introduces three new mapping platform offerings. The last news I reported from Cloudmade was about its in-game sponsoring platform, Zigi in Oct 2012. That was, from what I understood, the plan for a pivot...

Ben Lewis, who's over at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis shared that TweetMap, built on MapD (general purpose SQL database) and Harvard's WorldMap, is up and running in ALPHA. Officially, "TweetMap ALPHA is an instance of the MapD big data platform developed through a collaboration...

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,...