Cloud Computing

We learned of the name change to Google Maps Engine at the Location Intelligence Conference, but I guess it was not the right venue to announce free licenses for non-profits. We didn’t think “Earth Builder” reflected the true capabilities of the product or vision that we have for easily...

The OnStar Story Jeff Joyner from OnStar General Motors started the day looking at one of the earliest location-based services, OnStar. It all started back in 1995 with a project then called Beacon. It morphed from a $2000 add-on for Cadallic owners in 1996, that supported some nine calls per...

Per the NGAC coverage in the Boundary Solutions Inc. Newsletter: Instead the meeting was run by Vice Chair, Jerry Johnson, recently EPA GIO [Geogrpahic Information Officer], who in May is to become Department of the Interior Secretariat GIO. Why the move? To more directly...

Orange County, CA released the Request for Information on April 13. Questions were due by April 23 and final responses are due May 7. GovWin notes: The county believes that the cloud would increase the level of customer care in its GIS by creating easy public access to basic information...

I spoke to Dan Adams, TomTom's vice president of the company's  Location and Live Service group about today's announcement for their new global geocoder. He told me that the new web service had been talked about since the company was known as Geographic Data Technology (GDT). Today, however, with...

The movement of software applications, services and data to a cloud computing platform has been ongoing for the past few years. The result is a seismic shift in how geospatial technology is acquired and managed. These resources will help you navigate through the nebulous arena of "the cloud."...

I got a preview of MapStory.org (or is it Mapstory - the site has it both ways) last week at FOSS4GNA. It was scheduled to launch last Thursday and is now up an running. What is it? There is no "about" page, so I can only tell you what I think it is. It's a platform for collecting datasets...

Willbros Group, Inc. is collaborating GeoEye for imagery and Google for data serving to deliver a cloud-based pipeline integrity management solution. This cloud-based solution will provide customers easy access to real-time pipeline information integrated with GeoEye's high-resolution,...

Robert Barber-Delach ‏ @GeoTechie  I was wondering what CartoDB was. basically... PostGIS hosted and enhanced in the cloud. Pretty slick #foss4gna   Steven Johnson ‏ @geomantic Already impressed (overwhelmed?) by quality/quantity of presentations at #foss4gna   Aaron Steele ‏...

This week we mull over the announcements and news from the Where Conference held last week in San Francisco. It’s supposed to be about the business of location. So how’s business? What’s hot? What’s old news?