Cloud Computing

Geotechnology appeared in cars, social media

The first weeks of January brought three big changes in the geospatial world. A well-known on-line mapping app,

U.S. commercial remote sensing has boomed but has it hit a wall because of budget concerns or is this merely a pause before the true explosion of commercially available imagery goes mainstream?

Our editors step up to the plate to evaluate last year's predictions and offer new ones for the geospatial marketplace in 2012.

We’ve all been in a situation where our expertise in or familiarity with GIS turns us into a mini-lecturer on the topic. You might be chatting with a fellow passenger on a plane or be giving a lightning talk, a quick five minute presentation on the topic. What three ideas should you share?

HTML5, the latest version of the markup language for the World Wide Web, has been on the horizon for Web GIS clients for several years. Is it time for it to come on strong? What does it offer to encourage developers to move from Flash, Silverlight or other current solutions?

Steve Jobs, quoted in his recent biography, suggested that salesmen don't make the best CEOs. His finger was pointed firmly at Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, one of his more recent tech rivals. How does that thesis fare within the geospatial marketplace?

Leslie P. Norton, writing in Barron's reports,

What tools are absolutely essential to doing your job well? Our editors took inventory and share their favorite hardware, local and cloud software they can't live without.

What is the current state of free and open source software for geospatial? As many prepare for next week's FOSS4G event our editors share their perspectives.