Location Intelligence and Business Geographics

Here's a photo montage of the day's events taken at Directions Magazine's Location Intelligence Conference, May 22, 2012.

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...

A staffer from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) was fetted with monetary bonuses for his work on the imagery analysis that led to the capture of Osama Bin Laden. Per Senior Executives Association spokeswoman Carol Bonosaro, who speaks on behalf of senior government...

Last night the U.S. House passed an amendment to the 2013 Dept of Commerce funding bill that would eliminate the Census' American Community Survey, ACS. We know of ACS as the replacement for the long form; it's  survey sent to a limited number of households not every ten years, but annually, to...

The current debate in Washington, D.C. regarding cybersecurity legislation (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA.) focuses on the protection of critical infrastructure such as the national electricity grid and our financial banking system.

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...

We've launched a video that previews the Location Intelligence and Oracle Spatial User Conference.

Today, DigitalGlobe conducted a press briefing on the North Korean launch facility at Tongchang-ri. The facility was the site of a recent press visit, a sign that the North Koreans were trying to be more transparent with their space program.

From InformationWeek comes this article on "big data" and illustrates the problems facing several governement agencies including the U.S. Geological Survey: The Obama Administration last week unveiled a "Big Data Research and Development Initiative" that will see at least six government...

From a National Public Radio report on cybersecurity: Consider what Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans, and you get an idea of the consequences of a cyberattack on critical U.S. infrastructure: No electricity. No water. No transportation. Terrorists or enemy adversaries with computer...