In
business, your customer database is your gold mine to success. In larger
enterprises, where millions of customer records are in play, you had better
be able to keep it clean and current. By clean, I am referring to accurate
names and addresses. And, in our business, I am specifically referrin

Each week we are peppered
with press releases on the latest “strategic partnership.” I love the phrase;
it has such a “non-committal” swagger to it. Frankly, strategic partnerships
never work unless there is money on the table, and at the time of these
nuptials, there rarely

I think the DC experience is just the tip of the iceberg. I can’t tell
you how many GIS clients have had to reconfigure or performance tune their
GIS to use this important tool to help manage their operations.  Too
many GIS professionals have advocated creating an enterprise data model,
inside t

Intergraph Geospatial World - Conference Preview

Geospatial World 2002 - Conference
Preview

1. What’s the message to this
year’s attendees? Just new products? What type of vision will be presented
to them as to why Intergraph is still providing the best total GIS solution?
Certainly th

The Wessex
Effect – Part II

In the mid 1990’s Scott
Elliott, founder of this publication, started Wessex, a company offering
nationwide street network data for the entire U.S. for a fraction of the
price than what was currently being charged by the more “mainstream” data

(Note: the following thoughts were compiled from a series of discussions grappling with map analysis approaches between Joe Berry the Principal of Berry and Associates and Craig Von Hagen a GIS Specialist with FAO – Africover, Nairobi, Kenya)

There are two primary approaches to potential/pro

Politics,
          it is said, makes strange bedfellows. If only they had the right
          spatial data, such fateful peccadillos may not be necessary.
          Certainly, in today’s technologically enlightened society, the
          breed of politicians we elect

Bentley Systems, Incorporated,
            a global provider of collaborative architectural and engineering
            software solutions, announced it has filed a registration
            statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating
            to

The
    Calm before the Storm
    Is this a period of
    quiescence in the geographic information industry? Like the calm before
    massive sea changes, I see that
    the industry is somewhat adrift and bobbing. Over the last several weeks,
    I’ve spoken to executives at

Terror groups hide behind Web encryption
First news story about the uses of steganography by terrorists.
Click here.

Steganography
by Neil F. Johnson – This is a detailed scientific paper describing steganography; its history, techniques and applications written by one of the best known