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All FeaturesAccuGlobe is a new desktop GIS software application developed through a partnership between GeoMicro, Inc. and Digital Data Technologies, Inc. (DDTI).
AccuGlobe was developed by DDTI using GeoMicro’s fourth generation AltaMap components that are OLE/COM objects used to incorporate GIS functionality
into customized applications. The scheduled release date for AccuGlobe is November 19, 2003. AccuGlobe has similar functionality to most of the well-known
desktop GIS software applications. The product was designed to give most users the functionality they need on a daily basis.
Editor-in-Chief Joe Francica traveled to Quebec City to cover this gathering of MapInfo and Korem users as well as other geomatics professional. At the conference, a surprise announcement by MapInfo unveiled Korem, who was celebrating its 10-year anniversary, as the “master distributor” of MapInfo products in the province. Read more…
Coming soon: BusinessMap and BusinessMap Travel Edition
MapOCX Pro v6.0 is a developer’s toolkit for incorporating detailed maps into a Windows programming environment. The product is not software for end users, it
simply provides developer tools to incorporate mapping functionality into applications built within programming environments such as Microsoft Visual Basic and/or
Borland Delphi. Read more about this product.
DeLorme XMap 4.0 is a scalable mapping software program that provides GIS tools at an affordable price. The base package includes the functionality discussed in
this review with some custom datasets. DeLorme’s XMap 4.0 has a different feel than most commercial GIS software packages. Read the entire product review here…
Layoffs at United States companies dropped 53 percent in May to 68,623 from 146,399 in April. This is promising news and, hopefully, will signal an upturn in the
job market as the war in Iraq is over and as businesses begin a growth cycle with increased hiring. Companies may be ready to hire soon. Are you ready? Here’s some sage advice.
The TomTom Navigator is a personal navigation system that runs on a PocketPC-based personal digital assistant (PDA). The display of the vehicle position along major roads was excellent, although some problems with map accuracy were encountered in some residential areas. Read the entire review for how LBS technology is moving into personal electronics.
This is a special report from the SVG Open Conference held in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada during the week of July 14. Contributing columnist, Jon Frost, and expert on SVG technology provides the following report on a specific presentation about SVG in HOMELAND SECURITY and MILITARY APPLICATIONS.
Catch a wrap-up of all the news from the 23rd ESRI International. Over 11,000 attendees were in San Diego this week to hear the latest regarding ArcGIS, web services, and a full slate of application news. Read and see more by going here.
Peter Hillary, son of Mt. Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary, and accomplished mountain
climber in his own right, was on hand as the keynote speaker to tell of his exploits with cohort Jamaling Norgay, son of his father’s original expeditionary partner
Tenzing Norgay, as they commemorated the 50th anniversary of their fathers’ historical ascent. Hillary was an animated and passionate speaker as he regaled the
audience with tales of his ascent one year ago.
Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map
The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.
In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:
With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.
In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:
So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.
She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.
The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:
And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.
I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.
- via reader Jim and Poynter
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