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This is an interview with Dr. Julie Sweetkind-Singer, the assistant director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data and Services and the head of the Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections at Stanford University. She discusses...

Freedom through Structure: Optimizing Chain Store Real Estate Processes

Does process get in the way of doing business? Do the head honchos in the boardroom rely too much on the analysts, to the point that real estate deals never materialize? Why are the people with the maps getting so much attention with their “pretty...

Esri Updates Terms of Use on (Free) Personal Accounts for ArcGIS Online

I recieved the e-mail because I have a free account (though I thought it was associated with another e-mail address, further the e-mail describes the list I'm on as "event, product, and training...

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Victoria, Australia Police: Drivers, Stay Away from Apple Maps!

Victoria Police yesterday urged motorists not to rely on the mapping system on Apple iPhones running the latest iOS 6 system after a number of motorists were directed off the highway in the past three weeks and stranded for up to...

Patent: Real Time Crime Map on Cellphone/Smartphone

Two Wisconsin inventors have developed and successfully patented CrimeAware™, a product that provides real-time crime data on web-connected smartphones and GPS units. The patent, 8290705 is titled Mobile navigation system with...

Four of Eight Emerging Careers for 2013 Demand Geospatial Skills

The eight careers were determined by Yahoo!. They are based on results from the Occupational Information Network, aka O*Net, that monitors trends for the most promising upcoming careers. I pulled out these four as needing...

OpenPlans iOS Public Transit Kickstarter Effort Shuts Down; Money to be Returned

Back in July, once we learned that Apple had taken public transit directions out of its mapping app, the folks at OpenPlans launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund and open source public transit solution: With the announcement...

NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night

NASA made the announcement yesterday about its new "Black Marble" imagery. it's a compilation of many "earth at night" images to form a single worldwide edition. The new data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP)...

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Cloud Computing: It’s the Cloud ... Wait, let’s check out those dual processor PCs

There was some irony in the fact that nearly every presentation by Autodesk executives at Autodesk University (AU) this year mentioned the company's migration of its software solutions to a cloud computing environment but its major...

Education: Setting Storage Standards for Digital Media: An Interview with Dr. Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data and Services, Stanford University

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